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Season 1, Episode 28 - 'Population Growth' feat Christopher Tucker
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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A controversial, yet necessary conversation around how many people can this planet support.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 14
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about climate change.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
  • Purchases: 1
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • 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
Panther Cubs
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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We don'y just plant the seeds so we can eat the fruit. We plant the seeds so the fruit will be there for generations.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 1
S2 E2 Compassionate Release
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 37:16
Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?
From: Amy Roost
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
The Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2
Sacrifice Zones - Part 2 (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mosier Fire , Credit: Image by: Paloma Ayala
On this encore edition of Making Contact, we present the final installment in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic lan...

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


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cultural Genocide in America: Capitalistic Experts' Self-Egos
From: Teosson Wells
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Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 27:19
One Nation Under Commerce: Marketing God and Country. The Middle Edges #104
From: Teosson Wells
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The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2016
  • Length: 24:45
Beyond Gay Marriage - a look at the mainstreaming of the gay movement
From: elizabeth dettmer
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The June 26, 2015 Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 States shifts the terms of the debate about where the gay rights m...

Bought by WXXI Rochester and WYSO


  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 2
Got me on my knees Laila
From: Aleks Babic
Caption: Laila & Aleks at a house show in May, 2013
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 13:56
Fair Share
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Destination DIY teamed up with the Life of the Law podcast to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy and how different cities ...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2014
  • Length: 20:40
Part 5: The Activists
From: Liz McArthur
Series: The Road to Unist'ot'en
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Three activists explain their involvement at the annual Action Camp at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2014
  • Length: 24:43
Life of the Law #32 Privacy Issues
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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You’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...

Bought by KMUZ and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 2
Dam Shame: Rivers and Resistance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A Dam Nice View, The Hoover Dam, Credit: Amyn Kassam
As we look for a solution to global energy problems and a way out of the climate crisis- some are turning to dams and hydroelectric power as a sour...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
Public Comment Periods and Government Bodies: is this microphone working?!
From: Civic Commons
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
When it comes to public comment periods, school board and city council meetings are just plain weird.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:30
Veterans of Occupation: From Iraq to Wall Street
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Veterans Join Occupy Wall Street, Credit: Iraq Veterans Against War
On this edition, we bring you the voices of Veterans from Occupy Wall Street and a special report on veterans returning home from war and the strug...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Occupy Minnesota
From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage
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Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and other revolutionary movements across the world, the Occupy Wall Street movement has just entere...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 24:26
Unlikely Connections
From: War News Radio
Caption: Protesters at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York.
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
SUPREME COURT ACTIVISM IN CITIZENS UNITED
From: Joseph Carraro
Series: THE AVERAGE JOE
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
The Supreme Court's recent decision in the Citizens United case, in which activist "conservative" judges took it upon themselves to grant corporati...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:59
Hazelton: How Mayor Lou Barletta Helped to Divide this small working class Pennsylvania town
From: Melissa Townsend
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In 2006 Mayor Lou Barletta cracked down on Latino residents new to the predominantly white working class town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Many new L...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2008
  • Length: 11:46