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Inside the Adjustment Center at San Quentin State Prison
From: KALW
Caption: San Quentin State Prison
In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all execu...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 26:32
1992 Invasion of the Body Scanner
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Bought by KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Inside the Presidential Campaigns: What's It Like?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times talks with series host Martha Burk on what it's like to cover the presidential campai...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
Payback Time for Hispanics? An interview with Maria Hinojosa.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
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Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews nationally acclaimed journalist Maria Hinojosa on the HIspanic vote in the 2012 election, including w...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2012
  • Length: 28:18
The Legendary Archie Shepp
From: Reese Erlich
Series: Jazz Perspectives
Caption: Archie Shepp
A look at the career of the legendary saxophonist

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
Sophie Scholl
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Highly frustrated at this bold resistance right under their noses, the Nazi Powers-That-Be identified and arrested Sophie, her brother and one othe...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Smith-Robinson was voted the SNCC's Executive Secretary (its chief administrator) and, as such, was a focused and militant Black Power proponent.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
Robin Morgan
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Her anthology entitled Sisterhood is Powerful, called one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by the New York Library, covered su...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
Pat Schroeder
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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She's the one who told a bunch of Pentagon leaders -- when she was on the House Armed Services Committee -- that if they were women, they'd be preg...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:23
Marie-Jeanne Roland
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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When she was found guilty of treason and "political activism" (which wouldn't even have been considered a crime for a man), she was sentenced to die.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:45
Margaret Sanger
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in the United States, where she began distributing, among other things, diaphragms...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Lucy Stone
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
Emmeline Pankhurst
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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While birthing and raising five children, Pankhurst turned her home into a center where abolitionists, anarchists, activists and revolutionaries of...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Sirleaf has made education free and compulsory for all children in Liberia. She was responsible for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:41
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Stanton eventually claimed that the 14th and 15th Amendments, in fact -- because of the way they were worded -- gave women the right to vote

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:51
Dora Tamana
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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In 1954, Tamana helped to organize the first Conference of the Federation of South African Women and she was elected to the organization's national...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:48
1992 First Critical Mass Ride
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTSW 89.9, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WXDU and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 13
VoiceBox: Singing All The Way To The Polls
From: VoiceBox
Caption: singing canditates
VoiceBox host Chloe Veltman and composer & arts blogger Brian Rosen explore election season songs and the history of presidential candidates’ singi...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 58:00
William Jennings Bryan: The Speech That Changed Politics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, The Story, PRX Remix, KUT and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 7
Shirley Chisholm: The Politics of Principle
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1972, Shirley Chisholm launched a spirited campaign for the Democratic nomination. She was the first woman and first African American to run. De...

Bought by WABE, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 10
The “Veep”
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 4
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In the 19th century, Victoria Woodhull was many things: a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate for women’s rights and sexual freedom, and a ma...

Bought by KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 8
Margaret Chase Smith: Cold Warrior in Pearls
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 5
Adlai Stevenson: A Candidate in the Age of Television
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Contenders
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6

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