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What Works and What Doesn't in Stopping Gender-Based Violence?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, in her first appearance since fleeing Brazil, women’s rights advocate Debora Diniz joins fellow activists and philanthropists to discuss...

Bought by KMUN, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Crisis! When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric de Leon
For a growing number of Americans, our current political realities are of increasing concern. Many are deeply puzzled about what we do in the near ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Resolving Conflict, “Town Meeting” Style
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Long before the United States became a nation and implemented American democracy as we know it today, there were town meetings. Nearly 400 years l...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Charles Reich – A Non-Marxist View of Material Capitalism
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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The Greening of America & Opposing the System The market economy often seems to have many inherent problems. Indeed, a Marxist historical view pre...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Musician's Spotlight -Rahim AlHaj Part One- 706
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Iraqi-American musician and composer Rahim AlHaj has traveled a musical and life journey that few could imagine. A virtuoso of the Oud (the grandfa...

Bought by KMXT, RadioFreePalmer, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Alexis de Tocqueville/Dick Johnson – A Visit With Alexis de Tocqueville
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Democracy in America In 1831, a 25 year-old Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, trained as a lawyer, and preoccupied with democracy, came to the US t...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Political Junkie Fall 2019 Fundraiser Show
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Fundraising hour for stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program. This show highlights three interviews from late-2018/early-...

Bought by WHQR, Delta College Public Radio, and WHRV


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 41:09
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of Dealing with Racism and Xenophobia in St. Cloud with Mayor Dave Kleis
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down with St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis to talk abou...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
RDD: Raise Your Voice!
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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We're talking to another Bowling Green State University professor on this week's episode of The RDD. But we're talking about a project she worked o...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:39
Starter Kit: Federalism
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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One big government and the fifty little governments that comprise it.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 24:20
  • Purchases: 3
A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN -- Marshall Curry Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Marshall Curry, San Francisco, CA 2/13/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Marshall Curry talks how demagogues push our buttons, the definition of patriotism, and why 20,000 Americans showed up to cheer at a Nazi rally at ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2019
  • Length: 16:10
I Am Not Your Negro (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examina...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Strike Through the Mask: Labor Strikes Are Essential History
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: A strikers' orchestra in the occupied Flint GM plant.
Loomis focuses on the necessity of government supporting workers’ rights for there to be any Union movement. The state has to protect the worker an...

Bought by KZYX and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 2
Heroes of American Dissent (Special Episode)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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Stories about We The People, pushing back, in the pursuit of a better America.

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KWIT, KICI Iowa City, and KWTF community radio for Sonoma County


  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
Rebel in the Ranks: A Conversation with Brad Gregory
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr. Brad Gregory
Notre Dame history professor discusses the secular effects of the Reformation.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
John McClow — Water wrangling in the American West (Part one)
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with water law expert John McClow.

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
As the Denver Post declines, so does the Colorado News Market
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Caption: Cover of Denver Post Editorial Page on April 7th, 2018, Credit: Chicago Tribune
A look into the fall of the Denver Post, the impact it's had on the Colorado News Market and the future of reporting in the state.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 13:16
The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 5
The Judiciary in Democracy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What is the role of an unelected judiciary in a democracy?

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Oct 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Constitutional Cages: The Core of Civil Society?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Private prisons in the South capitalized on the loophole in the 13th Amendment. In American Prison Shane Bauer takes us into Winn Correctional Cent...

Bought by WWNO


  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Undoing the Falsifications of History: A Crash Course with H. Bruce Franklin
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: April, 1967, Redwood City. Students picket at a napalm bomb factory. "The Harvey Richards Media Archive." © Paul Richards.
H. Bruce Franklin, was once a tugboat mate and then an Air Force navigator and intelligence officer. He is now and has been for more than half a ce...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Episode 1: We The Purple
From: PurpleState
Series: PurpleState
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eTown’s PurpleState Episode 1, We the Purple, explores the structural, historical, and cultural forces that have contributed to political division ...

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KVNF


  • Added: Oct 07, 2018
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Political Junkie Fall 2018 Fundraiser Show
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Fundraising hour for stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program. This show highlights three interviews from late-2017/early-...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 18, 2018
  • Length: 39:08
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Europe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Kirchick
Europe is in crisis. The continent we have known since the end of World War II is quickly changing.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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