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Open Spaces, October 20, 2023

From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Open Spaces

Today on the show, the Endangered Species Act became law 50 years ago. Since then, hundreds of species have been put under its protection. Wyoming ...

Toxic Tracks

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

On today's show, we'll be looking at the environmental impact of the rail industry and hear from people in two communities currently impacted by ra...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KMUN

Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)

This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

Bought by RADIOLEX

70 Million: An Effort to Hold Prosecutors Accountable

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

A legal matrix that incentivizes criminal convictions can motivate unethical prosecutors to bend or break the rules. In New York, a group of law pr...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

COVID Diaries No8: The Unsheltered

From: KRCL
Series: COVID Diaries

RadioACTive's COVID Diaries series wraps with a look at the ways COVID has impacted unsheltered members of our community and the organizations that...

George Floyd Anniversary & Reimagining Public Safety: Special YES!/PNS Report

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Minneapolis, MN - May 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd's ...

The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been or...

70 Million: The Work of Closing a Notorious Jail

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Inex Bordeaux holds up a sign while doing street outreach in north St. Louis to raise awareness about the Close the Workhouse campaign., Credit: Carolina Hidalgo

Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Amy, District 10

From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas

Amy is part of the 10th District of Texas. She typically has significant criticisms of both the Republican and Democratic parties, but during the 2...

Randy, District 10

From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas

Randy is part of the 10th District of Texas. He says that healthcare for all Texans and for all Americans is an important issue for him in this nex...

Briana, District 10

From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas

Briana is part of the 10th District of Texas. Some of the top issues she's thinking about for the upcoming election are healthcare, refugees and im...

Hector Cafferata by Stephen Lang

From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Singles [8-35 minute short plays, plus interviews]

The story of Hector Cafferata is a portrait from Stephen Lang's one-man show, Beyond Glory, based on the book by Larry Smith of the same title. He ...

A Scribe Called Quess

From: Sarah Holtz
Series: The Poetic City

Caption: Michael Quess? Moore, Credit: Fernando Lopez

Michael Quess Moore, or, A Scribe Called Quess, describes himself as a poet, an educator, an actor, and an activist. When we met him before his per...

Loud, Drunk & Angry - Episode 87

From: Robert Kern

The week we’ve got new music from Metal Church, Rhino Bucket, Broken Teeth, John Garcia, Geezer and Steak, plus stacks of classics, requests, rocke...

Bought by KSRQ

Speech by Amanda Blackhorse

From: Generation Justice Admin

Amanda Blackhorse, from the Dine Nation, spoke at the University of New Mexico about her activism and the roots of Native American stereotypes.

Muhammad Ali in conversation with Studs Terkel

From: The WFMT Radio Network

Studs Terkel was a champion of a working folk and icons alike, and sometimes, he even managed to bring the two together. In this 1975 interview wit...

Bought by WNMU-FM, KPIK-LP, KRDP, WEAA, WNMU-FM and more

Young Catholic Wants to See More Joy in Services

From: Unabridged Press

Caption: Nikki Abban in front of Pittsburgh's St. Paul's Cathedral., Credit: J.S. Jordan

For the Spirited Conversations series, Jennifer Szweda Jordan speaks with Nikki Abban about what it's like to be a young, black Catholic.

Poopy Old Man

From: Erica Heilman
Series: Rumble Strip Vermont

We are all busy getting older, for better and for worse. Here is an unvarnished perspective on aging by author Marc Estrin. Marc Estrin is a write...

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Char and Hannah

From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Wiijigindiwag: To Be the Same Age

Char and Hannah have a chat....

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ

Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Native American women experience the highest rates of violence of any other group in the United States. One in three native women have been victims...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Hawaii: A Voice For Sovereignty

From: Making Contact

Some call it “Paradise”, but Hawaii isn’t just a tourist getaway. Look beyond the resorts, and you’ll find a history of opposition to US occupation...

Bought by WFHB, KVSC, WTJU, and KREV-LP

Women Rising 23: Via Campesina

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights...