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Special Report: Deciding the Fate of Democracy in North Carolina
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this special report, we examine anti-democratic election law and a legal case — Moore vs. Harper — which is to be decided this term by the US Su...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Solidarity Actions on Climate Justice - Stopping Pipelines and Dirty Banks - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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EcoJustice Radio Executive Producer Jack Eidt shares speeches and discussions from multiple street actions on national and international climate,...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
But Next Time, Episode 3: Rising Waters
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jaime is speaking to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition about the 12 Moms initiative., Credit: But Next Time
In cities around the globe community organizers and direct service agencies are often the first line of response when a climate fueled natural disa...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Brothers On Three with Abe Streep
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Abe Streep, author of Brothers On Three, a chronicle of the Arlee Warriors boys basketball team’s amazing run of state champio...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 3
In Buffalo with India Walton: An Insurgent Candidate Runs for Mayor
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

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


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked gas projects that would tur...

Bought by WXDU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, explores Judi Bari’s bold activism to save the Redwood Forest in the face of corporate gre...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million: The Work of Closing a Notorious Jail
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Inex Bordeaux holds up a sign while doing street outreach in north St. Louis to raise awareness about the Close the Workhouse campaign., Credit: Carolina Hidalgo
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Symbols of Resistance Part One: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chicano Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: film cover art, Credit: Freedom Archives
Our radio adaptation of the film Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chicano Movement, offers a reflection on the untold stories...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery (and the fight to stop it)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Claudia Riedener has lived in Tacoma since 1998, and is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Redefine Tacoma., Credit: (photographer unknown)
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
First Daughter and the Black Snake
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, we take you to the Frozen River Film Festival to talk about the film First Daughter and the Black Snake. Directed by K...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 17:04
The Dinky Town Uprising
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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This episode of Art Beat we cover The Dinky Town Uprising, a film from the 2016 Frozen River Film Festival dealing with a 40 day and 40 night occup...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 40:28
Boy Scouts, Fishheads & The Living Dead
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: None of This Is Normal!
Life is But A Dream mix with current affairs blending music and politics with celebrations of the famous & infamous on "Nuit sur Les Champs-Elysees...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:49
Pete Seeger: Plain and Complicated
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, a cultural icon, and a so-called a “consensus hero." But the hero was also a pariah too many. Seeger’s ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Draft, Duty, and Dissent: G.I. Resistance to War
From: Making Contact
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It was the 1960s – and throughout the United States, opposition to the War in Vietnam was growing. The Draft forced young men to make a choice abo...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hunger and Work Strikes
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
'The Monster': Claiborne Avenue Before And After The Interstate
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Image created for "The Seventh Ward Creoles of New Orleans," an Arts Council of New Orleans publication. View of elevated highway built on neutral ground of North Claiborne Avenue. At center, a man pulls a grocery cart, Credit: THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with part two of its highway series. This is the story of the I-10 interstate bridge that sits above Claiborne A...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:17
  • Purchases: 1
Deadly Force: Police Shootings
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Police Lights, Credit: JJ https://www.flickr.com/photos/tattoodjay/4172577749/in/photolist-7mHxZF-ntjU6o-BA5dw-4YVuiR-4oxk3p-9WvKAJ-6aAVL8-4TriEc-9RxFf5-cX9PJ7-9FWBUQ-9iVSZY-3JGAkJ-aA7muZ-5Z6ysn-NajHv-97f5km-7NV3qB-dhhs8s-fjfh3-9Ra8Si-nZLv2P-HjZTJ-hrc2rF-cbcHJ5-bW6YvQ-4kV4bM-7y
Why are so many of those killed by police young people of color? A recent ProPublica investigation found that a young black male is at twenty one t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRIR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Prison fellowship aids in recovery
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2013: The Year the Criminal Justice System Changed?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Solitary Confinement, Credit: Flickr user CHeitz
Years of campaigning for basic human rights for people caught up in America's criminal justice system may finally be paying off. 2013 saw significa...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Permission to Speak: Ex-Political Prisoners in Burma
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. On this edition, we...

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 29:00