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I&I - The need for chaos
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week, our Incentives & Instincts series with economist and friend Bryce Ward continues, with another episode discussing the rise of zero sum t...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:28
Ready, Set and a Year to Go: 2024 Election Preview
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
I&I - A.I. and creativity part 2
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week is the October edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about so...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
Catastrophic Capitalism in 2023: The Invisible Causes of Economic Inequality
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, we explore the consequences of “capital bias”, or prioritizing wealth and the wea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Criminalized Survival
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Activist, Kim Dadou Brown, Credit: Daniel A. Nelson
In this episode, Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson talk with us about their documentary, And So I Stayed. This award-winning film centers three...

Bought by WUWM, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari says we’re...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
What if a different part of the women’s movement had gained more attention?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(August 24th, 2022 release date) In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipelin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Escape to Cairo from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, we bring you a story from our partner Kerning Cultures about Patrice Lumumba’s children, and their escape to Cairo.

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Take Back the App!
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, Laura talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement. If we take the ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Since October 2019, people in Lebanon have been protesting corruption, climate denial, big finance, and government ineptitude. Where does that work...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
How the Diversity Industry is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special Report: Making Buffalo Our City
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How do you revitalize a city without gentrifying it? In this episode of the Laura Flanders Show, Laura goes to Buffalo, New York, where years of po...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
What can Nevada learn from Massachusetts about gun control?
From: Brian Bahouth
Series: The Wild Hare
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In the turbulent wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newton Connecticut, lawmakers in neighboring Massachusetts passed a packa...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 1
Tech: Existential Threat or Life Support?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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


  • Added: Mar 07, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Transformative Cities: Crisis and Opportunity in Amsterdam
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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"Cities accumulate capital, people, aspirations, and power. But, whose power? Whose aspirations? How can we find in the city a place of possibility...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Histories of Resistance in Ohio’s Prisons
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story of Si...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:54
Sekou Kambui
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we return to the experiences and stories of Sekou Kambui, who was incarcerated for 47 years in Alabama prisons. He was originally charg...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 29:57
Bend the Bars
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we recorded at Bend The Bars, a conference in Columbus, Ohio, that brought together former prisoners, various organizations, and people ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #76: Juggalos
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: JUGGALO - COSTA MESA, Credit: Jared Eberhardt
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:45
Why didn't the Captain hear them say the plane was running out of fuel?
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
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United 173 crashed six miles short of the runway at Portland, Oregon. It had run out of fuel. Ten people were killed. How could that happen?

  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:42
John Holloway on his latest book “Crack Capitalism”
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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John Holloway author of “Crack Capitalism” and “Changing the world without Taking Power” speaks of the role of the individual in perpetuating a sys...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
Terror in the Texas Capitol
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on putting anti-choice women out front in the fight over restricting abortion in Texas.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Bearing Witness - The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative
From: Mark Conrad
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Carl Conradi, of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, considers the notion of 'bearing witness' as it relates to the Initiative's efforts ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
Ida Lewis
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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What got Lewis all the recognition, accolades, awards, articles, honors, and even financial rewards, were the many times she climbed in a lifeboat ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 12: Dr. Lawrence Gelman - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Bobby speaks with Dr. Lawrence Gelman, a South Texas-based physician, hospital administrator, novice rancher, conservative activist and media perso...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:50