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How Women in the '50s Had More Political Influence
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means "Shorts"
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This election cycle is being billed as another “Year of the Woman” … with a record number of female candidates running for office. Despite increasi...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 2
On the Brink of Everything: A Conversation with Parker Palmer
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Parker Palmer and Carrie Newcomer
The Grace and Gravity of Growing Old

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 21, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Monument to Decay: Israeli Pavilion in Venice
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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At the 57th Venice Art Biennale, Miami-based curator Tami Katz-Freiman guides us through the multi-media installation that artist Gal Weinstein cre...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 15:36
SEEING RED: A TIME TRAVELING MUSICAL -- Rotimi Agbabiaka
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Rotimi Agbabiaka, San Francisco, CA 8/2/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rotimi Agbabiaka talks discovering hidden history, questioning assumptions, and having his mind blown open.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:39
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Capitalism
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
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Today, capitalism, aka the free market, is linked to trade wars, suffocating student debt, entire countries gone bankrupt, burgeoning virtual curre...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00:36
Juvenile Lessons
From: Ariel Mejia
Series: ASM Youth Radio Summer 2018
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My story is a narrative of a girl talking about her experience in Juvie and how it changed her.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 06:41
Where Art Meets Activism
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: FreshArtINTL Live Radio
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Activism has long been a way for artists and curators, writers and filmmakers to engage with global flashpoints, inspiring new perspectives on visi...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2018
  • Length: 39:14
Marching for Their Lives without Thoughts and Prayers
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Darian Wyatt., Credit: Charles McGuigan
At High Noon, March 24, there was a showdown of sorts at the State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia. As the bell in the clock tower near ninth and Fra...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 27:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Spirit of Viet Nam Is Stronger Than U.S. Bombs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Colonialists, International Traitors, Think Carefully Before You Take Vietnam, Credit: To Lien (1978), Courtesy of Vietnam Victory Coalition
Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese Liberation Front inspired people of color around the world who were building movements for self-determination. Tod...

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


  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
HumaNature: 30 Minute Special 2
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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"When A Search And Rescue Becomes Something Else" and "Amy And The Animals" A special edition of HumaNature formatted for air: Greg Ley was deep i...

Bought by KSTK and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps Griot: Dion Diamond
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
Jesus in the White House
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Gina Messina
If Jesus was President, how would his policies measure up against those of the Trump Administration? Would Christians of the Trump Era support a Pr...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
We Got Next: Youth Poets Changing the World
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Constellations | Very Quiet, Credit: Flickr
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore how the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival has challenged mainstream cultur...

Bought by WMMT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WVAS, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
San Francisco Mime Troupe -- Michael Gene Sullivan Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Michael Gene Sullivan talks opening minds, speaking truth to power, and the myth of the middle class.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2017
  • Length: 33:23
A Question of Character
From: Mitchell Borden
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In Tisbury, voters recently drew battle lines and took sides as they headed to the polls to say yes or no to Question 1. It was a question that man...

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


  • Added: May 28, 2017
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 2
CRIES FROM SYRIA -- Evgeny Afineevsky
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Evgeny Afineevsky, San Francisco, CA 3/16/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Evgeny Afineevsky talks reconstructing history, getting to Assad, and why he wants Congress to see his film.

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 25:31
World Peace
From: Brooklyn College Radio
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Is world piece that unattainable? Five young people express their views on the issue.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 07:06
Paris: Responses to Terror, and the Experiment in Mixite
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
Episode 16: Amy And The Animals
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: HumaNature
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It was November 9, 2016. Amy was worried about the new political landscape. But some unusual encounters at work gave her fresh perspective.

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KUER, and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 11:36
  • Purchases: 3
Why We March
From: Leslie Griffy
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People took to the streets worldwide on Saturday to protest the Trump administration. It’s estimated that more than a million took part in marches ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Political Engagement
From: Kathryn Banakis
Series: Holy Holy Podcast
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People of faith carry with them a certain obligation to engage with and, in many cases, critique political leaders and policies as church and state...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 30:38
Life of the Law #95: Judges v. Attack Ads
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Races for seats on state supreme courts have gotten more negative, more partisan, and much more expensive. And that leaves sitting justices in a t...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 17:57
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #94: Courting Voters
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Never before has a sitting justice on the Kansas Supreme Court not won a retention election. But as we all bear witness, 2016 is a different sort o...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 18:42
Women Rising 31: Nuclear Weapons Abolitionists
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: 8/9 Nagasaki Day Protest at Livermore Labs, Credit: photo by The Resource Center for Nonviolence rcnv.org via Twitter @RNCV1
Women Rising Radio takes us inside the movement for nuclear disarmament, to meet the women on the frontlines of the fight for a future free of nucl...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WXDU, XRAY.fm, and KSFR


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Hawking Campaign Swag: How I spent my summer vacation
From: Leslie Griffy
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Selling campaign hats, t-shirts and buttons is big business. The guys behind the sales are having summer adventures - and their politics may surpri...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jun 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1

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