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Inside ALEC: 50 Years of Driving Extreme Policies in America with Rep. Ro Khanna & Lisa Graves
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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We’re discussing what’s being done to expose and push back against the anti-democratic practices of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or A...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Faith & Fascism: Rob Reiner & Dan Partland Tackle Christian Nationalism with “God & Country”
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the documentary “God & Country”, producer Rob Reiner and director Dan Partland explore Christian Nationalism — a toxic brew of patriarchal White...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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You’ve seen them in protests since the start of the Israel/Hamas war — from New York City’s Grand Central Station and the Statue of Liberty, to the...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
(January 10, 2024 Re-Air) Josh Paul: Resigns State Dept. Over Arms to Israel
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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After 11 years in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs — the entity most responsible for arms transfers to allies and partne...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
National Writers Series: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Benjamin Busch talks with journalists Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson about their book "American Gun."

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
#50YearsOfHarm: Rep. Ro Khanna & Lisa Graves Call Out ALEC / The American Legislative Exchange Council
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many people have never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC – but for 50 years, the group has been the driving force behind ...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Texas Under Siege: Dobbs, Democracy & Bodily Autonomy in the Crosshairs
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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We’ve reconvened a panel of organizers and activists in Texas to discuss what has (or hasn’t) changed on the abortion, trans and voting rights fron...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Drag Story Hour Under Attack: What Can Media Do?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Pride 2023 is in full swing, we explore the activism of drag queens and trans people who bore the brunt of the violence during the Stonewall Rio...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 9
PRIDE SPECIAL- Imara Jones: Countering The Anti-Trans Hate Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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549 bills banning books, medical treatment, even access to the bathroom were introduced in 2023. As today’s guest says, the people driving the anti...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gaping Inequality, The American Nightmare for Workers: Abigail Disney
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s flagship theme park, she disc...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: Resistance, Money, and the Struggle for Trans Rights
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Gina Kim: Rising Against Anti Asian Hate
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia. The act of violenc...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Congressman Jamie Raskin On January 6th: After a Failed Coup, a Successful One?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, intended to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America, “...

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  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Gender Justice Requires more than Money say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

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  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Who is Protecting Essential Workers?
From: Suzanne LaGrande
Series: We Are All In This Together
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Suzanne LaGrande interviews Nicole, a grocery worker with 20 years experience about what it's like to be an essential worker during the Covid-19 Pa...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 10:05
Phillip Mattera, Director of the Corporate Research Project for Good Jobs First
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Grand Thief Paycheck
Interview by Lori Province: Phillip explains the findings of a new study called “Grand Theft Paycheck” which documents large corporations’ theft of...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2018
  • Length: 27:58
Michele Stelovich, President of the NW WA CLC and Edgar Franks, Organizer and Civic Engagement Program Coordinator for Community to Community Development
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Michele and Edgar
Interview by Ken Winkes: Michele and Edgar explain the H2A program.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:25
  • Purchases: 1
Lying to Ourselves: Lorna Salzman #108 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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What went wrong with the environmental movement? Environmental activist, organizer and author Lorna Salzman shares her thoughts about climate chan...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Phillip Lindquist, Gov Affairs Dir of the International Union of Painters & Allied Trades, District 5
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Phillip Lindquist
Interview by Lori Province: Phillip describes wage thief and what you can do about it.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
WorldCanvass Studio: The Human in Human Rights
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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International writers from the 2015 University of Iowa International Writing Program (IWP) residency join activists and members of the academic com...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Deconstructing the Death Penalty
From: Raborn Johnson
Caption: The lethal injection room at San Quentin State Prison, completed in 2010., Credit: CACorrections (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation)
Come with us as we deconstruct popular understandings of the death penalty through the stories of lives caught up in the web of state-sponsored kil...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 1
Juvenile Incarceration
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nell Bernstein, Credit: NPR
In her new book, award winner journalist Nell Bernstein takes us behind the scenes into the hidden lives of incarcerated children. She has spent mo...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dmitry Orlov on why he believes the U.S. is on the brink of collapse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke May 3 with Dmitry Orlov, author of the award-winning book "Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospect...

  • Added: May 07, 2013
  • Length: 23:10
Surveillance by unmanned aircraft...is our privacy at stake?
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released a report on the growing domestic use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance. Chuck Samue...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:44