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Abigail Spanberger: Defending Her Country Yet Again
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Abigail Spanberger, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Abigail Spanberger swore an oath at age twenty-four “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and d...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 21:33
EP 98: Crazy-On-You Activism for Peace & Planet
From: Earth Riot Radio
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Feeling good about the activism we tried, but enough of the “rally & march & rally & march,” — WE FACE THE UNKNOWN. Gotta return to honest shock -...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Slava Ukraini with Uliana Bazar Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Self portrait., Credit: Uliana Bazar
Four years ago, Uliana Bazar, along with her spouse, Matthew Propert, left their home in the United States and flew to Ukraine, the land of her bir...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:20
Frances Goldin, Rabble Rousers & A NYC Housing Struggle Wins (August 9, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A new film tells how New Yorkers, led by Frances Goldin, won a 50-year housing struggle against developer Robert Moses.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, WNYE, and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Criminalized Survival
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Activist, Kim Dadou Brown, Credit: Daniel A. Nelson
In this episode, Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson talk with us about their documentary, And So I Stayed. This award-winning film centers three...

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bold Women of Montana - 0329 - Diane Sands
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women of Montana - 0310 - Womens Influence on the Montana Constitution
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
A Garment Worker Victory
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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California garment workers organize and win passage of a state law that holds fashion brands responsible for unpaid wages.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KZYX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bois Forte Veteran Series - Floyd Morrison
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Bois Forte Veterans Series
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KBFT Bois Forte Veterans Day Series featuring Anishinaabe Men and Women of the Bois Forte Nation of Chippewa in Minnesota. In this episode, we hear...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 164: Sanctuary
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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After 32 years in the United States, José Chicas was told he had to leave. He bought a plane ticket to El Salvador, but then a local church offered...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 36:54
Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Police reform, gun violence, global warming... When did you last have a civil, informative, productive conversation with someone of differing opini...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:10
Grace Lee Boggs: Sister Revolutionary
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, American Revolut...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 146: Ten Doors
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1978, Tim Jenkin was charged under South Africa’s Terrorism Act for disseminating anti-apartheid material, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
Women Rising Radio: Women Challenge Capitalism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio #40 explores the global women's movement to resist the violence and greed of capitalism. A women-led village in Kurdish Syria e...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Lewis: Profile in Peace (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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The late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Bought by KUNM, Wyoming Public Radio, WVPE, KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
John Lewis: Profile in Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The late 17-term Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis is remembered in a special that includes the memorial ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, KUHF, KETR-FM, KAZU Seaside, Calif., WUFT and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Reciprocity (episode 5)
From: Growing Old Project
Series: Growing Old: Tales from an Urban Canopy
Caption: Growing Old
Explore the role that trees play in human health and urban climate resilience, particularly amid a pandemic. Talk with City of Seattle urban forest...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 32:31
  • Purchases: 2
Cities Declare Climate Emergency
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Two men address their fear of climate change by getting their cities to declare a climate emergency and commit to rapidly lowering emissions.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KRZA, KICI Iowa City, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
World in Progress 11/07/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: What's at stake in the Alabama abortion battle - In Alabama in the Untited States, the legal battle about abortion rights c...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Untold Story of the Richard C. Wilson St. Cloud Community Outpost
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits and then revisits the Rich...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:54
So Good To Not Feel Alone
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Community residents, longshoremen, small businesspeople, tribes and environmentalists got together and stopped a massive oil by rail terminal in Va...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KRZA, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 1 - All Rise
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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Mary and Maeve are laying down the law. Three years ago, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Kh...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 43:44
  • Purchases: 1
People Over Parking Lots
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Half empty lot on Black Friday, Credit: Strong Towns
Fayetteville Arkansas and Buffalo NY stopped requiring off-street parking and found that walkable shopping districts boost local business. Its some...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 10, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Big Pond #12: A House for Reconciliation
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Five generations have lived at the ‘Alexander Haus’ on Groß Glienicker See over the past century – enduring fascism, war, the division of Germany, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 3