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People Over Parking Lots
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Half empty lot on Black Friday, Credit: Strong Towns
Fayetteville Arkansas and Buffalo NY stopped requiring off-street parking and found that walkable shopping districts boost local business. Its some...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 10, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 4
A Tale of Two Tyrants
From: WMPG PD
Series: Friendly Fire: A voice for Veterans
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Comparisons between the Trump regime and Hitler's Third Reich featuring Trump's speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree, and Hitler's speech to the Hitle...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:44
A Shortcut Through 2018
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A retrospective of another troubling year featuring the marches, the elections, the shootings, bombings and all the fake news, mixed with the music...

Bought by KUNM, 'The Sea', KRCB 104.9, KMXT, KISU and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 10
Riding into the Future
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Want a bike lane? Then go out and paint one on the road. Citizens in Macon redesigned downtown streets to show their city what the future can be....

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRGY, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
A journalist reckons with truth
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Alternative facts. Fake news. How are journalists grappling with this moment? Dive into one journalist’s reckoning with truth.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 44:42
Bingeing Texas
From: The Organist
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The national news media is mesmerized by a president who runs the White House like a reality show. Jen Rice takes a look at the weird relationship ...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 57:42
"Crossroads" Hour 8 of Leonard Bernstein: An American Life
From: CultureWorks
Series: "Leonard Bernstein: An American Life" narrated by Susan Sarandon
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Hour 8 “Crossroads” (1968-1978) We follow Bernstein as he leaves the Philharmonic in 1968 to concentrate more on composition. With overtones of S...

Bought by Colorado Public Radio, 'The Sea', KAAD-LP, and WRGY


  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 4
CLEAN VERSION: Transformations of a white supremacist and a jihadi extremist
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 1
Specters of Attica: Reflections from Inside a Michigan Prison Strike
From: Making Contact
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On the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, hundreds imprisoned inside Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility refused to report to wor...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
California Innocence Project: Another Bad ID - episode 7
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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Glenn Boyd was convicted of a crime he did not commit. This episode of the California Innocence Project features another story about a bad identifi...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
Transformations of a white supremacist and a jihadi extremist
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 59:45
Michael Anderson
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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I opened the door and tried to push him out. That’s when he fired the first shot.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
Clayton Williams
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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See all these blankets and quilts and stuff? I got enough in here to keep me warm.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Tayvon & Paul
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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"Love never dies, and neither do my flowers."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
California Innocence Project: A Bad ID Leads to Wrongful Conviction - episode 3
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:59
Life of the Law #122: Government Ghost
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
Sacrifice Zones - Part 2 (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mosier Fire , Credit: Image by: Paloma Ayala
On this encore edition of Making Contact, we present the final installment in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic lan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer, Credit: Howard University Library Systems
Fannie Lou Hamer's 100th birthday is Oct 6. She's no longer alive, and may not be as widely known as others in the civil rights movement --- but he...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Life of the Law #115: Ten Hours to Twenty Years
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:34
A health insurance executive has a crisis of conscience
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What happens when the executive spin doctor for one of the biggest health insurance companies in the country confronts the consequences of his spin...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 32:37
  • Purchases: 1
Pete Seeger: Plain and Complicated
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, a cultural icon, and a so-called a “consensus hero." But the hero was also a pariah too many. Seeger’s ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. , Credit: Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson.
Almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Shock and Awe campaign. Fourteen years later, we asses...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Art, Anguish & Real Estate
From: Stephen Dale
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Ruminations from the rust-belt revival in Canada's Steel Town--Hamilton, Ontario--on whether artists are "the footsoldiers of gentrification."

  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 46:04
America's Defining Moment
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Election Day eve, 2016...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:40:48
Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 3 | Born Free
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Many cattle ranchers view wild bison as a threat to their livelihoods. But some think cattle and bison can coexist. On episode three of Threshold, ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6

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