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242: Re-Weaving the Web of Belonging: The Inside Is Not – and The Outside Is Too, 1/24/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Eriel Deranger, Credit: Dylan McLaughlin
As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the o...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
David Brooks on the Art of Seeing and Hearing Others
From: Open to Debate
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With polarization rising within our society and two wars encouraging division, people are feeling more afraid to engage with people who have differ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 29, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
But Next Time Part 4: The Road to Rebuilding and Recovering, Better (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: But Next Time host Chrishelle Palay talks with Houston community organizer, Ericka Bowman after a bus tour of the city organized by housing justice advocates. , Credit: Leah Mahan
In this final episode of four-part series, But Next Time, our guest hosts, Chrishelle Palay and Rose Arrieta take us to Houston to continue the sto...

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


  • Added: Dec 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
But Next Time Part 3: The Fight for Fair Housing in the Face of Climate Change (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: 12 Moms Initiative member Jamie describes water and mold damage to her home at the Coppertree Village Apartments to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition during a bus tour hosted by Houston's housing justice organizers., Credit: Leah Mahan
Today in Houston, Texas we meet a group of moms who stand up for local housing policies that keep families of color trapped in unsafe homes for yea...

Bought by KMUN and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Is Modi's India Heading in the Right Direction?
From: Open to Debate
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Under prime minister Narendra Modi, pro-Hindu nationalism and civil rights issues have led to India’s downgrade to an electoral autocracy (accordin...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
The deeper meaning of a parody of a Pence family children’s book
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCasting youth broadcaster Lucas
What happens when a boy bunny wants to marry another boy bunny? In this encore presentation originally presented in 2018, OutCaster Lucas talks ab...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2022
  • Length: 04:38
08-16: Restorative Justice: From Harm to Healing, 8/31/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Fania Davis
Oakland, California, has had the reputation of being one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Then the Restorative Justice movement started...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
2022-07-15 On The Run: Voluntary and Forced Climate Migration
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The climate crisis may not be the sole driver of human displacement but it is a contributing and growing factor, exacerbating the misery of already...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUNM, 90.5 WESA, New England Public Media, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
20220715: On The Run: Voluntary and Forced Climate Migration, 7/15/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The climate crisis may not be the sole driver of human displacement but it is a contributing and growing factor, exacerbating the misery of already...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
2022-06-10 Digging Deep into the Next Farm Bill
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Roughly every five years, the U.S. designs and implements a new farm bill, which sets federal policy on agriculture across a huge swath of programs...

Bought by KUHF, Maine Public Radio, KCBX, KGUA, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
20220610: Digging Deep into the Next Farm Bill, 6/10/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Roughly every five years, the U.S. designs and implements a new farm bill, which sets federal policy on agriculture across a huge swath of programs...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
"Inside The Statue: The Inside Story...50 Years Later
From: Paul Fischer
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DEC 26TH IS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY BY VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR. THIS IS THE DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED E...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 57:50
The Chinese Exclusion Act
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Between 1882 and 1965, the vast majority of would-be Chinese immigrants were banned from the U.S..

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 26:40
  • Purchases: 2
June 2021 – Pride and the LGBTQ community
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
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June means LGBTQ Pride in much of the world, but are there issues within the community?

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: May 31, 2021
  • Length: 12:54
  • Purchases: 1
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sojung Yi, Charlie Wang and Melissa Borja, Credit: Self Evident
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Fallen of 2020
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This year on making contact, instead of our normal end of year show commemorating movement leaders we've lost, and highlighting their work, we reme...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
December 2020 – LGBTQ candidates, LGBTQ youth
From: Media for the Public Good, Inc. - OutCasting Media
Series: OutCasting Overtime
Caption: OutCaster Justin
OutCaster Justin talks about what it means to LGBTQ youth, especially struggling youth, to see LGBTQ people elected to public office.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 07:00
On Just Being with Scott Russell Sanders
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The centerpiece in today’s program is our talk about the essay “The Suffering of Strangers” which details a visit Sanders took to Charleston, South...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 1
Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. Self-care becomes a “selfless ac...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Susan Crane – Blood on a Nuclear Submarine
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Civil disobedience often precedes most social or political change. The American political tradition has deep roots in civil disobedience. The Bosto...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
WRM01 The Influential Voice of the '30s
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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A look at why Rogers was so influential in his time and still talked about today

  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 01:01
Behind Barbed Wire
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Behind Barbed Wire book Jacket, Credit: Michael Williams & Richard Cahan
Shortly after the outbreak of WWII, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. It called for the forced removal of over one-hundred-thousand ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
One Family: Indivisible - A Spiritual Memoir
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: One Family: Indivisible cover
There is an ongoing “us” and “them” argument in our society. Realistically, politics and religion have always managed to create deep divisions.

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:19
  • Purchases: 2
The Tyranny of Virtue
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert Boyers
Intolerance is increasing in the world of academia. A poisonous climate at universities and colleges is creating, what is known as, identity politi...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2