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What is Owed? from GBH News
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Caption: What Is Owed? from GBH News
In What Is Owed? from GBH News, reporter Saraya Wintersmith seeks to understand what reparations might look like in one of the oldest cities in Ame...

Bought by KUOW, WFDD, KMUN, Vermont Public, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
250: Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power, 6/12/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Manuel Pastor
At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...

  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Borders: What are they good for?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: White text reading "Borders: What are they good for?" superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune., Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tom Allman- "The Sheriff and Marijuana"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This program was originally broadcast on June 19, 2007. Marijuana, some say, is on the lips of many people here in Mendocino County, California, a...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Inauguration Day
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Pomp, circumstance and 35 words can transform a person into a president.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:31
254: Toward a More Perfect Union: Unleashing the Promise in Us All, 11/1/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Angela Glover Blackwell, Credit: Alex Akamine
In this time of radical upheaval and change, fulfilling the promise of a “more perfect union” in the United States means building a multi-racial de...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Dr. Steven Miles: "A Blind Eye to Torture"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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This interview with Dr. Steven H. Miles was recorded in mid July 2006. The silence of doctors, nurses and medics in cases of torture and physical ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:15
  • Purchases: 1
Mexicans Confronting Racism: Aztec myths to modern stereotypes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ismael Rivera, historian and cultural guide, in front of ancient Aztec ruins in Mexico City. , Credit: Anthony Wallace
Lies the Spanish conquistadors told about the Aztecs have led to racist tropes that still affect brown Mexicans today. Now, brown Mexicans are lead...

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


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sam Totten – "Genocide in Darfur"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Genocide is the intent to exterminate in whole or in part a specific group of people often based on nationality, ethnicity, race or religion. For t...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
America, Fast Forward
From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide
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In the words of one expert, California has “gone crazy for propositions.” In this episode, we tell the story of one of the state’s most notorious b...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 30:41
White Hoax: Racism, Divide-and-Conquer, and Politics
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's episode anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise examines the concept of Whiteness and what he describes as the psychological wage of wh...

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Together Tonight: Hamilton, Jefferson, Burr
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Three of America's Founding Fathers square off over their young country's future.

Bought by KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, KMUN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 22
Democratizing Democracy: Redistricting by the People
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...

Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Thomas Paine’s Lost Body
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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In the first episode of our new season, Devin and Lauren look to a William G. Pomeroy marker in Westchester County to learn about American patriot ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Authority and U: On the Anti-Democratic Campus
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: IU student Gregory Hess was arrested during a 1970 anti-war protest for shouting a statement urging a crowd of demonstrators to retake a street that police had just cleared. , Credit: Maurer School of Law
Our show is "Authority and U" with guest Steve Volan, a student of human geography at Indiana University and a city council member in Bloomington, ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 12, 202
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: How to Stop Massive Tax Avoidance by America’s Wealthiest; Rise in Violenc...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Pandemic Economics: Robert Reich, Esteban Kelly, Mary Kay Henry, Stephanie Kelton
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Ponder #6: The Flag
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Episode 1: America's Urban-Rural Fault Line
From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement
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A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:37
Conventions
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Spring break for political elites with a sprinkling of nomination on top.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 33:01
  • Purchases: 1
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change - Chapter 11, Hell Hath No Fury Like a Women Scorned
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Women Warriors - The Voices of Change podcast series
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Women Warriors: The Voices of Change multimedia concert performed by Orchestra Moderne NYC, under the direction of Amy Andersson, features the musi...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 20, 2019
  • Length: 04:51
  • 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