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The AFL-CIO and a coalition of its allies have launched a major campaign aimed at creating many thousands of new jobs.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2009
  • Length: 03:27
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When war is a foreign insurgency, balancing human risks and possibility of success is a fundamental ethical dilemma for leaders. What do you think ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:00
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When choosing Nobel Peace Prize winners, should the Nobel Committee think of the future, using the Nobel's prestige to encourage peace-making? Or s...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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By 2050 some estimate that climate change will displace 150 million people, but the displaced won't qualify as refugees under international law. Wh...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Should cultural treasures, acquired under dubious circumstances, be returned to their places of origin?

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Can we regulate international space like the oceans? Pollution and illegal or unregulated fishing plague international waters. How can the problem ...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, Interlochen Public Radio, WRPI, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Rosa Parks & Other Activists at Early Highlander
Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial a...

Bought by WMMT, WRPI, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 58:48
  • Purchases: 4
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Action Speaks! - Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial a...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WRIR, KVNF, WRPI, WCPN and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 6
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A plea for individualizing treatment plans, incorporating all appropriate treatments

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:39
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Older, middle and younger generation discussion on Civility in our current time.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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Who pays to stop global warming? How to allocate emissions allowances? If people are entitled to an equal share of the world's resources, should na...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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How do we put value on the forests as an indispensable element of our survival? Can we balance market mechanisms with regulations and consumption w...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Do states have a responsibility to protect the planet? If so, who would decide when environmental protection is a legitimate reason to interfere in...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Do immigrants help or hurt America? Closed borders cut off the world's best and brightest, while open borders may invite the world's desperate, cri...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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What criteria do you emphasize when deciding "How is my country doing?" Are you proud of how your country compares with the world?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Should we observe Morgenthau's principles--avoid the crusading spirit and heed others' perspectives--or is promoting democracy and taking a forcefu...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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What does the financial crisis imply? Should we liberalize trade on agriculture and services? Or should we protect domestic producers?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Will our responses to the financial crisis be constructive, or will panic cloud our judgments?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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Will people associate U.S. power with "global misery" or with the opportunity and pluralism that Obama's victory represents?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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Are ethics primary questions that precede and surround practical leadership? Are these daily questions that inform each political decision?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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How will President Obama deal with the hopes and fears of people abroad? Will his priority be the interests of the United States or will the welfar...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:28
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Organized labor is throwing its great political strength into the drive for a reformed health care system.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:59
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We enter a slippery ethical slope when we begin to make distinctions between victims. When can an individual's rights be set aside?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Should the opinion of the world be important in American elections? This is a crucial question in applied ethics as we choose a President.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30