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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 KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Uncovering the History of the Massacre of Black Wall Street (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: B.C. Franklin (right), I.H. Spears (left) and Effie Thompson (center) filing insurance claims for survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre in a Red Cross tent. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Tulsa Friends and John W. and Karen R. Franklin
In the first of our 3 part series leading up to Black History Month, we focus in on how journalists and historians today are covering the Tulsa Rac...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
Gina Kim: Rising Against Anti Asian Hate
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia. The act of violenc...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
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
Opposing Children's Detention Centers - Marina from the Rio Grande Valley
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 26:01
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
Political Junkie Special - Remembering John McCain
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Ken Rudin hosts a special reflection on John McCain's life and legacy, featuring interviews with several of McCain's friends and colleagues.

Bought by WRGY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, RadioFreePalmer, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Doing away with the death penalty is usually thought of as a liberal cause, and the arguments are often about the morality of executing someone, or...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 16:26
The Fraught Process Towards Peace: Colombia and the Philippines
From: Making Contact
Caption: New People's Army at sunset, Credit: National Democratic Front facebook page
Two of the longest running armed rebellions on opposites sides of the world, the FARC in Colombia and the NDFP in the Philippines are vying for pea...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paris: Responses to Terror, and the Experiment in Mixite
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Paris is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, wh...

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


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
Native Power: Language, Land, and Water NoDAPL
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Credit: Bo Hakala
The actions at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline continue, We share interviews from the Voices of Standing Rock. Vincent Medina is a...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Equipto #Frisco5 Hunger Strike Activists
From: Generation Justice Admin
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The #Frisco5 are San Francisco activists who launched a 17-day hunger strike against police violence and racism. We are joined by participant and h...

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 14:34
Unitarian Church Embraces Black Lives Matter Movement
From: Katie Klocksin
Caption: The Black Lives Matter sign at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, Credit: Katie Klocksin
The story of how members of the mostly white Unitarian Church of Evanston decided to take a stand in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 09:02
  • Purchases: 2
Louisville Marks 60th Anniversary of Civil Rights Flashpoint
From: Rick Howlett
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This year, Louisville, Kentucky has been marking the anniversary of a touchstone event of the Civil Rights era.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 05:49
Not My War: The Deserters' Dilemma
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: War Memorial, Credit: Dixie Lawrence (Creative Commons)
More than 150,000 people sign up for the US military every year. Their reasons for joining vary widely, from those hoping for financial help throug...

Bought by WNJR and KMUN


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Physician Assisted Death in Colorado
From: Vero Balderas Iglesias
Caption: Reporter Veronica Balderas Iglesias interviewing Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosing physician assisted death.
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:44