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Civic Action: Protest
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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We explore the long scope of public dissent from the Boston Tea Party to the current #blacklivesmatter protests.

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 25:14
  • Purchases: 1
2023-11-03 Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining hope and the unpredictability of change for over 20 years. In 2023 she co-edited ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
231103: Rebecca Solnit on Why It’s Not Too Late, 11/3/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit has been examining hope and the unpredictability of change for over 20 years. In 2023 she co-edited ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
Christopher Bollen discusses "The Lost Americans"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his emp...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 31:01
Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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India is the world’s largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbre...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
WAR - Gen. Wesley Clark
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Recorded 10/1/01 Gen. Clark guest on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

  • Added: Mar 28, 2021
  • Length: 23:59
On Just Being with Scott Russell Sanders
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 1
Side of Spin with Your Nightly News? Broadcast Media & Partisanship, Special Guest: Dr. Dominik Stecula
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Dominik Stecula
Episode 5 (Bonus Material) Side of Spin with Your Nightly News? Broadcast Media & Partisanship, Special Guest: Dr. Dominik Stecula What the heck ...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 05:59
New Justice, Prison Abolition: A World Beyond Prisons
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Note: This episode originally aired the summer of 2019. Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the lan...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
COVID-19 The Nurse Response: Socially Complex
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: See You Now
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COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Black people and people of color in the United States. In this episode, we hear from psychiatric mental he...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2020
  • Length: 10:09
Industrial Strength Denial
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Barbara Freese
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Witch Hunts and Enclosures: Bodies, Land and Women
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Silvia Federici
Today, witch hunts are still happening, in places like East Timor, India and Cambodia. Federici, who never really left the subject of witch hunts, ...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset, An Educator Discusses the Importance of Protecting Childhood and a Poet Contemplates his Sp...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
How Can Municipal Government Promote Economic Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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New York, NY...its a city with close to 100 billion dollar budget every year and 1 deputy mayor with some pretty creative plans for how to spend it...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Don't Look Back
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories for Creative Forces
Caption: Cherry Woodburn (left) and Gary Emmert (right) editing audio., Credit: Texas Folklife
Gary Emmert was interviewed by Cherry Woodburn about his military experience. Gary enlisted when he was 18-years-old as a combat engineer, and reti...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 06:37
The Untold Story of Dealing with Racism and Xenophobia in St. Cloud with Mayor Dave Kleis
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack sits down with St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis to talk abou...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
The Untold Story of PRIDE in Central Minnesota 2019
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks about Pride because it is Pride month, and how t...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
The EXTENDED Untold Story of Title IX with Dr. Lori Ulferts and Carol Howe-Veenstra at the Stearns History Museum Breakfast Club
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum for their monthly Br...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 58:46
The Untold Story of Title IX with Dr. Lori Ulferts and Carol Howe-Veenstra at the Stearns History Museum Breakfast Club
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Stearns History Museum for their monthly Br...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:40
Rebel in the Ranks: A Conversation with Brad Gregory
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Dr. Brad Gregory
Notre Dame history professor discusses the secular effects of the Reformation.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
Communities Over Commodities: How to Get There?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Housing affordability and power by design? This week on the show, Monique George of Picture the Homeless and Gianpaolo Baiocchi from NYU's Urban De...

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  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Delta Epiphany
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ellen Meacham
In the spring of 1967, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had an experience that changed his thinking about America, and his own responsibilities. His awake...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Revolution: Tom Shadyac Part 2 #202
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Hollywood director Tom Shadyac traded a mansion and private jets for a mobile home and a bicycle. He had found the traditional trappings of success...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KUNM, KVSC, and KZUM


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Survival of the Kindest: Tom Shadyac #201
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
Caption: Steve Carell and Tom Shadyac on the set
Tom Shadyac is a successful Hollywood comedy director who found the traditional trappings of success were not the key to happiness. He traded a man...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KUNM, and KVSC


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Future of Democracy: Sec. Leon Panetta
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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It’s not unusual for a new president to find the adjustment from candidate to leader to be jolting but President Trump’s first week in office has b...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1