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Bold Women Of Montana - 0306 - Frieda and Belle Fligelman
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0303 - Women's Protective Union
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Bold Women Of Montana - 0302 - Myrna Loy
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Beating Poverty by Investing in Teachers: A Labor Story for May Day
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US — a place that emb...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Communities Over Commodities: How to Get There?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Housing affordability and power by design? This week on the show, Monique George of Picture the Homeless and Gianpaolo Baiocchi from NYU's Urban De...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
TPV05 My Throwback - A Forgotten Civil Rights Hero
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about how an angry Ike came off the golf course to kic...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
Resurrected: Formerly Incarcerated Change-Makers
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we’ll meet individuals who went to prison, came out, and have since dedicated their life to changing the world.

Bought by WRIR and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Ross McKenzie was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, but after 15 years on Lithium, he wasn’t getting any better. He decided to take matters into hi...

Bought by KPVL, WRIR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Peacetalks radio takes us down ‘The Non-Violent path of Cesar Chavez’, through conversations with Chavez’ colleague and friend Delores Huerta, and ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Kidney Allocation
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
New guidelines could maximize transplant success by better matching donated kidneys with recipients.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Living Downstream
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Steingraber , Credit: www.livingdownstream.com/
Renowned biologist Sandra Steingraber has made fighting environmentally induced cancers her life’s work. We hear excerpts of the documentary film,...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Victory at Chesapeake Bay
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: September 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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It's always a pleasure to deliver good news about a conservation effort. Today we salute Chesapeake Bay and the coalition that's cleaning it up.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Green Mother's Day
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: May 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
"Mother Nature"..."Mother's Day." A coincidence? I think not. Mother gave you life, nurtured and sustained you. The same can be said for Mother Na...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Apr 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Protecting the Surf
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: August 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Here's one of the "good guys" of conservation - The Surfrider Foundation ...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
Protecting Wildlife in Afghanistan
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
From the rubble of post-war Afghanistan, a movement is emerging to protect the county's spectacular wildlife.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Citizen Scientists Help Preserve Wetlands
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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The volunteer stewards also participate in scientific projects. Working with biologists and other scientists, the volunteers gather seeds for genet...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
Up the Creek!
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Have you ever wanted to help "green up" your town, but the project seemed too daunting? This inspiring story is about how a handful of folks in Tac...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Save Trestles Beach
From: Philippe Boucher
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How a plan for a toll-highway would destroy the Yosemite of surfing

  • Added: Jan 28, 2006
  • Length: 04:07
Eighteen and Voting
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Presents Special Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Election
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The voices of eighteen-year-old, first-time voters in Portland, Maine on the eve of the 2004 election.

Bought by PRX Election Podcast, Littleglobe, and PRX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2004
  • Length: :34
  • Purchases: 3
Massachusetts/Mongolia Sister Stations - Introduction
From: Atlantic Public Media
Series: Massachusetts/Mongolia Sister Station Project
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The introductory piece to our Sister Station project between radio stations in Coastal Massachusetts and the Gobi Desert

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 11, 2004
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 1