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Special: Housing is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

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


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Economics of Abolition (release date December 23, 2020)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Will the new abolition movement succeed in transforming how we invest public resources? And what really are the economic underpinnings of the syste...

Bought by KSPC and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 2: Everyone Eats
From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement
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A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:19
CBC S 1 E 4: Minneapolis, The Supply Chain
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
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Mistakes were made in keeping PPE and other essential medical supplies available for health care and emergency workers during the pandemic. Are we ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Nov 21, 2020
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 1
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
Big Tech and Democracy: What Went Wrong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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As we race towards a particularly contentious presidential election in the US, we look at the influence of social media on our democracy. And, as p...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Community Wealth Building: From Cleveland to Preston
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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How does an economy emerge from recession? In Preston, England, they’re experimenting with investing public money in locally-owned businesses and ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Farmworkers Risk Smoke, Heat, And COVID-19 As California Burns
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From Santa Rosa to Salinas, farmworkers are harvesting as California burns. Workers are risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harves...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 10:51
  • Purchases: 1
Goodbye My Tribe (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Goodbye My Tribe
The author of Goodbye My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus chronicles his journey away from his fundamentalist religion.

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Goodbye My Tribe (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Goodbye My Tribe
The author of Goodbye My Tribe: An Evangelical Exodus chronicles his journey away from his fundamentalist religion.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WYAP, KMUN, WFHB, WJCT and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura speaks with grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Ju...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Gig Loss Pandemic
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Nur-D Quarantine World Tour , Credit: Ryan Dawes
On Friday, March 13, 2020, Gov. Tim Walz declared a "peacetime emergency" in Minnesota, discouraging large gatherings of people in an effort to ste...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 08:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Response: Reimagining Paradise in an Age of Disruption
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story about resilience and rebuilding after a megafire decimated parts of Northern California. This is ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Throwing It Out
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library
Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman
We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 21:06
  • Purchases: 1
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
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
Episode 119: He's Still Neutral
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Dan Stevenson has lived in Oakland’s Eastlake neighborhood for 40 years. He says crime has been an issue for as long as he can remember, but he isn...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KSFR


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 32:34
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 102: Ride-Along
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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We spend the day in a police car in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:50
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUT...

Bought by KALW, WVAS, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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