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BIPOC Press for the People: Bursting the Corporate Media Bubble
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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It is a cliché to say that the richest corporate media operate inside a bubble of their own making, but it's largely true. Today’s guests are breat...

Bought by KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
“We Don’t Want to Leave Our Homes”: Stories from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian Diaspora
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, Ray brings us two stories from Armenia about disaster and discovery.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
National American Indian Heritage Month- Busting the Thanksgiving Myth: Native Sovereignty & the Red Road
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pilgrims, Indians, the myth of the grateful colonized person — it’s been at the core of a persistent but false Thanksgiving narrative that has dist...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
When judges dismiss claims of domestic abuse, children can pay the ultimate price
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Family court judges sometimes decide that domestic abuse claims are not credible. But making the wrong call can end with children paying the ultima...

Bought by WFHB and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Laguna Honda Hospital Must Self-Destruct in Order to Survive
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Laguna Honda Hospital's certification is under review, and doctors say this was preventable. Part 2.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
2021-12-24 Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Southeastern Virginia currently experiences the fastest rate of sea level rise on the Atlantic seaboard, and that’s only projected to accelerate. F...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WBHM, WLPR , KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
211224: Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home, 12/24/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Southeastern Virginia currently experiences the fastest rate of sea level rise on the Atlantic seaboard, and that’s only projected to accelerate. F...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Red Road to the Future: Native Sovereignty is Key to Climate Justice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the midst of a national reckoning with white supremacy and colonial history, Indigenous people are demanding a new relationship with DC — honori...

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


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
In For The Long Haul
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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COVID “long-haulers” are people who have extended experiences with COVID symptoms that never let up, or keep recurring. The virus is so new that we...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:03
Mutual Aid Justice: Beyond Survival
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What does it look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice ...

Bought by KSPC, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Newark: Fixing The People’s Water
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The people of Newark, New Jersey—the majority of whom are black and brown—are grappling with a lead contamination crisis that has drawn comparisons...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Outlaw Ocean
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill highlights the dark side of what happens at sea in the context of a forthcoming book by Pulitzer Pr...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 05:34
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
Woomera: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:32
Undocumented and Undaunted: DREAMer Artists Speak Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Naci Libre: Born Free, Credit: Julio Salgado
The struggles of undocumented youth in the US often fly under the radar of the mainstream media. But with the tools of creative expression and the ...

Bought by KVNF, WXDU, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Surviving Ex-Gay Therapy
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The growth of the ex-gay movement in the last two decades gave rise to hundreds of therapy programs aiming to change people’s sexual orientation. B...

Bought by KISU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KSFR, KVSC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Our Bodies, Our Stories: Reproductive Health Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman in Handcuffs, Credit: Thisisbossi
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Omar Barghouti on How to End Apartheid in Palestine
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Inspired by the campaign to end South African apartheid, Palestinians are leading an international campaign to put economic and political pressure ...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Life or Death: Ending the Death Penalty
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Escape by Death, Credit: T Woodard
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Incarcerated mother in Decatur Prison’s Nursery Program and Reunification Unit. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Shannon Heffernan http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Tú Eres Mi Otro Yo
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Programa sobre la importancia que tiene para el Padre Arturo Bañuelas la causa del inmigrante en los Estados Unidos.

Bought by KDNA Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 2
Copenhagen: America & Africa in Climate Decline
From: Alex Smith
Series: Radio Ecoshock Show
Caption: Paul Kingsnorth
The Copenhagen mess. Guest Paul Kingsnorth says civilization IS climate change. Nobody wants to change Western comforts. Opens with a digest of alt...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Best Science Writing -- Groks Science Show 2009-10-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Jesse Cohen discussed the Best American Science Writing for 2009.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2009
  • Length: 25:28
  • Purchases: 1
Major Neill Frankin of LEAP - Deborah Jacobs ACLU-NJ
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Major Neill Franklin, Credit: C. David Freitag
Deborah Jacobs of the ACLU-NJ on privacy issues with teenagers. Major Neill Franklin of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaks at the NORML ...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 1