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Episode 16: Liberty's Pitchman - Robert LeFevre & The Freedom School

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...

Bought by KVNF

Added: Jun 20, 2016
Length: 59:02
Purchases: 1

Beyond Gay Marriage - a look at the mainstreaming of the gay movement

From: elizabeth dettmer

The June 26, 2015 Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 States shifts the terms of the debate about where the gay rights m...

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WYSO

Added: Oct 07, 2015
Length: 58:22
Purchases: 2

Beyond Stonewall: The Push for LGBT Civil Rights

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

We go back to the night in June 1969 at the New York City Stonewall Inn that sparked the LGBT rights movement. On today’s show we’ll hear about the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WRIR, KQED and more

Added: May 30, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 15

Part 6: Back at Home

From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en

The Mount Polley taililngs pond breach happened a couple of weeks after Liz returned from the Action Camp. She speaks to author Arno Kopecky about ...

Added: Sep 21, 2014
Length: 18:40

Part 5: The Activists

From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en

Three activists explain their involvement at the annual Action Camp at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.

Added: Sep 21, 2014
Length: 24:43

Part 4: The Bunkhouse

From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en

Dave Ages led construction of an insulated bunkhouse to allow volunteers to live year-round at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade. He talked to Liz ...

Added: Sep 21, 2014
Length: 15:28

Part 3: Permaculture Garden

From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en

Geoff Johnson explains the construction of a permaculture garden for a food source at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.

Added: Sep 21, 2014
Length: 10:28

Part 1 - The Journey Begins

From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en

Volunteers and organizers travel 1,200 Kilometres on a school bus to get to the Unist'ot'en Pipeline blockade. This segment covers the beginning of...

Added: Sep 21, 2014
Length: 15:25

Getting Out

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

Bought by WXDU

Added: Jul 25, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

Shortcuts to War & Peace-The Red Line

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

Caption: Better Living Through Chemistry

Barack Obama draws a red line in regards to Syria & chemical weapons and this program reflects the tension during the past few weeks mixed with pre...

Added: Sep 11, 2013
Length: 59:31

Howard Smith interviews Dennis Hopper & Peter Fonda 6/1969

From: Ezra Bookstein
Series: The Smith Tapes

Caption: Collection 6 - The New Hollywood, Credit: Masaki Koike

Howard Smith's interview with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda-their first since arriving back in the US following Easy Rider's premiere at Cannes.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Sep 09, 2013
Length: 03:16
Purchases: 1

The Other 9/11: Part Two

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...

Added: Aug 20, 2013
Length: 29:00

Louder Than A Bomb 2013 Radio Special

From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013

Caption: 2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)

Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois

Added: Apr 25, 2013
Length: 59:03
Purchases: 3

Permission to Speak

From: Anna Sussman

Caption: Former Political Prisoner Win Maw plays a guitar he made in prison

As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. In this story, eigh...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KALW, KUNM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Mar 13, 2013
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 4

Generation Putin - Hour Special

From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin

"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more

Added: Dec 27, 2012
Length: 59:01
Purchases: 55

100th Anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Third Party Bid to be President

From: Prairie Public

2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's 1912 Bull Moose bid to be president. This program looks back at Roosevelt's career and how...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUAF Public Radio, WRPI, and KFAI Minneapolis

Added: Oct 26, 2012
Length: 20:07
Purchases: 4

All Mixed Up:Election Shortcuts (part one)

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama completely mixed up in a special "Election Shortcut". The first Shortcut was broadcast in November of 1972 in reaction...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio

Added: Oct 24, 2012
Length: 59:56
Purchases: 1

Las Historias Escondidas de Sunland Park

From: Kent Paterson

Caption: Sunland Park, New Mexico, Credit: Samat Jain

In 2011 and 2012, the small New Mexico border community of Sunland Park made regional headlines and national news for its political scandals. Delvi...

Added: Sep 24, 2012
Length: 28:59

Never On Sunday: The Hidden World Of Elena Fonseca

From: Samuel Robinson

The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: May 25, 2012
Length: 10:01
Purchases: 1

Coal and Climate – We Shall Remain

From: Eric Mack

Just in time for the global climate summit in Copenhagen and the debate on a climate and energy bill in Washington, this half hour special from Hig...

Bought by WFHB, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGNU Community Radio, KGLT and more

Added: Nov 22, 2009
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 11

Peace Talks Radio: The Peace Work of John Lennon & Yoko Ono (29:00)

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

Caption: John Lennon + Yoko Ono at Montreal Bed-in (1969), Credit: Ivor Sharp (c) Yoko Ono

In 1969, musician John Lennon and his wife, performance artist Yoko Ono, were among the most high profile peace advocates on the planet. We'll spot...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KVNF

Added: Jun 22, 2009
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 2

Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM

Added: May 05, 2009
Length: 58:19
Purchases: 3

Between Civil War and Civil Rights - 5: White Protestant Nation (1915-25)

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

An exploration of American racism as cultural and commercial mass-phenomenon, covering the "reincarnation" of the Klan as a fraternal movement whic...

Bought by WCPN

Added: May 05, 2009
Length: 57:56
Purchases: 1

Between Civil War and Civil Rights -8: American As Apple Pie--How Terrorism Lost (1940-55)

From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights

Equality under the law became viable for African Americans only after hard, dangerous work turned public opinion and federal policy against the whi...

Bought by WCPN and KSJD