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AOC & Noam Chomsky: The Way Forward
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
But Next Time Part 1: Toward the Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked gas projects that would tur...

Bought by WXDU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Gender Justice Requires more than Money say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Spreading Global Freedom, or the Divine Right to Traffic Drugs, Guns, and People
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show today is with author Mark Driscoll, professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, whose new book is The Whites Are ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Part VII (Section 1): "Objective Observations"
From: Jed Alexander
Series: The Whistleblower Project
Caption: Dr. Fiona Hill, Credit: Provided by the Brookings Institution
In 2019, Dr. Fiona Hill testified in the first impeachment trial of former President Trump. Dr. Hill recently served as Deputy Assistant to the pre...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 07:22
Subjects of Captivity: Personhood Rights and Nonhuman Animals
From: WFHB
Caption: Th mirror self-recognition test.
Our show is about the legal status of nonhuman animals - are they subjects or objects, persons or things? And currently those are the only options ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 7: Representing Rural America
From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement
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The urban-rural divide is growing in the United States. How can disparate communities find common ground?

  • Added: May 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:34
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
WorldCanvass: Gandhi at 150
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Mahatma Gandhi was one of the most original, impactful, and complex figures of the 20th century. Revered around the world for his activism, self-s...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:27:39
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...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Dispatch 368 - Alternate Social Universe
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Nevada lawmaker feels backlash for attending Trump’s March to Save America rally
From: Brian Bahouth
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Conservative Republican Annie Black is a newly elected member of the Nevada State Assembly representing District 19. She’s from Mesquite, a town of...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 16:00
70 Million: How the Asylum Process Became Another Carceral Matrix
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Back in Guatemala, María and her niece have returned to an environment where they say their lives are in danger, Credit: Grecia Ortiz.
The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right. They're also locking up asylum seekers f...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
On Being Against “Freedom”: Recognizing Social Needs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Social rights might be called rights that constrain what we like to call freedom. Kimberley Brownlee makes these claims primarily against freedom o...

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  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Metsa Re-Releases 1992 Recordings that are Just as Relevant in 2020
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Paul Metsa, Credit: Howard Christopherson
Paul Metsa is a defining Minneapolis musician of this generation. Reflecting on his recording career, Paul believes that a 1992 project called Whis...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
4 Questions: 13 Answers - A conversation with Arturo O'Farrill & Dr. Cornel West
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
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The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance national release of GRAMMY-Winning Arturo O'Farrill and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra's Latest Album - Four Questions ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:18:03
Activism and The Fight for Black Trans Lives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this episode of Making Contact, we will look at transgender activism and the call for inclusion and intersectionality in the movement for Black ...

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


  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
If It's Broke, Fix It
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, spoke words that are all too relevant today. Today on Making Contact, you’ll hear archival recordings, and ex...

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Jun 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rally to Re-open Oregon Amid COVID-19 Lockdown Draws Fringe Militia and Families
From: Kate Kaye
Caption: Anna and Brian (last names not disclosed) prepare to attend a re-open rally in Salem, Oregon on May 2, 2020, Credit: Kate Kaye
Hundreds convened in the rain this Saturday at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem. Families with kids mingled amid attendees strapped with semi-auto...

  • Added: May 03, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
On Pandemics and Panopticons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We look at the local effects of COVID-19 in Italy with IU prof Andrea Ciccarelli and then turn to the socio-political impacts of becoming a digital...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Stacked Crooked: Renting Rooms In the Humanities Ghetto
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Speaking the Language of White America: Violence and the End of Slavery
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Kellie Carter Jackson contends that the history of abolitionism, ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00

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