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Scouts are Cancelled: Poems
From: John Stiles
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Poems from the acclaimed documentary: Scouts are Cancelled

  • Added: Jul 31, 2007
  • Length: 07:21
Authors@Google: Michael Bloomberg
From: Authors@Google
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Michael Bloomberg in conversation with Sheryl Sandberg.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2007
  • Length: 59:29
CamForum - Bob Dylan Artist
From: Cambridge Forum
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The art and poetry of Bob Dylan's music

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
the writing in the margins
From: gavin lapid
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this is a story i wrote last spring about changing my name and being gender-queer

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Nov 30, 2006
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
"I can see you're concerned about torture."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The world is a dangerous place. Fortunately there are people willing to do anything to protect us. Absolutely anything.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Azar Nafisi
From: This I Believe
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From Huck Finn, Iranian-born writer and teacher Azar Nafisi learns to believe in the power of empathy.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:39
Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile
From: Claudia Cragg
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Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile

Bought by WYSO and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2006
  • Length: 20:05
  • Purchases: 2
GVR 453 What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles
From: Paul Nelson
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Interview with Eliot Weinberger

  • Added: Nov 02, 2005
  • Length: 43:30
RN Documentary: Verbal Fireworks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A profile of Alix Olson - award winning spoken word performance artist/activist considered by some “one of the ten most dangerous women in America.”

Bought by KUER, KUT, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 11
Fire on the Prairie #19
From: Emily Udell
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Interviews with Marjane Satrapi & Howard Zinn; comments on Chicago's Mayor Richard M. Daley

  • Added: Aug 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
1998 Amselm Hollo - Big Shoes
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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New American Poet Anselm Hollo reads his anti-Nike poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
1997 Lorenzo Thomas - The New Age
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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black arts movement poet reads an anti war poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
1998 Carl Rakosi - Satyricon
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Rakosi reads incisive political critique

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
1995 Anne Waldman - Simulacrum (Not a Real Life, Cheap Imitation)
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Waldman in a strong political performance of her poetry

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
1985 Amiri Baraka - Why's Wise
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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A powerful 1985 reading of an anti slavery poem by the late Amiri Baraka. In this piece, Baraka treats the issue of voice - and what happens when a...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
1976 Allen Ginsberg - End Vietnam War
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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great pro peace performance by Ginsberg

Bought by KZYX and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 2
1975 Gregory Corso - The Mad Yak
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Beat great Gregory Corso reads in 1975

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 2
Norman Mailer Interview
From: Lydon McGrath Productions
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Novelist Norman Mailer talks politics on the eve of the Republican Convention

Bought by PRX, WUAL, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 23, 2004
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 3
Reclaiming Islam: A Woman's Perspective
From: Laura Jackson
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Muslim scholar Leila Ahmed argues for an alternative to fundamentalist Islam, for an oral, ethical tradition, passed down from mothers and grandmot...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFUV, and KZYX


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 17:40
  • Purchases: 4
Lolita Unveiled: Muslim Women's Take on a Scandalous Classic
From: Laura Jackson
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Confronting the tyrannies of our times through the transformative power of the novel.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, WETA, WFUV, KZYX and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2004
  • Length: 22:40
  • Purchases: 6
The Global Condition
From: Lydon McGrath Productions
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This is hour 1 from The Whole Wide World: a 7-part series on Globalization

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1