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2021-01-03 Comforting Conversations (Part 1)
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How can insights from the arts and humanities help us cope with difficult times?

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10
2020-12-27 The Examined Year: 2020
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What (didn't) happen this past year to challenge our assumption and make us think about things in new ways?

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  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Community Wealth Building: From Cleveland to Preston
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How does an economy emerge from recession? In Preston, England, they’re experimenting with investing public money in locally-owned businesses and ...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Public Health Approach to Policing: The Newark Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What does it look like to adopt a public health approach to safety, policing, and economic development? In February, 2020, Laura visited Newark, N...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cooperation and Cooperatives vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
2020-08-23 (There's Still) Time for Summer Reading
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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There's still time for deep reading this summer (and our 500th episode).

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Present Shock - Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Graphic Artists Drawing Comix At The Margins: Nate Powell and Mohammad Saba'aneh
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This show originally aired 15 months ago, before the death of civil rights rights movement leader representative John Lewis on July 17, 2020. Laur...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Unintentional Development of Plastic
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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The plastics we rely so heavily on today weren’t a single discovery. In fact, they weren’t even all discovered on purpose! Tune in to find out more.

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 1
New Justice, Prison Abolition: A World Beyond Prisons
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Note: This episode originally aired the summer of 2019. Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the lan...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
RDD: The Rough Draft Diaries Pledge Special 2020
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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It's fundraising time at WGTE FM 91! Support the mission and join the community by donating online or calling (866) 380-4664. And thanks!

  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 04:31
Holding Space While Maintaining Social Distance
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
Caption: Tara Atkinson
Suzanne LaGrande interviews Tara Atkinson, a yoga therapist and teacher who teaches diverse communities in Portland, Oregon. Since the Covid-19 Pan...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 08:17
#911- Contagion worries continue CORONA VIRUS UPDATE ON MARKETS
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Contagion worries continue on the minds of investors and indeed world wide. What continuing effect on markets is it having and what can we expect? ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:10
In Praise of Veterans and One Special Veteran People Call Santa Claus
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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The Emotion Roadmap featured a show about veterans close to when we celebrated Veteran's Day in 2019. One caller talked about a veteran living in a...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:23
How Can Municipal Government Promote Economic Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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New York, NY...its a city with close to 100 billion dollar budget every year and 1 deputy mayor with some pretty creative plans for how to spend it...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Alvaro Bedoya: Privacy and Civil Rights in the Age of Facebook, ICE, and the NSA
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Right: U.S. Sen. Dennis Chavez (NM); Right: Professor Alvaro Bedoya
What is the history of surveillance in the US? What are its implications for today's activists, immigrants, and people of color? Professor Alvaro B...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:53
The Mad Military Money Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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There’s something sick about US Military spending. It’s certainly not keeping anyone safe. This week, why we the public spend billions on bad techn...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #24: Being Muslim in the Midwest
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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What is it like to be Muslim nowadays in the Midwest, the so-called Heartland of the US? And how does that reality connect to the one in Germany? O...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 2
Commoning Our Cities: Mary Miss, Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Reinventing our cities and re-enchanting the world. Who gets a say in designing where they live? We visit artist Mary Miss's organization, The Cit...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
300 E Eager St: The release door of the Baltimore Jail
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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My first experience with Baltimore City Jail, I think I was 17 years of age, and it just seems like it’s been repeatedly ever since. I’ve been in a...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2019
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 1
#861- Social media as an economic weapon NEWS PIECE
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Do BOTS control many of the social media sites in an attempt to cause strife in the US? How do they work? What are their methods? What are the poss...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2019
  • Length: 09:14
#859- GM CEO salary and thousands of GM layoffs
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
So this newscast is VERY controversial and takes a tact we haven't seen before on this issue. Best to preview this piece as it will likely anger ma...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2019
  • Length: 06:24
2018-11-25 Holiday Films on Corn, Coal, Lights, and Flights
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It’s a holiday movie special as Climate One talks to the directors/producers of four recent documentaries that bring human drama to the climate sto...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
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For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00