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Lizzie Velasquez - Rare Disorder Keeps Her at 60 Pounds
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Lizzie Velasquez, Credit: Tyler Coe
Lizzie Velasquez has a syndrome so rare, it doesn't even have a name, and only 2 others in the world have it. No matter what or how much she eats, ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 25:31
Tish Morgan Mata - Bipolar Disorder & Addictions
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Tish Morgan Mata, Credit: Tish Morgan Mata
Tish Morgan Mata has been bipolar from a very young age, and used drugs, alcohol, sex and food to self-medicate. In this interview she describes wh...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2010
  • Length: 24:14
LZ Love - Transgender Musical Artist
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: LZ Love, Credit: LZ Love
LZ Love is a successful female musical artist. Many don't know that she is transgender, having been born a man. In this interview with her, she dis...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 17, 2010
  • Length: 24:49
  • Purchases: 1
In Connecticut, Companies Choose Shared-Work Over Layoffs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 07:10
Non-profits Make Jobs by Supporting Micro-Enterprise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...

Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 3
Turning Farm Workers into Farm Owners
From: Making Contact
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It’s well known that the people picking food all across the US are predominantly low-paid Latino migrant workers. It’s ironic that the workers car...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
A Waste-Free Dairy of the Future?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: cheese maker at Fiscalini, Credit: Rita Daniels
It’s estimated that dairy products make up a full 20% of our daily food intake here in North America. But with increased focus on cattle waste met...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 08:42
Dry Farming-a Technique for a Water Scarce Future
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Farmers in California's central valley are getting a sneak preview of what much of the country, and the world, can expect to see in the next few de...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Small Farms, Big Future
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Making Cheese at the Fiscalini Cheese Company , Credit: Rita Daniels
We go to California, America’s leading producer of fruits, vegetables, and dairy, to see some examples of how the nation’s agricultural industry is...

Bought by WSKG, KZYX, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 10, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
How We Survive: Getting Creative About Jobs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.

Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Oscar Grant and Police Accountability
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Native Harvest for a Modern World
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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An agricultural renaissance has taken root among the Taos Pueblo people in New Mexico. Sustainable agriculture is returning, after years of unheal...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
How We Survive: Sprouting Up in Empty Breadbaskets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Tapped Out: Clean Water in Peril (1-hour version) with Newshole
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country. They’re people wor...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston and WRPI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2009
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 2
Breaking Through the Blue Wall of Silence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oakland protestors lay in the position Oscar Grant was in when he was killed, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Medical Marijuana - New Jersey moves bill, New Mexico's active program
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: NJ Assembly Medical Marijuana hearing 6-4-09
Actuality Audio from the NJ Assembly health committee hearing on medical marijuana 6-4-09 and interview with New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance on the...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Neither Here Nor There: Bhutanese Refugees in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of Nepali speaking refugees from Bhutan are coming to North America. Correspondent Adelaide Chen takes us on a journey with these new arr...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
Making Contact: Survivors of Solitary Confinement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Student Calls for Peace After Shooting + MSNBC Marijuana Inc with Al Roker
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Marijuana leaf
Commentary on the police shooting of 20 year old college student Derek Copp in Michigan last week plus a segment on my brief appearance in MSNBC's ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
The Green Planet Monitor - Edition # 7
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Wind turbines, Credit: web
In today’s edition … clean energy – it’s the way to go. Wind power in China, natural gas in Egypt. And from one of capitalism’s most hallowed halls...

Bought by WRPI and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 2
Black and African
From: Making Contact
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African immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the black population in the U.S. On this edition, we meet Mauton Akran, a Nigerian immigrant ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, XRAY.fm, WCSU-FM, and WNCU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
WWOZ Street Talk- The questionable motives of the Arch Bishop
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Music saved Francis's Life but now the very place that saved him may be destroyed.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2008
  • Length: 05:30
"Prison Town, USA"
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In our special collaboration with public televison?s P.O.V., Directors Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins take us to ?Prison Town, USA? and explore how...

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Jul 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Veterans Speak Out: Winter Soldier
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In March 2008, hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans gathered for "Winter Soldier": to talk about what they saw and did in combat, and diff...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
My T-Shirt Says it All
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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UC Berkeley graduate student, Jacob Fenston, talks with three T-shirt designers who use the garments as a way to fight racism, communicate cultural...

Bought by KGOU, KUT-HD, KGOU, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4