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242: Re-Weaving the Web of Belonging: The Inside Is Not – and The Outside Is Too, 1/24/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Eriel Deranger, Credit: Dylan McLaughlin
As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the o...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
David Brooks on the Art of Seeing and Hearing Others
From: Open to Debate
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With polarization rising within our society and two wars encouraging division, people are feeling more afraid to engage with people who have differ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
But Next Time Part 3: The Fight for Fair Housing in the Face of Climate Change (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: 12 Moms Initiative member Jamie describes water and mold damage to her home at the Coppertree Village Apartments to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition during a bus tour hosted by Houston's housing justice organizers., Credit: Leah Mahan
Today in Houston, Texas we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for yea...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Is Modi's India Heading in the Right Direction?
From: Open to Debate
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Under prime minister Narendra Modi, pro-Hindu nationalism and civil rights issues have led to India’s downgrade to an electoral autocracy (accordin...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
08-16: Restorative Justice: From Harm to Healing, 8/31/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Fania Davis
Oakland, California, has had the reputation of being one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Then the Restorative Justice movement started...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
2022-07-15 On The Run: Voluntary and Forced Climate Migration
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The climate crisis may not be the sole driver of human displacement but it is a contributing and growing factor, exacerbating the misery of already...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUNM, 90.5 WESA, New England Public Media, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
20220715: On The Run: Voluntary and Forced Climate Migration, 7/15/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The climate crisis may not be the sole driver of human displacement but it is a contributing and growing factor, exacerbating the misery of already...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
2022-06-10 Digging Deep into the Next Farm Bill
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Roughly every five years, the U.S. designs and implements a new farm bill, which sets federal policy on agriculture across a huge swath of programs...

Bought by KUHF, Maine Public Radio, KCBX, KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
20220610: Digging Deep into the Next Farm Bill, 6/10/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Roughly every five years, the U.S. designs and implements a new farm bill, which sets federal policy on agriculture across a huge swath of programs...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sojung Yi, Charlie Wang and Melissa Borja, Credit: Self Evident
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Fallen of 2020
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
On Just Being with Scott Russell Sanders
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 1
Susan Crane – Blood on a Nuclear Submarine
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Civil disobedience often precedes most social or political change. The American political tradition has deep roots in civil disobedience. The Bosto...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
WRM01 The Influential Voice of the '30s
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today

  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Behind Barbed Wire book Jacket, Credit: Michael Williams & Richard Cahan
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
One Family: Indivisible - A Spiritual Memoir
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: One Family: Indivisible cover
There is an ongoing “us” and “them” argument in our society. Realistically, politics and religion have always managed to create deep divisions.

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:19
  • Purchases: 2
The Tyranny of Virtue
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert Boyers
Intolerance is increasing in the world of academia. A poisonous climate at universities and colleges is creating, what is known as, identity politi...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ambassador Madeleine Kunin
The hardest book to write is the one about you. I’ve heard that story from so many authors. You want to be honest, yet there are times that can fee...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Flight, from Baghdad to Tucson, Dr Rasheed Part Two
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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In the first part of our conversation with Dr. Imad Rasheed, we talked about his work at the University of Baghdad creating a post-graduate program...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 04:25
Dr. Ron Epstein- Genetically Modified Food
From: Barry Vogel
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Genetically engineered food products are an issue that concerns many. In more recent years, Mendocino County has gone so far as to pass a resolutio...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Malinda Maynor Lowery
Sometimes they are known as the invisible Indian tribe. Most American’s don’t even know they exist; yet, they’re deeply wrapped in our folklore.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2018-02-04 EPA Then and Now
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WDET Detroit Public Radio, KUNM, KWIT, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Alger Hiss: Framed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joan Brady
It’s been nearly 70-years since the House on Un-American Activities Committee heard the testimony of Alger Hiss.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1