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Dave Ages led construction of an insulated bunkhouse to allow volunteers to live year-round at the Unist'ot'en pipeline blockade. He talked to Liz ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2014
- Length: 15:28
Legislative ethics exist to put the brakes on political gamesmanship- whether it’s trading votes to pass a bill, get a fat salaried new Federal job...
- Added: Aug 20, 2014
- Length: 10:07
The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
Listening is way more than just paying attention, and this week's show explores how.
Bought by WMUU-LP, CHSR-FM 97.9, and WKCC
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 58:53
- Purchases: 3
When politicians talk about "working across the aisle", they talk about it as if they are endorsing a great ethic. But working across the aisle is...
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 07:04
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
State Rep. Chris Taylor tells the story of her difficult second pregnancy.
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 17:40
Ala'a Basatneh was once a mall-loving “average Arab-American teenager.” When the Syrian Civil War started, she became #ChicagoGirl, the center of a...
Bought by WMNF
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 25:58
- Purchases: 1
Jonathan speaks with Inna Shevchenko, a leader of the radical feminist protest organization FEMEN, whose manifestations have garnered her equal mea...
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 25:58
Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski wanted to stop an oil company from fracking in the park near her house. When her message fell short, she decid...
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 25:59
The protesters in Ukraine are showing us on a very public stage that criticism free from harassment and ridicule of the actions of public elected ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 06:47
How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
In the late 1980s, a personal case of housing discrimination prompted Dr. John Baugh to launch decades of research into what he calls linguistic pr...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 2
Winning is the short view of Political gamesmanship.Fake news creation is part and parcel of it. Environmental contamination is the long view when ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:50
A special hour-long documentary, where host Martina Castro and reporter Ali Budner trace the path of a 9-1-1 call in Oakland, California to figure ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
The Cutting Edge looks back at the life of singer/songwriter/activist Pete Seeger, featuring interviews, performances from the celebration of Seege...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 57:26
Millions of Americans have received letters from insurance companies in the last few months, cancelling their health plans. It’s part of the transi...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 10:58
With the gap between Haves and the Have-nots widening in the U.S., Hank Rosenfeld asks folks about a time when they felt they had their plenty-est.
Bought by WABE, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Dec 25, 2013
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 3
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 06:08
Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 03:39
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 01:44
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Sonnets are a way to find optimism in difficult times. This is a sonnet that acknowledges that the first fish is the best fish and can provide f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT
- Added: Oct 13, 2013
- Length: :51
- Purchases: 2
On every city block, there are rules. Some are unspoken, some require friendly reminders, some are enforced by the law. Is it ever OK to break the ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2013
- Length: 12:16
Nearly 500 inmates serving life sentences have been freed from California prisons since voters passed Proposition 36 last November. The law authori...
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 22:29
