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North Carolina's LGBTQ Community Stands Against Domestic Terrorism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Join Laura Flanders as she speaks with residents of Moore County affected by a targeted power outage during a drag show, uncovering potential motiv...

Bought by WORT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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You’ve seen them in protests since the start of the Israel/Hamas war — from New York City’s Grand Central Station and the Statue of Liberty, to the...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
New Yorkers Welcome Migrants: What’s it Take to Make Sanctuary Real?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This year, New York City has received over 100,000 asylum seekers, including 15,000 unaccompanied minors. Most are from Latin America, where they f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 9
Episode 166: Going Deep with Pete Buttigieg on Social Mobility, 11/12/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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making a life that works

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:03
Texas Under Siege: Dobbs, Democracy & Bodily Autonomy in the Crosshairs
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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We’ve reconvened a panel of organizers and activists in Texas to discuss what has (or hasn’t) changed on the abortion, trans and voting rights fron...

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


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
PRIDE SPECIAL- Imara Jones: Countering The Anti-Trans Hate Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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549 bills banning books, medical treatment, even access to the bathroom were introduced in 2023. As today’s guest says, the people driving the anti...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
“We Don’t Want to Leave Our Homes”: Stories from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian Diaspora
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, Ray brings us two stories from Armenia about disaster and discovery.

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
National American Indian Heritage Month- Busting the Thanksgiving Myth: Native Sovereignty & the Red Road
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pilgrims, Indians, the myth of the grateful colonized person — it’s been at the core of a persistent but false Thanksgiving narrative that has dist...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Medicare’s Prescription Drug Plan Makeover
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Therese Humphrey Ball has struggled to afford her multiple sclerosis medications since her diagnosis in 2003., Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis for Tradeoffs
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 19:19
Gina Kim: Rising Against Anti Asian Hate
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia. The act of violenc...

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2022-07-08 REWIND Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We’re on track for yet another summer of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy smo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
20220708: REWIND Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene, 7/8/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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We’re on track for yet another summer of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy smo...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Call 311 about tents? Here’s what homeless people and advocates say happens
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
The Response: The Fight for Justice after the Grenfell Tower Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On June 14, 2017, a fire started in a 24-story public housing apartment in West London called Grenfell Tower. The fire raged all night and reduced ...

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


  • Added: Aug 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to col...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sojung Yi, Charlie Wang and Melissa Borja, Credit: Self Evident
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Cristina Jiménez: Dreaming & Building Immigrant Freedom
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In a recent episode called Unforget, Dream, Build, we featured two Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of the idea that immigrants are a ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
In For The Long Haul
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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COVID “long-haulers” are people who have extended experiences with COVID symptoms that never let up, or keep recurring. The virus is so new that we...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:03
HMT 1 - 4
From: Gregarious Recluse
Series: How Many Tomorrows
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HMT 1 - 4

  • Added: Sep 05, 2020
  • Length: 20:37
How Many Tomorrows - Introduction
From: Gregarious Recluse
Series: How Many Tomorrows
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How Many Tomorrows - Introduction No Profanity in this segment.

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 07:22
Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. Self-care becomes a “selfless ac...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Four Interviews On Climate Disruption
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we’ll highlight four previous programs which focus on Climate Change, or Climate Disruption. We’ll hear from atmospheric scientist Sara Pryor...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Opposing Children's Detention Centers - Marina from the Rio Grande Valley
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 26:01
On the Border - Jan from Bastrop
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
Caption: Photo of Big Bend in Texas., Credit: Pius Wong
Jan from Bastrop in Central Texas is hugely concerned about the way the USA is handling several issues at the border with Mexico.

Bought by KRZA and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 2