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Lilian Alfonso, Metal Scrapper
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
Embracing the Elements: Curanderismo
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Producer Erica Hellerstein takes us on a journey to identity through an ancient medicinal practice known as “curanderismo”.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Cooking With Love (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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Mexico’s passionate soccer fans and colorful fiestas are in full gear for the World Cup. Lilia Fuquen reports that perhaps the strongest pillar of...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Angelica Guillen, Activist, Farm Worker, Educator, and Poet, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Angelica Guillen
Angelica Guillen, Activist, Farm Worker, Educator, and Poet, Part 1 Interview: Angelica, a local artist, describes her life growing up in a migran...

  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 27:46
StoryCorps: Maria Vasquez-Rojas and Francisco Vasquez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Maria Vasquez-Rojas talks with her brother, Francisco Vasquez, about being diagnosed with ovarian cancer shortly after finding out she was pregnant.

Bought by WEZU and KMUD


  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
Grace Flores-Hughes: A Tale of Survival
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Experience Hispanic Heritage
Caption: Grace Flores-Hughes
In the 1950s, Taft, Texas was a segregated cotton town with a sizeable Mexican-American population, all of whom lived on the South Side of the rail...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRZA, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCPN, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 5
Latina Stereotypes
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Experience Hispanic Heritage
Caption: Sofia Vergara
Maid, immigrant, bombshell. Oddly these are the most common roles that Latina actresses get to play in television and movies. These roles often re-...

Bought by KHSU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 3
Anderson Valley Immigrants Quilt Their Stories
From: Lisa Morehouse
Series: After the Gold Rush: The Future of Small Town California
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In the grape-growing region of California’s Anderson Valley, a group of Latina immigrants turn stories of hardship into beautiful quilts as part of...

Bought by KWMR and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 2
Immigration Has a Female Face
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the immigration debate and what it means for women.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Partners in the Struggle
From: Making Contact
Caption: Rumbidzai Dube, Daria "DJ" Hudson, Ingrid Cruz, Leehee Rothschild, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
What does it mean to be an ally in a political movement? From white Americans in the civil rights era, to Israelis in Palestine, to Latino-American...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Denver Auraria Campus Custodian Protest
From: Rachel Sapin
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April 29, 2013-Denver-Auraria campus custodians, students, faculty, and concerned citizens marched on the Auraria campus denouncing undignified wor...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
Episode 20: Wendy Oliveras - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Wendy Oliveras (left); Bobby Pickles (right)
Bobby speaks with Wendy Oliveras, author of “Let’s Play SHESS: Succeed in your game of life and business by playing chess: from Pawn to Queen”. The...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:08:15
StoryCorps: Dawn Maestas
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dawn Maestas, who removes tattoos for survivors of domestic violence, talks to a client about her work.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, WMUU-LP, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
StoryCorps: Linda Hernandez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Linda Hernandez remembers growing up as one of the few Latinos in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 3
Sustaining Activism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
WINGS #29-12 Gender in the Andes
From: WINGS Women's International News Gathering Service
Caption: Cristina Herencia, PhD
From childhood to nation-building, it's a different world.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2012
  • Length: 28:44
Eliane Elias bring Brazil to jazz
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
Caption: Elizne Elias
Vocalist and pianist Eliane Elias talks about growing up in Brazil and her career in jazz.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
I Decided to Be Happy
From: Will Coley
Caption: Jeannette Pena believes it's important to smile, Credit: Will Coley
From the Washeteria II Corp laundromat, Jeannette Peña, has a unique vantage point on her neighborhood in Queens, New York.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 06:15
Getting out of Gang Life
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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In surprising and sometimes shocking detail, Kaycee shares what her life in a gang entailed, how her teachers changed her life, and how she's pursu...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 16:04
A Little Bit Happy
From: Joanna Solotaroff
Caption: Wanda and her family, Credit: Joanna Solotaroff
There are approximately 500 homeless families living in Cape Cod. Joanna Solotaroff interviewed Wanda and her three children to find out what it me...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Historias: Ricardo Ramirez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Bishop Ricardo Ramirez remembers his grandmother Francisca "Panchita" Espitia.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 1
La Depresión en la Mujer Latina (Depression in Latino Women)
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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Examinamos los factores que influyen y causa depresión en la mujer latina. A closer look at the factors that cause depression in latino women.

Bought by KDNA Radio


  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
La Oportunidad, by Victoria Campos of the University of Texas
From: YouthCast
Caption: Victoria and her mom, Maria Isabel
Maria Isabel wasn't supposed to finish the 6th grade. She lived in a tiny mountain ranch in Mexico, where girls stayed home to cook and raise child...

Bought by Radio Catskill and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 13:58
  • Purchases: 2
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Lorraine Lopez
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Lorraine Lopez
Fiction writer Lorraine Lopez was a 2010 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, with her collection HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES. She...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Faces of the Campaign—Katherine Archuleta
From: Obama for America
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National Political Directer Katherine Archuleta on her job

  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:47

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