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264: The Restorative Revolution: How Indigenous Leadership and Allyship Catalyzed the Biggest River Restoration in US History, 10/2/2024

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous lead...

The Legacy of The War on Poverty

From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: American Compassion

Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler

In this episode, we’ll look at the legacies of the Great Society, the War on Poverty, and LBJ’s Presidency. And we’ll ask, what did the policies t...

Bought by KUT

Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right

From: PRX

Recent winner of an Edward R. Murrow Award, Long Lead presents Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right. Crackling with rich archival sound and ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WGBH Radio Boston, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WVTF and more

273: From Scarcity to Abundance: How Collective Governance Can Transform the Climate Crisis, 8/28/2024

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Caption: Colette Pichon Battle, Credit: Nikki Ritcher

In this episode, award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer Colette Pichon-Battle lays out a bold vision for a new organizing project desig...

Taking The Reins

From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: American Compassion

The Passage of The Civil Rights Act

Bought by KUT

The Real Dr. Strangelove

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

Edward Teller faces off against Robert Oppenheimer.

Bought by KCHW, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more

(Release Date: August 14, 2024) How Political Intimidation Endangers Marginalized Communities and Conservatives Alike

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Political violence is on the rise and has reached just about every corner of the country, whether it's confrontations on social media, at school bo...

Bought by KDNK, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, WNYE, and KWMR

The Jane Collective

From: Carolyn Silveira
Series: Extra+Ordinary: The fight for reproductive justice

Meet Jane. “She” was an anonymous, underground, and very illegal collective of activists who helped women find safe and affordable abortions –somet...

What is Owed? from GBH News

From: WGBH Radio Boston

In What Is Owed? from GBH News, reporter Saraya Wintersmith seeks to understand what reparations might look like in one of the oldest cities in Ame...

Bought by KALW, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KCBX, WABE, Maine Public Radio and more

250: Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power, 6/12/2024

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...

Ronek Park: Postwar Non-discriminatory Housing on Long Island

From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History

Caption: Veterans Park, North Amityville, Long Island, where the Ronek Park marker is located, Credit: Image courtesy of Mary Cascone

The latest episode of A New York Minute in History tells the story of Ronek Park, a non-discriminatory housing development built in 1950 in the vil...

Borders: What are they good for?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN

A Shortcut Back Through 1994

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

A retrospective of the entire year in sixty minutes, "A Shortcut through 1994" feature no narration, it's message evolves from the careful juxtapos...

The Origins of Zionism

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Front cover of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.", Credit: Credit: Macmillan Publishers

In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' W...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer

Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker

From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery

Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

Bought by KUNM

Trying not to do damage: The Student Free Speech Movement with Bettina Aptheker

From: Suki Wessling
Series: Babblery Minibabbles

In this short episode, feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker talks about the reasons for her iconic speech atop a police car and the impact of the Stud...

Bought by PRX Remix

Liz Cheney on Good Citizen

From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V

Liz Cheney shares the enthralling details from her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, of defending the Constitution while inside the Cap...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Tom Allman- "The Sheriff and Marijuana"

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...

StoryCorps: María de los Ángeles Vázquez and Rafael Cancel Vázquez

From: StoryCorps

María de los Ángeles Vázquez and her son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez, remember his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of four Puerto Rican Nationalists ...

Confederate Spies at the Canadian Border

From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History

Caption: John Y. Beall, Credit: Library of Congress

On this month’s episode of A New York Minute In History, hosts Devin Lander and Lauren Roberts uncover a system of Confederate spies, guerillas, an...

Building Back Black Wall Street

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021

Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW

248: Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, 2/7/2024

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Caption: Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks

From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...

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

The Marshall Plan Remembered

From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio

In the aftermath of World War II, Europe lay in ruins. Cities were devastated, economies shattered, and the continent faced a crisis of unprecedent...

Plymouth Freeman and The Unfinished Revolution

From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History

On this episode, we explore the story of Plymouth Freeman, a black Patriot who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and d...

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