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Ghosts of the Korean War: Stop THAAD
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Protest against President Trump and THAAD in Soseongri, Korea, Credit: Stop THAAD Alliance
We head to Soseongri, a small village nestled in the mountains of Seongju County. There, grandmas and grandpas in the 70s, 80s, and 90s are organi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fantastic Negrito and The Last Days of Oakland
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Eric Arnold, Credit: Fantastic Negrito at the UC Theater in Berkeley, Ca
In the last three years, Fantastic Negrito, an Oakland-based black roots revivalist has gone from busking at bus stops to winning a Grammy and tour...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is ...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KCMJ Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sacrifice Zones - Part 2 (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mosier Fire , Credit: Image by: Paloma Ayala
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
The Ghosts of the Gwangju Uprising
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: May 18 Memorial in Gwangju, Korea, Credit: May 18 Memorial Foundation
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
Program 2 ~ The Soundtrack in Vietnam
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The second hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Listen to the soundtrack of the Vietnam War as ...

Bought by KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
Program 1 ~ The Battle of the Airwaves
From: WPSU
Series: Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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The first hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay It Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War that explores the music created during the Vietnam W...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 16
Which Side Are You On?
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: An American Tradition
Mixing it up in Charlottesville with Donald Trump, Dick Gregory, LBJ, Bernie Sanders, the Alt-Right and Neo-Nazis featuring tributes to Jerry Lewis...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:56:49
The Dinky Town Uprising
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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This episode of Art Beat we cover The Dinky Town Uprising, a film from the 2016 Frozen River Film Festival dealing with a 40 day and 40 night occup...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 40:28
With Ears to Hear: Voices Against the Heroic
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Chernobyl--Liquidators
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 57:43
They Are Going to Kill Us
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda and Farrah showing off their University of Arizona gear outside the KXCI studios. They coincidentally both came to the recording all decked out in UA colors! Like many Syrian girls, Farrah doesn’t show her face on social media.
In episode 14 Farrah returns with Houda to talk about her family’s harrowing experience in their home in Homs, Syria early in the war. After the ev...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 05:20
Finding New Family
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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In episode 13 of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, it’s Melanie’s turn to take you to Small Syria. To sit by the pool with a group of Syrian w...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 05:41
Boy Scouts, Fishheads & The Living Dead
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: None of This Is Normal!
Life is But A Dream mix with current affairs blending music and politics with celebrations of the famous & infamous on "Nuit sur Les Champs-Elysees...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:57:49
Pete Seeger: Plain and Complicated
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, a cultural icon, and a so-called a “consensus hero." But the hero was also a pariah too many. Seeger’s ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:26
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East: Relations
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
Caption: Ellen Choy-Asians4BlackLives, Credit: Brooke Anderson Photography
Crossing East: Relations is one-hour documentary special produced by Dmae Roberts, executive producer of MediaRites’ Crossing East series with Roby...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jun 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 5
A Self-Evident Truth
From: Wind & Rhythm
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, t...

Bought by KTXK and WUAL


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Draft, Duty, and Dissent: G.I. Resistance to War
From: Making Contact
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It was the 1960s – and throughout the United States, opposition to the War in Vietnam was growing. The Draft forced young men to make a choice abo...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Let Us Be As One Hand
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Episode 8: Houda & Melanie refer to Houda’s apartment complex in Tucson as Small Syria—16 Syrian families live there today, but a year ago there we...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
Shades of Gray
From: Ahri Golden
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From award-winning producers Ahri Golden + Jonathan Mitchell, Shades of Gray, is an hourlong audio mosaic and stark portrayal of our relationship t...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 51:10
  • Purchases: 1
Spies of Mississippi
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Part 3: The end of times
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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After innocent civilians were murdered in Tiananmen square, Chinese revolutionaries learned that political activism couldn't be the only solution. ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 14:51
On the Other Side of Fear
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
Caption: Houda, her 14-year-old sister Sara, and a friend. A month after Houda’s family moved to Arizona, Melanie took them to visit her friend’s horses. This was the second time Melanie & Houda met, and Houda’s shirt was Melanie’s first clue about what an extraor
Episode 6: Houda brings us to her high school at the beginning of the war, when she was fourteen years old, after her father’s arrest and release.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
City Of Dreamers - Part 3
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
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
Building Resistance: Japanese Imprisonment and the Fight Against a Muslim Registry
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Japanese Internment Camp, Credit: Densho Archives
As President Trump moves to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., we look at two moments where we found ourselves at a similar crossroads. First, th...

Bought by WCPN, KVNF, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4

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