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250: Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power, 6/12/2024
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 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Borders: What are they good for?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: White text reading "Borders: What are they good for?" superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune., Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
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
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 ...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:15
  • Purchases: 1
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
Should Prosecutors Pursue Minor Crimes?
From: Open to Debate
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In the US, misdemeanors count for 80% of cases filed annually, but district attorneys around the country are implementing policies stating they’ll ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Was January 6th an Existential Threat to American Democracy?
From: Open to Debate
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By now it is clear, the Red Wave election-denying candidates had hoped to ride left most still waiting on the beach. Those who questioned the outco...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
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...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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
Disposable Cities: Part 4 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: An abandoned home near Love Canal in Niagara Falls. (UPI Photo)
This is part 4 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and The Production of Violence published by Routled...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Here There Be Dragons: Part 2 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "Sir Francis Drake in Cartagena 1585" by Baptista Boazio, 1589
This is Part 2 of The State Made Visible with Rasul Mowatt, author of The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routle...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Indigenous organizers mark 52 years since the Alcatraz occupation — with the interior secretary
From: KSFP
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The first Native American Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, spoke to the activists who first occupied Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay in 1969. T...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Democracy: A National Temperature Check
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Authority and U: On the Anti-Democratic Campus
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: IU student Gregory Hess was arrested during a 1970 anti-war protest for shouting a statement urging a crowd of demonstrators to retake a street that police had just cleared. , Credit: Maurer School of Law
Our show is "Authority and U" with guest Steve Volan, a student of human geography at Indiana University and a city council member in Bloomington, ...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
José Martí and Cuban-Mindedness
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Por América [José Martí], Juan Francisco Elso, 1986, From the collection of: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Philosopher, Poet, and Revolutionary, Jose Marti, believed that knowledge and understanding do not originate within us, but come to us through our ...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutionary Parallels: Zhang Taiyan and Anti-Imperialism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Zhang Taiyan
Our show is on the Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhang Taiyan with guest Viren Murthy. In it we seek to detail the tangle of the so-called East a...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 12, 202
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: How to Stop Massive Tax Avoidance by America’s Wealthiest; Rise in Violenc...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
MOVE Demands Justice for Children and The Return of Stolen Remains
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Movement Building and Transnational Freedom Struggles
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00