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On the Frontlines
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Library workers often risk their livelihoods when they speak out against censorship, spurring community members to pick up the fight for intellectu...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
Battle of the Classics
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 19:25
#23-39 Gerald Finley Part 2
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Grammy-winning Bass Baritone Gerald Finley (part 2!) performs Peter Lieberson's setting of five poems by Pablo Neruda.

Bought by KPOV, WCNY, Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer, KWAX and more


  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 7
Anita Cameron & Keith Jones on The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Civil Rights Milestone With Miles To Go
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Disability justice activists Anita Cameron & Keith Jones join Laura Flanders to discuss The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). What are the suc...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE, RadioStPete Florida, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Dirt on PFAS with Tracy Frisch
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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NY Sierra Club's Tracy Frisch tells why spreading sewage sludge on farmland is a really bad idea that will contaminate fields forever.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 3
Tribute to the Late Urban Provocateur Mike Davis
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to th...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Stop Saving the Planet - An Environmentalist Manifesto
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jenny Price is an ardent advocate for increasing public environmental access, activism, and effectiveness in solving the myriad of challenges we fa...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Saving the Planet: An Overview of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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Welcome to melodically challenged, when this week, we’re honored to present a poetry-infused overview of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals:  “...

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
  • Purchases: 1
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
Jaspar Lepak's burst of new music
From: WTIP
Series: The Scenic Route
Caption: cover of Desert Ghosts
Jaspar Lepak's musical journey began in Minneapolis and has now returned there after stops in South Africa and Seattle. The singer-songwriter speak...

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 18:34
Meet the BIPOC Press- Ibram X. Kendi: How to Make America Antiracist?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Hot Farm - :59
From: Food & Environment Reporting Network
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Climate change is coming for your food. In the American Heartland, farmers are battling increasingly severe weather, with epic floods and heat. Nea...

Bought by KMUN and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Decolonizing Dewey
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 24:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Weekend with Pablo Picasso
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A close encounter with genius.

Bought by WPCA-LP, KUNM, KKRN, KFCF FM, KCHW and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:01
  • Purchases: 13
Where It's At (Vol.17)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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The "Where It's At" series is an ongoing and evolving reflection of world events, as told through each episode's unique selection of songs.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
We Need #TomateloEnSerioMX
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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TómateloEnSerioMX is the hashtag under which journalists in Mexico have come together not only to protect themselves, but to stop the spread of mis...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Linda Sarsour: We Can’t Afford To be Bystanders During Covid-19
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A pandemic is no place to be a bystander, says Muslim American activist Linda Sarsour. In this episode, Laura interviews Sarsour about her recently...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - SM Hulse - 425
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Novelist SM Hulse discusses her latest book, Eden Mine. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Get Counted
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
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The census doesn’t just distribute representatives in congress and billions of dollars in federal funds—it determines city bus routes, how many gar...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 33:11
Patrick Radden Keefe, author of "Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Patrick Radden Keefe, author of "Say Nothing"

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Crashing Into Love
From: Israel Story
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In 2012, Jordan got a wakeup call. A strong-headed college student from a conservative Christian Arkensas family, she found herself in the Middle E...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 26:27
The Berger Bros
From: Israel Story
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When God first spoke to Benjamin, he was reading the newspaper. From that moment, he and his brother - two Orthodox Jewish boys from the Bronx - we...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:13
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"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...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1714 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12-05-2019
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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It’s a piano-heavy show with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley bringing in Bill Evans, from there it’s Keith Jarrett, James P. Johnson, Pete Johnson ...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS, KRZA, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 8
The Write Question - Sophia Shalmiyev - 443
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her lyric, immigrant memoir "Mother Winter." She also reads a short passage.

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


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4

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