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Jumaane Williams & Hell Gate on Rikers: Why is it So Hard to Close a Jail?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The plan to permanently close Rikers in New York City and replace it with four borough facilities has hit roadblocks. Why is it so hard to close a ...

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


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Something in the Water with Deena Winter
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Investigative reporter Deena Winter talks about 3M dumping PFAS chemicals and the impact on the health of kids in the area.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:02
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

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


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Linda Villarosa: the Dobbs Decision: a Death Sentence for Black Women?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health a death sentence for women of color? The overturning of Roe v. Wade not only creat...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gender Justice Requires more than Money say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Jonathan Thompson — The day the river was orange (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes presents Part 1 of his conversation with author and journalist Jonathan Thompson.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Don’t Pull No Punches: Dahr Jamail on the End of Ice
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Ponds on the Ocean" - Sea ice atop the Arctic Ocean. NASA image acquired July 12, 2011
Dahr Jamail asks us to begin to grieve for the world that is surely lost and to find a way toward adaptive change so that something may be salvaged...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
Solitary Confinement: Locked Away with No Human Contact
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses solitary confinement and its physical and mental health impacts on prison inmates with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic p...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Lying to Ourselves: Lorna Salzman #108 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What went wrong with the environmental movement? Environmental activist, organizer and author Lorna Salzman shares her thoughts about climate chan...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Indie3 Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
A Blind Eye to Torture
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about torture with Dr. Steven Miles, author of "Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Ter...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
The Land of Nod
From: WOMR
Series: The Lowdown
Caption: Ira Wood
Heroin Addiction on Olde Cape Cod

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:24
WorldCanvass Studio: The Human in Human Rights
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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International writers from the 2015 University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP) residency join activists and members of the academic com...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Racism in a Rural California Sheriff's Department Part One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, a black sheriff's deputy in rural Mendocino County, Ca, who shares his experiences as a black sheriff in a ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:02
Surveillance by unmanned aircraft...is our privacy at stake?
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released a report on the growing domestic use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance. Chuck Samue...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:44
Jason Berry
From: Mark Dowie
Series: On The Fly
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Few reporters, and even fewer Catholic reporters have spent as much time and effort investigating the Roman Catholic Church as Jason Berry. In 1987...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2012
  • Length: 30:35
Our American "Empire" with controversal Harvard historian Niall Ferguson -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:21
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
From: Voices of Our World
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Kathy Golden talks in studio with Sister Helen Prejean, the author of Dead Man Walking and The Death Of Innocence plus a discussion with internati...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 28:00
Joey Interviews a Cutter
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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Joey from the Long Creek Youth Development Center (LCYDC) interviews a cutter.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KDNK, Remix Radio, WMPG, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Dec 17, 2003
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 5