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In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair Maps
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair M...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
99. Neil Young: Love as the Apocalypse Rocks Us
From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio
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The songs of the new release, Before and After, give us Love that we can use. The wars and mass extinction seem to mock the tenderness of Love, but...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
100. The Post-Religious Chxrch of the Fabulous Unknown
From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio
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American religions like sports, the arts, corporate life and house-hold pets - leave us with a goopy kind of gradualism. Since the Earth's crisis ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
But Next Time Part 1: California Wildfires and Protecting Our Farmworkers (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: KBBF board President, Alicia Sanchez prepares a recording for the station., Credit: Amanda Lopez
As fires ravaged California’s wine country in 2017, farm and service workers, especially non-English speakers, were some of the hardest hit. Hear m...

Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gaza, Solidarity, and the Movement for Palestinian Liberation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Demonstrators call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to US military aid to Israel at the Port of Oakland in November 2023., Credit: Brooke Anderson (photo has been cropped from original)
For weeks people around the world have been witness to Israel's deadly assault on Gaza. Today, we uncover the military corporations profiting from ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
Rethinking Foreign Aid
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Degan Ali, a Somali-American who heads the Nairobi based NGO ADESO, talks about the future of aid with Eileen O'Connor, Senior Vice President of th...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
What does "adult" mean in the eyes of the law? In Louisiana, many work to change the answer.
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 11 The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
50 Years Later: Remembering Fred Hampton
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, The Murder of Fred Hampton, produced by filmmakers Mike Gray and Howard Alk, provides a glimpse into the life of ...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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
Immigration Case Management Instead of Detention - Lorri in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Retired lawyer Lorri in Austin volunteers to help immigration organizations and asylum seekers in Central Texas. Lorri objects to how ICE and for-...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 1
Opposing Children's Detention Centers - Marina from the Rio Grande Valley
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 26:01
The American Tapestry of Immigrants - Ana in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Recent violence in El Paso made Ana in Austin reflect on immigrants in America. She talks about what she has learned living and working at the bor...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 17:17
  • Purchases: 1
How to Take Action in Politics - Lisa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Lisa from San Antonio and Austin describes how she has been involved in politics since she was a kid, and how she is especially involved now. She ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 11:31
Needs of Rural Texans - Michelle in Bastrop County
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Michelle from Bastrop County discusses increasing political participation among rural Texans. She wants better government representatives who meet...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:07
The Feminist Case for Joining a Men's Group
From: Felix Poon
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What is an anti-sexist men’s group? And, if I’m a man who identifies as progressive with feminist values, isn’t that enough? What do I need a group...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 13:11
  • Purchases: 1
Fixing School Finance
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Photo of the Texas Capital building on March 11, 2019, during a rally for education finance reform., Credit: Pius Wong
Texans across the state and across the political divide agree: public school funding needs fixing. What that means exactly, however, is tricky. In ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 41:58
Episode 2: How Puerto Ricans are restoring power to the people through Mutual Aid
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
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After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, a group of activists formed a community kitchen to help feed those in need. That community ki...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
EP 7.1 — Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In part 1 of our 2-part series on UBI, we explore this highly contentious topic, speaking with scholars, activists, journalists, and folks on the s...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP 3 — Betrayal and Solidarity in Greece
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In 2015, Greece held a referendum to free itself from a debt crisis. We traveled to Athens to bring you an on-the-ground exploration of the afterma...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
Texas Standard: The Wall
From: KUT
Caption: The border wall at Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas as seen from the Mexican side., Credit: Lorne Matalon/Marfa Public Radio
Building a wall between the United States and Mexico was a signature plank of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. His win in November is bringing...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:01:42
Poland
From: Let's Travel! Radio
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The topic of this month's episode is Poland. Let's Travel Radio discusses, with special guests, the key differences between Western and Eastern Eur...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:47