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The Arrival: Trump's Travel and Refugee Ban- Encore
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: empty flight, Credit: Diego Cupolo, creative commons
This week, we begin with the story of a woman who was in flight to the US when President Trump signed his first travel ban. We later hear about how...

Bought by WRIR and WVAS


  • Added: Jul 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
National Suicide Point?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Smash society and you create craven people. Craven, from the early English word meaning crushed, defeated, overwhelmed.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
Shaky Ground: Warning Centers
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Shaky Ground
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How will we know a tsunami may be coming? Other than feeling the ground shake, we rely on tsunami warning centers to alert us about potential risk...

Bought by Radio Newark


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
CLEAN VERSION: Transformations of a white supremacist and a jihadi extremist
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 1
California Innocence Project: Another Bad ID - episode 7
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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Glenn Boyd was convicted of a crime he did not commit. This episode of the California Innocence Project features another story about a bad identifi...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
Transformations of a white supremacist and a jihadi extremist
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Frank was a white supremacist. Jesse was a jihadi extremist. What do we see when we look beyond ideology?

  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 59:45
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, “When They Call You A Terrorist”
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter reflections on humanity, the end of policing and her new book, WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORI...

Bought by KVNF, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, WFHB, and WVAS


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
California Innocence Project: A Bad ID Leads to Wrongful Conviction - episode 3
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:59
The defection of a Roger Ailes warrior
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Joe Lindsley was the protégé of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes. What moved the ambitious twenty-something to abandon the conservative media titan?

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 40:13
Jeff Chang on Revolutions in Seeing and Being
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Jeff Chang, Credit: Jeremy Villaluz
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...

Bought by KALW, KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Language Is Life, Land is Sacred
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellows Vincent Medina and Isabella Zizi share deep and personal stories on Native American Organizing and ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KQED, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Draft, Duty, and Dissent: G.I. Resistance to War
From: Making Contact
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It was the 1960s – and throughout the United States, opposition to the War in Vietnam was growing. The Draft forced young men to make a choice abo...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Choice: Organizing for Reproductive Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Loretta Ross, Credit: Speak Out
Loretta Ross, co-founder of SisterSong breaks down the reproductive justice framework; and Tina Reynolds, co-founder and Chair of Women on the Rise...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, WRIR, and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Life of the Law #100: LIVE LAW NSF: Translating (law and social) Science
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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To celebrate Life of the Law’s 100th Episode, Life of the Law and the National Science Foundation brought five NSF funded scholars to the NSF Headq...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 01:07:16
Immigration and Incarceration
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and incarceration. We look at the history of U.S. immigration po...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 1
Native Power: Language, Land, and Water NoDAPL
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oceti Sakowin Camp, Credit: Bo Hakala
The actions at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline continue, We share interviews from the Voices of Standing Rock. Vincent Medina is a...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Habeas Corpus
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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The focus this week is on the impact of habeas corpus both for prisoners and their loved ones. We begin with news on a call-in effort for queer and...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Life of the Law #93: Last Count
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Douglas Collier outside his cell, Credit: Greg Eskridge and Elisabeth Fall
Douglas Collier is a life-term inmate at San Quentin State Prison. For years he shared a 9'x4' foot cell with his friend Tony, a fellow inmate -- u...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2016
  • Length: 17:52
Is 20-Something Too Late For A Guy To Get The HPV Vaccine?
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Jake Harper, 29, is Side Effects Public Media's resident hypochondriac. His newest health anxiety stems from the human papillomavirus, or HPV., Credit: Brian Paul/Side Effects
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
Life of the Law #89: Live Law Philadelphia - Beyond the Walls: Prison Positive
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Odessa Summers
For 22 years, Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted an entire month of free workshops, trainings, and outreach about HIV and AIDS. This year, Life of the L...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 01:01:58
Jeffrey Toobin Reads Award-Winning Prison Essay
From: PEN America
Series: The Freedom to Write
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Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2016
  • Length: 10:55
IU Student Overcomes Anorexia and Finds Good Health and Happiness
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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For many people, it’s hard to find a balance between being happy and being healthy. As media tell us that being beautiful means being thin, many st...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 08:30
Choreography of Care
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ingrid Tischer, director of development, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) and Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong, Credit: Alice Wong
Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:33
Life of the Law #73: Live @ San Quentin
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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**This piece cannot be aired prior to December 25, 2015.** On Saturday night, Dec 5, 2015 inmates, returning inmates, volunteers, officers, and s...

Bought by KUER, KQED, XRAY.fm, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 19, 2015
  • Length: 56:41
  • Purchases: 5