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Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

“The opportunities for labor right now are virtually limitless,” says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federat...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR

Added: May 12, 2021
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 4

A Stimulus Check that Comes Every Month

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Thousands of Americans recently received direct payments from their government as part of the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan to addres...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and KWMR

Added: Apr 14, 2021
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 4

You Can't Deal With Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy: Vijay Prashad

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require a pro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR

Added: Mar 03, 2021
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 3

Not Everyone is a Jerk: Rutger Bregman on Humankind

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR

Added: Feb 24, 2021
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 3

WITNESS IN THE DARK: Two Short Plays by Dominique Morisseau

From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes

WITNESS IN THE DARK, features two plays by Dominique Morisseau, a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Tony Award nominee for Ain't Too Proud: The ...

Bought by Prairie Public, KUNM, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)

Added: Dec 24, 2020
Length: 53:00
Purchases: 3

F-Word: Divest / Invest

From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary

"For many Americans, there’s never been a better time to reconsider the entire system. Years of work, by abolitionists like Angela Davis, Ruthie Gi...

Added: Oct 21, 2020
Length: 04:00

Episode Three: Aftermath

From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

Kentuckians fought on both sides of the Civil War but came together at war’s end to oppose a common foe—newly emancipated African Americans yearnin...

Bought by KRSC, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, KSQD Santa Cruz and more

Added: Oct 01, 2020
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 22

Episode Two: Recovering History

From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

Due to prohibitions against enslaved people learning to read and write, there are only a few written records left behind by formerly enslaved Kentu...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KUOW, KGOU, WKMS and more

Added: Oct 01, 2020
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 22

Synchronicity

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

There always seems to be a peculiar twist in understanding our world. How it works. Just when we think of have a grip on it, like a greased pig, it...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 29, 2020
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

A Public Health Approach to Policing: The Newark Model

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

What does it look like to adopt a public health approach to safety, policing, and economic development? In February, 2020, Laura visited Newark, N...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Added: Sep 16, 2020
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 2

The Untold Story of Ian Alexy's Making It Shine Documentary

From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota

Ian Alexy makes up half of the Minnesota musical group Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank along with his brother Teague, and since the COVID-19 pandemic b...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

Added: Aug 29, 2020
Length: 30:00
Purchases: 1

Engulfed In Flames

From: John L Myers

Rodney Ford was 9 years old when he was forced to evacuate his home. What happened next was broadcast live on television. This piece was produced ...

Added: Aug 18, 2020
Length: 04:00

“What does ‘Protesting’ Mean to Someone in this Current Moment?”

From: Jed Alexander

Caption: BLM rally in North Hollywood, Credit: Jed Alexander

Even in complicated times, we tend to forget the simplicity of, “why we protest” even if the issue is a no-brainer or has complicated edges. We kno...

Added: Aug 11, 2020
Length: 07:34

Present Shock - Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

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 ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer

Added: Aug 05, 2020
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 2

Growing Young

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Humankind seems to be on eternal search for an answer on how to live longer. Our efforts naturally lead us to spirituality. But then we take pills ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Aug 04, 2020
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America, Demo

From: Dan Gediman
Series: The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

The Reckoning traces the history and lasting impact of slavery in America by looking at the experience of Kentucky, a slave state which stayed in t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Morehead State Public Radio, KTEP, WCPN, Tri States Public Radio and more

Added: Jul 08, 2020
Length: 10:44
Purchases: 9

'Renaissance Fables For The World' 13

From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World

Caption: 'Study Of A Horse', Credit: Leonnardo da Vinci

This 5 minute exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's fables is part of the series of 76 programs available here on Public Radio Exchange.

Added: May 15, 2020
Length: 05:00

Covid-19 Demands a National Reckoning

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately bl...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Added: May 06, 2020
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 3

The Berger Bros

From: Israel Story

When God first spoke to Benjamin, he was reading the newspaper. From that moment, he and his brother - two Orthodox Jewish boys from the Bronx - we...

Added: Jan 29, 2020
Length: 29:13

Gift from God? Or a Lucifer?

From: Cam Marston
Series: Keepin' It Real with Cam Marston - Short interstitial content.

Is he a gift directly from God? Or a Lucifer with "messianic certainty?" ALABAMA PUBLIC RADIO DECLINED TO AIR THIS COMMENTARY - TOO CONTROVERSIAL.

Added: Jan 27, 2020
Length: 03:40

December 30th RERUN - “Edge of Democracy”; Brazil, A Cautionary Tale

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Added: Dec 23, 2019
Length: 28:00
Purchases: 1

Full Moon Hacksaw #1714 (Hour 1 & 2) - 12-05-2019

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

It’s a piano-heavy show with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley bringing in Bill Evans, from there it’s Keith Jarrett, James P. Johnson, Pete Johnson ...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS, KRZA, WVBI-LP and more

Added: Dec 03, 2019
Length: 01:59:57
Purchases: 8

Episode 5: Our Future With Fire

From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning

Caption: Brennan Byrd holding a piece of Cob building material

On the fifth and final episode of California Burning, we look for solutions that address the many different factors associated with the wildfires p...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KVCR, WMRA, KSKA, KALW and more