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Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...
- Added: Jan 04, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Be careful when stigmatizing certain groups for terrorism: Rights may be trampled. The objective take on this ugly side of man and why we should no...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Dec 26, 2015
- Length: 07:55
- Purchases: 2
In part two of Tiny Spark's Guide to Good Giving, we speak with Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She offers advice on vetting...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KALW, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Dec 01, 2015
- Length: 14:17
- Purchases: 3
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The secrecy around an illness can become the great taboo.
What Jimmy Carter did by going public was break that taboo and face the disease squarely....
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
One hot muggy afternoon last week I understood first hand a fact of life in India – the system never works for you unless you know someone with con...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The world will need to remember that Nepal is not just a home for temples and palaces and Everest expeditions. It is a country that millions call h...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Who came up with the name 'Earth Day'? It turns out, a legendary Madison Avenue ad man named Julian Koenig. He was responsible for some of the most...
Bought by KMXT, WSLR, KUOW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 7
It is all very well to castigate the Supreme Court for its failure to affirm gay rights. But rights mean nothing without responsibility and those r...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 06:00
The main prayer hall at Gurdwara Sahib Fremont, the Fremont Sikh temple, is a cavernous room. A beautiful marble center aisle leads to an altar, wh...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 08:22
Once there was a great hue and cry about racial profiling by law enforcement in America and it resulted in a landmark called Driving while Black. T...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 2
We are always adjusting the way we sound. It especially depends on the social situation we are in. Linguists call it "code switching," a term origi...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 06:19
- Purchases: 2
In August 2014, we lost a man who inspired laughter in the Bay Area and all around the world – Robin Williams. Robin Williams was a local, and actu...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 04:22
- Purchases: 2
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
What's Next in Ferguson, MO?
After the shooting of Michael Brown, many are left wondering what are the best ways to move forward. Nick Jaworski ta...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 53:23
On June, 19, 2014 the Philadelphia city council voted (13-3, a veto-proof margin) to decriminalize possession of marijuana, but since then Mayor Mi...
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 10:20
Since its beginning in 1991, the Seattle Hempfest has become an international rallying point for marijuana legalization advocates, and never more s...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 07:41
In this edition of the Cannabis Radio News we hear reaction to the New York Times series of editorials calling for the legalization of marijuana fr...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Aug 07, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Stephen Downing is a retired LAPD Deputy Chief and an executive board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition or LEAP. He spoke with CRN’s B...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 09:01
Today the D.C. Board of Elections ruled that Ballot Initiative 71 has enough valid signatures to qualify for November’s general election ballot. I...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 04:28
On the first of the year, 2014, the state of Illinois began implementation of a system to regulate the production and distribution of medical marij...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 07:09
The Brookings Institution has released a study of Colorado’s six month old program to regulate the legal sales and taxation of marijuana, and accor...
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 09:26
There has been some small movement in efforts to reform marijuana laws at the federal level recently. In mid-July, Reps. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), Stev...
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 06:18
Maine passed a medical marijuana law in 1999 with 61 percent of the vote, and in 2009 the legislature decriminalized possession of small amounts of...
- Added: Jul 30, 2014
- Length: 04:07
