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"It's A Grand Night for Bailing, Updated" in the Dept. of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning). Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook!

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ... the story that belongs to everyone at some time in life- the times when crossing the river is very very difficult to do, no matter how big the boat., Credit: Susan Cook

We've been humming the tune from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "State Fair", again! "It's a Grand Night for Bailing, Updated! The Evangelical version" ...

"It's A Grand Night for Bailing!" In the Department of Poetic Justice (some Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook) !

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ..And somewhere a Bird Who Is Bound he'll be heard is giving his lawyer a call,,,,.., Credit: Susan Cook

In The Department of Poetic Justice (with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook ) , remembering another moment of ex, um disclosure!

Reproductive Rights, The Issue that Could Define the 2024 Election

From: Mateo Schimpf

The Dobbs Domino Effect

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

A Sonnet Sequence for Edna St Vincent Millay

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: More poems in the tradition: Breathng: American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook

On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .

Bought by KICI Iowa City

To the First Images Seen of A Black Hole

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: " Breathing: American Sonnets" (Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook

Black holes still doing what they do. Re-visiting Einstein imagining his most important discovery.

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'No Place Else To Go': Inside a Former Abortion Clinic

From: Tradeoffs

One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...

An American Sonnet for The Woman Who Is a Journalist

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: From a buddhist center "...the cellular call, compassion..., Credit: Susan Cook

During National Poetry Month, an American Sonnet to bring us to know better the women journalists of Ukraine.

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Why a centrist Democrat is ditching Congress

From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive

Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) pioneered the playbook that helped Democrats flip the House in 2018. Less than four years later, she announced her r...

What Research Says About a Post-Roe World

From: Tradeoffs

The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggests will happen to people who are denied abortions ...

The Personal and Political Fight to Keep Abortion Legal in Michigan 2-Way

From: Tradeoffs

A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...

Bought by WFHB

Shaming and Humiliating By Choice: Roe v. Wade and Denying Consequence

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: At the 1996 Dem National Convention, at the beginning of the Platform debate, women protested for the right to choose..., Credit: New York Times, August 28, 1996

As 6 Supreme Court Justices end Roe v. Wade, shaming and humiliating Pro-Choice advocates becomes the anti-choice strategy.

Her Fashion Brand Empowers Women in Guatemala

From: The Story Exchange

Caption: Ruth Alvarez-DeGolia, Credit: Mercado Global

Ruth Alvarez-DeGolia helps women artisans tap international markets through her social enterprise, Mercado Global -- allowing them to earn critical...

Amazing Grace For Our Partisan Times: Sarah and Beth, Creators of Pantsuit Politics

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Is it possible to have grace-filled conversations during these ingracious times of ours? After 500 episodes heard by hundreds of thousands of lis...

The Texas Abortion Ban, Vigilante Justice and Frankie Valli's Love for Human Connection

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ...wide river as ever..., Credit: Susan Cook

The Supreme Court decision to ignore the inhumane aspects of the Texas Abortion law reminds us to look to the places where human connection is val...

The Women of Afghanistan

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: "Nightmare" by Shamsia Hassani, Credit: Shamsia Hassani

With all the talk about the women and girls of Afghanistan, Sandip wonders if it was ever really about them at all.

The Marines' first west coast female boot camp is over, and it may be years before it happens again

From: American Homefront Project

A group of female recruits completed Marine boot camp in San Diego this spring - the first time the Corps has trained women outside of Parris Islan...

Bought by KMXT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KPCC

Sonnet for Justice

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "...they are taking justice out in the backyard..., Credit: In "Breathing: American Sonnets" by Susan Cook

A sonnet about justice when it is buried and forgotten.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Dispatch 359 - Six Degrees of Kamala

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Everybody wants a piece of the first female vice president of the United States; Or at least a few degrees of separation from her.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix

Dispatch #354: The Shadow of Caste

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Headlines from the Telegraph, Credit: Sandip Roy

The caste system is a long and controversial cultural norm in India, but now the Dalits may be getting a boost from America’s civil rights movements.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

kaMAla, Kamala

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

The furor over a Kamala seems much ado over very few syllables, but how one handles the mispronunciation can be telling.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix

All is Fair in Love and Pharma

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: Johnson & Johnson Fairness skin creams

In the midst of Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling skin whitening creams.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Waiting for Justice in Nome, Alaska

From: Native Voice One

Caption: Clarice “Bun” Hardy stands on the beach with her dog in the Native Village of Shaktoolik, Alaska. Hardy, a former 911 dispatcher for the Nome Police Department, says she moved back to her village after a sexual assault left her feeling unsafe in Nome. , Credit: AP Photo/Victoria Mckenzie

Even after the initial trauma, invasive medical exams, and difficult police questioning, a woman in Nome who reports sexual assault must also confr...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis