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As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. ...
Bought by KFCF FM, WVTF, Nevada Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston and more
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 59:37
- Purchases: 6
When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 51:34
Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.
- Added: May 14, 2023
- Length: 56:58
- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 50:44
- Purchases: 1
Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 32:45
We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...
Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Mar 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been or...
- Added: Dec 15, 2020
- Length: 29:59
Season 1, Episode 11
The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:20
- Purchases: 1
The Covid-19 Pandemic has changed how we live and work in the modern era. For most, that’s meant going online. But for an estimated 150 million Ame...
- Added: Jun 01, 2020
- Length: 32:00
On this encore edition of Making Contact, we present the final installment in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic lan...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, and WRIR
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
On May 18, 1980, the people of Gwangju, South Korea rose up for reunification and an end to U.S.-backed military dictatorships. Their actions chan...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Sep 10, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 27:19
The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 24:45
Sri Lanka's civil war lasted 26 years. It cost the lives of an estimated 100,000 people and devastated the north and east of the island nation. In ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: 05:38
In 2014, Florida voters passed Amendment 1—the Florida Water and Land Conservation Amendment—by a sweeping 75%. Advocates believe this should send ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 11:42
In 1964, Congress had a noteworthy Civil Rights Bill before it. But Southern Democrats, supporters of Jim Crow laws, were pushing a filibuster to k...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Destination DIY teamed up with the Life of the Law podcast to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy and how different cities ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 20:40
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 07:53
In 'Bahrain: Desert Island Risks', Former expatriate Miranda Diboll took advantage of her housewife visa status in the country and interviewed prot...
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 09:59
Luis is an undocumented teenager living in Los Angeles. With the Mexican election looming, he decided to find out why he should care. He turns to ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 07:43
This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 08:53
- Purchases: 1
The outgoing FDIC commissioner gives her final speech at the National Press Club. She discusses the financial crisis that occured during her time a...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 53:57
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 06:07
Deputy Superintendent Michael Haggen discusses how new programs are helping students in New Orleans' alternative schools develop a voice.
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 05:06
