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Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
248: Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, 2/7/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks
From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Should Prosecutors Pursue Minor Crimes?
From: Open to Debate
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In the US, misdemeanors count for 80% of cases filed annually, but district attorneys around the country are implementing policies stating they’ll ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Was January 6th an Existential Threat to American Democracy?
From: Open to Debate
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By now it is clear, the Red Wave election-denying candidates had hoped to ride left most still waiting on the beach. Those who questioned the outco...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's episode anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise examines the concept of Whiteness and what he describes as the psychological wage of wh...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)
This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Here There Be Dragons: Part 2 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena 1585" by Baptista Boazio, 1589
This is Part 2 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routle...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Authority and U: On the Anti-Democratic Campus
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: IU student Gregory Hess was arrested during a 1970 anti-war protest for shouting a statement urging a crowd of demonstrators to retake a street that police had just cleared. , Credit: Maurer School of Law
Our show is "Authority and U" with guest Steve Volan, a student of human geography at Indiana University and a city council member in Bloomington, ...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
José Martí and Cuban-Mindedness
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Por América [José Martí], Juan Francisco Elso, 1986, From the collection of: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Philosopher, Poet, and Revolutionary, Jose Marti, believed that knowledge and understanding do not originate within us, but come to us through our ...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutionary Parallels: Zhang Taiyan and Anti-Imperialism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Zhang Taiyan
Our show is on the Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhang Taiyan with guest Viren Murthy. In it we seek to detail the tangle of the so-called East a...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 12, 202
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: How to Stop Massive Tax Avoidance by America’s Wealthiest; Rise in Violenc...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mr. Trotter, the President, and the Klan
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show is about William Monroe Trotter, owner and editor of the Boston Guardian from 1901 to 1934, and a radical race-first political agitator. K...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Looking for Peace, Credit: Art Young
Art Young, like many others, was “converted” or radicalized by the injustice of the arrest, trial, and executions of the so-called Haymarket Anarch...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
2020-05-03 Machiavelli
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Was Machiavelli an unscrupulous theorist and advisor, or one of the most widely misunderstood political philosophers ever?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ, WFHB and more


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
StoryCorps Griot: John Lewis and Valerie Jackson
From: StoryCorps
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John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 8
Keeping the Devil’s Company: How Neoliberalism Demonizes Us
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today Adam Kotsko tracks this totalizing worldview through the lens of political theology and demonstrates its parallels to Christianity, specifica...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Pathways to Planetary Sovereignty – Joel Wainwright on Climate Leviathan
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In the face of looming ecological catastrophe and extinction events, with the continuation of human life on Earth as "justification," there will li...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Voting for Revolution: Lenin At the Ballot Box
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we explore the question, “Can Electoral politics lead the way to Revolution?," with August Nimtz.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Strike Through the Mask: Labor Strikes Are Essential History
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A strikers' orchestra in the occupied Flint GM plant.
Loomis focuses on the necessity of government supporting workers’ rights for there to be any Union movement. The state has to protect the worker an...

Bought by KZYX and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 2
Constitutional Cages: The Core of Civil Society?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...

Bought by WWNO


  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Undoing the Falsifications of History: A Crash Course with H. Bruce Franklin
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: April, 1967, Redwood City. Students picket at a napalm bomb factory. "The Harvey Richards Media Archive." © Paul Richards.
H. Bruce Franklin, was once a tugboat mate and then an Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. He is now and has been for more than half a ce...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Episode 1: We The Purple
From: PurpleState
Series: PurpleState
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eTown’s PurpleState Episode 1, We the Purple, explores the structural, historical, and cultural forces that have contributed to political division ...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2