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Going For Broke, Part One: Change Of Address
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Georgia Way: Strategies that Work for Winning Elections
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What happened in Georgia in 2020? The election of two Democrats to the Senate from that state handed the presidency to Joe Biden and control of Con...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Bill McKibben & Akaya Windwood: Boomers, Big Banks & Solving the Climate Crisis (Release Date: 10/12/2022)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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(Release Date: 10/12/2022) Hey Boomers: When it comes to the climate crisis, are you the problem, the solution or both? In this episode Laura sits...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
South Africa Since Apartheid: Has Democracy Worked?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, a co-production with Foreign Policy, we take a look at South Africa’s path to political and economic equality.

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reforming Prosecutor Power - Especially After Roe
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Prosecutors are immensely powerful, especially now, after the overthrow of Roe. They decide which cases to bring, what charges to make and what sen...

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  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Faith Rogow Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that media literacy is essential for a healthy democracy and planet? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda Hem...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
02-14: Real Change: The Political Gets Personal, 6/15/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Danny Glover
How can we manifest the world we want, and who we want to be? Actor-activist Danny Glover and Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, former CEO of Green For All, s...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Beating Poverty by Investing in Teachers: A Labor Story for May Day
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US — a place that emb...

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  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Aiming High: Kamiah high schooler on city council
From: Lauren Paterson
Caption: Kaylee Hunt stands in front of Kamiah's City Hall.
The Kamiah (CAM-EE-EYE) City Council has been struggling for nearly a year to get a fourth City Council person. Now, they’ve successfully appointed...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:52
World in Progress 01/20/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Uncertain futures - The COVID-19 pandemic has not only lead to a global health crisis, but also to economic hardships. S...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
The Changemaker’s Playbook
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Former Obama campaign Chief Operating Officer Henry De Sio, Jr., shares his insights on how to approach the unique challenges and opportunities of ...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Finding Reliability
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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On October 3rd, 2010 Jeremy Bigelow was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. It's been a long road, but the road cont...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 1
Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Police reform, gun violence, global warming... When did you last have a civil, informative, productive conversation with someone of differing opini...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:10
Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Some of the most persistent myths about coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it have to do with women’s health. In this segment, we’ll h...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
Grace Lee Boggs: Sister Revolutionary
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, American Revolut...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
BIPOC Journalists On Covering COVID and Racism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
I Wish to Say—with Sheryl Oring
From: Cathy Byrd
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Artist Sheryl Oring began "I Wish to Say" in 2004. For this project, Oring sets up a portable public office—complete with a manual typewriter—and i...

  • Added: May 04, 2021
  • Length: 13:44
Katie Martin Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that food insecurity is a chronic societal problem, made worse during the Covid pandemic? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered d...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cristina Jiménez: Dreaming & Building Immigrant Freedom
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In a recent episode called Unforget, Dream, Build, we featured two Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of the idea that immigrants are a ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
GN_6.34_ Tree Army
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In an effort to combat their high levels of air pollution and reduce their carbon footprint, the People’s Liberation Army has deployed over 60,000 ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
Emotion Roadmap John Wood Braver Angels 2 10 21
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Let's Work Together to Make Life Better
John Wood Jr. is National Ambassador for Braver Angels, volunteer citizens committed to respectful dialog and depolarization. He invokes elements ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:29
The Untold Story of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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With the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying restrictions not going anywhere any time soon, local non-profit organizations are doing their best to a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:52
531: The Personal Politics Of Sports / 532: Artificial Creativity, 11/7/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Personal Politics Of Sports" - Silent protest on the football field. Basketball on the reservation. This hour: When sports get polit...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
Fighting Disinformation & Voter Engagement In Poetry
From: Generation Justice Admin
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How are our daily lives impacted by disinformation and media manipulation? To answer these questions we hear from Dr. Joan Donovan, the Research Di...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 54:52
525: Democracy On The Ballot / 526: Worshipping Waterfalls, 10/17/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Democracy On The Ballot" - We’re getting close to the next presidential election. And if you feel like the stakes are higher this time, ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58