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Caption: Host Martha Burk
Summer in August is known as “dog days” – hot and muggy, panting canines with tongues hanging out, alongside their disgruntled people. Some of th...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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Paperboy Love Prince, Stacey Prussman (New York City mayoral candidates and author Sam Kumar. Paperboy Love Prince discusses LGBTQ issues.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
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With American-born artist Mary Mattingly, we delve into her collaborative environmental interventions over time.

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 11:23
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Artist Sheryl Oring began "I Wish to Say" in 2004. For this project, Oring sets up a portable public office—complete with a manual typewriter—and i...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 13:44
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
Caption: Jez Lowe
The great British songwriter, Jez Lowe, recorded live in performance at Binghamton's Cranberry Coffeehouse in September, 2019.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
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Lisa from Austin describes postcard activism projects in Texas and around the country. She explains how postcards can help get out the vote and in...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
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Last November Deb Haaland from New Mexico was elected to the US House. One of the first Native American women to serve, her vision is “to move our ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 07:08
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Sheri is part of the 25th US Congressional District in Texas. She's following and has met multiple candidates on her ballot, including those for U...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 06:34
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We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 09:01
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Today, capitalism, aka the free market, is linked to trade wars, suffocating student debt, entire countries gone bankrupt, burgeoning virtual curre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:36
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Activism has long been a way for artists and curators, writers and filmmakers to engage with global flashpoints, inspiring new perspectives on visi...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 39:14
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Social movements and party politics - inherently at odds or natural allies? This week, in his first in-depth TV appearance, Maurice Mitchell, the n...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On Miami Beach, we meet American writer Kurt Andersen. Besides writing novels, he has opined on America’s political landscape for The New York Time...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2018
  • Length: 14:20
Caption: Eric Arnold, Credit: Fantastic Negrito at the UC Theater in Berkeley, Ca
In the last three years, Fantastic Negrito, an Oakland-based black roots revivalist has gone from busking at bus stops to winning a Grammy and tour...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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National Animal Rights Day 2016 is June 4 in Canada and June 5 in the United States. Guests Sassy and Jeff Skelton attended an event in Los Angeles...

  • Added: May 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Jacinda Townsend, author of the novel <em>Saint Monkey</em> which has won the 2015 James Fenimore Cooper Prize awarded...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 57:55
Caption: Aditya and Michael, Credit: Gilles Delage
On December 8th the Indian Supreme Court reinstated Section 377 of the Penal Code making sex against the order of nature a crime again. But India s...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
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A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.

Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Crowd in Roanoke to see President Obama, Credit: Han Nguyen
Thousands of Virginians have gathered together to see President Obama in Roanoke. Hear how fired up they were.

  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: :40
Caption: 2011 NYC Pride Parade, Credit: Cassidy Lerman
While walking with the Israeli delegation in the 2011 NYC Pride Parade I captured reactions from the crowd and others in the march about why they a...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 08:32
Caption: Virginia Beach, Credit: Han Nguyen/Obama for America
Virginia Beach supporters tell us why Virginia is for organizers.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:24
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National Field Director Jeremy Bird talks organizing.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: :00
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Do you remember your first time?

  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:21
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Some bands are getting creative about making a political spectacle, by becoming the protest themselves, and using the internet to make their messag...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 2