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The US Senate bill to limit immigration by educational status ignores that opportunity is exactly what oppressive regimes deny. Opportunity -as ev...
- Added: Aug 04, 2017
- Length: 05:59
Liu Xiaobo died in 2017. His 11 year imprisonment by the Chinese government for posting subversive articles on the Internet had not ended. "No Ene...
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 05:24
Pete Seeger died in 2014 at the age of 94, a cultural icon, and a so-called a “consensus hero." But the hero was also a pariah too many.
Seeger’s ...
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- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 01:28:26
- Purchases: 1
Why haven't pharmaceutical companies and oil corporations been asked to make health insurance lower by reducing drug costs or refusing federal subs...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 02:43
The Senate and House Healthcare bills will replace Obamacare subsidies with tax breaks for the wealthy. Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 02:54
The US Senate and House Healthcare Bills hold no intention for the government to feed the whole crowd, like those in the song "Froggy Went A'Courti...
- Added: Jun 26, 2017
- Length: 07:40
Some places, for example, the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate serve as our country's moral proving ground. But this week‘s testi...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 02:57
Discussion on the lingering history of racist ideology in the Americas and beyond.
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 01:00:02
FBI Director James Comey is being queried about whether President Donald Trump asked him to drop the investigation of former National Security Advi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 04:10
Everyday the world can ask again what’s right or wrong , not just smugly proceed, go along on its merry path, answers tucked under its arm, as proo...
- Added: Jun 07, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Congress has taken on eliminating affordable health insurance coverage for all citizens. For many, this year is 'anno horribilis'. In the Departme...
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- Added: Jun 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...
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- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 27:50
- Purchases: 1
In the Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to longings for a casino.
- Added: May 20, 2017
- Length: 01:19
In the Department of Poetic Justice, as we say "Sayonara" to Tom Price, government jobs distributed as they may be, a poetic tribute called "We'll ...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 01:47
This is a special 90-minute show, live from The Atlas Bar, featuring the music and protest politics of Fela Kuti, the Nigerian multi-instrumentalis...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 01:32:39
In the Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a poetic tribute to the complex topic of hiring candidates for government jobs who carry heavy politi...
- Added: May 16, 2017
- Length: 01:48
Recently, millions protested government inaction on climate change and global warming. Let us find words to help the current administration grasp...
- Added: May 14, 2017
- Length: 02:52
Throughout President Donald Trump's campaign and first 100 days as president, he has continuously bashed the news media. Now, the journalists of t...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 2
Fourteen years ago this month, Maine Public Radio fired the host of a 30 year popular jazz program, The humble Farmer because he criticized the Ir...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 06:53
'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...
- Added: Apr 01, 2017
- Length: 07:35
This week The Rough Draft Diaries chats with Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur.
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 06:48
Maine's Legislature will vote on Open-Pit Mining soon but whose testimony about environmental contamination will be believed and who will speak th...
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 06:34
From the Trump White House, the latest justification for dismissing legal challenges to the Muslim travel ban is that the Constitution makes the Un...
- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 05:28
There is not a single insurance company in the country that has gone out of business because of the ACA . They’ve created new alliances, to wit Op...
- Added: Mar 11, 2017
- Length: 06:03
Selling whatever this country has, for money, of course, at every turn, even at the highest echelons of government, has become the highest priorit...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 07:05
