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Episode 92: A Seat at the Table
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Residents are experts on their neighborhoods, but their voices often go unheard in local decision making. Professor Tia Gaynor discusses initiative...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 21:53
  • Purchases: 1
Facing the Danger of Facial Recognition
From: Megan Harris
Series: Criminal Injustice
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Facial recognition technology is being used by police all over the U.S. using images of millions of innocent Americans. It’s a lot less accurate th...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:14
Episode 86: Unequal Protection from Pollution
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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As Congress and the Trump Administration roll back environmental protections, some communities are especially harmed. But Professor David Konisky e...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 25:59
Episode 83: 21st Century Safety Net
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Social security, health insurance, and unemployment insurance help Americans through life’s ups and downs. Benjamin Veghte explains the benefits an...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 24:39
Episode 79: Is the Death Penalty Dying?
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Changing public opinion and high costs have death sentences in decline in America. Professor Frank Baumgartner explains that when they do happen, r...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:31
Former United States Congress Chief of Staff for The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) Bob Shapiro shares Visions of a Fiscally Healthy Nation
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Caption: Former Congressional Chief of Staff (JCT) Bob Shapiro & Dr. Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Former United States Congress Chief of Staff for The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) Bob Shapiro shares Visions of a Fiscally Healthy Nation with...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 74: Is Our Food Safe?
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Rollbacks on federal regulations will put American’s food at risk. Professor Adam Sheingate explains the risks to consumers and the prospects for f...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 23:21
Episode 71: Violence in Resistance
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Protests that turn violent have been a constant throughout American history. Professor Ashley Howard explains their origins, and how new laws, poli...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 26:10
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 72: Power in Politics
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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The outsized influence of money in U.S. politics is a problem. Sean McElwee and Professor Tabatha Abu El-Haj describe how donors skew policy and ho...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 38:13
Direct Action
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Direct Action, Credit: Verso
You’ve probably noticed quite a number of protests across America in recent weeks. Activists everywhere are speaking up. This is not spontaneous ac...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Feminism Today
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Let's take a look at what it means to be a feminist. Students from Winona State University along with Dr. Mary Jo Klinker fill us in on how feminis...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KVSC, and KZYX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 42:59
  • Purchases: 3
53: Joan Blades, founder of MoveOn.org & Kate Schatz author of "Rad Women Worldwide"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Joan Blades
Liberal activist Joan Blades co-founded MoveOn.org, Moms Rising and Living Room Conversations. Now she has teamed up with Republican John Gable on ...

Bought by KWMR, KSJD, WRIR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Peace Around Political Polarization
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, three guests who’ll touch on just a few of the many reasons political polarization continues in the U.S. Eac...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WVPE, Radio Catskill, Marfa Public Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
Ideas Books: Will Atkinson, Class
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Will Atkinson
Interview with author Will Atkinson about his book, Class. The topic of class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Commerce With Compassion
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Colombian Farmer , Credit: Lush.co.uk
A look at some businesses that promote social justice, fair trade and labor practices, and thereby peace.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
15: Judge Noel Wise & Ilana Lipsett, Building Safe Communities
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Noel Wise, Judge
What is 'creative place-making'? We talk with the founder of FreeSpace in San Francisco, CA about how the use of vacant real estate can actually br...

Bought by KSJD, KWMR, KMUD, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 4
Cannabis Radio News #61
From: Cannabis Radio News
Series: Cannabis Radio News - weekly show
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In this edition of the Cannabis Radio News we hear the latest on groundbreaking new rules likely for California's medical cannabis system. We also...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Sep 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Right to Dignity: Service Sector Workers and the Future of Unions
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:11
What's Your Kid Packing for Campus?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The NRA won the gun control debate long ago. So with the right to bear arms no matter the consequences firmly established in U.S. law and psyche o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
(Un) Happy Anniversary for Medicare?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
July 30 marks a very important anniversary in our modern political history. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KMUD


  • Added: Jul 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Economist Robin Hahnel about the road ahead for Greece,
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson speaks with Economist Robin Hahnel about the road ahead for Greece, their inspiring example to the world in the ...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2015
  • Length: 27:43
The Innocence Project (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with The Innocence Project's Deirdre Enright, perhaps best known to fans of the super-popular podcast Serial as the legal sleuth que...

Bought by WCNY, KPVL, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4
The Pope and the Planet
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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In an encyclical letter, Pope Francis himself will intervene next week on the global story of climate change, bringing scientific and moral authori...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
What Money Can't Buy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seven years after the credit crunch, we know the markets have rebounded. Executive pay is back up; the public sector’s still shrinking relatively a...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 1