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Sonnet for What Will Be Well
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
Poisonous Legacies
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:38
IE: Inside Europe, 5/19/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: It's gloves off as Turkey's presidential election goes to a second round. Hopes fade of finding those still missing months...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Cryptomania: How Cryptocurrency Can Save—or Destabilize—a Country
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we take a deep dive into the global world of cryptocurrency.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Boris Out, Liz In: The Global Impact of the British Election
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we break down the global implications of new British leadership and then travel to Northern Ireland, where the fate of a B...

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
World in Progress 01/20/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Uncertain futures - The COVID-19 pandemic has not only lead to a global health crisis, but also to economic hardships. S...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Tracing the Peace Line in Northern Ireland
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On the centenary of Northern Ireland’s birth, we look at the lines and borders that define it.

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
GN_3.27_No Deforest Norway
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Trees are the lungs of our planet. Norway takes a stand for mother earth by banning deforestation.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.44_Coffee Brick
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Leftover coffee grounds are saving lives as the main ingredient for an essential slow-burning fire source In sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.56_Nature As A Person
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Nature is just as alive as any human, so why doesn't it have rights? Thanks to 25 youth activists in Columbia , that's changing for part of the Ama...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
GN_3.62_Turtle Triumph
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A local lawyer, and environmentalist proves many hands make light work by encouraging Mumbai citizens to help clean up beaches and save the Olive R...

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  • Added: May 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Action is the Antidote to Despair
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Kathleen Drier Photography
Episode 50: Action is the Antidote to Despair

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:16
The Big Pond #51: The Right to Housing
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Berlin and Los Angeles share a common problem: homelessness. Producer Caroline Porter reports on topic, which is the focus of the Goethe-Institut L...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 2
We Ask You To See Our Hearts
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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The nuance of language, of idiom. The difference between being looked at–stared at, glared at–and being seen. When we look with eyes of love, we se...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:18
Episode 113: Hostage
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 26:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #28: Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 31:54
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, Dr. Rasheed Part One
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Melanie & Rusty had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Imad Naji Rasheed recently. He was a professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq and is a s...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:14
Fallen Heroes of 2018
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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There were thousands of organizers, activists and local social justice leaders around the world who died in 2018. As we do every December, we brin...

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  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Iron and Gold
From: Israel Story
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The story of a song that began the music careers of two Israelis each representing vastly different versions of what the future of Israel may hold

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 32:43
Finding Home: Displacement and Homelessness from Cape Town to California
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we go from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles and Oakland, California— three cities grappling with evictions,...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paris: Responses to Terror, and the Experiment in Mixite
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Paris is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, wh...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
No More, No Less
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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An Argentinean Orthodox Jew, going under the pseudonym Gustavo Friedman, tells his story and the aftermath of the deadliest terrorist attack in all...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 05:10
Invisible Workers, Laboring in the Shadows
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman waiting to cross the border into Morocco carrying imported goods from Spain , Credit: Thalia Beaty and Maggy Donaldson
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
How to Give
From: Stanford Storytelling Project
Series: State of the Human
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This week we're asking what it takes to get us to give, and how we know if we're doing it right.

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 5
Left Forum Friday, May 30, 2014 Plenary
From: Scott Harris
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Left Forum Friday, May 30, 2014 Plenary with Cornel West, Immortal Technique, Marina Sitrin, and Stanley Aronowitz;

  • Added: Jun 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:39:12