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Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:25
Caption: Christian Palacios
Poet Christian Palacios, 16, is a sophomore at Whitney Young; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high school. Villians gives ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:49
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
A Quiet Sunday in London is very different from another Sunday in Cairo

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The streets of Abidjan, Credit: Carol Spindel
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
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Should any species be hunted to extinction?

  • Added: Dec 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:14
Caption: Mara Keisling
On this edition of Culture Clique we visit with two individuals from the National Center for Transgender equality. Mara Kiesling The Executive Dire...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
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Caption: Bruce A. Jacobs, Credit: via www.aliasbruce.typepad.com
Today we continue our conversation and lecture on Race Manners with Bruce A. Jacobs. In our interview we ask about what cities in the US are have t...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 31:29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are two major political parties

  • Added: Oct 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:57
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After the news that the Senate had not passed legislation to end "don't ask don't tell," commentator Mark Blackmon decided that it was time to remi...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:08
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Some bands are getting creative about making a political spectacle, by becoming the protest themselves, and using the internet to make their messag...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 2
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The Infernal Noise Brigade debuted at the Seattle WTO protests in 1999. Jill Friedberg from KBCS in Seattle has their story.

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
How many Illinois Governors have gone to jail?

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Chinese philosophy passed on to you by a Swede

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you don't pollute, you can sell your clean-air credit to those who do.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:08
Caption: Oscar Estrada, Credit: http://www.elheraldo.hn/content/view/full/18947
We hear from activists and experts who say the U.S. can learn a lot from social movements in Latin America.

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When he felt the heart attack coming on he shot out the windows of the house next door.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:35
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Why do poor people vote for the party of billionaires?

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:52
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  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 02:37
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Superman got out in time.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Statue of Prime Minister Charles James Fox, Credit: Walter Murch
A view of the general election held in the United Kingdom on May 6 2010

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  • Added: May 08, 2010
  • Length: 09:55
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Stop me if you've heard this one before

  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: :35
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A marriage is the smallest unit of government.

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  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:25
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Caption: Crowds at the Plaza de Mayo, Credit: Walter Murch
March 24th is Truth and Justice Day, a national holiday in Argentina.

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2010
  • Length: 09:51
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Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When it applied to them, the bill passed.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:49