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Bought and Sold
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Javille Sutton was a 14-year-old runaway when she accepted a ride from a pimp who sold her across the country for the next six years. She was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. She now counsels girls at a horse ranch for young victims of trafficking.
Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in sex trafficking as victims...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WRIR, WEKU, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: May 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Vote-less, not voiceless: Dreamers reshape Arizona politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Elizabeth Perez working at City Hall, Credit: Valeria Fernandez
From civil disobedience to civic accountability, youth that can’t vote are making the voice of the Latino community heard in local politics and at ...

Bought by WDBM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 10:06
  • Purchases: 3
Choreography of Care
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ingrid Tischer, director of development, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) and Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong, Credit: Alice Wong
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:33
What is Nuclear Liability and What Does it Mean?
From: Greenpeace Podcast
Series: Greenpeace Podcast Segments
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The nuclear industry pays a fraction of the cost of an accident and in Canada taxpayers pick up the balance.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
Refusenik Love
From: Jonathan Hirsch
Series: ARRVLS
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Like many Soviet defectors, Olga left a life behind when she emigrated to the U.S. in the early 80's. This episode of ARRVLS tells the story of lov...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Elusive Neighborhood Cop
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? Law enforcement agencies around the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Invisible Workers, Laboring in the Shadows
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman waiting to cross the border into Morocco carrying imported goods from Spain , Credit: Thalia Beaty and Maggy Donaldson
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...

Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sleepy City 02: Shaz
From: Liz McArthur
Series: Sleepy City Podcast
Caption: The mural painted in memory on the side of the Wildfire Bakery
In November 2014 a vibrant young artist named Zoe Cassidy killed himself, leaving a deep wound in the arts community he was a part of. In this epi...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 33:27
From Boots to Books: Student Veterans and the New GI Bill
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith
The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Getting Right
From: Side Effects Public Media
Series: Sick
Caption: Kevin Polly as he leaves his house for the rehab facility.
During the state's largest HIV outbreak, a man conquers his addiction.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 13:06
From Reform to Transform: California's Prop 47 and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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From Reform to Transform introduces listeners to passionate racial and social justice advocates in California who crafted, promoted, and saw throug...

Bought by WUAL and KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Path To Primary Care: Who Will Be Our Next Frontline Doctors?
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Norman Rockwell - Doctor and Doll, Credit: WikiArt Visual Encyclopedia
A half-hour, sound-rich documentary that follows a group of medical residents as they decide whether to enter the fraught field of primary care, or...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #42 – In The Name Of The Father
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The Scottsboro Boys are infamous — nine black teenagers falsely accused and convicted of raping two white women. Last year, the state of Alabama f...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 23:08
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising 26: A Ride on the People’s Climate Train
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In September of 2014, Women rising radio rode the People’s Climate train coast to coast, with over 200 activists heading to New York City to join t...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The High Life: Living High Up
From: Pod Academy
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Lee Millam has lived in high-rise blocks of flats in London for years. In this podcast he explores the highs and lows of living high up, and also ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 09:23
Two Days in Ferguson, MO
From: Nick Jaworski
Series: One Degree of Separation
Caption: A memorial at the location of Michael Brown's shooting in Ferguson, MO., Credit: Nick Jaworski
**A MUST-HEAR EPISODE FOR ANYBODY INTERESTED IN THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN FERGUSON, MO.** Nick visits the town of Ferguson, MO in the aftermath ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Ya Basta
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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20 years after the founding of The Zapatistas, the group’s influence has spread far beyond Mexico’s border through music and art. Producer Alejand...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Natrese Thomas, Police Dispatcher
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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Behind drawn shades in a brightly lit room downtown, dispatchers for the Los Angeles Police Department answer 9-1-1 calls and send officers to thei...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Getting Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teachings From Turtle Island - Hour Five
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Teachings at Turtle Island
This is the fifth installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten progr...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 58:15
  • Purchases: 1
Concussions: Your Brain or the Game?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Scrum-1, Credit: Maree Reveley
They say a smart athlete will use their head. But what if using your head cost you everything? That's a question being asked in locker rooms the wo...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Along Saint Claude
From: Eve Abrams
Caption: Eppy Livaccari, Credit: Jonathan Traviesa
Gentrification is just the newest name for the changes happening in New Orleans' neighborhoods downriver from the French Quarter. Along Saint Claud...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Race to an Emergency
From: KALW
Caption: Lesley Philips and Sharena Thomas, Credit: The People's Community Medics
A special hour-long documentary, where host Martina Castro and reporter Ali Budner trace the path of a 9-1-1 call in Oakland, California to figure ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 56:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Race to an Emergency--(2 Part show)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When you call 911, who answers the phone? How do they decide who to send to the scene, and how fast will they get there? We bring you a 2-part spec...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
Teachings From Turtle Island - Hour Four
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
Caption: Teachings From Turtle Island
This is the fourth installment of Teachings From Turtle Island: Stories of Anishinaabe People. Teachings From Turtle Island is a series of ten prog...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 3

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