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Lost in Immigration
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Some things are temporary.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
WRM10 - Will and Congress
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers loved to poke fun at Congress. Now he keep an eternal eye on them.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Small Town Whups Big Oil: "You don't threaten Mainers"
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Citizens celebrate passage of Clear Skies Ordinance, Credit: Dan Wood
Despite millions of dollars of pressure from Shell, Exxon, and the American Petroleum Institute, the small city of South Portland, Maine stops the...

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


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
300 E Eager St: The release door of the Baltimore Jail
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My first experience with Baltimore City Jail, I think I was 17 years of age, and it just seems like it’s been repeatedly ever since. I’ve been in a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2019
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
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 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
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
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
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
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
Life of the Law #90: Kids Doing Life
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #88: Clemency
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 15:28
Life of the Law #87: Bail or Bust
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 27:06
Life of the Law #83: Recuse Yourself
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 30:36
Life of the Law #82: The Hold Up
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...

  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 22:00
Life of the Law #81: Rig the System
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 22:39
From Dreamers in Arizona to Muslims in Michigan: Immigrant Communities Upholding Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Viridiana Hernández lobbying at the Arizona State Legislature against the bill that would ban cities from creating their own city ID if that is extended to undocumented immigrants., Credit: Valeria Fernández
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #79: Sterilized
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #78: A Revolution in a Cornfield
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Mrs. Montini’s class reads Pete the Cat together., Credit: Ashley Cleek
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 32:54
Life of the Law #77: Harris County USA
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 24:44
Life of the Law #75: UnDACAmented
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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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