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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 17:56
In the early 1970s a radical idea took shape: tearing down Boston’s elevated downtown highway, and rebuilding it underground.
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 53:57
There is a strange irony behind the Big Dig: the most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways.
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 53:57
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll take a look at transitional justice through Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. We’ve looked at the t...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the "catastrophe" in Arabic. It refers both to the events starting in late 1947 when Zionist ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 29:56
- Purchases: 1
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll be talking about what it means to be a ally to members of marginalized communities, and the necessary d...
- Added: Mar 29, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...
- Added: Nov 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11
The forces behind the disasters of September 11, 2001 are said to...
- Added: Nov 18, 2022
- Length: 29:00
A look at the legacy of John Muir, his actions in Yosemite, and the impacts on the Indigenous people in the area.
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- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 25:47
- Purchases: 1
Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 36:31
- Purchases: 1
The Nobel Peace Prize was established by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist, in 1901. Committee members in Norway meet privately...
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- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we speak with an author who dives into the efforts of "committed citizens" trying to change the world. We'll...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with a variety of Minnesota State Fair exhibitor...
- Added: Aug 25, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This time on PEACE TALKS RADIO, a three-part program about nonviolence and solidarity across international borders. We explore the question: “How ...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Jul 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
We explore peacemaking strategies for law enforcement officers who are trying to respond to persistent calls from citizens to address repeated high...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 59:01
In this episode, we talk about the post office with Dr. Richard R. John, Professor of History & Communications in the Columbia Journalism School at...
- Added: Aug 20, 2020
- Length: 29:30
This program is about Matilda Joslyn Gage, who lived from 1826 to 1892 and was a vibrant and leading figure in the suffragist movement of that cent...
- Added: Aug 13, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Nancy Bristow… Chair of the History Department at the University of Puget Sound… and author of American Pandemic:...
- Added: May 07, 2020
- Length: 29:30
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
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Topic 1: Downstairs at the White House. Topic 2: A new way to counter the generic drug shortage.
- Added: Mar 09, 2020
- Length: 49:49
This week, we have two contributions –one closer to home and one many more miles away- but both aim to describe an unfair relationship of power eac...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:07
In this episode, we continue our conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur. He is a former underground combatant with the United Freedom Front, which car...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 28:27
We cover a range of news in this week’s episode- from a brief history of Black August and the upcoming August 19th prison demonstrations, to curren...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:46
This week, we share a conversation with Ramona Africa, who talks about the MOVE 9 case, the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE house, and the relation...
- Added: Jan 26, 2020
- Length: 29:57
