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What is a woman? In conversation with transgender icon Sandy Stone
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Sandy Stone is now known as the founder of Transgender Studies, a performance artist, a noted recording engineer. But she first stepped away from h...

Bought by WORT, KICI Iowa City, and KGHI


  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
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
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
A journalist reckons with truth
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Alternative facts. Fake news. How are journalists grappling with this moment? Dive into one journalist’s reckoning with truth.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 44:42
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
Honoring Alan: Why the West Can't Shut Out Refugees
From: Jarrod Sport
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In this audio documentary, Tima Kurdi, the aunt of Alan, shares why the West has a responsibility to support refugees fleeing warfare and destabili...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 19:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Personal Side of the DREAM Act
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Carlos Padilla Speaking at a DREAM Project Rally
An interview with Carlos Padilla, an undocumented student, and his mentor Roberta Lindeman.

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
Unequal by Law: Being Gay in Michigan
From: Lester Graham
Caption: The DeBoer-Rowse family is challenging Michigan's ban on same-sex marriage., Credit: Lester Graham, Michigan Radio
Examines legal discrimination of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in Michigan.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 50:29
Welcome to the Big Leagues
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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Host Brian Balogh unpacks the saga of the Contract Buyers League, a local activist group in Chicago’s Lawndale neighborhood that organized in the 1...

Bought by PRX Remix and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 13:27
  • Purchases: 2
Moments with NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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4 "Moments" with trumpeter, flugelhornist, and advocate, Jimmy Owens.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, WART FM, WUSF and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 10
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
Bayview: Urban Renewal or Utter Removal?
From: Jarrod Sport
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The Bayview community's apprehension to a proposed redevelopment plan.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2007
  • Length: 14:13
Death Qualified
From: Alison Freeland
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A woman describes being on a death penalty jury in North Carolina.

Bought by KUNM, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 19, 2005
  • Length: 15:51
  • Purchases: 3
House of Pain
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Homeplace Series
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Public housing residents scramble to figure out where to go next when their Chicago public housing high-rise is slated for demolition. It's all p...

Bought by PRX Remix and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 2
Owning Guns
From: WGBH Radio Boston
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Writer Jay Allison talks about the events in his life that cause him to rethink his relationship with guns.

Bought by WMPG, KUAF Public Radio, KKRN, Indie3 Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 15