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Uncovering the Refugee Experience & Healing Through Storytelling (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: (Left) Wilson Dairy Restaurant (Right) Helen Zia as a baby with mom., Credit: Photo copyright Helen Zia used with permission
This week's episode is about two women, one who fled Shanghai during Mao's Chinese Revolution, and the other who escaped the Bolshevik Revolution a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KALW


  • Added: May 07, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ben Jealous: Healing Parables for the Environmental Movement (August 16, 2023 Release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Sierra Club’s Ben Jealous discusses his plans for the environmental organization.

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


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Drag Story Hour Under Attack: What Can Media Do?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Pride 2023 is in full swing, we explore the activism of drag queens and trans people who bore the brunt of the violence during the Stonewall Rio...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bernard Offen – "Surviving the Holocaust"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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My Hometown Concentration Camp Bernard Offen, age 72, survived five Nazi concentration camps in Poland during World War Two, when he was a young t...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Gaping Inequality, The American Nightmare for Workers: Abigail Disney
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s flagship theme park, she disc...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
10-11: From Slavery to Stardust: What Would Healing Look Like?, 2/22/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Dedan Gills and Belvie Rooks
What’s it like to be in someone else’s skin? What if the color of the skin is different – say, black and white? What might happen when the descenda...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
BIPOC Media Covered the Elections Differently
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When it came to the midterms, mainstream white pundits got a lot wrong that local, Black, Brown and BIPOC media got right, and they're still missin...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
A.M. Homes: “The Unfolding” of American Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Salman Rushdie praised A.M. Homes’ latest novel, The Unfolding as, “A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, tha...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Way Home
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Healing Garden, Credit: Amy Gastelum
What does food mean to identities struggling against colonialism and displacement? First, we visit the Blackfeet Nation in Montana as members of In...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Augurs: Women of an Age
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Eleanor Wilner
THE AUGURS: WOMEN OF AN AGE is a special public poetry reading, featuring a group of women poets, all over the age of 60, sharing their work and vi...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
In Buffalo with India Walton: An Insurgent Candidate Runs for Mayor
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
Pre-Election Special: Noam Chomsky and Universalizing Resistance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week Laura Flanders checks in with one of the leading social critics of our time, MIT professor emeritus, Noam Chomsky. He shares how this el...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
02-14: Real Change: The Political Gets Personal, 6/3/2020
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: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:31
An Interfaith Minister/Physician Reconciles her Beliefs
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
An Ordained Interfaith Minister/Physician reconciles her beliefs. Also, a Troposphere Astronaut works through his general lack of a strong belief....

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
The Edge of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Musician's Spotlight -Rahim AlHaj Part Two- 707
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Iraqi-American musician and composer Rahim AlHaj has traveled a musical and life journey that few could imagine. A virtuoso of the Oud (the grandfa...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
Alone Together
From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe
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New releases from some Night Cafe favorites.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2019
  • Length: 58:56
Wilkerson, Isabel — America’s Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Book Art, Credit: Paul Kivel
We speak with author Paul Kivel about his book, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. The discussion offers a framework f...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Building Power Through Media: Radio Kingston and DeRay Mckesson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, we re-visit radio Kingston, a station connecting communities and lifting up voices. Than joining Laura in studio, activist DeRay Mckesso...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
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For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Outsider Power Shifts Insider Politics, Maurice Mitchell, Working Families Party
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social movements and party politics - inherently at odds or natural allies? This week, in his first in-depth TV appearance, Maurice Mitchell, the n...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
The Arrival: Trump's Travel and Refugee Ban- Encore
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: empty flight, Credit: Diego Cupolo, creative commons
This week, we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban. We later hear about how...

Bought by WRIR and WVAS


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Monopoly capitalism may be on its last legs! This week, economist Michael Hudson joins us to say his predictions on the Trump budget have come true...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1