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07-18: Plastic Planet: Stopping Big Oil, Big Plastic, and Big Misdirection, 10/4/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Anna Cummins
After World War II, the U.S. government worked with industry to create a single-use, disposable consumer culture as a way to ensure ongoing market ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Voting in one of the most momentous presidential elections in the nation’s history is over. The morning after polls closed nearly 136 million ballo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2020 Election Polling: The Science & Psychology of Polls in a Partisan Age
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Dr. Andrew Smith UNH Survey Center
How much trust can independent-minded voters place in polling this 2020 election season? It seems not a day goes by without multiple new poll res...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 18:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pandemic Forces Oregon Ballot Initiatives to Spend Far More than Planned
From: Kate Kaye
Caption: An Oregon petition signature sheet, Credit: Oregon Secretary of State
COVID-19 is a problem for the 50 initiatives, referenda and referrals that still technically could end up on the ballot in Oregon in November. To g...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:57
The Best of Making Contact
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: best of making contact
We look at our favorite shows from 2019. From Artificial Intelligence, to the stigma around women's periods, from guns and restraining orders to th...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
Conventions
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Spring break for political elites with a sprinkling of nomination on top.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 33:01
  • Purchases: 1
Women of Color Lead the Way
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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At the 2019 Progressive Strategy Summit members of Congress and progressive change makers came together to build a movement that won’t only win bac...

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


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bio Hackers versus Big Pharma: Tackling the Rising Cost of Insulin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As the cost of insulin continues to skyrocket patients are dying from trying to ration their medication. It's an extreme example, but not unusual -...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Am Because I Am: The Expansion of Gender Identity
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: a diagram of sex, sexuality and gender, Credit: Robin Hubbard
I Am Because I Am, explores the expansion of gender identity and presumed roles in our society. A look beyond the socially constructed ideas of wha...

Bought by WVAS, KQED, Boise State Public Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Response: Uneven Burns
From: Making Contact
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In the aftermath of Northern California’s Tubbs Fire in 2017, undocumented families found support outside of traditional disaster service agencies ...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: How Puerto Ricans are restoring power to the people through Mutual Aid
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
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After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, a group of activists formed a community kitchen to help feed those in need. That community ki...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Political Junkie 2016 Democratic Convention Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join the Political Junkie for special coverage of the 2016 Democratic National Convention from Philadelphia! Ken Rudin hits the convention floor to...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
Political Junkie 2016 Republican Convention Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join the Political Junkie for special coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention from Cleveland! Ken Rudin hits the convention floor to he...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
What is a SLAPP suit?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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How SLAPP lawsuits like the one brought by Resolute are used to silence environmentalists.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 02:11
Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
Saving or Selling the Planet? REDD, Climate Change and Indigenous Lands
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
Around the world communities are already facing the impacts of climate change. Now international organizations, like the World Bank, are pushing a...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Third Party Bid to be President
From: Prairie Public
Caption: Fit as a Bull Moose
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose bid to be president. This program looks back at Roosevelt's career and how...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUAF Public Radio, WRPI, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 26, 2012
  • Length: 20:07
  • Purchases: 4
A Patchwork Election
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Statue of Prime Minister Charles James Fox, Credit: Walter Murch
A view of the general election held in the United Kingdom on May 6 2010

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 08, 2010
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 1
“.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO FAITH, FEMINISM AND HIP HOP.”
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 54:15
Without Comment: The First 100 Days-Week Six"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Series: "Without Comment:The First 100 Days"
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Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:45
Sounds,Cymbals and Sin: The Story of San Marcos
From: KUNM
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An exploration of Mexico’s San Marcos National Fair, held every spring in Aguascalientes.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 58:40
President Change: What's Hope? What's Reality
From: Brian Sussman
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Fast-forward to January 2009. A new President is in the Oval Office. How will he ? or she ? grease the wheels of official Washington to get an age...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 32:03
The Home-State Record: Carol Moseley Braun
From: Vermont Public
Series: "The Home-State Record"
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In-depth look at Illinois' perspective on Democratic presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KWMU St. Louis, and KPBS


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 3
The Home-State Record: Wesley Clark
From: Vermont Public
Series: "The Home-State Record"
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In-depth look at how Wesley Clark's peers see the candidate's leadership record.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KWMU St. Louis, and KPBS


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 3
The Home-State Record: John Edwards
From: Vermont Public
Series: "The Home-State Record"
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In-depth look at the North Carolina perspective on Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.

Bought by WZBC, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KWMU St. Louis, and KPBS


  • Added: Dec 08, 2003
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 4