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What's in a Word? Defining Toronto's Food Deserts
From: Kelly Jones
Caption: FoodShare Toronto's Mobile Good Food Market, Credit: foodshare.net
Using the buzzwords "food desert" and "food insecure" might have positive and negative impacts on the places and people they describe.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2013
  • Length: 09:14
What Chicago Aldermen Actually Do
From: WBEZ
Series: Curious City
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Pregnancy tests? Pigeon poo? What Chicago aldermen really do One frustrated Chicagoan wondered what her alderman’s responsible for

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:45
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #06 - Block Boss (Explicit)
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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On every city block, there are rules. Some are unspoken, some require friendly reminders, some are enforced by the law. Is it ever OK to break the ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2013
  • Length: 12:16
Moyers & Company Show 224: United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
Revisiting the hidden world of ALEC -- the scheme to remake America, one state house at a time. Next on Moyers & Company.

Bought by WCWP, KTRL, KUOW, WXXI Rochester, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 24
Heygate Heaven
From: Chris Wood
Caption: View of the Shard from the Heygate Estate, Credit: Chris Wood
A documentary montage of soundscapes and voices from Elephant and Castle, London, UK the site of Europe's largest urban re-generation project. The ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 46:19
Permission to Speak: Ex-Political Prisoners in Burma
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. On this edition, we...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Taxes are for Suckers
From: Making Contact
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Imagine paying almost nothing in taxes.. Sounds great doesn’t it? Some of America’s biggest companies are doing just that and making millions...or...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Life of the Law #09 - Reporter on Death Row
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Carmen Ward has been an inmate in San Quentin’s Adjustment Center for seven years, Credit: Nancy Mullane
What do we really know about death row in California? When we don’t know we create, we imagine.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #08 - Redesigning Justice
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Red Hook is an isolated neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, once known as the “crack capital of America.” In 2000, residents banded together to create a ...

Bought by WDBM, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 11:48
  • Purchases: 3
Life of the Law #07 - Felony Factory
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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You’ve just been arrested, charged with a felony and can’t afford to pay your bail, let alone hire a lawyer. You know you have the right to a trial...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #05 - Tough Crowd
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Is the law ever a laughing matter? We present to you a brief history of attempted comedy in the toughest room in the country—the Supreme Courtroom.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
  • Length: 12:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Square Deal
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 16:09
  • Purchases: 4
March of the Bonus Army
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, WRPI, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:56
  • Purchases: 5
The film: Shift Change
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
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jim justice talks about a new film, Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work, with film producer Melissa Young of Moving Images associate producer ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 26:56
THE WORLD with Tim Stackpool weekending 15 Dec 2012
From: Timothy Stackpool
Series: THE WORLD with Tim Stackpool
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A look at the issues affecting the various people of our planet

  • Added: Dec 16, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
Ministry of Presence
From: KCRW
Series: UnFictional
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Memories of the death house, from a man who sat with 95 condemned men on their last day on earth.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KMUZ, Louisville Public Media, Aspen Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: 25:02
  • Purchases: 5
Education Not For Sale
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Around the world, students have been taking to the streets. They’re opposed to rising tuition fees and cuts to education. On this edition, we’ll ...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Life, Death, and Rebirth of ACORN
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Life of the Law #03 - Two Sides of A River
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The riverbank is a public space open for everyone. But people do not always agree on how to best spend a hot summer day.

Bought by KMUZ and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 13, 2012
  • Length: 16:17
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #02 - Jailhouse Lawyers
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In California, there are hundreds if not thousands of people practicing criminal law though they’ve never passed a bar exam. They don’t wear suits....

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 14:10
  • Purchases: 2
2012: A Year In Your Ear - "Amend The Constitution!"
From: Mad Genius
Series: 2012: A Year In Your Ear
Caption: The only known image of Mad Genius
Mad Genius proudly presents the latest song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "Amend The Constitution!" Meet James Christophersen, a conse...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:23
The Penalty is Exile: How Immigration and Criminalization Collide
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Immigration Reform Rally 2010, Credit: Anuska Sampedro
Under President Obama more than 1 million people have been deported from the United States. Immigration officials claim that many of those being d...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Life of the Law #01 - The Secret Power of Jury Nullification
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Juries have a little known power that allows them to ignore the law and vote with their own instincts. This piece explores how juries have used tha...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, WJCT, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 11, 2012
  • Length: 11:47
  • Purchases: 5
Governing the Occupation
From: Frances Harlow
Caption: The Occupy Maine encampment in Portland's Lincoln Park., Credit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://katrinaherzogphotography.com/" target="_blank">Katrina Herzog</a>, courtesy of the Salt archives.
Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
How much is a life worth?
From: Grant Buhr
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Through the voices of mental health care consumers/activists, this story briefly explores some of the impacts of, and responses to, the closing of...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2012
  • Length: 21:19

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