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No, COVID Isn’t “Over,” and the Need for Continued Community
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On an orange background, six black line illustrations depicting: a COVID-19 virus, a face mask, a lung filled with COVID viruses, a person's head tilted back with a nose swab, a swab in a test tube, and a rapid antigen test. In between these illustrations, Credit: Original image by jKartak from Pixabay. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to tak...

Bought by WUWM, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Where Will Afghanistan’s Refugees Go?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we hear from Nazanin Ash and Kelsey P. Norman about the evolving situation for Afghan refugees. Then, journalist Hana Baba ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Lessons From Defund the Police
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It's been a year since the call to "Defund the Police" rang out through the George Floyd Protests. The idea isn't new - redistributing police funds...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_4.37_Cooperative Drugs
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Health care in America has always run at a high cost. In Utah, hospitals are taking action to make pharmaceuticals affordable for all.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
#957- INFLATION (NEWS PIECE 5 min)
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Two types of inflation. Learn the two and understand! From KVMR TOP REVENUE SHOW since inception.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2021
  • Length: 05:01
Life of the Law #120: Life Un-DACAmented
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Unless Congress acts to save the DACA program, the last permit will expire on March 5, 2020. This week on Life of the Law… we share Luis’s story an...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2017
  • Length: 33:45
Your Call's media roundtable: Syrian refugees in the Middle East and Trump's Russian business ties
From: KALW
Series: Your Call Media Roundtable
Caption: Rose Aguilar, Credit: Laura Flynn
This week, shocking images of Syrian refugees who died in Lebanese military custody, allegedly during or after torture, have received widespread co...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 52:56
A New Era For the ERA
From: Nahanni Rous
Series: Can We Talk?
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In March 2017, Nevada became the 36th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment-- three and a half decades after the ratification deadline expired...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 22:21
Woomera: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:32
Episode 2: Bail: How to buy your freedom
From: KCRW's Independent Producer Project
Series: Off The Block
Caption: The Los Angeles bail bonds office of Bob Swann, Credit: George Lavender
If you have the money, getting out of jail can be straightforward. If you don't, you're going to need some help.

Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 3
Clinch River Runs Cleveland, VA Rebuilding
From: WMMT
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9-11- 14 WMMT Mountain News & World Report Feature Coal mining jobs have dropped around Cleveland, VA, but when residents looked around they reali...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:25
Life of the Law #76: Juggalos
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: JUGGALO - COSTA MESA, Credit: Jared Eberhardt
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:45
DR. MICHAEL CRANE TALKS TO ALLAN WOLPER
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Dr. Michael Crane directs the World Trade Center Health program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai that treats the devastating medical ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Life of the Law Episode #62: No Lawyers Allowed
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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At disciplinary hearings in prison, inmates are not guaranteed the right to an attorney. In fact, they aren’t allowed to have one at all.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 21:22
The Aftermath of an Ellis Act Eviction
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: San Francisco's North Beach where Marla Knight has lived for 48 years, Credit: Daniel Schwen
Marla Knight is packing up her home of 48 years. She’s been evicted from her North Beach apartment because the owners are converting it to tenancie...

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
The Art of Filmmaker, Jim Tittle - Creator of "The Price of Sand" Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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Previously on Art Beat we featured our interview with Jim Tittle, conducted during the Frozen River Film Festival. Jim started out as a photographe...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 40:46
  • Purchases: 1
Governing the Occupation
From: Frances Harlow
Caption: The Occupy Maine encampment in Portland's Lincoln Park., Credit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://katrinaherzogphotography.com/" target="_blank">Katrina Herzog</a>, courtesy of the Salt archives.
Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
Teens and Illegal Guns: Overview
From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
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In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Sounds of Gentrification
From: Dan Gordon
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Washington D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood has been a historically black, working-class community. Now, as property values in D.C. are climbing, a wa...

Bought by WCSU-FM, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 3
Frac-Sand Mining and Winona County, Minnesota
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On this edition of "Don't Cha Know" Jim Gurley stops by KQAL to talk about Frac-Sand Mining and what it has to do with Winona County, and Winona Mi...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 1
Tackling literacy without any government support
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Open Books program director Anna Piepmeyer and second grader Jayla Mercado. , Credit: Niala Boodhoo
Some nonprofits in the region that rely on government funding are in trouble. As a result, many are now looking at how they can get other sources o...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 03:14
Late Government Payments Strain Nonprofits
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Amelia Cummings celebrates her new room ... and four months clean. , Credit: Kate Davidson
Non-profits are a vibrant part of the regional economy. They employ many people and the need for their services has grown. But charities that contr...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 03:56
The next wave of immigrant entrepreneurs
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Little Village business owner Jesus Davila in front of one of his four businesses, Davila's Restaurant, in Chicago..
Cities across the Midwest are full of immigrant stories. Previous generations filled the factories, building cars, furniture and steel. Now that th...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 1
At Auto Plants, A Reversal of Fortune
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Brothers Justin and Derick Jewell, 22 and 24 years old. Justin is a two-tier worker and makes $16 an hour. As a traditional worker, Derick makes $28 an hour.
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:15