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A Mother's Lens is a "new genre" experimental podcast series converging original lyrics + radio to focus on the culture change of our times. The vi...

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:49
Caption: Dr. Fiona Hill, Credit: Provided by the Brookings Institution
The final part of my interview with Dr. Fiona Hill. She discusses her dealings with former President Trump.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 10:59
Caption: Dr. Fiona Hill, Credit: Provided by the Brookings Institution
The continuation of my interview with Dr. Fiona Hill. She starts discussing her dealings with former President Trump.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 08:04
Caption: Dr. Fiona Hill, Credit: Provided by the Brookings Institution
In 2019, Dr. Fiona Hill testified in the first impeachment trial of former President Trump. Dr. Hill recently served as Deputy Assistant to the pre...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 07:22
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Mary and Maeve are laying down the law. Three years ago, 886 ordinary Dutch citizens sued their government over climate change... and won. Tessa Kh...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 43:44
  • Purchases: 1
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So, here we are, August 4th, 2015, and I’m asking "Is a Woman A Person?" You laugh, no, scoff at me for asking this. Of course!, you say. But are w...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:41
Caption: Ala'a Basatneh, activist
Ala'a Basatneh was once a mall-loving “average Arab-American teenager.” When the Syrian Civil War started, she became #ChicagoGirl, the center of a...

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 25:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: FEMEN leader, Inna Shevchenko
Jonathan speaks with Inna Shevchenko, a leader of the radical feminist protest organization FEMEN, whose manifestations have garnered her equal mea...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 25:58
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:36
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Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
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We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
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Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times talks with series host Martha Burk on what it's like to cover the presidential campai...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:30
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Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’!

Bought by KZYX, Spokane Public Radio, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 3
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Highly frustrated at this bold resistance right under their noses, the Nazi Powers-That-Be identified and arrested Sophie, her brother and one othe...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Smith-Robinson was voted the SNCC's Executive Secretary (its chief administrator) and, as such, was a focused and militant Black Power proponent.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
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Her anthology entitled Sisterhood is Powerful, called one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th Century by the New York Library, covered su...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
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She's the one who told a bunch of Pentagon leaders -- when she was on the House Armed Services Committee -- that if they were women, they'd be preg...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:23
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When she was found guilty of treason and "political activism" (which wouldn't even have been considered a crime for a man), she was sentenced to die.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:45
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Sanger opened the first family planning and birth control clinic in the United States, where she began distributing, among other things, diaphragms...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
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Stone proceeded to live the life of a lecturer on abolition and women's rights.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
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While birthing and raising five children, Pankhurst turned her home into a center where abolitionists, anarchists, activists and revolutionaries of...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
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Sirleaf has made education free and compulsory for all children in Liberia. She was responsible for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:41
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Stanton eventually claimed that the 14th and 15th Amendments, in fact -- because of the way they were worded -- gave women the right to vote

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:51
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In 1954, Tamana helped to organize the first Conference of the Federation of South African Women and she was elected to the organization's national...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:48