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CIA Role in Syria, Postal Service Fight, Marriage Equality and Immigrants
From: Liberation Radio
Series: Liberation Radio
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Program for the week of March 31, 2013

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Latitude News Podcast #8 — Can the U.S. keep conflict minerals from Congo out of your laptop?
From: Latitude News
Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Globalization and the World Economy
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:57
Trans Pacific Partnership: NAFTA on Steriods?
From: WFHB
Series: Standing Room Only
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Joe Varga, professor of labor studies at Indiana University, hosted an open informational session about the mysterious Trans Pacific Partnership. T...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 56:57
Future of Free Trade
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: NAFTA - 20 YEARS LATER
Caption: Transportation of goods in Guaymas relies on freight trains and cargo ships., Credit: Peter O'Dowd
As the final installment on our series NAFTA 20 YEARS LATER, Peter O'Dowd looks at the challenges facing border states who want to benefit from the...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 04:07
Growing Pains at The World's Largest Co-op?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:43
Making it Our Business: Co-ops on the Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Confronting Youth Unemployment: Segment B
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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With an unemployment rate three times higher than that of adults, there are 75 million youth worldwide looking for work. International Labour Organ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 12:11
  • Purchases: 1
Confronting Youth Unemployment: Segment A
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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With an unemployment rate three times higher than that of adults, there are 75 million youth worldwide looking for work. International Labour Organ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 12:33
  • Purchases: 1
Fair Trade? Not With Colombia
From: Dick Meister
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The Colombian Free Trade Agreement aligns the US with a notorious abuser of workers and their unions.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 03:54
Apple's Unethical Innovation
From: Dick Meister
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The working conditions of those who manufacture the products of technological innovator Apple are brutal.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:53
Iraqi Kurdistan: On Oil and Agriculture
From: War News Radio
Caption: A farmer in Merikegia, a village in Iraqi Kurdistan., Credit: Rachel Stacy
Iraqi Kurdistan, once known for its rich soil, is rapidly becoming identified with its rich oil. War News Radio’s Amy DiPierro explains how these t...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 3
Barbara Martinez Jitner
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this edition of Culture Clique, KQAL's Bill Stoneberg visits with Barbara Martinez Jitner, an Emmy and Golden Globe Nominated television and fil...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 37:50
  • Purchases: 1
International Trade -- Free, Fixed, or Fair?
From: A World of Possibilities
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In this program we hear about the challenges of growing the fair trade movement from the founder of a leading fair trade certification organization...

Bought by KZYX, WBEZ, KXOT Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 27, 2011
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 4
Author Jean Kwok on Sweatshops, Legal Immigrants, 'The American Dream' and 'Girl In Translation' - now out in paperback
From: Claudia Cragg
Caption: Author Jean Kwok - Girl in Translation
Kwok's debut novel 'Girl in Translation' became a New York Times bestseller. It has been published in 15 countries and chosen as the winner of an A...

  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 21:28
Scene of the Crime
From: Paul Bieber
Caption: Little girl in Nuevo Milenio
In Colombia, where evidence is marred by politics, emotion and time, conclusions are hard to come by.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2010
  • Length: 10:56
  • Purchases: 1
Expanding the Northwest Detention Center
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Northwest Detention Center, Credit: Alex Stonehill
April 16, 2009 - On any given day, 30,000 people are being held in detention centers across the country. With plans to expand the Northwest Detenti...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 08:36
Hope for Panama hat weavers in Ecuador
From: Round Earth Media
Caption: The finest hats are woven of straw that is so thin and fine it looks like linen. , Credit: Photo by Andi McDaniel
Some of the finest straw hats in the world come from Ecuador. The best sell for hundreds, even thousands of dollars. Most of that money goes to hat...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2010
  • Length: 05:51
FAR FROM HOME, BUT FAR FROM FORGOTTEN
From: Voices of Our World
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THE INITIATIVE OF A PRIEST TO HELP MIGRANT WORKERS FIND A WAY TO SUCCEEED IN THEIR NEW SOCIETY.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 27:59
Detention in the City of Destiny
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
Living in Limbo
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Gabriela Cubillos prepares tamales in her home. , Credit: Eroyn Franklin
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 6
Up All Night
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Ali Jaffri, Credit: Alex Stonehill
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 3
US Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Donohue
From: National Press Club
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Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce, delivers “The State of World Trade” at a National Press Club luncheon on Friday...

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
Haitian immigrants and the South Florida Economy
From: NPR Economic Training Project
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With around 80,000 Haitians expected to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that will allow them to legally work and live in South Florida, ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
Tereza’s story: I want to be a pilot
From: UNICEF
Series: Digital Diarists: Sudanese Youth Voices
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17-year-old Tereza Kitale, a student in Juba, southern Sudan, talks about her dream of becoming a pilot.

Bought by KUER and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 2