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Colette Pichon Battle on Climate Justice Reparations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Climate change isn’t looming, it’s here. We have crossed what some call the change horizon. Can it also be a liberation horizon? “There’s beautifu...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
19th Amendment: Part 2
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the divides in the suffrage movement define the fight for women’s enfranchisement? And how did that amendment finally get passed?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:02
Civics 101: The History of Labor Policy
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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The modern day workplace is the product of a centuries-long battle for fair wages, reasonable hours and safe conditions. Civics 101 tells the story...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 5
843: Against Capitalism / 844: Books We Can't Forget, 11/4/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Against Capitalism" - Congress has passed a Republican resolution "denouncing socialism." But what does that even mean? This hour, a soc...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Paul Goldstein – "The Artist’s Right of Ownership"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: August 9, 2006 Errors and Omissions Who owns the rights to a play, a song, or a work of art? How important and fragile is t...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
In Good Faith -The Power of Pilgrimage
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Four guests discuss their experiences with pilgrimage. Topics range from embarking on physical journeys to less intensive, historical landmarks.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:57
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - Who Owns Our Cultural Heritage? — Museums, Repatriation, and Appropriation
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Who should decide how stories and artifacts of a cultural heritage are shared? What's the difference between appropriation and appreciation?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, KMXT, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:53
  • Purchases: 5
Skin Deep
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: This Is Science with Jess Phoenix
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Happy Halloween! Jess talks with UCLA librarian Megan Rosenbloom about the spooky science of uncovering what makes some old books extra rare.

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 31, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
841: Building Twisted Worlds / 842: Rituals Of Fear, 10/28/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Building Twisted Worlds" - What’s scary today isn’t haunted mansions but haunted… tape decks? Cassette recorders? HR manuals? We'll intr...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:58
Bruce Patterson – "Old Time Tales of Anderson Valley"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: August 30, 2006 Walking Tractor And Other Tales of Old Anderson Valley Stories of the days that no longer exist in rural ar...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Music Archive Showcase #158 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME: DENNY TEDESCO, director, THE WRECKING CREW
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Music specials host Paul Ingles talks with film director Denny Tedesco about his 2015 film release called THE WRECKING CREW, about the Los Angeles ...

Bought by KFSK, WRVO Public Media, KSJE, WRGY, KUHF and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
839: Luminous: Can Psychedelics Be Decolonized? / 840: Living With Loneliness, 10/21/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Luminous: Can Psychedelics Be Decolonized?" - Psychedelics are a multi-billion dollar industry. But many come from plant medicines first...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
Dr. Clotaire Rapaille- "Understanding our Collective Unconscious" Part Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Originally Broadcast: June 28, 2006 and July 5, 2006 The Culture Code, An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around The World Live and Buy As T...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2023
  • Length: 23:43
Emergent Strategies for Abolition: Andrea J. Ritchie’s Toolkit for Activists
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizers...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: Vietnamese Fishermen v. the KKK
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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An intriguing look at the 1981 court case that brought justice to Vietnamese fishermen in East Texas who were terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan

Bought by KECG


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 1
NL 23-43: Jazz Women Of The 1980s, 10/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1980s a new generation of women jazz musicians emerged who expanded their predecessors' push against the patriarchal boundaries of the jazz ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
Matthew Shepard – in his mom’s words
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Matthew Shepard was brutally killed 25 years ago for being gay. His mother Judy founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation 25 years ago this December a...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
2023-10-13 Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
231013: Ken Burns, Rosalyn LaPier and The American Buffalo, 10/13/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For thousands of years, the American buffalo evolved alongside Indigenous people who relied on them for food and shelter, and, in exchange for kill...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Journey to D-Day: Expert Guide to Normandy with Smithsonian Associate Kevin Dennehy
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
Our guest today, Smithsonian Associate Kevin Dennehy, is someone who can guide us through a journey to Normandy like no other. Smithsonian Associat...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:05
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Benjamin Busch talks with journalists Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson about their book "American Gun."

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
Smithsonian Associate, Dr. Shohini Ghose: Galactic Pioneers: The Women Who Mapped the Stars
From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
Her Space, Her Time: Trailblazing Female Scientists Who Decoded the Hidden Universe Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have tr...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 31:06
NL 23-42: Indiana Avenue: Black Boulevard of Jazz, 10/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Indianapolis' Indiana Avenue neighborhood produced several of the most influential jazz artists to appear on the post-World War II jazz scene, incl...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Dr. Steven Miles: "A Blind Eye to Torture"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This interview with Dr. Steven H. Miles was recorded in mid July 2006. The silence of doctors, nurses and medics in cases of torture and physical ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:15
  • Purchases: 1
Journalist Taras Grescoe's "THE LOST SUPPER. Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past."
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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⁠Host Diana Korte speaks with Canadian journalist Taras Grescoe, author of “THE LOST SUPPER. Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of th...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:49

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