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You Can Still Have An Abortion
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Interactive Map: US Abortion Policies and Access After Roe., Credit: Guttmacher Institute. Accessed 4/15/24.
Access to abortion is increasingly piecemeal and complex in the US. While abortion access volleys within the judicial system, local abortion funds ...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wrangling Over the Debt Ceiling: Where Does Your Money Really Go?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy are meeting over what gets cut in arguments over raising the debt ceiling, with most social programs on ...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
Revisiting GOP Party Dynamics: The Decline of Moderates & Rise of Populism
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Revisiting GOP Party Dynamics: The Decline of Moderates & Rise of Populism
Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 36:31
  • Purchases: 1
Militarization and Uvalde: the Context Media Coverage Omits
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Whether it’s Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX or Philadelphia, PA — we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of terror at the muzzle of a gun. But all mass s...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 7: Representing Rural America
From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement
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The urban-rural divide is growing in the United States. How can disparate communities find common ground?

  • Added: May 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:34
Dispatch 368 - Alternate Social Universe
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rally to Re-open Oregon Amid COVID-19 Lockdown Draws Fringe Militia and Families
From: Kate Kaye
Caption: Anna and Brian (last names not disclosed) prepare to attend a re-open rally in Salem, Oregon on May 2, 2020, Credit: Kate Kaye
Hundreds convened in the rain this Saturday at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem. Families with kids mingled amid attendees strapped with semi-auto...

  • Added: May 03, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Dispatch 320 - Bottle of Lies
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Bottle of Lies book cover
Katherine Eban's book "Bottle of Lies" exposes the criminal dealings of some of India pharma's drug producers

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
U.S. Democrats and the European Left - Do They Connect?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Xenophobia, austerity, and an activated constituency -- there's a lot in common across international progressive fronts. Voices from the Progressiv...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Your Call: Media coverage of the resistance at Standing Rock & Trump's new national security advisor
From: KALW
Series: Your Call Media Roundtable
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This week, we’ll discuss coverage of Donald Trump's new national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Who is McMaster? We’ll also talk about t...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
No Labels: "Govern or Go Home" - A Message for Elected Officials
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Looking out for you!
The Emotion Roadmap radio show helps people manage their own emotions and influence the emotions of others. Frustrated voters are tired of partisan...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:59
Dr. Jonathan Simon - Election Integrity-Code Red - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Could it be that Hilary Clinton did win both the popular vote AND the electoral college?? In the 2016 Presidential election results, there are ver...

Bought by KRZA and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Jonathan Simon - Election Integrity-Code Red - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Could it be that Hilary Clinton did win both the popular vote AND the electoral college?? In the 2016 Presidential election results, there are ver...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 20, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
National Prison Strike
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In this episode, we focus on the September 9th National Prison Strike. We hear the Free Alabama Movement’s initial call for the strike, learn a bit...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 22:20
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun More Cynical Than Alex Scrivener of Global Justice Now
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Alex Scrivener
Unspun sits down with Alex Scrivener, Policy Officer at Global Justice Now in London. They recently released a report, Gated Development – is t...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:09
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Discusses the Secret TPP Trade Deal with Kathryn Johnson, Advocate for Fair Trade and Human Rights
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Kathryn Johnson
Kathryn Johnson joins us to discuss the recently divulged Trans Pacific Partnership, TPP. Kathryn is the Policy Impact Coordinator with the Office...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:23
  • Purchases: 1
SOTU Autopsy of Lame Duck Obama with JP Sottile, the Newsvandal
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: JP Sotille
Unspun takes a deeper look at Obama's State of the Union Address 2015, with JP Sottile, the Newsvandal.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 55:12
Interview with Paul Craig Roberts - Economist, Author and Journalist
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Paul Craig Roberts
Unspun discusses the dangers to both our economy and freedoms in the age of unfettered, predatory capitalism with Paul Craig Roberts.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
Stray or Great?
From: KALW
Caption: Seth India Today Cover, Credit: India Today
He is one of the best known Indian writers writing in English these days. But Vikram Seth is a very private man. But Dec. 11, 2013 changed all that.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Insult to Injury?: American Indian Sports Mascots
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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They may not have made it to the Superbowl- but the “Washington Football team” has gotten a lot of attention this season- not so much for their per...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kid on Kid Shootings: Time for Prison
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
According to the latest statistics available, one teen or child is killed with a gun every 3 hours 15 minutes, many by their peers. It's time for ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Dirty Wars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Drone attacks. Black sites where prisoners are tortured. Guantanamo is still in operation. As we enter the 6th year of Barack Obamas presidency, I...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Slumdog Space Race (November 7, 2013)
From: Timothy Spangler
Series: The Bigger Picture
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23