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Decade of Dope
From: renee wilde
Series: Women's Voices From The Dayton Correctional Institution
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: renee wilde
Inmate Melody Williams interviews fellow prisoner Aimee Wissman about her heroin addiciton. For Aimee, who is an artist, heroin was a way to emulat...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
From Dreamers in Arizona to Muslims in Michigan: Immigrant Communities Upholding Democracy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Viridiana Hernández lobbying at the Arizona State Legislature against the bill that would ban cities from creating their own city ID if that is extended to undocumented immigrants., Credit: Valeria Fernández
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Anishinaabenaajimon: The Legacy of Oppression
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Anton Treuer co-founded Bemidji’s Truth and Reconciliation group. He’s been producing a series for Northern Community Radio called Anishinaabenaaji...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
The Elusive Neighborhood Cop
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? Law enforcement agencies around the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass Studio: The Human in Human Rights
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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International writers from the 2015 University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP) residency join activists and members of the academic com...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Ecological Amnesia – Winona LaDuke #104
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“I don’t think there’s a lot of excuses, frankly, for not doing the right thing.” Anishinaabe orator, author, economist and activist Winona LaDuke ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, KCMJ Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 8
LIVE LAW 1: Stupid Motions
From: LIVE LAW
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Calvin Duncan spent over 28 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, he taught himself the law. He became a jailhouse lawyer and he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2015
  • Length: 17:08
  • Purchases: 1
States of Censorship: Journalism Under Attack
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Imprisonment, oppressive laws, and harassment of journalists - these are just a few means of censorship around the world. The use of these repressi...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Stayed Even Though He Beat Me - Nailah Stevenson's Story
From: WBEZ
Series: Vocalo Presents
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Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:04
What the Truth Costs: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
What the Truth Costs : A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The cost of the truth is not tied to inflation. It’s tied to tolerance, inversely. The more tolerance that exists, the lower the price paid for the...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
The Beat: Charlie Pulkrabek - "In Bloom"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Min...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:17
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Shakespeare - "Proof of Bill's Translatability."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Beyond Fear And Prejudice (w/Natalia Zukerman)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Mindlessly we go about lives. We don't even realize our prejudices. We don't even know our assumptions. We buy into whatever it is that the medi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Struggle for Food Justice
From: Vinny Cannizzaro
Series: A Community of Voices
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How much doe we know about the food we eat?

  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 27:59
What About Haiti?
From: Vinny Cannizzaro
Series: A Community of Voices
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A 60 second quake, wreaked complete, long term havoc over the country of Haiti

  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 26:50
Engranes I
From: KDNA Radio
Series: Engranes
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How do we determine the difference between what is true, false or a complete fallacy.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 49:08
  • Purchases: 1
Master Mind (w/Jen Chapin)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Renowned musician Jen Chapin joins host Ian Lawton, who muses on the miracle of being alive in each moment. By reframing the eastern idea of "empti...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
Where Mean Spiritedness Hides- A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Spirits are invisible, never caught in the flesh, imaginary presence usually. Children think they hide under the bed, in dark places, the darkness ...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:48
Here, There and Everywhere: Locally Upholding Human Rights
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In this season of gratitude, speak. Uphold civil liberties, the human rights that we have, that others will travel thousands of miles for, and when...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:28
The Beat: Gail Rixen - "One of Us"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:25
The Beat: Will Weaver - "The Tow Rope"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Will Weaver grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. He's attended St. Cloud State, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford. He was a Professor of E...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
When we talk about race
From: Civic Commons
Caption: TheCivicCommons.com
How do YOU talk about race? And why can it be so touchy?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:32
"Art From Within" - Artist Wesley May talks about his art
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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“Art From Within” is the title of the March exhibit at the Bemidji Community Art Center. The exhibit features art work by Ojibwe and non-Native art...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 02, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 2