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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
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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Voting Rights Advocates Carolina Miranda, Andrea Miller and Pam Wilmot, Credit: Carolina Miranda photo  -  Carolina Miranda  Andrea Miller photo  -  The Tennessee Tribune  Pam Wilmot photo  -  The Boston Globe
Women Rising Radio re-visits the 2020 election year, to assess the outcomes and talk with those who made those outcomes happen, the grassroots elec...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Left to Right: Teresa Gomez, Suzanne Pearlman, Connie O'marra. Jennifer Nanez
How are Indigenous peoples’ mental and behavioral wellness supported in NM? Generation Justice discusses Indigenous mental health with professional...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:08:37
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What part can creativity play in such turbulent times? We speak to six women artists and curators responding to the challenges of the past year wi...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:24
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Tonight on The Sound, we check out Mae Simpson’s release, “Did You Make It Back?”. Mae Simpson is a soulful singer from Minneapolis with an energet...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 30:02
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Watch an Eastwood movie if you want to learn the worldview that has brought the very planet to the brink of collapse and catastrophe - this is the ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 03, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: White Supremacist Trump Allies Threaten Intimidation and Violence at Elect...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A drilling crew poses for the above photo in 1931 (without respirators) in the Hawks Nest Tunnel. Courtesy of Elkem Metals Collection, West Virginia State Archives.
Today, we’ll resurface three poets on the political Left who wrote during the 1930s and 40s: Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet....

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We're marking Labor Day with a special episode about a group of women in Appalachia who defied stereotypes to get better living conditions for thei...

Bought by WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUHF, and KOWS


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: An eviction protest in New York City dated Jan. 11, 1933.
As protests over the killing of George Floyd have taken over the streets of every major city, have converted hotels to homeless shelters and best f...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Woman at Sunset (1818), Caspar David Friedrich
Coping with being totally alone and the sorrow of loss after a global plague are powerfully depicted in Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel The Last Man. Eil...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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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
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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
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we celebrate the 100th birthday of the League of Women Voters, the LWV. The League is a nonpartisan political ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Virginia’s Passage of ERA Launches Final Drive for Constitutional Ratifica...

Bought by WRIR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKPW


  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dorothy Pelanda, Credit: ODA WEBSITE
2019 has seen a record number of women hold the top state jobs in Agriculture. Colorado, Florida, and Ohio all have a female leading the state’s a...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 04:48
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Sheri Soltes is a nonprofit CEO in Austin, Texas, and she's running for Travis County Commissioner, Precinct 3, covering parts of Austin, Lakeway, ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 14:45
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Love Invents Us Amy Bloom is a Connecticut-based author and psychotherapist and the author of a novel entitled “Love Invents Us.” This book, the e...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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The September 20th 2019: Women Warriors — Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Anders...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:40
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Gender-based violence – why are states so bad at making it stop? This week, in her first appearance since fleeing Brazil, women’s rights advocate D...

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


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump Blame on Iran for Saudi Oil Infrastructure Attack Could Trigger Des...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 18, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Pushout
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools is an examination of the experiences of black girls across the country whose intricate lives...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2019
  • Length: 11:41