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Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
For Shannon McCarty, two things were crucial in her recovery: connections and timing. It started with timing – a key encounter just when she wanted...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 30:30
Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” jus...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 26:39
A life lost, a life saved. The main character of this episode isn’t a person. It’s a nasal spray. Naloxone (aka Narcan) saves lives from opioid ove...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 23:51
- Purchases: 1
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 1
The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:58
The Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project, created and directed by the Carr-Petrova Duo, is designed to give voice and visibility, through music and fil...
- Added: Oct 02, 2019
- Length: 18:36
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Sep 16, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Retired lawyer Lorri in Austin volunteers to help immigration organizations and asylum seekers in Central Texas. Lorri objects to how ICE and for-...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 19:00
- Purchases: 1
Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 26:01
Recent violence in El Paso made Ana in Austin reflect on immigrants in America. She talks about what she has learned living and working at the bor...
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 17:17
- Purchases: 1
Amanda Hamm and her boyfriend Maurice LaGrone drove to Clinton Lake one night in 2003. The next day, DeWitt County Sheriff Roger Massey told a loca...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 33:34
“My first instinct, to be honest, was they shot this guy and now there’s a coverup.” -Liz Riley, Special Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County P...
- Added: Sep 05, 2019
- Length: 31:22
Lisa from San Antonio and Austin describes how she has been involved in politics since she was a kid, and how she is especially involved now. She ...
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 11:31
Michelle from Bastrop County discusses increasing political participation among rural Texans. She wants better government representatives who meet...
- Added: Aug 23, 2019
- Length: 04:07
What is an anti-sexist men’s group? And, if I’m a man who identifies as progressive with feminist values, isn’t that enough? What do I need a group...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 13, 2019
- Length: 13:11
- Purchases: 1
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 08:29
This week on the show: The reality for many children in Chicago’s notorious West Side is a short life in the fast lane. Gangs, drugs and crime are...
- Added: May 01, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Added: Apr 15, 2019
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
Oral History project about the Three Mile Island partial-meltdown.
- Added: Mar 25, 2019
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 4
Texans across the state and across the political divide agree: public school funding needs fixing. What that means exactly, however, is tricky. In ...
- Added: Mar 12, 2019
- Length: 41:58
Conservative Journalist/Activist, Laura Loomer, discusses her humble beginnings at Project Veritas, the Tweet to Ilhan Omar, which lead to her Twit...
- Added: Feb 13, 2019
- Length: 01:10:02
This week on the show : Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in Morocco, is a European town on African soil. It's often the frontline of clashes between Afr...
- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 29:55
Wildfire victims rebuild all solar, all electric homes with help from their community energy program. Hear one family's story, learn what makes a h...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more
- Added: Oct 13, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
