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Life of the Law #76: Juggalos
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: JUGGALO - COSTA MESA, Credit: Jared Eberhardt
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:45
Life of the Law #75: UnDACAmented
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 23:50
Life of the Law Episode #67: The Stop
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
From Reform to Transform: California's Prop 47 and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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From Reform to Transform introduces listeners to passionate racial and social justice advocates in California who crafted, promoted, and saw throug...

Bought by WUAL and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #56: Tipping the Scales
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can prohibit judges from openly asking for money to pay for their judicial campaigns. Life of the Law'...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 24:30
The East Side Freedom Library
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Last year, when the St. Paul Public Library vacated a building in East St. Paul, another venture moved in—and its dynamic focus is spelled out in i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Micro-lending helps local entrepreneurs
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Financing a business plan or personal project usually means taking out a bank loan, but for many immigrants, there's another alternative. KFAI's Al...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:39
"Fresh Dressed" 2015 Sundance Documentary Submission
From: Sara Wagner
Series: Sundance Wrap
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Commentary by Director Sasha Jenkins of "Fresh Dressed"

  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:56
Life of the Law #42 – In The Name Of The Father
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The Scottsboro Boys are infamous — nine black teenagers falsely accused and convicted of raping two white women. Last year, the state of Alabama f...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 23:08
  • Purchases: 1
Before You Do This
From: vanessa lowe
Caption: Toby Hawkins
This piece was produced for the 2nd Annual KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race, by Vanessa Lowe and Kent Sparling. It made it to the top ten finalists out of ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
The Farmers Inn
From: Evan Johnson
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A story about the value of a different kind of "sharing a meal" and a small North Dakota town’s unusual effort to save its only café. Like a lot of...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:50
Military Food - Is it healthy?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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Military food has come a long way since the canned rations of World War I. However, has the overall quality of nourishment or taste necessarily imp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
Ya Basta
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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20 years after the founding of The Zapatistas, the group’s influence has spread far beyond Mexico’s border through music and art. Producer Alejand...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Natrese Thomas, Police Dispatcher
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Raising Angel
From: Chloe Prasinos
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Jamie is pregnant and has nowhere she can go. She finds herself at Saint Andre Home, a modern day home for unwed mothers, where she awaits her four...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
Project #9
From: Joanne DeVault
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This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 24:58
Culturology: Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People - Hour Two
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People
This is the second installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:25
  • Purchases: 6
Heygate Heaven
From: Chris Wood
Caption: View of the Shard from the Heygate Estate, Credit: Chris Wood
A documentary montage of soundscapes and voices from Elephant and Castle, London, UK the site of Europe's largest urban re-generation project. The ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 46:19
In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From Palestinian farmers to shootings at the US and Mexico border; living in the shadow of the wall.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Governing the Occupation
From: Frances Harlow
Caption: The Occupy Maine encampment in Portland's Lincoln Park., Credit: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://katrinaherzogphotography.com/" target="_blank">Katrina Herzog</a>, courtesy of the Salt archives.
Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
Learning To Forgive, Longing To Forget
From: Voices of Our World
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How a documentary about Rwanda's genocide is being used as an educational tool for the youth around the world.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
Baltimore, MD: Outsiders In
From: Al Letson
Series: State of the Re:Union: Season Three
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Baltimore is a city of many neighborhoods, of intense divides—racial, class, and otherwise-- not easily overcome. It’s a city bogged down by a repu...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WESM 91.3 FM, WRKF, KACU, WVTF and more


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 20
When 'No' is Not an Option: Gas Boom Brings Problems to Surface Owners
From: Reid Frazier
Series: Breaking the Land: Marcellus Shale and the Gas Age
Caption: Marty Whiteman found himself in a struggle with Chesapeake Energy, which leased the gas under his farm. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier
What happens when your land sits on top of a rich natural gas deposit, but you don't own the mineral rights. In Wetzel County, West Virginia, many ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:05
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18

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