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Episode 4: Great Things Happen When You Just #DoYou
From: L. Michelle Smith
Series: The Culture Soup Podcast
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Ep 4 features pop culture and politics journalist & host from NBC BLK, MSNBC, NY Times and Essence writer, @JarrettHill. He talks plagiarism, Fir...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2018
  • Length: 43:18
This is an Uprising
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Engler
Central Coast Bioneers held its first conference in San Luis Obispo in 2010. Looking at their mission statement, It reads … To create a resilient a...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: The Politics and Impact of Immigration (Part 1)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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WorldCanvass begins its tenth season with "The Politics and Impact of Immigration.” Arguments over reasonable and desirable immigration legislation...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 41:31
The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Malinda Maynor Lowery
Sometimes they are known as the invisible Indian tribe. Most American’s don’t even know they exist; yet, they’re deeply wrapped in our folklore.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Fred Block
This broadcast is a follow up interview with economic sociologist Fred L. Block. His theory is that capitalist economics are not self-regulating. I...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Fred Block
Most people believe that capitalist economics are self-regulated. According to UC Davis economic sociologist Fred L. Block, this view is simply an ...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Europe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Kirchick
Europe is in crisis. The continent we have known since the end of World War II is quickly changing.

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
White Supremacy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Katharine Gerbner
Before the 17th century, being white didn’t even exist as a racial category. The idea of “whiteness” evolved in the slave-based economies of the En...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Our Search for Belonging
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard Ross
It wasn’t that long ago political pundits were expressing concern that our politics were becoming too centrist … too middle of the road.

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
An African-American and Latinx History of the United States: A Conversation with Paul Ortiz
From: John Shuck
Caption: Paul Ortiz
A "Bottom-Up" history of the U.S. from an African-American and Latinx viewpoint.

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 57:01
  • Purchases: 2
A Dystopian Future
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Kotkin
Population growth is causing us to rethink our urban and suburban lifestyles, and with that, redesigning cities is a new fad.

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  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
David Cay Johnston - It's Even Worse Than You Think - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and author of It...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
David Cay Johnston - It's Even Worse Than You Think - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and author of It...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
The War On Normal People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Yang
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Grand Canyon for Sale
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Nash
Using the Grand Canyon as the trailhead for his book, journalist Stephen Nash sounds an alarm of urgency for protecting our national parks.

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
LGBTQ Social Movements
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Lisa M. Stulberg
The LGBTQ movement has had many social successes over the past few decades. Several states now recognize gay marriage and workplace equality. Still...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Toward the Tipping Point
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jeremy Lent
In November, 2017, over fifteen thousand scientists from 184 countries issued a warning to humanity.

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daring Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappé
Some feel the election of Donald Trump is a signal that people want change. Others see it as a culmination of a decades long effort to destabilize ...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cutting School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Noliwe Rooks
America’s system of public schools is recognized as one of the countries greatest achievements.

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Russia's Anti-Revolution: 100 years after the Revolution (director's cut)
From: Hechtech
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Communism ended in failure, capitalism corrupted Russia’s soul. Now Russians are looking inward. Our story follows the grandson of a once forgotten...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 1
Nature Doesn't Negotiate: Robert Jensen #112 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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“One of the ways that radical ideas become more mainstream is when those of us who hold them aren’t afraid to speak about them.” This thought has g...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark & Deborah Parker
When someone spends their time flattering their boss or superior, they’re known as a sycophant. It’s also called the “slime effect.” Although it wa...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Running on Empty: Rex Weyler #109 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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As a young man, Rex Weyler joined early Greenpeace expeditions to document and stop commercial whaling. He went on to co-found Greenpeace Internati...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Fault Lines in the Constitution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Sanford Levinson
The U.S. Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ratification in 1788. After all of this time, many Americans take the words of the consti...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cruel Hoax: Stephanie Mills #106 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Stephanie Mills made headlines in the Spring of 1969 when she vowed, in her commencement address (titled The Future is a Cruel Hoax), to conceive n...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4