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Collaborator Leonardo López Carreño dissects the Biden administration’s proposal to give DACA recipients access to healthcare, empezando en Noviemb...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 10:22
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This week on Making Contact we look at Bail Reform in the state of Texas with the help of our podcast partners 70 Million. For conservative lawmake...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most diverse in the U.S., but that diversity is rarely seen in the make-up of the region's political leade...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:27
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Voting in one of the most momentous presidential elections in the nation’s history is over. The morning after polls closed nearly 136 million ballo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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First, we hear some prison news and reflect on the anniversary of the Attica prison rebellion. Then, we hear more from last month’s Bend the Bars c...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:42
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On May 20th, Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez became the fifth child to die in border patrol custody since December. He was 16, and had been held ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:44
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We are completing our series on Brazilian prisons by airing an interview between Beny and Rosângela, who wanted to discuss her experiences with hea...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:12
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This week, we share an update from the U.S./Mexico border, as well as two more illuminating conversations from inside the Brazilian prison system. ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
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This week, we have the first of several interviews that were conducted this fall in São Paulo, Brazil. Kite Line contributor Micol Seigel was there...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:42
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A new movement of refugees fleeing violence and starvation in Central America began to reach Tijuana last month, in the hopes of applying for asylu...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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For this episode, we are returning to the conditions in immigrant detention centers. Alejandra spoke at the Fight Toxic Prisons conference in Pitts...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:18
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This week, we will focus on a specific story about an immigrant detention case in Pittsburgh- and hear firsthand from family impacted by these hars...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:10
Caption: Wildin David Guillen Acosta, Credit: Courtesy of the Acosta family
Wildin David Guillen Acosta, 19, was detained by ICE on his way to school.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:37
Caption: People wait for their numbers to be called inside the San Jose Driver's License Processing Center, Credit: Angela Johnston
Rosa Santos is leaning over a pile of forms and documents in the corner of the San Jose’s new DMV. I meet her along with her friend. They’re both a...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
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Every place has a history hidden that lives beneath what you can see on the surface. Just take the Mission District.

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:24
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On the eve of a vote in Uruguay's House of Representatives on the legalisation of Marijuana, Ben Weisz reports from Montevideo on a country yet to ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 06:51
Caption: Alison Gamez says she will leave Arizona because of the state's immigration laws. Her husband came to the country illegally, but he has since received permission to work in the US. , Credit: Peter O'Dowd
A federal judge stopped the most controversial parts of Arizona's 2010 immigration law from going into effect. But supporters say that hasn't preve...

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  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Putting a spotlight on Willie Egan and the girl's "perfect song lyric" plus plenty of collector's music ("that you've never heard by musicians you'...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 08:50:42
Caption: Sunland Park, New Mexico, Credit: Samat Jain
In 2011 and 2012, the small New Mexico border community of Sunland Park made regional headlines and national news for its political scandals. Delvi...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
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At the RNC, Y-Press’ Hrishi Deshpande spoke with AJ Feeney-Ruiz. A young Puerto-Rican American, Feeney-Ruiz is a Republican candidate for the India...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:18
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Alamo, TX – Para marcar el inicio de la temporada de huracanes (1o de junio), líderes de la comunidad del Valle del Rio Grande y organizaciones def...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:09
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Alamo, TX – To mark the beginning of hurricane season (June 1), Rio Grande Valley community leaders and immigrant-rights organizations are holding ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
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Las Cruces, NM – El Fondo Educativo sin fines de lucro Progress Now Nuevo México ha lanzado una campaña radial en la parte sur del estado para info...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:20
Caption: Calexico - Mexicali, Credit: Peter Laufer
Washington Monthly's Peter Laufer and Markos Kounalakis report on the Mexican-American Borderlands in this five-part series.

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, KQED, and KALW


  • Added: Jul 03, 2009
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 4
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The "Buena Vista Social Club" CD and documentary film were hits, but may have created some myths about Cuba and the musicians themselves. Independe...

Bought by KQED, KRZA, WGBH Radio Boston, and KGLT


  • Added: Apr 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4