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Family Values: A Conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In this episode, we continue our conversation with Ray Luc Levasseur. He is a former underground combatant with the United Freedom Front, which car...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 28:27
Prisoner Perspectives on Reform
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We cover a range of news in this week’s episode- from a brief history of Black August and the upcoming August 19th prison demonstrations, to curren...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:46
“They haven’t deterred our work” Ramona Africa on the MOVE 9 and State Violence
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we share a conversation with Ramona Africa, who talks about the MOVE 9 case, the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE house, and the relation...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:57
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
One Keeps Spinning: Saving Yiddish on Cape Cod
From: Theo Greenly
Caption: Ellie Glener reads a Yiddish phrase book. October 2019. Mashpee, Credit: Photo by Theo Greenly
A woman on Cape Cod tries to save the Yiddish language

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
California Burning: News Feature 1 - Smokey Bear
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: James Lewis and Smokey
Smokey Bear was the most successful advertising campaign of all time. And the success of his message "Only YOU can prevent Forest Fires" might be a...

Bought by KCBX, KUSU, KSQD Santa Cruz, KRCB 104.9, WOUB and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 6
Political Junkie Fall 2019 Fundraiser Show
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Fundraising hour for stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program. This show highlights three interviews from late-2018/early-...

Bought by WHQR, Delta College Public Radio, and WHRV


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 41:09
  • Purchases: 3
MN Native News: The Land Buyback Program
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
Caption: Patrice Kunesh
This week on Minnesota Native News, Bois Forte joins Fond du Lac as the second Minnesota tribe to participate in the Land Buyback Program for Triba...

Bought by Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, KMSU, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 9
Jules Feiffer, THE GHOST SCRIPT, Art Spiegelman, BREAKDOWNS & Amos Oz Remembered
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with the great cartoonist Jules Feiffer about the third graphic novel in his noir trilogy about the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and 50...

  • Added: May 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people....

Bought by WCNY, WCQS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 12
I Remember TMI
From: WITF
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Oral History project about the Three Mile Island partial-meltdown.

Bought by WSKG, WHYY, WPSU, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: Mar 25, 2019
  • Length: 51:58
  • Purchases: 4
2019 Bemidji Women's March
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Bemidji Women's March 2019, Credit: Katie Carter
For the third year, Women's Marches took place across the country recently. More than 100 people marched in Bemidji, despite the frigid temps. Ma...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2019
  • Length: 10:35
Immigration Stories (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Immigrants to the United States share their personal stories of how they journeyed from Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, ...

Bought by WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, WCNY, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 17
MN Native News: 'Ohiyesa: Soul Of An Indian' Documentary
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This week on Minnesota Native News, we talk to historian and producer Dr. Kate Beane, who recently released the documentary, Ohiyesa: Soul of an In...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, KMSU and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 11
Grappling with the Violence of Whiteness
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, our guests turn the lens on Whiteness, asking how the notion of Whiteness came to be, how it has shaped Ameri...

Bought by KSFR and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Resistance: The Ballot and The Bullhorn
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From no, I won't to yes, we will. It’s official, over a hundred women, more women than ever, were voted into Congress including New Mexico’s Deb Ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gerrymandering Is Now Hyper Effective
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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From the Ways & Means podcast, the story of how gerrymandering got out of hand ... and what’s being done to change it.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 03:28
Finding Peace, Sustaining Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we talk with Noga Harpaz, an Israeli, and Raed al-Hadar, a Palestinian, who are part of “Combatants for Peace...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Political Junkie Fall 2018 Fundraiser Show
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Fundraising hour for stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program. This show highlights three interviews from late-2017/early-...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 39:08
  • Purchases: 1
Love Canal, 40 years later
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Children protest at Love Canal, Credit: Center for Health, Environment & Justice
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the federal emergency declaration at Love Canal, the New York neighborhood endanger by industrial pollutio...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 3
The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation
From: John Shuck
Series: Beloved Community
Caption: Hugh Turley, The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton
Heart failure, accident, or murder? John Shuck interviews Hugh Turley about the mysterious death of Thomas Merton.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
Honor Flight: Recognizing our War Heroes
From: Stephen Grant
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Most World War II veterans didn’t receive accolades or experience the infamous New York City ticker-tape parade most Americans are familiar with in...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 23, 2018
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Charles Manson Family Hours
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Professional criminal...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:25:04
Anybody but Ranalli?
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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After interviewing his two challengers, Rob MacClanahan questions El Dorado Supervisor Ranalli, even though he's not there...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:09:21
Hujar, Wojnarowicz: Art, AIDS & Challenge of Retrospection
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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1980’s art both personal and political arose out of the AIDS epidemic. Two major NYC art exhibits – Peter Hujar: Speed of Life (Morgan, thru May 20...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1

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