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KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 06:44
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...
- Added: Mar 11, 2014
- Length: 51:30
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Helen Morley was an unsung hero in a relatively unknown battle – the grassroots fight for mental health care in Chicago. Her deficits were often he...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 06:20
A growing movement is demanding the United States do away with the death penalty. In 2012 voters had the chance to vote to replace California’s dea...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Dec 13, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Kashawna Williams, an administrative justice major at Ohlone College in Fremont, Calif., and a former foster youth, discusses her drive to fix the ...
- Added: Nov 02, 2012
- Length: :43
Through the voices of mental health care consumers/activists, this story briefly explores some of the impacts of, and responses to, the closing of...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 21:19
Among the leading causes of homelessness in single adults is mental illness. Study after study reiterates that up to a quarter of all those sufferi...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and other revolutionary movements across the world, the Occupy Wall Street movement has just entere...
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 24:26
This special edition of "The Cutting Edge", looks at the trial, resistance and execution of Troy Davis, who was convicted of the killing of an off-...
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 56:30
Rally to renew federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
- Added: Mar 07, 2011
- Length: 10:10
The Montana Supreme Court will weigh in on physician assisted suicide.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 02, 2009
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...
Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more
- Added: Aug 13, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
Malaysia is a country that does not distinguish between illegal migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. What's worse, refugees from Burma have recen...
- Added: Aug 10, 2009
- Length: 01:00:00
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...
Bought by CKMO
- Added: May 22, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We speak with activists and an MS patient who testified before the Senate Health Committee.
- Added: Mar 04, 2009
- Length: 29:31
Prisoners sentenced to death in Washington State have a choice of lethal injection or hanging.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:58
Death penalty cases are extremely complex and costly to pursue.
- Added: Dec 16, 2008
- Length: 06:41
Three people who lost family members in the September 11th terrorist attacks on the U.S. talk about turning their grief into action for peace. The...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM, WESM 91.3 FM, KSFR, KUOW and more
- Added: Aug 21, 2007
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 22
Mobile home renters worry affordable housing options just don't exist for them in central Pennsylvania anymore
Bought by WXLV-FM
- Added: Aug 08, 2007
- Length: 04:45
- Purchases: 1
Getting an education does not only happen in school. What positive or negative messages did you receive from your family and community? How did the...
- Added: Mar 08, 2007
- Length: 28:00
Five years after the 9/11 attacks, the death toll among first responders is still climbing.
- Added: Sep 01, 2006
- Length: 05:27
Research shows one in ten soldiers returning from Iraq suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It's symptoms include anxiety, depression, night...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 01, 2006
- Length: 05:36
- Purchases: 1
A soldier dies as Americans debate US operations there
- Added: Oct 21, 2005
- Length: 05:11
Excerpts of New Orlean's Mayor Ray Nagin's 'rant' against the slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina mixed with Jolie Holland's song "I Wanna D...
- Added: Sep 04, 2005
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 3
