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Caption: Lisa Herner, Credit: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University
Dave Zirin and Elizabeth Terzakis take a look back at the history of discrimination against women in sports, and we’ll hear where the long battle f...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Marijuana Is Safer
An interview with Paul Armentano on his new book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We driving People to Drink?

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Oakland protestors lay in the position Oscar Grant was in when he was killed, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: NJ Assembly Medical Marijuana hearing 6-4-09
Actuality Audio from the NJ Assembly health committee hearing on medical marijuana 6-4-09 and interview with New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance on the...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Camden Tax Foreclosures and Open Air Drug Markets, Credit: Frank Fulbrook
Frank Fulbrook discusses his paper "Urban De-vitalization: How Drug Prohibition is Destroying City Neighborhoods" the only study of how empty build...

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  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

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  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Major Neill Franklin, Credit: C. David Freitag
Deborah Jacobs of the ACLU-NJ on privacy issues with teenagers. Major Neill Franklin of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaks at the NORML ...

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  • Added: Apr 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 1
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It’s tax time. Yet even in these hard economic times, many folks are calling for more taxes. On this edition, we hear from people who say we need t...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Congressmen Frank and Paul
Congressmen Barney Frank and Ron Paul interviewed on 4-2-09 about medical marijuana, hemp farming, cannabis decriminalization and President Obama's...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
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William Greider talks about a new moral order for capitalism, drawing from his new book COME HOME, AMERICA: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promis...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2009
  • Length: 29:37
Caption: Marijuana leaf
Commentary on the police shooting of 20 year old college student Derek Copp in Michigan last week plus a segment on my brief appearance in MSNBC's ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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An essay discussing a recent review ordered by Congress of the ONDCP and an interview with Howard Wooldridge of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
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We speak with activists and an MS patient who testified before the Senate Health Committee.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
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The "Without Comment" series began last April with a look at the Democratic primaries using only sound bites from politicians, political pundits an...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 16:35
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Chris Goldstein looks at the current economic crisis with Economist Dean Baker who was one of the few credited with predicting our current money me...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Some author interview highlights from Active Voice Radio 2008

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
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Chris speaks with Allen St. Pierre of the NORML Foundation about the over 820, 000 Americans arrested in 2007 on marijuana violations.

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  • Added: Oct 08, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did the Spike in Gas Prices Burst the Housing Bubble?

  • Added: Aug 08, 2008
  • Length: 01:10:42
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The bestselling author and Charles Manson Prosecutor makes the case.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:21
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According to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Washington, DC-based Urban Land Institute, New York City ranks as the top domestic marke...

  • Added: May 19, 2008
  • Length: 15:00
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Harrop goes over some of the other powerful politicians who have admitted past substance use...but were never arrested. Froma and Chris discuss the...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Dozens of Maryland law students come to New Orleans to volunteer and tonight they are all at the infamous bywater bar vaughns to hear stories from ...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2008
  • Length: 06:34
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Rick Steves is a popular PBS Travel Host and has authored dozens of travel guides. He speaks about marijuana at the NORML 2007 Conference.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 29:25