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Is San Francisco a Sanctuary When You Don’t Have Housing?

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...

Unheard: The Plight of Mayans Struggling with Addiction in SF

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area. That...

Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid

From: KSFP

The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

Group Helps Asian American Communities Feel Safe

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

Three years ago, when violence against Asian Americans spiked, local organizations took action to improve public safety. One group, the Coalition f...

The Rise of the New Labor Movement

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient

On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...

Bought by WUWM, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer

But Next Time Part 3: The Fight for Fair Housing in the Face of Climate Change (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: 12 Moms Initiative member Jamie describes water and mold damage to her home at the Coppertree Village Apartments to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition during a bus tour hosted by Houston's housing justice organizers., Credit: Leah Mahan

Today in Houston, Texas we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for yea...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

But Next Time Part 2: Language Justice and the Road to Recovery After Disaster (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: But Next Time hosts Rose and Chrishelle pose for a photo with members of indigenous language radio show, Radio Autóctona Indigenista on KBBF., Credit: Leah Mahan

This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer

This Asian American Life

From: Mateo Schimpf

How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City

Decarbonize Based on Need, Not LEED

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Chicago bungalow, Credit: Jim Roberts

Research is finding the answers Chicago needs to jumpstart wide scale equitable home electrification

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City

Keepers of the Flame

From: Distillations
Series: Innate

Follow the money that props up racist science, and you'll find it all leads back to one man.

Out of Gas, In with Justice

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

NYC Housing Authority is the city's largest landlord. Pilot programs to electrify its decrepit housing stock find successes and stumbling blocks w...

Bought by WFHB and KICI Iowa City

New York's Hunter College is falling apart

From: Julian Abraham

Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

Medicare’s Unprecedented Alzheimer’s Drug Decision

From: Tradeoffs

In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

Kiss Your Gas Goodbye

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Induction cooktop demonstration at Sonoma Clean Power's Advanced Energy Center

To reach zero carbon in 2050, we must electrify 5 million buildings each year. How are we going to do that and what does it mean for your home?

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

Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights

The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

In this episode, the Purple Principle speaks with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of the Media and Health Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, on ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.

Episode 150: 76th and Yates

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got to the police station that he found out that he w...

Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ballot Question Two Takes on Political Partisanship

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

The great state of Alaska is different in many ways – its vast size, low population, and great distance from “the lower 48” (states). Politics in A...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

The Outlook from Dead Center: Former U.S. Representative Jason Altmire on the Rise of Congressional Partisanship

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Did you hear the one about bipartisanship? Two opposing congressmen walk into a town hall…and civil discussion breaks out.

Breaking Point

From: Broken Ground
Series: Season 3: Sea Level Rise

With waters rising in Charleston, South Carolina we explore what, if any, breaking point there is for people living and working in this city. And w...

The Healing Power of Trees

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

Caption: Volunteers planting trees in Louisville

Health researchers are planting 8,000 trees in Louisville to learn how trees prevent cardiac death. No crystals and woo woo. This is solid scienc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and 'The Sea'

Marc C. Johnson, author of "Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Burton K. Wheeler"

From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra

Bob Kustra talks with Marc C. Johnson about his book "Political Hell-Raiser"

The Young Environmental Activist

From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California

Caption: The Allen Co. drilling site in South Los Angeles., Credit: Photo by Claire Heddles

Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...

Treating America’s Opioid Addiction: Part 1

From: Distillations
Series: Distillations

The Narcotic Farm and the Promise of Salvation

Riding into the Future

From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions

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

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