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821: Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time / 822: Everything Is Exhausting, 8/19/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Where It's At! (Vol. 12)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Further reflections of just what in carnation's going out there in yonder wider world beyond the countours of WoodWarbler's JazzGrass.....

  • Added: Dec 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:40
Our Walmart (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing supplier...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Our Walmart (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing suppliers...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2 and Win
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before the news broke of Amazon's HQ2 pulling out of NYC's L.I.C., we looked at the resistance the plan provoked and why, and considered how develo...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
SEEING RED: A TIME TRAVELING MUSICAL -- Rotimi Agbabiaka
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Rotimi Agbabiaka, San Francisco, CA 8/2/18, Credit: Andrea Chase
Rotimi Agbabiaka talks discovering hidden history, questioning assumptions, and having his mind blown open.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 25:39
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Golden Age of Flattery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 9
DOLORES -- Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Peter Bratt & Dolores Huerta, San Francisco, CA 9/4/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt talk common denominators, the war for truth, and controlling the narrative.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
Behind the scenes on a pot farm in Mendocino
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Federally, marijuana production is still a major crime, one that can land you in prison for decades. Yet, in northern California, there’s a whole e...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 1
Seeing Red
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
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The Guys share a little-known story about that time Stalin coined the term “American Exceptionalism"

Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
  • Purchases: 3
The Alchemy of Lobster Fishing
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 2
Occupy Everything: An Oakland Story
From: Leila Day
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Thousands gathered in downtown Oakland to occupy the ports and shut them down. Exploring a night with the Occupy Oakland movement, partly a party...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 06:15
One Day Longer, One Day Stronger in Madison
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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This Wednesday, the state of Wisconsin passed a controversial bill limiting the collective bargaining rights of public employees. Here, labor activ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 12:13
The Life and Death of the Infernal Noise Brigade
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Infernal Noise Brigade debuted at the Seattle WTO protests in 1999. Jill Friedberg from KBCS in Seattle has their story.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
Detention in the City of Destiny
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1