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Donald Sterling & Civil Liberties
From: Stephen Provizer
Series: Cultural Curmudgeon
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I really wish Donald Sterling wasn't quite the jerk that he is, because his case gives the push-back against our loss of civil liberties a bad nam...

  • Added: May 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:17
Mark Lowry, President of the Northwest Washington Central Labor Council
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mark Lowry, President of the NWWCLC
Interview: Mark lets us know that Labor feels protective of the middle class because Labor help create it and as we keep exporting our manufacturi...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 28:32
Founders of We Do The Work, Rich Austin, Ken Winkes, and Janet McKinney, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Founders of We Do The Work
Interview: Rich, Ken, and Janet have a conversation about their guests, what are the major challenges facing workers today, and why they asked Gar...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 27:44
Founders of We Do The Work, Rich Austin, Ken Winkes, and Janet McKinney, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Founders of We Do The Work
Interview: Rich Austin, Ken Winkes, and Janet McKinney introduce themselves and converse about the history and format of the show.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:25
End of the DIal
From: Garth Mullins
Caption: Banner , Credit: Garth Mullins
Radio is dead. Or so we are told. Video was supposed to have killed the radio star. Is the internet going to finish It off? International broadcast...

Bought by KQED, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and global24radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Battling Images
From: KALW
Caption: Sandip Roy, Credit: Sandip Roy
The image of India has changed in American eyes, yet so has America's image... in Indian eyes.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Life Elsewhere on Racism - Becoming a More Perfect Union
From: WMNF
Series: Life Elsewhere
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A thoughtful array of ideas about race, with the voices of President Obama, young James Batley, and theatre professor Fanni Green.

  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
Small Town Pride
From: Jennifer Jerrett
Caption: 2012 Moab Pride Visibility March, Credit: Moab Pride
Red state, rural America isn't exactly the first place that pops into your mind when you think about pioneering LGBTQ pride movements.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Radio Catskill, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 10
Suzette Jordan does the unthinkable!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Suzette Jordan, Credit: Sandip Roy
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Schumacher meets Ayn Rand
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Live Local. Live Small.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
After the election (any election): A Letter to the Candidates
From: Cheryl-Anne Millsap
Series: KPBX Sunday Morning Essay
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(Short commentary under 2 minutes) When the votes are counted, the election night parties are over and the mud-slinging stops, voters (according to...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
Voice of a Young Voter: How Parents Can Influence the Vote
From: KQED
Series: From the West Coast: Voices of Young Voters
Caption: Tyler Carter, Credit: Ian Hill/KQED
Tyler Carter, 20, of Ukiah, Calif., talked with KQED’s Lillian Mongeau about how his father's opinions make him feel about politics.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: :51
Moments with NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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4 "Moments" with trumpeter, flugelhornist, and advocate, Jimmy Owens.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 10
How I was saved by No Child Left Behind
From: KALW
Caption: USC junior Kyle Tabuena-Frolli, Credit: Jayme Catsouphes
Reform programs such as Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind have their share of critics, but they also have strong supporters: stakeholders wh...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:15
Musings on a censored newspaper.
From: Becky Palmstrom
Caption: A woman prays at Shwedagon Pagoda in the centre of Yangon, Myanmar., Credit: Christopher Davy
With the release of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2010, Becky Palmstrom reflects on her time spent working for a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
Alone in a Desert of Strangers: Thoughts on the Tucson Shooting
From: Aengus Anderson
Caption: Gabrielle Giffords Vigil 1/9/11, Credit: David T. Anderson
The January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona has ignited a fiery discussion about the shooter's cultural context. Some have claimed that Jared L...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2011
  • Length: 09:03
From the National Press Club: Makeup Artist Lillian Brown
From: National Press Club
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A former makeup artists to presidents and network anchors, Lillian Brown describes her career in getting public figures ready for their closeups.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
Chile's 9-11 (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Chilean wind ensemble "Grupo Raiz" in the early 1980s. , Credit: www.hollynear.com
In 1973 a military junta toppled Chilean president Salvador Allende. We tell the story of a group of Chilean exiles who transform their experience ...

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
An Open Letter to Doctors and Patients
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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A plea for individualizing treatment plans, incorporating all appropriate treatments

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:39
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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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
Israel Diary: An Election Fog
From: Mordechai Twersky
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Voting in the Israeli elections on a stormy winter morning.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:17
Show Me The Way
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: Mary Van Pelt, Credit: Miles Eddy
Invisible social barriers and the contrast between physical disabilities and psychiatric disabilities.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:36
Job Discrimination
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: Mary Van Pelt
Psychiatric Survivor and Human Rights Activist, Mary Van Pelt, speaks about job discrimination, holes in the Americans with Disabilities Act, and t...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
The Mixed Race Promise
From: PRX PromCom
Series: Promise Commentaries
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Commentary about the hopes of Mixed Race people and the Presidential race.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KCUR, Remix Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 5
Global Warming Rap
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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Music and VoxPop blend into a hard-hitting critique of America's response to global warming

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 3