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The Rights of Civilians and the International Criminal Court
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has announced he's seeking arrest warrants for leaders of both Hamas and Israel. Can justice for ...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, Baltimore Public Media, WGBH Radio Boston, KVCR, Angelica Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 8
Lost in Immigration
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Some things are temporary.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Poisonous Legacies
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:38
This Asian American Life
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Big Ponder #33: Housing
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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The demand for affordable housing has reached an all-time high in both Europe and North America. In this episode, Tomma Suki investigates the housi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 1
Nothing About Ukraine Without Ukrainians
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We’re joined by Iryna Tsilyk, documentary filmmaker from Kyiv, and historians Katherine Younger and Emily Channell-Justice, to hear the story of mo...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Why A Major Immigration Law Might Be Unconstitutional
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Emily Green tells us the story of Edgar Lopez, a grandfather of four who was killed trying to make his way back hom...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Feeding the World Without Wrecking the Planet
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we hear from two experts with competing visions of how we can sustainably feed a growing planet. Please join Ray Suarez, Ra...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Big Ponder #5: Little America Revisited
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #28: Exploding Rents in San Francisco and in Berlin
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Rents in San Francisco have exploded in recent years; by now, the metropolis in Northern California has overtaken New York as the most expensive ci...

  • Added: May 15, 2019
  • Length: 31:54
Finding Home: Displacement and Homelessness from Cape Town to California
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we go from Cape Town, South Africa to Los Angeles and Oakland, California— three cities grappling with evictions,...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Part 3: The end of times
From: Steve Ray
Series: Christian China and the end of times
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After innocent civilians were murdered in Tiananmen square, Chinese revolutionaries learned that political activism couldn't be the only solution. ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2017
  • Length: 14:51
Iran Belongs to Its Youth
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Veteran journalist Reese Erlich takes us to Iran, where young people, who make up over 40% of the country’s population, are looking toward the futu...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Invisible Workers, Laboring in the Shadows
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Woman waiting to cross the border into Morocco carrying imported goods from Spain , Credit: Thalia Beaty and Maggy Donaldson
Millions of people around the world work in jobs that aren’t formally recognized or afforded legal protections typical of wage earning jobs. On thi...

Bought by KALW, WCPN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Learning to Live Together - Other Projects - Festivals, Language and Youth
From: Mike Hally
Series: Learning to Live Together - Conflict and Peace-building Northern Ireland
Caption: Community worker at the Skegoneill interface, Credit: Mike Hally 2014
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 07:47
Learning to Live Together - North Belfast
From: Mike Hally
Series: Learning to Live Together - Conflict and Peace-building Northern Ireland
Caption: Peace Mural in Belfast, Credit: Mike Hally 2014
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
2013: The Year the Criminal Justice System Changed?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Solitary Confinement, Credit: Flickr user CHeitz
Years of campaigning for basic human rights for people caught up in America's criminal justice system may finally be paying off. 2013 saw significa...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Bearing Witness - The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative
From: Mark Conrad
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Carl Conradi, of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, considers the notion of 'bearing witness' as it relates to the Initiative's efforts ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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From Palestinian farmers to shootings at the US and Mexico border; living in the shadow of the wall.

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Penalty is Exile: How Immigration and Criminalization Collide
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Immigration Reform Rally 2010, Credit: Anuska Sampedro
Under President Obama more than 1 million people have been deported from the United States. Immigration officials claim that many of those being d...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
The Olympic Games: Who Wins?
From: Making Contact
Caption: Torch Blocked at Downtown East Side, Credit: AMANDA ZEIDERS / Pittsburgh Indymedia
The Olympic Games have grown into a multibillion dollar industry. But with that growth comes concerns about the negative effects of the event on t...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, Marfa Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Learning To Forgive, Longing To Forget
From: Voices of Our World
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How a documentary about Rwanda's genocide is being used as an educational tool for the youth around the world.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 27:59
The Unreal World of Narcissists and Sociopaths
From: Jari Chevalier
Caption: The Brain of a Sociopath
Narcissists and Sociopaths have always been among us and yet recent research brings us new understanding of just what these serious emotional disab...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 47:10
Louisville & Kentucky & The Bantu
From: Anton Foek
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Or how the Bantu adapt in the U.S.A.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2007
  • Length: 30:00