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I&I - The need for chaos
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week, our Incentives & Instincts series with economist and friend Bryce Ward continues, with another episode discussing the rise of zero sum t...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:28
Ready, Set and a Year to Go: 2024 Election Preview
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
October 13, 2023: Surveillance and Social Media
From: WFHB
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On today’s Kite Line, we are sharing more research conducted collectively by Micol Seigel’s Inside-Out class.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
I&I - A.I. and creativity part 2
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week is the October edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about so...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
Catastrophic Capitalism in 2023: The Invisible Causes of Economic Inequality
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, we explore the consequences of “capital bias”, or prioritizing wealth and the wea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Criminalized Survival
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Activist, Kim Dadou Brown, Credit: Daniel A. Nelson
In this episode, Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson talk with us about their documentary, And So I Stayed. This award-winning film centers three...

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Jeff Ament & John Wicks are Deaf Charlie
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guests are legendary Missoula-based musicians, Jeff Ament and John Wicks, who have collaborated to form the band Deaf Charlie. Their fi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice Encore
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Navigating the Sex Industry and Challenging Stigmas: A Conversation with Sarah Jones
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, we explore the unorthodox documentary Sell By Date, created by Tony Award-winning performer and comedian Sarah Jones. We discuss t...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari says we’re...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
What if a different part of the women’s movement had gained more attention?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(August 24th, 2022 release date) In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipelin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Escape to Cairo from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, we bring you a story from our partner Kerning Cultures about Patrice Lumumba’s children, and their escape to Cairo.

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
¿QPM? S7 Ep. 4 Latinos & Freedom of Speech
From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?
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Our collaborator at Cicero Independiente investigates active measures being taken by local government there to suppress Latinos' freedom of speech.

  • Added: May 29, 2022
  • Length: 20:05
Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 24:48
Earth Day- Greenpeace at 50: The Climate Crisis is a Fight Not an Argument
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this special feature for Earth Day, we focus on just one group: Greenpeace, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The environmental group h...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Karate Camp 2021: Immaculate Beings
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we revisit Karate Camp to hear from The Immaculate Beings. Their bandcamp page would describe them as an eclectic ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:06:35
A Paramilitary Industrial Complex is Growing in Americans' Backyards
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "Veteran activists organizing across this state [Nor...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Debt's Docile Subjects: On Carceral Capitalism with Jackie Wang
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed into ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Vaccine Hesitancy: Building Public Trust For Public Health
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Biden administration has promised to make Covid-19 vaccines available to all US adults by May 1st, but getting a vaccine to those who need them...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
F-Word: Royalty, Racist? Really?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"In the context of the Divine Right of Kings, the who-said-what-to-Harry and Meghan question. is most certainly missing the white supremacist fores...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
GN_4.60_BarberShopMeds
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4
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Using the barbershop in black communities to help black men stay healthy.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Nevada lawmaker feels backlash for attending Trump’s March to Save America rally
From: Brian Bahouth
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Conservative Republican Annie Black is a newly elected member of the Nevada State Assembly representing District 19. She’s from Mesquite, a town of...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 16:00
F-Word: Times They Ain't A Changing
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:00

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