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What would life look like if we oriented our week not around work—but rest? In this episode, we explore our personal and societal need for rest and...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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The great American housing crunch and what organizing can do about it. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, we discuss some of the challenges and ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking to Joel Washing, an artist who works for a steel fabricator company half of the day and then cre...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 06:16
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We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
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This week you'll meet Brittany Ford, a co-lead for The Welcome Toledo Lucas County Initiative (TLC). They work to build a more welcoming and inclus...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 06:44
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet the Executive Director of Maumee Valley's Habitat for Humanity, Michael McIntyre.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet some of the guys from Graphite Design and Build! GDB create custom sculptures, models, and signs f...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, The RDD meets the FLOC, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. An organization created by Baldemar Velásquez to...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
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Join The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor as a local Toledo firefighter talks about a normal day on the job.

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  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dahl Automotive Museum, Credit: Teri Tenseth Market
On this episode of Culture Clique, we get underneath the hood and learn about the automotive repair field. We visit with two technicians, Hannah an...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 19:06
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In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:18
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All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
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Who was your favorite teacher in high school? We all have that unforgettable teacher that sets us on our life’s trajectory. But most of the time we...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
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When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you are coming from, where you are going. But what about your taxi driver? This week we travel wit...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Cotter senior Liam Michener, left, talks with Winona police officer Eric Mueller during a mock crash Wednesday, April 15, 2012, behind Winona Senior High School. Michener was acting as the driver. , Credit: Andrew Link/Winona Daily News
On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with one of Winona's finest who went from a career in public relations to an occupation in Law Enforcem...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 1
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On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:08
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The libraries of Los Angeles might shut down in a few years, unless the people of the city rally and write letters, demanding they stay open. Plans...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 59:40
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A creative job search on the streets of Manhattan

  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:44
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Matthew Works has been living on the streets for ten years. Here he remembers one of his last paying jobs, assembling Braille typewriters, which th...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
  • Purchases: 7