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The Origins of Zionism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Front cover of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine.", Credit: Credit: Macmillan Publishers
In the midst of repeated, outsized, and unprecedented attacks on the people of Gaza, we talk to Rashid Khalidi about his book "The Hundred Years' W...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tom Allman- "The Sheriff and Marijuana"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Building Back Black Wall Street
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021 , Credit: Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press, All Souls' book publishing imprint, 2021
Tulsa Tri-City Collective leaders Carlos Moreno and Bracken Klar talk about the history of Greenwood, a Tulsa neighborhood founded by and for Black...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and KALW


  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Plymouth Freeman and The Unfinished Revolution
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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On this episode, we explore the story of Plymouth Freeman, a black Patriot who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and d...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Inauguration Day
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Pomp, circumstance and 35 words can transform a person into a president.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:31
254: Toward a More Perfect Union: Unleashing the Promise in Us All, 11/1/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Angela Glover Blackwell, Credit: Alex Akamine
In this time of radical upheaval and change, fulfilling the promise of a “more perfect union” in the United States means building a multi-racial de...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
264: The Restorative Revolution: How Indigenous Leadership and Allyship Catalyzed the Biggest River Restoration in US History, 10/18/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
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Yurok fisherman and tribal leader Sammy Gensaw and environmental scientist-turned-activist Craig Tucker share the epic story of how Indigenous lead...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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
World in Progress 21/09/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead. Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...

Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
The First 9-11
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 56:42
Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sam Totten – "Genocide in Darfur"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Genocide is the intent to exterminate in whole or in part a specific group of people often based on nationality, ethnicity, race or religion. For t...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
250: Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power, 5/24/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Manuel Pastor
At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...

  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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The famous court battle over the right to teach evolution in public school comes to life.

Bought by KKRN, KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:04
  • Purchases: 37
Historic Political Transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jack Eidt discusses new government transitions in Honduras and Colombia. Professor Gerard Pigeon covers the history of Haiti, and why we have seen...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
America, Fast Forward
From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide
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In the words of one expert, California has “gone crazy for propositions.” In this episode, we tell the story of one of the state’s most notorious b...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 30:41
White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's episode anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise examines the concept of Whiteness and what he describes as the psychological wage of wh...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Together Tonight: Hamilton, Jefferson, Burr
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Three of America's Founding Fathers square off over their young country's future.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 22
Ep 2: Teddy Meets the KGB
From: Sean Guillory
Series: Teddy Goes to the USSR
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Teddy assumed the KGB would monitor his travels around the Soviet Union. In Kiev, Teddy discovers that someone went through his luggage. And half-c...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 37:27
219: Wife Selling
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In the 16 and 1700s, wife selling was a type of marital separation that people did when they couldn't afford divorce. It was shaming, mysoginistic,...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: May 31, 2022
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
Juristac and the Amah Mutsun: Indigenous Resistance and Regeneration
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Amah Mutsun Ohlone are fighting to save their most sacred Indigenous site — a place called Juristac. Contributors Robert Raymond and Della Dunc...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Women's History Month: Women's Choice is More Than Roe vs Wade
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Democratizing Democracy: Redistricting by the People
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Thomas Paine’s Lost Body
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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In the first episode of our new season, Devin and Lauren look to a William G. Pomeroy marker in Westchester County to learn about American patriot ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1