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A Trailblazing Organizer's Organizer
From: Dick Meister
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This commentary outlines the extraordinary career of Fred Ross, one of the most successful community organizers ever, the man who trained Cesar Ch...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 04:29
CBS And Ozymandias
From: Larry Burriss
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How far has the once-mighty CBS fallen

  • Added: Aug 26, 2007
  • Length: 02:56
Commentary: Labor's Happy Day
From: Dick Meister
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Thanks to their growing poliitical strength, American iunions will be celebrating Labor Day this year with much greater expectations for success th...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2007
  • Length: 04:00
Blues File: Sugar Blue's "Code Blue"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of Sugar Blue album "Code Blue"

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, and WEFT


  • Added: Aug 22, 2007
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 3
Blues File: The Blues of Elvis Presley
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Elvis Presley's blues

Bought by WDNA, KKRN, KKRN, KFOK-LPFM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2007
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 7
Blues File: Mem Shannon: A Night At Tipitina's
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of Mem Shannon: Live: A Night At Tipitina's

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, KKRN, and WEFT


  • Added: Jul 16, 2007
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
Facebook has gone too far
From: SCAD Radio
Series: Commentary Corral
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Privacy and Facebok? Can the two exist.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2007
  • Length: 02:13
A Bloody Labor Landmark
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the Homestead strike, one of the most violent and most significant in labor history.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jul 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Sopranos and Hamlet
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:55
The Sopranos and the Closure-Junkies
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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we're all closure-junkies - craving resolutions in the endings of the stories we encounter - can we break the habit long enough to appreciate the e...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 07:09
The Sopranos, or the Tiger?
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
Blues File: Marie Knight
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of Marie Knight "Let Us Get Together"

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2007
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 4
Blues File: Willie McBlind, blues in Just Intonation
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review Willie McBlind, blues band using "just intonation" tuning

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, KKRN, and WEFT


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 4
Broadcast Indecency
From: Larry Burriss
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Broadcast Indecency vs. Cable Indecency

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Unfriendly Skies of George W. Bush
From: Dick Meister
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The Bush administration is abusing air traffic controllers and endangering the millions who rely on them for safe travel.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2007
  • Length: 04:59
Blues File: Big T and Junebug
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of "meet Me In The Cotton Field" by Terry "Big T" Williams & Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, and WEFT


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 3
India Rising, program five: Debate
From: BBC
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This landmark series explores the what globalisation and a decade of economic reforms have done to India and the way that it sees itself. The concl...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 22:02
  • Purchases: 1
America, the Fascist State?
From: Robert Abele
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What does it mean to say that America is becoming a fascist state?

  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 05:45
Why We Can't Support the Troops without Supporting the War
From: Robert Abele
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How support of troops gets conflated with support of war

  • Added: May 30, 2007
  • Length: 06:00
Blues File: Hamilton Loomis
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of Hamilton Loomis: Ain't Just Temporary

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: Big Joe Duskin
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Remembrance of pianist Big Joe Duskin

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDNA, KKRN, KKRN, and WEFT


  • Added: May 16, 2007
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 5
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: FAMILY AFFAIR
From: Joyride Media
Series: Black History Month Specials
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One-hour music intensive radio documentary about Sly & the Family Stone, their music, their turbulent history, and the indelible marks they left be...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPSQ-LP, Harford Community Radio, WSGE, KMXT and more


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 40
Blues File: Carey Bell remembrance
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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remembrance of Carey Bell who died May 6, 2007

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, KKRN, and WEFT


  • Added: May 09, 2007
  • Length: 05:48
  • Purchases: 4
Johnny Cash: Amazing Grace
From: Joyride Media
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One-hour radio documentary explores Johnny Cash's love for Gospel music, his roots in the church, and the stories behind his greatest Gospel record...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KSRQ, Troy Public Radio, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: May 07, 2007
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 19
Blues File: Robert Jr. Lockwood "Steady Rollin' Man"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of Robert Jr. Lockwood "Steady Rollin' Man"

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, KKRN, and WEFT


  • Added: May 03, 2007
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4

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