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News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 27:25
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News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 28:08
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News. Fake news. Disinformation. Fact-checking. Sourced news. Unverified sources. Social media incursions by foreign nations. Cleverly disguised ma...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 26:05
Caption: Bob Burnett
Interview by Ken Winkes: Bob, who is a writer, technologist, environmentalist, and much more, chats about his concerns, where the country is going...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:51
Caption: The Wine Fellers
Fitting song to play before or after basically any story that packs a good wallop.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:58
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In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
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
Caption: Gordon Zurn & Les Leopold
Interview by Ken Winkes: Gordon and Les discuss what inequality is, how it happened, and what to do about it.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:13
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As 2016 draws to a close, Political Junkie Ken Rudin remembers the lawmakers and newsmakers from the world of politics who passed away this year. K...

Bought by WJSU, WVPE, KSFR, KUOW, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Fred Davie (left) and Robert Sanchez (right)
A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Public Radio for All


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kelly Cotton walks through the Westmont neighborhood with her kids, Credit: George Lavender
One small neighborhood of Los Angeles accounted for thousands of bookings into county jail over a five year period.

Bought by PRX Remix, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 3
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In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 23:50
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As 2015 draws to a close, Political Junkie Ken Rudin remembers the lawmakers and newsmakers from the world of politics who passed away this year. K...

Bought by KZYX, WVPE, WCQS, WBEZ, WRFA-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
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Bought by WCQS and KISU


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Doug Honig, ACLU
Doug Honig, Communication Director of the ACLU, Part 1 Interview: Doug gives the mission and history of the American Civil Liberties Union as well...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:11
Caption: Kim Marks, Jen Wallis
Interview: Jen and Kim summarize the successful Railroad Safety Conferences, which included workers, community & environmentalists, as well as exp...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
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In the summer of 1970, when she was 21, Patrice Gaines spent several weeks in jail facing charges for possession of heroin. She was a drug abuser s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Garrett Brown, Retired OSHA
Interview: Garrett not only tells us that there are more resources in protecting the environment than there are workers but also that OSHA is unde...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 1
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Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:22
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"She called us on the phone and said, 'You will not be allowed to return to the Y.'"

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rich Austin, ILWU
Interview: Part 5 of a 6 part series called “War on the Workers” starts off with Rich explaining how US laws favor multinational corporations over...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jun 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Joyce BenderJoyce Bender is the Chair of the Board of the American Association of People with Disabilities and the CEO of Bender Consulting Service...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
Caption: Oregon Working Families Party
Alejandro Juarez, Communication Director of the Oregon Working Families Party Interview: Alejandro explains the Oregon Working Families Party and ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:22
  • Purchases: 1