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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Not long before the earthquake in Nepal, I drove by yet another SUV with the bumper sticker “No child left a dime.” Then, as now, I am reminded ag...

  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
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A story about one very special summer camp, and how difficulties with fundraising could cause problems in the near future.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Many six year olds believe that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The President of the NRA, is of the same mind...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 04:13
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:45
Caption: Team Youmedia Chicago
This team piece is performed by Youmedia Chicago, comprised of poets: Dominique James, 16, a sophomore at Walter Payton College Prep; Malcolm Londo...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:21
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Youth Producer Dolna Smithback spent a week with the Global Youth Leadership Institute documenting year one of the program, "aboard the Amsted scho...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:50
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An interview with the founders of the Bioneers: Nina Simons and Kenny Ausubel.

Bought by WMUK


  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
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The First Amendment and the high school campus.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:55
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At the New Mexico Peaceworks conference reporter Dolna Smithback wonders what it will take for humans to get along.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2008
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Long after Hurricane Katrina devasted parts of the American South, one Indiana college student notes little has changed since Mother Nature made Ne...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2008
  • Length: 04:10
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Commentator Natasha Watts asks listeners to consider the real costs of the prescription drug addiction epidemic in communities across the country.

Bought by WITF and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2008
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 2
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A college student shows us how hard it is to not be taken seriously by her landlord.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jul 02, 2007
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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The execution of Stanley Tookie Williams exposed yet again the barbarity of capital punishment.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2005
  • Length: 03:09