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Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...

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


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Democracy: A National Temperature Check
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Ponder #6: The Flag
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Two Revolutions, Many Secrets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left: Wilson Dairy Restaurant Right: Helen Zia as baby with mom
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
December 30th RERUN - “Edge of Democracy”; Brazil, A Cautionary Tale
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
CESAR CHAVEZ STORY 1
From: Cesar Chavez Foundation
Series: CESAR CHAVEZ ANECDOTES
Caption: resist, Credit: flocabulary
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 01:00
The Skin Off His Back: Exposing the North to Slavery's Lash
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:25
Constitutional Cages: The Core of Civil Society?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...

Bought by WWNO


  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Red Scare Playbook: Vermont Chapter
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

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


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Japanese Internment Camp, Credit: Densho Archives
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...

Bought by WCPN, KVNF, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Staging the Nation: Douglas Harvey on Performing Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Just a moment of watching the daily activities of our national public life reveals that ‘performance’ is consequential — far beyond the confines of...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2016
  • Length: 57:27
Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
From: Nicki Stein
Caption: Mary D. Williams, Credit: ncstatecapitol.org
Throughout the summer of 2016, this country has been reeling in the wake of profound injustice. As racial tensions swell, is it possible that somet...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 06:45
Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Truth About America No. 3 - David Talbot on Democracy Now!
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Doug Bennett
Since we couldn't get David Talbot, founder of Salon.com and author of Devil's Chessboard, I borrowed portions of Amy Goodman's interview with him ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
Dr Robert Jensen “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,”
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Dr Robert Jensen on his latest book “Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog,”

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:07
Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
"Framed, Captured and Gagged: State Repression of Black Radicals in the 1960's”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:59
Episode 23: Alexander Portelli - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Alexander Portelli (left); Bobby Pickles (right)
Bobby speaks, on this “National Marijuana Day” (April 20, 2013), with Alexander Portelli, mayoral candidate for the city of Albany, NY. They discus...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 44:31
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
Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered
From: WMMT
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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 1
Our History: Jim Jones talks about Dakota burial site in Bemidji
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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Jim Jones, Cultural Resources Director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council talks with Scott Hall about the closing of the Pamida store in Bemid...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 11:55
  • Purchases: 2
HOMELAND SECURITY WASTE
From: Joseph Carraro
Series: THE AVERAGE JOE
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro describes how even from the start, the Department of Homeland Security was created with the intention of grabbing more power for the go...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 04:08