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In mid-July, federal and state agencies launched a month-long marijuana raid on the Yurok Reservation in northwestern Ca. At the request of the tri...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2014
  • Length: 07:04
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The Philadelphia city council voted (13-3) to decriminalize possession of marijuana on the 19th of June, and for the month following the vote there...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 09:44
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On July, 19, Texas NORML organized a meeting of Texas veterans to discuss a variety of cannabis related issues. Vets from the Korean war to the l...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 09:04
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Robert Platshorn once spent thirty years in prison for smuggling marijuana, and in a sign of changing times, over the past weekend, Platshorn organ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 17:00
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There is a city-by-city grass roots effort underway to decriminalize marijuana in Michigan. Advocates across the state hope to gather enough signa...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:41
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The Oregon Secretary of State’s office is likely days away from placing the New Approach Oregon initiative on the November 4th ballot. If passed, ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:28
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On July 8, 2014, Washington state began the legal sale of cannabis for recreational use through licensed outlets. For the very latest on Initiative...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
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On July 5, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Compassionate Care Act, and New York became the 23rd state in the nation to allow mariju...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 07:48
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On July 9, 2014, the Arizona Department of Health Services agreed to grant access to medical marijuana for those diagnosed with PTSD. For details, ...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2014
  • Length: 11:31
Caption: Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, Credit: Andrea Chase
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin talk loopholes, dark money, and unexpected ironies.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2014
  • Length: 25:20
Caption: Narendra Modi
Narenda Modi is the 15th Prime Minister of India, and the first PM born after Independence.

  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Long-time AC Transit rider Walter Davis gets off the bus at 14th and Market in Oakland., Credit: Isabel Angell
East Bay bus agency AC Transit doesn’t have the ridership or wide-reaching reputation of BART or San Francisco’s Muni. But about 100,000 people tak...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:31
Caption: Michael Santos speaks on his experiences
At 49 years of age, Michael Santos is getting his first taste of college. He's walking through the main quad at San Francisco State, beaming like a...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 09:35
Caption: Dan Paul with his sculpture. Paul and the other Bulb residents face eviction soon, Credit: Mary Rees
On the west side of the city of Albany, there’s a peninsula jutting into San Francisco Bay. It’s beautiful there, right on the water, with hiking t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:25
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Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 16:54
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Martha Shane and Lana Wilson talk fear, safety, and putting people before politics.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2013
  • Length: 13:41
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The second pilot episode for the new show, Middle Ground, which focuses on news, politics and culture from middle America.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mira Nair, Mill Valley, CA 11/11/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Mira Nair talks multiple identities, defining fundamentalism, and creating dialogue.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 13:14
Caption: Noelle, Luke and Dan
Complicated commercial development can have as many layers of financing as Turkish pastry has layers of phyllo.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
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Scandal is always with us it seems...2008 a look back at how far we have NOT come!

  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Everybody talks jobs, but where do they really come from?

  • Added: Mar 12, 2012
  • Length: 28:40
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Learn more about the Civic Commons, a citizen engagement effort underway in Northeast Ohio.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 28:34
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Hip-Hop attitude meets drug treatment for teens

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:21
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News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Randolph Martinez is a member of the Veterans Alliance club at the City College of San Francisco. , Credit: Laura Flynn
As veterans return to school to take advantage of the new GI Bill, many have found that campuses often aren’t ready to handle the administrative de...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:55