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2023-03-17 A Global Just Transition – For Whom?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
230317: A Global Just Transition – For Whom?, 3/17/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
Time to 1.5 | 8 | Prayers of Steel I
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Steel is the signature material of the Industrial Revolution. It’s also an essential component of the wind turbines, electric cars, and climate-fri...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 44:52
  • Purchases: 1
Finntown
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 18:31
Throwing It Out
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2 and Win
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before the news broke of Amazon's HQ2 pulling out of NYC's L.I.C., we looked at the resistance the plan provoked and why, and considered how develo...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
SEEING RED: A TIME TRAVELING MUSICAL -- Rotimi Agbabiaka
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Rotimi Agbabiaka, San Francisco, CA 8/2/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rotimi Agbabiaka talks discovering hidden history, questioning assumptions, and having his mind blown open.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:39
  • Purchases: 1
DOLORES -- Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Peter Bratt & Dolores Huerta, San Francisco, CA 9/4/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt talk common denominators, the war for truth, and controlling the narrative.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
Telework (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Working from home might sound like an ideal arrangement, but teleworking also affects those still at the office, too. A researcher says there are s...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 3
FOOD CHAINS -- Sanjay Rawal Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Sanjay Rawal, San Francisco, CA 11/25/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Sanjay Rawal talks corporate responsibility, the power of protest, and the difference a penny can make.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 32:51
The Umami of Customer Service
From: Veronica Simmonds
Caption: Customers
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
The Barber Pole
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The surprising history of a true cultural icon: the barber pole.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
A Hidden Community
From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home
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A look at how an indigenous Mexican migrants adapt to city life.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:58
Follow the Money
From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home
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A look at the economic forces that push the Purepecha from home and pull them toward Seattle.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 09:02
Growing Pains
From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home
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A look at the tensions in a new immigrant community.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 1
Nuevo South
From: The Center for Documentary Studies
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An un-narrated portrait of a Southern town in transition

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KPFA


  • Added: Oct 01, 2008
  • Length: 30:12
  • Purchases: 2
5. Michael Moore, cellist and scene builder
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
To Dream an Anarchist's Dream...
From: Mary Rose Madden
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Anarchists in Baltimore try to open and run a totally free store

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pastures of Plenty: Sailing East: Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos in the Fields
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers
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Program 1 in a four part series about farmworker history.

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, North State Public Radio, KUSP, WCBU, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
Hiking the Andes
From: Cynthia Graber
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Reflections with sound of hiking the Inca Trail, poor Peruvian porters carrying our belongings.

  • Added: Feb 24, 2006
  • Length: 04:26
Baking Through the Night
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, some bakers in Lower Manhattan burn the midnight oil...

Bought by WCQS, Prairie Public, Here and Now, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WYSO


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 5
Early Morning Delivery
From: WFUV
Series: On the Night Shift
Caption: PRX default Piece image
On this Labor Day, WFUV catches up with New York City's night shift workers. In this segment, a trucker drives through the night to make an early-...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 01:50