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This week we take a look at Canada and its history of Black enslavement. Canada, our northern neighbor, is rarely mentioned when we talk about the ...
Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...
- Added: Jan 24, 2021
- Length: 29:59
A new administration takes office in the midst of an ongoing public health catastrophe and an economic crisis, on the heels of one of the most pola...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR
- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
What do you see when you peek behind the curtains of neoliberal capitalism? What happens when you lift the veil off? Well, you see a mythological c...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 56:09
Our guest on Episode 18 is Marine Corps veteran, professor of political science, and former California State Assembly Speaker Nathan Fletcher. Nath...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
2020 will marked six years since the #SayHerName movement was created. Today, the deaths of Black women and girls at the hands of law enforcement s...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 17, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Cynthia Canty talks with journalist Bob Giles, author of "When Truth Mattered."
Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WNMU-FM, and Michigan Radio
- Added: Nov 15, 2020
- Length: 54:30
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Paul Metsa is a defining Minneapolis musician of this generation. Reflecting on his recording career, Paul believes that a 1992 project called Whis...
- Added: Nov 11, 2020
- Length: 08:00
"Climate shouldn't be #13 on the priority list, it needs to be in the top with health care and economic justice.” US Senator Martin Heinrich joins ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 56:38
We talk with music documentary director Mary Wharton and writer Bill Flanagan. They’ve collaborated with others to create the documentary we’re sp...
- Added: Nov 02, 2020
- Length: 29:00
How extreme is wealth disparity in the U.S.? Imagine every person in the economy walks by, in order of income from low to high, with heights propor...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 28:31
Voter suppression and its target’s aren’t new phenomena. People of color and the poor have always been dissuaded from voting. We take a look at how...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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On this episode, we'll explore felon disenfranchisement and the battle to restore the voting rights of people on parole. We will also turn our atte...
Bought by WXDU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Carol Anderson, a professor at Emory University, discusses her book, “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.” John...
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- Length: 53:58
A year ago, Illinois passed a law requiring all jails to ensure that pre-trial detainees have an opportunity to vote. Chicago’s Cook County Jail wa...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and KMUN
- Added: Oct 03, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
To respond to the crises after the death of George Floyd, Pangea World Theater created a concert called the Burning Truth project. It is curated by...
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 08:00
Mishy Harman talks to Danny Tirza, a jovial retired IDF colonel who, back in 2002, was given an unusual – and logistically nearly impossible – miss...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 08:17
In his book Mullen shows how Baldwin’s life is “a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral...
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 59:19
Dr Dean Alger is a political scientist with five books to his credit, he has written about influential bluesman Lonnie Johnson and he sings and pla...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 08:00
- Added: Jun 06, 2020
- Length: 56:34
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The fact that the Virus is a symptom of capitalism seems like a simple conclusion, but Povinelli explains that the Virus reveals how historic modes...
- Added: Jun 02, 2020
- Length: 59:01
The Covid-19 Pandemic has changed how we live and work in the modern era. For most, that’s meant going online. But for an estimated 150 million Ame...
- Added: Jun 01, 2020
- Length: 32:00
In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...
Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 59:01
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What is most striking is that what Dan Nemser describes of 17th century Mexico City is a mode of organization nearly unchanged over four centuries....
- Added: May 12, 2020
- Length: 59:01
American labor leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in June of 1918 to a movement rally in which he condemned US involvement in the First World War....
- Added: May 01, 2020
- Length: 57:48
- Purchases: 2
