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509: Growing Justice / 510: In Search Of Real Food, 8/22/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Growing Justice" - Where does the racial justice movement need to go next? How about back to the land. HOUR TWO: "In Search Of Real Food...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:57
Activism and The Fight for Black Trans Lives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this episode of Making Contact, we will look at transgender activism and the call for inclusion and intersectionality in the movement for Black ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Songs for Pandemic Times
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 813 (Air Dates: July 27 - Aug 2, 2020) Today we present a special edition of Art of the Song featuring Political Songs for Pandemic Times. We ...

Bought by WMPG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KNBA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
When the President Calls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Simon Bowmaker
Imagine the challenges of advising a president … any president … of the United States. Even in the best of times, it can mean a great deal of press...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tell the Bosses We're Coming
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Shaun Richman
A myriad of issues have come to light as we deal with the COVID pandemic. We are discovering weaknesses in our health care and workforce. Neither i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
497: The Power Of Pleasure And Joy / 498: Difficult Summer Reads, 7/11/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Power Of Pleasure And Joy" - Joy, pleasure and delight feel good. But are they also politically powerful? HOUR TWO: "Difficult Sum...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joseph McCarthy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Tye
On the evening of February 9, 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy dramatically announced that he had a list of over 200 members of the Communis...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Armed and Unmasked: Whiteness at the Core of a Public Health Crisis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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White Supremacy and the Covid crisis aren’t separate. They’re linked. Defunding public health services and deregulating gun ownership have been ca...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Say I'm Dead
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: E. Dorolas Johnson
Most of us wish to know our family history. Our ancestry. It’s part of understanding and coming to terms with our own identity. But, what if there ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
491: Breaking The Chains / 492: Wonders Of The Human Body, 6/20/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Breaking The Chains" - You can trace a direct line from slavery to the mass incarceration of Black men. Should we defund the police? How...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
If It's Broke, Fix It
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
487: Filtering Free Speech / 488: When Women Rule, 6/6/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Filtering Free Speech" - Language is powerful. But what if someone tells you to stop talking? This hour, free speech and modern censorsh...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
Data Boom! Rana Foroohar on Surveillance Capitalism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rana Foroohar
The biggest tech companies generate enormous wealth and power by harvesting information about people. It’s called surveillance capitalism. This epi...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Island Stories
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Reynolds
The British and Americans have always had their similarities. More so now over the past four years. In 2016 The Brits voted to leave the European U...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Decline of Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Shawn Rosenberg
Political historians see the last half of the 20th century as the golden age of democracy. In the last few years, however, there has been a remarka...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kent State
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Deborah Wiles
On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen. The students were unarmed. The Guard w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
477: Weird World Of Mushrooms / 478: Is Capitalism Broken?, 5/2/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Weird World Of Mushrooms" - They can heal you. They can also kill you. This hour, take a trip into the wild world of toadstools. HOUR ...

  • Added: May 01, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
Linda Sarsour: We Can’t Afford To be Bystanders During Covid-19
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A pandemic is no place to be a bystander, says Muslim American activist Linda Sarsour. In this episode, Laura interviews Sarsour about her recently...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 2
Myths Surrounding COVID-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
Americans are in a strange and unusual news cycle. For example, someone can state that hydroxychloroquine is a potential cure for COVID-19. Fox New...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Elaine Tyler May
Long before COVID-19, America emerged as the most armed, fortified, imprisoned and bunkered nation on the planet. Add to that, we’ve become tribal ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
No Option But North
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: book cover
Most of us at one time or another ask the question, “Why would people walk hundreds of miles to the U.S. boarder knowing they will probably be turn...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
471: Writing Truth and Lies / 472: Check Your Privilege, 4/11/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Writing Truth And Lies" - How close to reality were the "Little House" books? Does it matter? This hour, we'll talk morality in memoirs....

  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
You Don’t Understand the 2nd Amendment
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jonathan Hennessey
There’s a free, feature length documentary available online. Its purpose is to expose what the Founders of the American Constitution actually sai...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
467: Doctors Give Us Hope / 468: Facing Hate, 3/28/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Doctors Give Us Hope" - We set up mics in Anne's kitchen for a show dedicated to the people getting us through this. The doctors, nurses...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58

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