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Series host Martha Burk interviews Sister Simone Campbell, captain of the "Nuns on the Bus" tour protesting the Romney/Ryan budget, and Executive D...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 28:37
Maathai worked to establish what came to be called the Green Belt Movement to combat desertification, deforestation, water crisis, and rural hunger...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:58
In 2011, when Tawakkol Karman became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Mai threw a Pakistani tribal council and the men who raped her an unexpected curve. Rather than kill herself, she sued the rapists in a court of law.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:16
By the time she'd found a small school that would accept her in the Montmarte section of Paris, it was apparent to anyone who would listen that Mic...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:35
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
Cameron Whitten is a 21 year-old activist and former mayoral candidate from Portland, Oregon.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 24:11
John Zerzan is an anarcho-primitivist writer and speaker.
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 35:37
Alexander Rose is the Executive Director at the Long Now Foundation, a San Francisco-based group dedicated to encouraging long-term thinking.
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 31:36
Jan Lundberg is a former oil industry analyst turned environmental activist. He is the founder of Culture Change and the Sail Transport Network. We...
- Added: May 27, 2012
- Length: 37:43
The Malpai Borderlands Group is a coalition of ranchers and environmentalists who manage over 75,000 acres of grassland in Southeastern Arizona. Do...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 35:38
We plunge into The Conversation with our first interview: Reverend John Fife. Our conversation started with Rev. Fife’s experience with the Sanctua...
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 35:23
Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews tennis legend Billie Jean King, to mark the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the law that opened sports ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 28:25
- Purchases: 1
Mother's Day is celebrated in the in May, and mothers are now becoming a political force. Female political leaders can leverage their concerns at ...
Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 56:49
- Purchases: 1
April is the month every year when women working full-time, year-round, finally catch up with the amount men earned by December 31 of the previous ...
Bought by WJSU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KZYX
- Added: Mar 24, 2012
- Length: 56:49
- Purchases: 3
Martha Burk interviews Nancy Pelosi, first female Speaker of the House, and Zainab Salbi, best selling author and founder of Women for Women Intern...
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 56:48
Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade case legalizing abortion in the United Stat...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT
- Added: Jan 05, 2012
- Length: 56:48
- Purchases: 2
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 04:36
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
In Pointe-a-la-Hache, Louisiana, the oyster harvest feeds widows, sustains relationships, and keeps the rural economy humming. But the BP oil spill...
Bought by KUT and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
It has been over a year since the Deepwater Horizon blowout, but it’s still too early to measure the complete cost of the ensuing disaster. Despite...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 11:47
Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This program evokes the exciting folk music revival of the 1950s and ‘60s and the role Seeger played in it.
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 52:43
- Purchases: 21
Program I: Origins
How did a Harvard-educated boy become a radical, hitchhiking, banjo-playing, political activist? Program I explores Seeger’s you...
Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, KZYX, KGLP, WOWD and more
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 52:40
- Purchases: 27
Carbon policy is a big issue. It's a great time to examine how Copenhagen Denmark has solved multiple problems by integrating energy systems right ...
Bought by WSKG
- Added: Nov 01, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: Action Speaks Radio
Action Speaks! Underappreciated Dates that Changed America and its panelists -- including famed author Shepard Fairey and scholar and attorney Lawr...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WFSU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 58:50
- Purchases: 7
