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At age 9, Nalleli Cobo, suffering headaches, heart palpitations, nosebleeds, and body spasms, became an activist, driven to fighting to close the l...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KSQD Santa Cruz, WGCU, KOWS and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
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On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles and how they ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVSC and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia. The act of violenc...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: On April 28, 2021, MOVE and community members gathered in front of Penn Museum to protest and demand the remains be returned., Credit: Joe Piette
On Making Contact - Members of MOVE, a Black radical liberation group, demand that the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University return t...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jonquilyn Hill
Long time GJ member Jonquilyn Hill speaks with us about her new podcast Through the Cracks.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 58:18
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. Self-care becomes a “selfless ac...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In the Summer of 2020, we revisit a discussion on police killings of Black people from 2016 after the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castil...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:03
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Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 26:01
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Ken Rudin hosts a special reflection on John McCain's life and legacy, featuring interviews with several of McCain's friends and colleagues.

Bought by WRGY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, RadioFreePalmer, 'The Sea' and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
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Doing away with the death penalty is usually thought of as a liberal cause, and the arguments are often about the morality of executing someone, or...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 16:26
Caption: (Left to Right): Venus Hayes, two of her children, Teressa Raiford
The family of 17 year-old Quanice Hayes, who was shot to death by Portland police, seeks justice from the city of Portland.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Mar 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Paris is in flux. How are Parisians-native and immigrant, still dealing with terrorist attacks? If mixite, or social mixing, provides an answer, wh...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Christopher and Dalton Trumbo, Credit: Focus on the Masters Archive, Christopher Trumbo Papers
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The Trumbo children, Nikola...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:33
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Reporter Veronica Balderas Iglesias interviewing Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosing physician assisted death.
KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
Caption: Donald Payne Jr on Left
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 09:40
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As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, one of their best interviews. It's with Shin Dong-hy...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 37:54
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The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Among the leading causes of homelessness in single adults is mental illness. Study after study reiterates that up to a quarter of all those sufferi...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Haitian Ambassador to the US Raymond Joseph gives his assessment of the recovery efforts in Haiti and the outlook for the country's future at a Feb...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
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Filmaker Michael Moore brings his health care documentary to California

  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 15:54
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Ghada Kanafani, Palestinian Poet in Exile

Bought by WYSO and KUNM


  • Added: Feb 02, 2006
  • Length: 20:05
  • Purchases: 2
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Nadine from South Africa remembers voting for Mandela in 94 and asks, crying: Why don't Americans value democracy more?

Bought by KWCW and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 12, 2003
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 2