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Season 1, Episode 13 - 'Bouncing Forward' feat Michaela Haas
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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We all know what Post Traumatic Stress is, yet today we focus on Post Traumatic Growth.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 57:43
  • Purchases: 2
Helping Prisoners to Heal
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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More than a million Americans are in jails and prisons. In this documentary we present the voices of ex-prisoners who’ve made profound progress in ...

Bought by WUWM, KUHF, WAMU, WUOT 91.9 FM, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 16
Soledad O’Brien on Rosa Parks: The Untold Story
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Rosa Parks is best known to Americans as a national treasure — the little old lady who sat down on a bus and “ended racism.” What we lose in that d...

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


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
70 Million: Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Asantewaa Boykin, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, program director for MH First Sacramento, and an ER nurse, poses for a photo at her home in Sacramento., Credit: Photo by Sara Nevis.
Police encounters during a mental health crisis have a greater chance of turning deadly if you're Black. New response mechanisms bypass law enforce...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
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
You Never Get Nothing Back They Take: The Myth of Protect and Serve
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 7 You Never Get Nothing Back They Take is a verité romp following Zelly and his lawyer Kelly as they attempt to retrieve Zelly's...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 1
Victim/Criminal: The Myth of Difference
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 6 Victim/Criminal tells the story of Hakeem Carter, who was brutally attacked while walking home from work one night. This trau...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 24:40
  • Purchases: 1
A Family Rallies Around Their Brother As He Leaves Prison Yet Again
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 13 In nearly every state, prison populations have exploded -- in large part, because of drug laws and the people, like Manny Hil...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:20
  • Purchases: 1
The Uncomfortable Truth About Race in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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“The Uncomfortable Truth” is a film produced by Loki Mulholland. It is a journey to understand how being white has benefited his family across gene...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KMUN, KOWS, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 50:07
  • Purchases: 5
Welcome to Overshoot: Have a Nice Day - 2020 Edition
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Since 1972, study after study has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth’s ecosystems to bear. Welc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 12, 2020
  • Length: 51:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo
From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America
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The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 08, 2020
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 9
S2 Ep 5: Treating the wounds of trauma
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Musician and artist, Becka Baker, at band practice in Tacoma, Washington.
In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 32:36
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Edge of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Long & Twisted Tale of Jordan Cove & Rising Tide of Resistance
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Holding the Thin Green Line
Caption: Jordan Cove protest
The Long and Twisted Tale of Jordan Cove and Rising Tide of Resistance, tell the story of what could be the largest Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) export...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 55:05
The World's Largest Methanol Refinery & A View from the Blast Zone
From: Barbara Bernstein
Series: Holding the Thin Green Line
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The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery, the first half-hour of this episode of Holding the Thin Green Line, follows the efforts of activists in Taco...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 56:54
How does an architect of Facebook's biz model reckon with what he built?
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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He built Facebook's business model.....and then realized he was addicted to his phone.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 43:36
A Fiery Unrest: Why Plymouth Avenue Burned
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Silver's Grocery on Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis in 1967., Credit: Minneapolis Star & Tribune Negatives, July 1, 1967-August 31, 1967: Box 263. Minneapolis and St Paul Newspaper Negatives Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...

Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 2
A perpetrator priest speaks out — in dialogue with a survivor
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. In high school, she was sexually abused by her Catholic teacher, a former nun. Today, the...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:02:43
  • Purchases: 1
A survivor and her perpetrator find justice
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for sexual abuse? What does it sound like for a survivor to get her needs met? Hea...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 56:15
A journalist reckons with truth
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Alternative facts. Fake news. How are journalists grappling with this moment? Dive into one journalist’s reckoning with truth.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 44:42
Wealth Inequity and Universal Basic Income
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Chuck Collins, Credit: Author
President Donald Trump’s tax plan may exacerbate wealth inequity in the US. Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality at the Institute f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 16, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The defection of a Roger Ailes warrior
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 40:13
Sacrifice Zones - Part 2 (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mosier Fire , Credit: Image by: Paloma Ayala
On this encore edition of Making Contact, we present the final installment in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic lan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3