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Needs of Rural Texans - Michelle in Bastrop County
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Michelle from Bastrop County discusses increasing political participation among rural Texans. She wants better government representatives who meet...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 04:07
Postcard Activism in Texas - Lisa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Lisa from Austin describes postcard activism projects in Texas and around the country. She explains how postcards can help get out the vote and in...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 05:33
On the Detention Centers at the Border - Vanessa in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
The Feminist Case for Joining a Men's Group
From: Felix Poon
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What is an anti-sexist men’s group? And, if I’m a man who identifies as progressive with feminist values, isn’t that enough? What do I need a group...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 13:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Port Chicago Sailors: Separate and Unequal
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Freddie Meeks, sailor in the disaster at weapons shipping depot in Port Chicago, Calif., holds a picture of himself as a young seaman July 14, 1994. He died in 2003. , Credit: (AP Photo/Chris Pizzelo)
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...

Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Aging Isn't a Problem, Ageism Is
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Someone turns 65 every 8 seconds in this country, and as our elderly population grows, so does the need to build an economy around our future selve...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
S2 E2 Compassionate Release
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Stories from the World of Medicine
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Michele DiTomas, a hospice physician who cares for incarcerated men, races against the clock and slashes through bureaucratic tape to help a dying ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2019
  • Length: 37:16
The Big Pond #28: Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 31:54
Small Town Whups Big Oil: "You don't threaten Mainers"
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Citizens celebrate passage of Clear Skies Ordinance, Credit: Dan Wood
Despite millions of dollars of pressure from Shell, Exxon, and the American Petroleum Institute, the small city of South Portland, Maine stops the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Re:Work Radio: Trafficked, the Journey of Lester Ramos
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fixing School Finance
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Photo of the Texas Capital building on March 11, 2019, during a rally for education finance reform., Credit: Pius Wong
Texans across the state and across the political divide agree: public school funding needs fixing. What that means exactly, however, is tricky. In ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 41:58
One heart. One mind. One prayer.
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Our house was always getting raided because it was a drop-off point for the supply route that was going into Wounded Knee.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
Life on the Line
From: Chloe Williams
Caption: When you drive in from the south, a road sign announces that both Canada and Derby Line are four miles away., Credit: Chloe Williams
The story of a small town split by the border

  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 19:49
A Tale of Two Tyrants
From: WMPG PD
Series: Friendly Fire: A voice for Veterans
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Comparisons between the Trump regime and Hitler's Third Reich featuring Trump's speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree, and Hitler's speech to the Hitle...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:44
Why is Deerfield (Still) So White?
From: Amy Roost
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
Propositions (aka Ballot Measures)
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Direct democracy. What are the pros and cons?

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 25:55
State and Local Elections
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The state and local offices that have a big impact on your life.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 21:52
The Women’s Rights Movement: From Seneca Falls To Today
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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This episode of A New York Minute In History explores the Women’s Rights Movement from the Seneca Falls Convention in Central New York in 1848 to e...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WYAP, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUAF Public Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 2: How Puerto Ricans are restoring power to the people through Mutual Aid
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
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After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, a group of activists formed a community kitchen to help feed those in need. That community ki...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Episode 1: A Radical Approach to Disaster Relief
From: Tom Llewellyn
Series: The Response
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In the first episode of The Response, we ask the question: how do communities come together in the aftermath of disasters—often in the face of ina...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
I Think Those New Laws Are Very Unfair
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
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Spanish teacher Martha Ross shares her experiences as a migrant from Guatemala to the U.S. and helping immigrant students and their families.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 09:34
Life of the Law #127 UGANDA: Pt 2 - Escape
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Northern Uganda
"I escaped because of my friend. The three of us started planning while we were in south Sudan." Beatrice Ocwee Reporter Gladys Oroma continues ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 44:12
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 Story of Jane
From: Radio Diaries
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In 1965, an underground network formed in Chicago to help pregnant women get abortions. At first, they connected women with doctors willing to brea...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 02, 2018
  • Length: 11:59
  • Purchases: 2

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