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Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The Olympic Games have grown into a multibillion dollar industry. But with that growth comes concerns about the negative effects of the event on t...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 4
Anti-racist author Tim Wise examines how society is being divided and conquered on the basis of race and class. But legendary activist Angela Davis...
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...
- Added: Jun 12, 2012
- Length: 29:01
More than 70 percent of processed foods in the supermarket contain genetically engineered (GE/ GMO) ingredients. If you want to know more about GMO...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 28:00
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jan 19, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A review of regional issues with citizen guests
- Added: Jan 15, 2012
- Length: 28:30
Stanford University Engineer Mark Z. Jacobson is trying to convince the world that his energy plan based soley on renwables: wind, water, and solar...
- Added: Dec 20, 2011
- Length: 31:08
A dialogue between Princeton University professor Cornel West, and Revolutionary Communist Party USA spokesman Carl Dix about the future of America...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Three women politicians break down what it means to have a seat at the city council table with the old boys.
- Added: Nov 20, 2011
- Length: 28:30
When it comes to public comment periods, school board and city council meetings are just plain weird.
- Added: Nov 17, 2011
- Length: 58:30
Radio Curious visits with Betty Ball, co-founder of the Mendocino Environmental Center in Ukiah, Ca. They discuss the movements to protect Northern...
- Added: Nov 15, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...
- Added: Oct 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Riots all over the world are calling on us to get involved in societal change. But what kind of action is needed, and how do we create real change?...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 17, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 59:02
TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI explore the raging ethical dilemma and Constitutional questions around post-incarceration civil commitme...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 59:15
- Purchases: 1
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:33
- Purchases: 16
Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 1
Hope or Despair on the 41st Earth Day? US Whistleblower Says Fukushima Hydrogen Explosion Could Happen Here. Oil Companies’ Control Over Media
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KQED
- Added: Apr 23, 2011
- Length: 57:03
- Purchases: 2
An exclusive interview with economist Richard Wolff, who explains how failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Sasha Abramsky, a California-based journalist and author, explains why the recent measure to legalize marijuana in California, which polls showed m...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 38:22
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
After the news that the Senate had not passed legislation to end "don't ask don't tell," commentator Mark Blackmon decided that it was time to remi...
- Added: Sep 23, 2010
- Length: 04:08
