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MN Reads: "Spirits Dancing" with Photographer Travis Novitsky
From: WDSE
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Photographer Travis Novitsky talks about his new book "Spirits Dancing"

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:14
Asian Americans & Anti-Blackness: Truth vs. Fiction on Affirmative Action (August 2, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Destroyer of Worlds
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
BIPOC Media: Amplifying Black and Indigenous Collaborations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How do Black and Indigenous communities intersect? This special feature for Indigenous People’s day explores the forces that have both facilitated ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Kim Stanley Robinson: Writing the Future Story People Want
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a novel become a catalyst to help us address impending climate disaster? That’s one question posed by the legendary Kim Stanley Robinson, in hi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Arundhati Roy: Freedom, Fascism, Fiction and the Pandemic Portal
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Two years ago this month, the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the United States. “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
AOC & Noam Chomsky: Inter-Generational Meeting of Minds (Re-Air week of 12/15/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KVNF and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Post-Pandemic College Experience
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:12
Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide?
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
Laverne Cox, Sam Feder: Trans Lives Depend on Owning Our Stories
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

Bought by WORT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“The opportunities for labor right now are virtually limitless,” says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federat...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Stimulus Check that Comes Every Month
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Thousands of Americans recently received direct payments from their government as part of the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan to addres...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
You Can't Deal With Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy: Vijay Prashad
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require a pro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Not Everyone is a Jerk: Rutger Bregman on Humankind
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Synchronicity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Halpern
There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Present Shock - Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Growing Young
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Marta Zaraska
Humankind seems to be on eternal search for an answer on how to live longer. Our efforts naturally lead us to spirituality. But then we take pills ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Covid-19 Demands a National Reckoning
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately bl...

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


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
December 30th RERUN - “Edge of Democracy”; Brazil, A Cautionary Tale
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fault Lines in the Constitution revisited
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Founding Fathers images
They are an unexpected husband and wife team: the Levinson’s. Sanford is a constitutional scholar. Cynthia is an award-winning author of children’...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
American Decline: A Case for Optimism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman talks with Chris Hedges, author of America: The Farewell Tour, about environmental threats, societal breakdown, and ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Ken Egan - 311
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This program features a thoughtful conversation with Ken Egan about his historical nonfiction, Montana 1889, including the competing visions for, a...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - David Owen - 336
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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David Owen discusses his nonfiction book, Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River. He also reads a short segment from the book.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Right to Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric de Leon
The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Rashad Shabazz
Imagine a large population of Americans living in prison-like-conditions. That’s what it’s like in the so-called Black Belt of South Side Chicago.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1