Ampers

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Ampers is an association of 18 independent community radio stations in Minnesota.  Each station is locally managed and programmed by and for the local communities they serve.  Ampers is the largest network of community radio stations in the state of Minnesota and one of the largest of its kind in the United States. From Grand Marais, and Thief River Falls, to Mankato and Winona, and just about everywhere in between, we’ve got Minnesota covered. Our combined audience is about 250,000 devoted listeners.  Ampers has no affiliation with Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) and receives no financial support from MPR. 

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Short features documenting the impact of Minnesota's Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 23, 2014
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A Look at Legacy

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Apr 12, 2015
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40 Pieces

Bearing Witness with Anthony Galloway and Georgia Fort is a production of Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice, a journalism project created and supported by Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities, in partnership with KMOJ Radio and The Minnesota Humanities Center.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Mar 27, 2021
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First-hand experiences and advice about the challenges and rewards associated with caring for loved ones in the last stages of life. Allina Health helped fund this project.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Dec 29, 2016
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140 Pieces

We discuss race, identity, social justice and culture in a region grappling with demographic changes

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jan 14, 2021
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select Ampers programming related to COVID19

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Apr 20, 2020
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Sex Trafficking - Breaking Free Sex traffic. At KMOJ, we're not letting it hide. We are pleased to present two hours of programming about people in our community trying to end it. We are proud that last year's program on sex trafficking won a first place award from the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the special projects category.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 05, 2019
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Moments in the musical history of Minnesota

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jul 14, 2017
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Minnesota Music Notes celebrating noteworthy artists, people and moments that shaped the history of Minnesota's Mainroom First Avenue

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Sep 26, 2019
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478 Pieces

Each week Minnesota Native News looks at social, economic, cultural, health issues and more facing Minnesota’s Native American communities. By informing and educating all Minnesotans about events, activities, and issues in Minnesota’s Native American communities this program interweaves the Native American culture into the rest of the communities of the state.

  • From: Ampers
  • Updated: Jan 29, 2014

Pieces

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By 2001, the world at large still thought of Yoko Ono as John Lennon’s widow. That year’s retrospective at Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center, however...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, WDSE, KSRQ, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 13
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December 3, 2015, Scott Weiland, former front man of the Stone Temple Pilots, pulled into a parking lot in Bloomington, Minnesota. It was a day off...

Bought by KSRQ, KVSC, WDSE, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 14
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In 1938, war correspondent Martha Gellhorn arrived in Minnesota as part of a 22-city lecture tour. She had a purpose: to sound the alert that the S...

Bought by KVSC, WDSE, WTIP, KKWE Niijii Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 14
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In this episode, Anthony and Georgia discuss the increasing COVID-19 rates in children amidst the coming start of the school year with Chauntyl All...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 28:31
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In our third installment, Rep. Carlos Mariani highlights some of the initiatives he led and continues to lead at the Minnesota House of Representat...

Bought by KVSC and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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On today’s show, we have a fun conversation with Amber Buckanaga (Leech Lake Band) who is an artist, fashion designer, and mother. Amber left her ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tech rehearsal at The Southern
This week on Minnesota Native News, the sound of young people growing and community healing. Laurie Stern reports on a new production that will soo...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KVSC, WDSE, KSRQ, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 8
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On this episode Anthony and Mrs. Georgia connect with filmmaker and storyteller D.A Bullock about the confluence of stories and experiences that ma...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 1
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We’re celebrating hometown hero Sunisa Lee, the first Hmong-American to compete at the Olympics. She held a whole community, a team, and the countr...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KVSC, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:33
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Hennepin County Judge-Designate Colette Routel, Credit: Mitchell Hamline School of Law
This week on Minnesota Native News, a new state judge brings a wealth of Indian Country expertise and a new partnership gives Native students a pla...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WDSE, KKWE Niijii Radio, WGZS, KVSC and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 8