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"What Do We Owe You?" This poetic tribute to the failure of the Republican sponsored bill to end healthcare for millions of Americans- could be sun...
- Added: Jul 18, 2017
- Length: 02:47
Liu Xiaobo died in 2017. His 11 year imprisonment by the Chinese government for posting subversive articles on the Internet had not ended. "No Ene...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 05:24
Maine has witnessed many domestic violence tragedies. In 2017, a woman, her son and a neighbor killed by her out of control partner were one of t...
- Added: Jul 08, 2017
- Length: 04:10
his week is the first part of our interview with Mark Cook. Mark served 24 years in prison for his participation in a bank robbery and jail break a...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 30:00
This week takes us to Texas, where we hear from Candice Bernd, speaking at the 2nd Fight Toxic Prisons Conference, which took place earlier this mo...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 29:59
Why haven't pharmaceutical companies and oil corporations been asked to make health insurance lower by reducing drug costs or refusing federal subs...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 02:43
The Senate and House Healthcare bills will replace Obamacare subsidies with tax breaks for the wealthy. Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 02:54
The US Senate and House Healthcare Bills hold no intention for the government to feed the whole crowd, like those in the song "Froggy Went A'Courti...
- Added: Jun 26, 2017
- Length: 07:40
Some places, for example, the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate serve as our country's moral proving ground. But this week‘s testi...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 02:57
The Senate Intelligence Committee hearings about Russian meddling in the 2016 election are Scurrilous one especially important testifier said.
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 02:00
For prisons to function smoothly and profitably, the major tools of
control – violence, surveillance, separation – must be complimented by a
host o...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 29:13
FBI Director James Comey is being queried about whether President Donald Trump asked him to drop the investigation of former National Security Advi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 04:10
Everyday the world can ask again what’s right or wrong , not just smugly proceed, go along on its merry path, answers tucked under its arm, as proo...
- Added: Jun 07, 2017
- Length: 01:30
In the Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to longings for a casino which could be sung to the tune from the West Side Story classic "Ma...
- Added: May 20, 2017
- Length: 01:19
In the Department of Poetic Justice, as we say "Sayonara" to Tom Price, government jobs distributed as they may be, a poetic tribute called "We'll ...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 01:47
In the Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a poetic tribute to the complex topic of hiring candidates for government jobs who carry heavy politi...
- Added: May 16, 2017
- Length: 05:08
Internet anonymity now is presented as ‘the standard’ . But being anonymous when online really is optional . If like many other human activities, a...
- Added: Apr 30, 2017
- Length: 06:29
Throughout President Donald Trump's campaign and first 100 days as president, he has continuously bashed the news media. Now, the journalists of t...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
Fourteen years ago this month, Maine Public Radio fired the host of a 30 year popular jazz program, The humble Farmer because he criticized the Ir...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 06:53
This week the United States Senate voted to overrule the intention of the Founding Fathers and disregard the process that give minority membership ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2017
- Length: 03:08
'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...
- Added: Apr 01, 2017
- Length: 07:35
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about right and wrong in sixty seconds about pressing matters of the day. Because the Maine legislatu...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 01:15
We are live from the floor of the Javitz Center
- Added: Mar 23, 2017
- Length: 54:00
Our ideas of manhood and womanhood determine the ways in which we raise and socialize our children, but how much does gender in a particular societ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2017
- Length: 34:34
- Purchases: 2
In a Rough Draft Diaries first, we're entering the world of science by learning about the past (and present) struggles of Lake Erie with the former...
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 06:06