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Five speakers from the March to End Fossil Fuels are featured in this week's show

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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It's been a year since the call to "Defund the Police" rang out through the George Floyd Protests. The idea isn't new - redistributing police funds...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joseph V. Conte Facility., Credit: Broward County Sheriff’s Office
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Every ten years, the government of the United States of America issues a mandatory census to count the population. The results of the census deter...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 09:25
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
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This week, we are sharing a conversation we had with Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue and American Methods: Torture and the Logic o...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:45
Caption: The Los Angeles bail bonds office of Bob Swann, Credit: George Lavender
If you have the money, getting out of jail can be straightforward. If you don't, you're going to need some help.

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 3
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Ken Thompson made history in 2013 when he became the first African American to be elected Brooklyn District Attorney. He won international attentio...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:06
Caption: Steven Pagones
In 1987, Steven Pagones, a former assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York was accused of being one of six white men who raped and ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 30:03
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Q&A with Yemeni political and human rights activist Baraa Shiban in Sana’a, representative in Yemen of UK-based group Repreive.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 06:56
Caption: U.S. Supreme Court building, Credit: Adam Groffman via Flickr. Licensed under Creative Commons
A news report from Nell Abram in Tampa on Williams-Yulee v. the Florida Bar.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:58
Caption: The Voice for Working People
News from Detroit, Connecticut, and DC.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
Caption: Mattie Loyce, a student at Northeastern U.
Mattie Loyce is a student at Northeastern University. She showed up at Dewey Square in Boston with marching protesters from her campus. They briefl...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 05:57
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A look into the Unemployment Crisis among Iraqi Refugees in the US.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
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Headlines from this week's show include coverage of the death of Afghan mayor of Kandahar city, the mysterious assassination of the leader for the ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:05
Caption: Istanbul, Credit: Anton Foek
In Nederland willen we eerlijk en open met elkaar omgaan. Maar als het aan het Openbaar Ministerie ligt wordt daar grof en oneerlijk onderscheid i...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
Caption: Former service members discharged under Don’t Ask Don’t Tell protest in front of the White House., Credit: Photo courtesy of the AP
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Oct 22, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Mohammed Sher Ali Khan, Credit: Alex Stonehill
Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were already fleeing the Swat Valley before the latest fighting broke out. Sher Ali Khan, 55, is one of them. ...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 01:48
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Montana Public Radio News Director Sally Mauk interviews NPR Senior News Analyst Cokie Roberts

  • Added: May 07, 2009
  • Length: 12:23
Caption: An Iraqi Palestinian family at a camp on the Syrian-Iraqi border., Credit: Associated Press / UNHCR
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: May 01, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 06:41