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Sonnet for Antoinette
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This is a sonnet written for Antoinette, the school receptionist at the school in Georgia where a man stood outside, then fired a high powered wea...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
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
Homelessness Through a Peacemaking Lens
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Miranda Twitchell
Homelessness is a complex problem. We don't have any one-size-fits-all solution to the problem in this program, but we do have some suggestions f...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Reunification Camp Survivor Recounts Horrific Experience
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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When a family court rules that a child was brainwashed into lying about parental abuse, judges routinely order the child into programs called reuni...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
December 10, 2021: Twice-stolen Wealth
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Healing a Country’s Wounds (Pt. 3): Building Community
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition, PEACE TALKS RADIO continues its series on Healing a Country's Wounds by talking about the strategy of Community Building. Corresp...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
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
Making Sense of a Growing Refugee Crisis
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, journalist Hana Baba talks with former refugee Maryan Hassan and author Ty McCormick, whose new book "Beyond the Sand and Sea" tel...

Bought by Classic107.3, Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Zoonotic Viruses and Their Origins
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...

  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 04:18
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
Part 2 of The Pandemic Inside: Covid-19 and Prisons
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Joseph V. Conte Facility., Credit: Broward County Sheriff’s Office
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.28_ Aussie Sleep Bus
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A safe place to sleep for the homeless, on buses, designed as sleeping pods.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:22
Deaths of Despair
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
#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
Who is Protecting Essential Workers?
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Suzanne LaGrande interviews Nicole, a grocery worker with 20 years experience about what it's like to be an essential worker during the Covid-19 Pa...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 10:05
Dr. Michael Osterholm on Covid-19: "We Will Get Through This But We'll Never Go Back to Normal"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Conversations on COVID-19
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, is director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and author of the book, Dead...

Bought by KSRQ and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Mar 31, 2020
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 2
Rwanda Heroes, Water Quality, Burger History
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: A study of Rwanda rescuers. Topic 2: Water quality in the United States. Topic 3: The hamburger's true origins.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 50:08
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 111: Silvon Simmons
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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“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
Red Tape
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three
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What do Legos, Salt Bae and a cheese truck have in common? They all play a role in this week’s Meat + Three, which is all about the dreaded bureauc...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 20:01
Immigration Compassion and A Call for Responsible Leaders
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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This time on Peace Talks Radio, a two-part program. Part one is a focus on outreach efforts that intend to bring some peace and safety to immigran...

Bought by WMPG, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Has Amazon Ruined Whole Foods?
From: The Steve Pomeranz Show
Series: The Steve Pomeranz Half Hour
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Plus: Get Rich With These 6 Simple Steps & Is The Party Over For Elon Musk And Tesla?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The US-Saudi War Crimes Against Yemen
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Aisha Jumaan, Mohammad Al-Nimr, John Shuck at Roots of Conflict Presentation at Portland State University, February 3rd 2018
Aisha Jumaan and Mohammad Al-Nimr Expose the US involvement with Saudi Aggression

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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