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The Feminist Birth of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Margaret Crane, inventor of America's first home pregnancy test, in 1965. , Credit: Anna Kaufman
In 1965 Margaret Crane was a young graphic designer with an idea: Why couldn't women do their own pregnancy tests at home? This is the story of how...

Bought by WXDU, WUWM, KISU, KETR-FM, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
World in Progress 07/07/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Worse than Covid - Families facing food crisis in Guatemala - Since the pandemic, hunger and poverty are even worse for mo...

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  • Added: Jul 08, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 06/02/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Latin America's struggle with abortion - Argentina made history by becoming the largest Latin American country to legali...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 05/05/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Despite reaching retirement age, work never stops for civil servants in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Many civil servan...

  • Added: May 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Elizabeth Hernandez and other tenants protest rent hike , Credit: Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment Action
While wages have flatlined for most working class people, rents have reached new highs, leaving most people struggling. But it’s not just in the US...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
World in Progress 03/03/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Making Cape Town's Hanover Park a better place - Unemployment in Cape Town's neighborhood Hanover Park is high, gun shots ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:59
In Junction
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
IE: Inside Europe, 12/18/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: What will a Biden presidency mean for NATO? Hungary passes a law banning same-sex couples from adopting children. We visit...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Megan Lott Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that 40 million fellow Americans, or at least one in nine households experience food insecurity? (These numbers are before the impact ...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
120: How to Fight Like A Mother-Shannon Watts, Moms Demand Action
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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There have been over 200 mass shootings in this country since 2009. Shannon Watts, the author of a new book, "Fight Like a Mother" is the founder o...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
118: Paid Leave For All - Katie Bethell says “we can win this.”
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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America is one of only two countries in the world where you can be fired for taking a day off in order to give birth (let that sink in for a moment...

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  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 13
RDD: Dialogue to Change Toledo
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week we're at the YWCA, talking to President and CEO Lisa McDuffie about Dialogue to Change a program that focuses on organizing, dialogue and...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 06:10
RDD: Dignity and Respect
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're meeting with Heather Hall, the Director of Advocacy for ABLE, the Advocates for Basic Legal Equality. A...

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Sriram Madhusoodanan Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that Corporate Accountability International has been fighting global corporate abuse successfully for close to 40 years? Join Food Sle...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Zen Honeycutt Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that in the first three years since its inception, Moms Across America has engaged and mobilized mothers in all 50 states, and create...

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  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, George Leventhal Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that the citizens of Montgomery County Maryland passed an ordinance banning county-wide use of “cosmetic” pesticides in public and pri...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
44: NARAL President, Ilyse Hogue & "Endo-What?" documentary filmmaker, Shannon Cohn
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Ilyse Hogue
Will the debate over reproductive freedom ever end? Ilyse Hogue of NARAL Pro-Choice America joins me to discuss why we continue to have a clash of ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
No Turkey, Just Thanksgiving Trimmings
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Thanksgiving will be just like any other day for millions of U.S. citizens who rely on food stamps. No turkey, just trimmings to the already meager...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Why Is Health Care So Difficult?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Why can't the U.S. negotiate a domestic solution to health care? Individuals are certainly responsible for their health. A wealthy society can also...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Neither Here Nor There: Bhutanese Refugees in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Thousands of Nepali speaking refugees from Bhutan are coming to North America. Correspondent Adelaide Chen takes us on a journey with these new arr...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56