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Civics 101: The History of Labor Policy
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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The modern day workplace is the product of a centuries-long battle for fair wages, reasonable hours and safe conditions. Civics 101 tells the story...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 5
Kentucky’s Constitution Mandates “Free & Equal” Elections. Are the Commonwealth’s Manipulated Voting District Maps Legal?
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Kentucky’s Constitution Mandates “Free & Equal” Elections. Are the Commonwealth’s Manipulated Voting District Maps Legal?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUTC, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Penalties Recommended for Church Organization and Pastor for Alleged Illegal and Unreported Contributions Supporting Anti-Ranked Choice Voting Effort
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Penalties Recommended for Church Organization and Pastor for Alleged Illegal and Unreported Contributions Supporting Anti-Ranked Choice Voting Effort

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Proposed Rule Change Could Make the Feckless Federal Election Commission Even Less Effective
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Proposed Rule Change Could Make the Feckless Federal Election Commission Even Less Effective

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUTC, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Statement from Presidential Libraries Calls on Elected Leaders & All Americans to Take Action to Restore Faith in Democracy
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Statement from Presidential Libraries Calls on Elected Leaders & All Americans to Take Action to Restore Faith in Democracy

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Civil rights Act and Equal Pay: The Joke's on Women
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited pay discrimination against women and minorities was passed August 1964. Some thought it was a joke -- looks...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Ohioans Mobilize for Aug. 8 Special Election to Defeat Assault on Citizen Ballot Initiatives
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Ohioans Mobilize for Aug. 8 Special Election to Defeat Assault on Citizen Ballot Initiatives

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 01:30
State of the Union -- Will the President Address the Majority?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Last year's State of the Union Speech was pretty short on details for the majority of Americans -- women. Will he pass them by again this year?

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:37
Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 24:48
Voice of Reason for Independent Minds: Talking Media & Polarization with CNN's Michael Smerconish
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Voice of Reason for Independent Minds: Talking Media & Polarization with CNN's Michael Smerconish, Credit: Fluent Knowledge LLC
Join us today for this master class from Michael Smerconish on partisan politics in the media and partisan media in politics, the tightly-wound sym...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
Public Service - recorded 11/02
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Public Service discussion between older, middle & younger generations

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:39
Listening to Our Braver Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
New Justice, Prison Abolition: A World Beyond Prisons
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Note: This episode originally aired the summer of 2019. Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the lan...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Importance of SEEing. with Civity Co-Founders Malka Kopell & Palma Strand
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Logo_Civity
Civity co-founders Malka Kopell and Palma Strand discuss the importance of SEEing, and how the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have led to an increase i...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Bridging the Gap- H.H. on Inside/Outside Coordination
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we hear a talk by H.H., who spoke recently at the Bend the Bars conference in Lansing, Michigan. H.H. shares his story, including the in...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
Starter Kit: Executive Branch
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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From President to Postal Worker.

Bought by WFHB, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 21:22
  • Purchases: 3
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...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council presents "We Are Water" workshop
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
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Mara Hanel, Executive Director of the NWMAC, talks about the history and background of the NWMAC, upcoming grant application deadlines and an expla...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 11:14
Should activists run for Congress? Pramila Jayapal & Dominique Stevenson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7th) and Baltimore activist Dominique Stevenson discuss activism, political involvement and why leaders...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Democratizing Wealth, Expanding Power - The Preston Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On this week's program, coproduced with the Democracy Collaborative, Laura reports on a transatlantic experiment in cooperative community wealth bu...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutions in Leadership and Economics: Conversations with Linda Kohanov and Anthony Flaccavento
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Anthony Flaccavento and Linda Kohanov
Learning Leadership from Master Herders and Building the Economy from the Bottom Up.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Stand Up!
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gordon Whitman
For the past 20-years, Gordon Whitman has been working with the group Faith in Action where he is the deputy director. His job is teaching people h...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 18, 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 ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry:Isn't the Individual Candidate Who Won't Listen Just Like Congressional Politicians Who Refuse to Listen?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks "What's the Difference Between Politicians Who Refuse to Consider What Politicians in the Other Party say a...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 01:02
The Polluted Public Coversation with James Hoggan, Author and PR Professional
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: James Hoggan
James Hoggan, author of I’m Right and You’re An Idiot : The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up, Chair of the David Suzuki Found...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1