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Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share. But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
From paintings to prints, from wood work to writing, there is no limit to what you can find at the Winona Art Walk. Hosted across the city of Winon...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 24:33
Today on Don't Cha Know, we talk to Eileen Mueller who is the managing director at the Frozen River Film Festival. The Frozen River Film Fest is an...
- Added: Feb 06, 2023
- Length: 42:07
McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US — a place that emb...
Bought by KWMR, KDNK, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
In this episode, Laura speaks with Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of those narratives. They are “unforgetting” histories suppressed...
Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
The U.S. economy, weak or strong, is the question at the heart of the election. But it doesn't get to the reality which is that, whatever else it m...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and KDNK
- Added: Feb 05, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Furiture maker, Aspen Golann describes a handmade Nantucket Windsor chair.
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 01:06
On July 26th, marked the 28th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Thousands of disability activists, including many of those ...
- Added: Sep 06, 2018
- Length: 56:14
It seems like the only tech headlines we have are about disasters. But what about the original promise of tech to innovate and empower? Bex Hong Hu...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Wendy Oxenhorn says "musicians and their records have saved our lives time and time again. We owe them the services they need to age well."
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 10
The book “The year of the Runaways” was shortlisted for a Man Booker. But Sunjeev Sahota is an unlikely storyteller, he’d never read a novel until ...
- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Low paid workers tell the story of the “Fight for 15,” the exploding nationwide movement for fair wages.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Youth Radio's Billy Cruz grew up dreaming of the day he would join the family business... but when the time finally came, his dream job wasn't all ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 01:03
It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee? From coffee farmers in Colombia to...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRIR, and KVSC
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 16:18
- Purchases: 3
Peacetalks radio takes us down ‘The Non-Violent path of Cesar Chavez’, through conversations with Chavez’ colleague and friend Delores Huerta, and ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 29:00
We all know how sweet it is when our appetites are satisfied, but what's it like to be a satiator?
- Added: May 10, 2013
- Length: 02:53
He insults me every week so I call and confront him. Then music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the golden age a Amer...
- Added: Mar 17, 2013
- Length: 02:54:08
Victor Jensen, tells about finding his dear friend face down in the bedding of a pasture…”the bull had gotten him”.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:56
Chris Furrer [FUR] describes a frightening incident rolling over his tractor on their dairy farm.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:47
Scott Furrer [FUR], dairy farmer, describes how his son Chris got his hand caught between a flywheel and shield, burning off the top of his fingers.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 01:39
Russell Zacharison tells the story of how he got pinned down by his ATV for eight hours out in his pasture.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 03:14
Ron McHargue [mic-KAR-guh'] describes to son Mike his fall from a ladder on a metal grain tank
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Gloria Edwards tells how her child fell into their dairy farm manure pit while playing.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:17
Diana Hansen, wheat farmer, recounts losing her arm, relearning to do everything and refusing to be a victim.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 02:01
