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2024-05-17 Fighting Fossil Fuels in the Courts and on the Ballot
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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At age 9, Nalleli Cobo, suffering headaches, heart palpitations, nosebleeds, and body spasms, became an activist, driven to fighting to close the l...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Kristallnacht
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
"Sounds Jewish" commemorates Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass on Nov. 9-10, 1938, with music reflecting on the horrors of that time as ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Judaism’s and Israel’s Middle Eastern roots and connections.
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
With so much violence being directed toward Israel, a person could get the impression that Israel and Jews don’t belong in the Middle East. Yet we ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black Maternal Mortality: How Do We Save Black Lives?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
V (formerly Eve Ensler): Reckoning with Our Past, Transforming the Future (Suggest- Women's History Month)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“Reckoning” is the new best-selling book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
13-18: Bending Toward Justice: The Arc of Black Lives Matter , 2/8/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Patrisse Cullors
There are periods when history comes to a boil – when powerful forces of both destruction and creation result in massive social change. In 2020, th...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles and how they ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVSC and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
252: Taking Wing: Feminine Leadership from the Heartbeat of Earth, 8/17/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Zainab Salbi
Globally, women experience some of the harshest challenges in wartime and the climate crisis while simultaneously remaining caretakers to their fam...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Militarization and Uvalde: the Context Media Coverage Omits
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Whether it’s Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX or Philadelphia, PA — we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of terror at the muzzle of a gun. But all mass s...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
From: Tradeoffs
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 22:11
Red Road to the Future: Native Sovereignty is Key to Climate Justice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the midst of a national reckoning with white supremacy and colonial history, Indigenous people are demanding a new relationship with DC — honori...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Call 311 about tents? Here’s what homeless people and advocates say happens
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. Self-care becomes a “selfless ac...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Two Revolutions, Many Secrets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Left: Wilson Dairy Restaurant Right: Helen Zia as baby with mom
In the midst of our dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s hard to imagine what stories we will ultimately tell our children and grandchildren. T...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Feminist Poet Adrienne Rich
From: New Letters on the Air
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This month's Save America's Treasures recording, features the late, great poet Adrienne Rich, known for her perfectly crafted, award winning poems....

Bought by WRKF, WNMU-FM, and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Raising Vibrations against Gender-Based Violence
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The founder of One Billion Rising and VDay and world renowned playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler, along with activist, singer, songwriter ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change — Chapter 10: Parkland
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Women Warriors - The Voices of Change podcast series
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Women Warriors: The Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Andersson, features the musi...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
Listening to Our Better Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk — Native land, native sovereignty
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes speaks with Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk councilwoman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Power 20 Countdown!
From: Garry Boast
Series: Power 20 Countdown!
Caption: Power 20 Countdown, Credit: Cerebral Radio CBRTalk
Celebrating Influential African American Albums From The Civil Rights Era To Present- Day

  • Added: Apr 21, 2018
  • Length: 01:07:12
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 School Desks of Our Childhood
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Episode 7: Education is hugely important to Houda–and to many Syrians. As she says in this episode of Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship, “Schoo...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:20
Seeking Justice for Quanice Hayes
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: (Left to Right): Venus Hayes, two of her children, Teressa Raiford
The family of 17 year-old Quanice Hayes, who was shot to death by Portland police, seeks justice from the city of Portland.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Immigration and Incarceration
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and incarceration. We look at the history of U.S. immigration po...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 1