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So Good To Not Feel Alone
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Community residents, longshoremen, small businesspeople, tribes and environmentalists got together and stopped a massive oil by rail terminal in Va...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KRZA, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 1 - All Rise
From: Shannon Thomas
Series: Mothers of Invention - Series 1
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Mary and Maeve are laying down the law. Three years ago, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Kh...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 43:44
  • Purchases: 1
People Over Parking Lots
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Half empty lot on Black Friday, Credit: Strong Towns
Fayetteville Arkansas and Buffalo NY stopped requiring off-street parking and found that walkable shopping districts boost local business. Its some...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 10, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Big Pond #12: A House for Reconciliation
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Five generations have lived at the ‘Alexander Haus’ on Groß Glienicker See over the past century – enduring fascism, war, the division of Germany, ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 19:45
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 12/27/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Oscar Romero, the saint from El Salvador - Many people in El Salvador were overjoyed when Oscar Romero, was canonized ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 11/15/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Alexandria - where the past and present collide - With more than five million inhabitants, Alexandria is Egypt's second l...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
World in Progress 11/08/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show : Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in Morocco, is a European town on African soil. It's often the frontline of clashes between Afr...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:55
Episode 95: The Job
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Not long into his job as prison superintendent, Frank Thompson was asked to write the manual on lethal injection for the state of Oregon. Capital p...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
Making Obama: Part 1
From: WBEZ
Series: Making Obama
Caption: WBEZ's Making Obama
From WBEZ Chicago, Making Obama tells the story of Barack Obama’s climb from the South Side of Chicago to the national stage. Host Jennifer White t...

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, KRWG, Indie3 Radio and more


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 33
EP 7.2 — Universal Basic Income: A Bridge Towards Post-capitalism?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In part 2 of our 2-part series on UBI, we explore how a progressive Universal Basic Income policy might help us move away from our current capitali...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP 7.1 — Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In part 1 of our 2-part series on UBI, we explore this highly contentious topic, speaking with scholars, activists, journalists, and folks on the s...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
EP 5 — The Call for a New Economy
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this episode, we explore a number of different institutions, organizations, and individuals who are breaking ground in working towards building ...

Bought by KUNM and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 56:00
  • Purchases: 2
EP 4 — The Solidarity Economy
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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A documentary that explores a phenomenon known as the Solidarity Economy, including voices from all over the world involved in different movements ...

Bought by KUNM and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 2
EP 2.3 — Welcome to Frome: A New Cultural Vision
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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Part 3 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 1
EP 2.1 — Welcome to Frome: This is What the New Economy Looks Like
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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Part 1 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 57:07
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 69: Becoming Chief Brown
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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Shortly after David Brown was sworn in as the Dallas Chief of Police, his son shot and killed a police officer. Just before he retired as chief, 5 ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 1
Nightmares Become Dreams, Part 2
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda and her dad, Houssam, on the porch at KXCI, Credit: Kathleen Dreier Photography
Episode 5: Houda’s father is in prison after being arrested in the street outside Houda’s home while her mother and sisters watched.

  • Added: Mar 19, 2017
  • Length: 05:19
City Of Dreamers - Part 1
From: Littleglobe
Series: Audio Revolution!
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City of Dreamers explores the lives of young people and immigrant families from Santa Fe’s South Side. First presented live, on stage at the Lensic...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 27:54
Life of the Law #86: Winter of Love
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: John and Stuart celebrate after legally marrying in 2008., Credit: Bella Pictures
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 06, 2016
  • Length: 31:17
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Greats (Part 1) - Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Chavez & Huerta, Mandela, and King
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This is a Peace Talks radio special… from the archive of the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. We’re calling it Peace Great...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 3
God Intoxicated Man: the Life and Modern Times of Benedict Spinoza
From: MIchael Goldfarb
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Michael Goldfarb tells the story of how the God Intoxicated Man, Benedict Spinoza, seeded the Englightenment and became the philosopher for today.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 53:38
  • Purchases: 2
We hear how various artists in Nfld respond to fracking.
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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Annie McEwan shows how people in Nfld respond to stress with...art!

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:25
The Future of Sustainability in the St. Cloud Area Begins Now
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us multiple perspectives abou...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:20
  • Purchases: 1
Mr. Female Members of Knesset
From: Israel Story
Caption: Mishy Harman and his grandmother, Zena Harman.
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 21:25
Simmer 3: Democracy and Telling Our Own Stories
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Simmer
Caption: Yams simmering for fufu in Togo, West Africa, Credit: Carla Seidl
The third Simmer episode features the first part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories" introduced by anecdotes about democracy from Seidl's ...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2015
  • Length: 30:00