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Caption: The text "Toxic Tracks" on a background of railroad tracks, Credit: Background image by Hands off my tags! Michael Gaida from Pixabay
On today's show, we'll be looking at the environmental impact of the rail industry and hear from people in two communities currently impacted by ra...

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


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: An unhoused man who goes by “Si Pues” sits with his belongings after moving them around the block during a sweep in Van Nuys, Calif. on July 29, 2022. Once the sweep was finished he will move back to the same spot., Credit: Alisha Jucevic
This week on Making Contact we continue with our look at a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California and how they were f...

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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A legal matrix that incentivizes criminal convictions can motivate unethical prosecutors to bend or break the rules. In New York, a group of law pr...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In our annual Fallen Heroes episode, we share words of inspiration from, and about some lesser-known grassroots activists who passed away in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WXDU


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Back in Guatemala, María and her niece have returned to an environment where they say their lives are in danger, Credit: Grecia Ortiz.
The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right. They're also locking up asylum seekers f...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Caption: Inex Bordeaux holds up a sign while doing street outreach in north St. Louis to raise awareness about the Close the Workhouse campaign., Credit: Carolina Hidalgo
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Amy is part of the 10th District of Texas. She typically has significant criticisms of both the Republican and Democratic parties, but during the 2...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 06:26
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Randy is part of the 10th District of Texas. He says that healthcare for all Texans and for all Americans is an important issue for him in this nex...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 07:41
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Briana is part of the 10th District of Texas. Some of the top issues she's thinking about for the upcoming election are healthcare, refugees and im...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 04:55
Caption: Aisha Jumaan, Mohammad Al-Nimr, John Shuck at Roots of Conflict Presentation at Portland State University, February 3rd 2018
Aisha Jumaan and Mohammad Al-Nimr Expose the US involvement with Saudi Aggression

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In this episode, we focus on the September 9th National Prison Strike. We hear the Free Alabama Movement’s initial call for the strike, learn a bit...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 22:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Another congressional message from the #NMspeaksCrisis Town Hall comes from Congressman Ben Ray Lujan. Congressman Lujan was represented at the eve...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:03
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Congresswoman Lujan-Grisham is highly invested in the improvement of our New Mexican community. Here is a message from Congresswoman Michelle Lujan...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:07
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Ed Kashi is a photo journalist whose sensitive lens has captured the racial profiling in Europe, the turmoil in Syria and Iraq, the West Bank, the ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
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Riots are coming and with greater intensity and frequency, according to poet and political theorist Joshua Clover. Clover will give a talk on riots...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 09:53
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President Obama speaks about his 2012 Budget on February 15, 2011 at a press conference.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 01:00:44
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President Obama's State of the Union 2011. Raw audio available for air, editing and excerpting.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 01:02:02
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President Obama addresses health insurance reform and racial profiling

  • Added: Jul 23, 2009
  • Length: 55:09
Caption: whitehouse.gov, Credit: Pete Souza
Addressing a joint Congress on Tuesday, February 24th 2009, President Obama called on American citizens and lawmakers to work together to confront ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2009
  • Length: 53:26
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Mike Huckabee greets his audience

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Obama discusses Trade

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2008
  • Length: 01:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Clinton Super Tuesday Victory Speech in New York 2008

  • Added: Feb 11, 2008
  • Length: 10:03