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Bob Burnett, Writer for the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Common Dreams, and Progressive Populist
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Bob Burnett
Interview by Ken Winkes: Bob, who is a writer, technologist, environmentalist, and much more, chats about his concerns, where the country is going...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 27:51
Alger Hiss: Framed
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joan Brady
It’s been nearly 70-years since the House on Un-American Activities Committee heard the testimony of Alger Hiss.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2017 Fall Fundraiser: Good Taste / How To Run For Office
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To The Best of Our Knowledge Fundraisers
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In this special fundraising edition of "To the Best of Our Knowledge," host Anne Strainchamps samples some of our best interviews about criticism a...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WITF, KUSU, KANW and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:27:35
  • Purchases: 8
Ken Rudin General Fundraiser Spots and Handoffs
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie Fundraising Materials
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Standalone fundraiser spots and handoffs for use by stations carrying the Ken Rudin's Political Junkie weekly program, or who regularly feature Ken...

Bought by WHQR and Delta College Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2017
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
#11: Wafa, Missiles, Wheat, and Gardens
From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast
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On this episode of Palestinians Podcast we hear from author Wafa Ghnaim about her struggle with being the daughter of immigrants in the United Stat...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 37:13
BSR is back - July 2017 Update
From: James Branum
Series: BSR Oklahoma Magazine Show
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An update for Oklahoma listeners of the BSR Magazine show.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2017
  • Length: 14:57
183: Roadtrippin' / 184: Do Protests Still Matter?, 7/8/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'" - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination. HOUR TWO: "Do Protests Still Matter?" - In the wa...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:56
Dissecting Hillary's Loss
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Susan Bordo
Hillary Clinton has spent the last 16-years in government service, and 8-years occupying the White House. All of that experience did her little goo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Where It's At Vol. 3
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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The state of now in the world as reflected via jazz, bluegrass and that shapeshifting sonic space between.

  • Added: May 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:56:01
Death to Elvis
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Pledge Drive Songs, Topical Songs & Parodies
Caption: The Wine Fellers
Fitting song to play before or after basically any story that packs a good wallop.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:58
Cyclical Confinement: Homelessness and Incarceration
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
Welcoming the Stranger
From: Interfaith Voices
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President Trump's travel ban is on ice, but the questions it raises--who’s in, and who’s out-- well, sacred texts have been looking at that forever...

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. , Credit: Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson.
Almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Shock and Awe campaign. Fourteen years later, we asses...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gordon Zurn, Financial Secretary for USW Local 12-591, & Les Leopold, Director of The Labor Institute and author of Runaway Inequality, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gordon Zurn & Les Leopold
Interview by Ken Winkes: Gordon and Les discuss what inequality is, how it happened, and what to do about it.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:13
Lynne Dodson, Secretary-Treasurer of the WSLC, Leonard Kelley, Secretary-Treasurer of the Snohomish County Labor Council & Mayor of Stanwood, and Mark Lowry, President of NWWCLC & ATU, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Leonard, Lynne, Mark
Interview by Gary Kanter: Lynne, Leonard, and Mark continue their discussion about what the election of Trump and the GOP mean to the working class.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
87: Kids That Protest
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Tales of precocious kids who fight for causes they haven't completely thought out. The Mortified Podcast is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, CI Dolphin Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 23:39
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: Baldemar and the FLOC (part 2)
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we return to Baldemar Velásquez and the FLOC, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. An organization created to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
Kati Marton, author of "True Believer"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Marton about her book about Stalin's last American spy.

  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Mark McDermott, Social & Economic Educator and Activist, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mark McDermott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mark continues the report on his experience doorbelling in Pennsylvania during the 2016 election.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:48
Mark McDermott, Social & Economic Educator and Activist, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mark McDermott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mark reports on his experience doorbelling in Pennsylvania during the 2016 election.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:42
#5: Munir, News Face and Oranges
From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast
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We hear from Munir Jirmanus, a physicist near Boston, MA about his multiple experiences and encounters with the concept of "home." Munir tells a nu...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 26:19
Political Junkie 2016 Remembrances Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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As 2016 draws to a close, Political Junkie Ken Rudin remembers the lawmakers and newsmakers from the world of politics who passed away this year. K...

Bought by WJSU, WVPE, KSFR, KUOW, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 7
StoryCorps Griot: Fred Davie and Robert Sanchez
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Fred Davie (left) and Robert Sanchez (right)
A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and Public Radio for All


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 3
When Your Hometown Leaves You - Racism
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: My Mentor, Mike Marley
When racism changes everything. A late night recitation on that teenage decision of what will be your identity in matter of your friend's racism...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 24, 2016
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 1
The price tag of Democracy
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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We enjoy many rights and privileges as citizens of a free and democratic society, and we we're asked to do is vote. Easy, right?

  • Added: Nov 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:00

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