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2024-05-17 Fighting Fossil Fuels in the Courts and on the Ballot
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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At age 9, Nalleli Cobo, suffering headaches, heart palpitations, nosebleeds, and body spasms, became an activist, driven to fighting to close the l...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KSQD Santa Cruz, WGCU, KOWS and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
240517: Fighting Fossil Fuels in the Courts and on the Ballot, 5/17/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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At age 9, Nalleli Cobo, suffering headaches, heart palpitations, nosebleeds, and body spasms, became an activist, driven to fighting to close the l...

  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Dress to unrepress: Women who dressed like men, broke rules and made history
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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This hour on Audacious: A conversation with Tracy Dawson, author of 'Let Me Be Frank: A book about women who dressed like men to do shit they weren...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 50:02
Why'd You Do It: I snuck my incarcerated boyfriend out of prison in a dog crate
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, hear the story of Toby Dorr. She was on the run with John Manard for 12 days after she helped sneak him out of prison...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
“Powerlands”: Indigenous Youth Fight Big Oil & Gas Worldwide
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the film "Powerlands", director Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso meets Indigenous communities across three continents to explore the global resistanc...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Women's History Month: How Trans People Are Reclaiming Their Stories: Laverne Cox, Sam Feder
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Cristina Jiménez: Dreaming & Building Immigrant Freedom
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In a recent episode called Unforget, Dream, Build, we featured two Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of the idea that immigrants are a ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Kindness and Compassion on Display in Film Doc “The Antidote”
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: theantidotemovie.com
On this episode of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we consider a 2020 film documentary made in response to the times we are living in. The Antidote is a featur...

Bought by KUHF and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk — Native land, native sovereignty
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes speaks with Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk councilwoman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.

  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Episode 30: We Are One Family Under One Sky
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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This episode, we ask that you put yourself in the shoes of another. What would you do if your city was not safe? Where would you go?

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
28: We Are Waiting for Our Hearts to be Whole
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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After we finished recording this episode over coffee at Safaa and Sedra’s apartment, Houda said that it was the most important episode we have reco...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
The Trouble: Doppelganger
From: WBEZ
Caption: Prison photos of Ricky Amos (left), and the wrongfully incarcerated Richard Jones (right)
Richard Jones was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Seventeen years in, he discovers he has a look-alike, with the same...

Bought by KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGCU, KUNM, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Making Her Bed
From: Matthew Simonson
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19 million Americans are affected by hoarding. Cape Cod resident Maryanne found help through Clutterer's Anonymous. She is dedicated to improving h...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 05, 2018
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 3
Long Live Cassini!
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's flashy Cassini Grand Finale poster!, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Join us at JPL and Caltech on the bittersweet morning the Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn. We’ll hear from several of the mission’s leaders...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WTJU, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Liberation Theology: A March to Freedom
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Liberation Theology: A March to Freedom explores the conceptual framework of liberation theology. We will examine why Liberation Theology, with its...

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


  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Resistance and Resilience: The Cultural Legacy of the Black Panther Party
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Refa Senay
The Black Panther Party combined Black Power’s militancy with socialist ideology, and infused funk music with Franz Fanon’s writings. Their impact...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Equipto #Frisco5 Hunger Strike Activists
From: Generation Justice Admin
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The #Frisco5 are San Francisco activists who launched a 17-day hunger strike against police violence and racism. We are joined by participant and h...

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 14:34
Ane Romero on Mental Health Awareness Month
From: Generation Justice Admin
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May is Mental Health Awareness month. Learn more about its history and importance with mental health advocate, Ane Romero.

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 14:32
The Traveling Solidarity Shawls Project
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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The numbers are hard to calculate. But we know that sexual assault impacts our communities in significant and damaging ways. The number of survivor...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 14:37
  • Purchases: 1
Necessary Trouble: March and The Example of John Lewis
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Tonight we discuss the groundbreaking graphic novel series,March, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis’s life...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:17
Birth: A Rite of Passage or a Medical Event? A Mother's Day Special
From: Giovanna Rossi
Series: Well Woman Radio
Caption: Baby Drew with her Mommy, Caitlin, and her Mamma, Monica, Credit: Giovanna Rossi
How does the process of birth impact new motherhood? Is it a rite of passage or a medical event? Next time on Well Woman Radio we’ll hear from Pam ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 29:35
  • Purchases: 1
Bridge Builders for Nonviolence and Tolerance
From: WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Co-Host Peter Kreten airs a panel discussion with Professor Cyndi Kamp of Saint Xavier University, Professor Jehanzeb Niaz nephew of Ghaffer Khan, ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:17
Feature Report - I’m Too Young For This @#!%
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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John D. Shearer is an artist from Indiana that won his battle over a rare form of brain cancer. His multi-media show entitled “I’m Too Young For Th...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 09:37
The Man Who Gave Away Christmas Trees
From: Sean Hurley
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An Interview with "Harry", a man who gives away Christmas trees.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KUER, KZYX, Yellowstone Public Radio, Delta College Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:39
  • Purchases: 15
An Artist in Social Action
From: KVMR
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Michael Franti of Spearhead raises $25,000. for prison program

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Jul 20, 2006
  • Length: 14:53
  • Purchases: 1