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January 22 marks the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, when the court ruled abortion was legal under U.S....
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 03:00
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: If Re-Elected, Trump Vows Fascist Regime from Day One; Although Federal Ag...
- Added: Jan 17, 2024
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Many great women snagged honors this year, from athletics to movies, science and more, and we lost a few great ones too. But one gets our personal...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 20:47
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
A Nation Transformed: One Year After the Demise of Roe v. Wade; Israel’s F...
- Added: Jun 28, 2023
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 15:52
The roots of the US anti-abortion movement — misogyny, racism and hatred of immigrants. On the edge of a big Canadian city, an oasis of calm where ...
- Added: May 21, 2023
- Length: 58:33
A congressional ban on removing anyone from Medicaid will expire early next year. What will happen to people who lose their coverage, and how are s...
- Added: Jan 23, 2023
- Length: 18:50
Were grassroots activists able to defend democracy in 2022? For this post-election roundtable, Laura convenes organizers to discuss some of the cri...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Nov 16, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggests will happen to people who are denied abortions ...
- Added: Jun 30, 2022
- Length: 17:37
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Trump & GOP Planning to Use the Constitution’s 12th Amendment to Steal the...
Bought by WETS
- Added: Jan 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Supreme Court Appears Ready to Overturn Roe v. Wade, Women’s Right to Abor...
Bought by WKPW
- Added: Dec 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Some of the most persistent myths about coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it have to do with women’s health. In this segment, we’ll h...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 24, 2021
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 04:27
Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...
- Added: May 03, 2021
- Length: 29:59
Washington State law around opioid prescribing has recently changed. Reporter Eilís O’Neill follows a couple, Megan and Ben, through the birth of t...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 19:04
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Democrats' Failure to Address Economic Insecurity Gave Trump Election Adva...
Bought by WRIR, WMUU-LP, and 91.7 WHUS Storrs
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Next President Will Have the Power to Shift Direction of Supreme Court; Wo...
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
It’s mid-October and by now, you’ve probably picked up on the fact its Breast Cancer awareness month. Women all over the country are being flooded ...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 09:52
- Purchases: 1
The 2015 Black Friday shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs is explored in this December 2 episode of KCMJ Community Radio’s ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: :00
In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning), The River Is Wide offers a poem that could be sung to the tune from a tune in the public domai...
- Added: Nov 28, 2015
- Length: 02:50
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Government Policy Produces Record Levels of Economic Inequality in U.S.; A...
Bought by KMUD
- Added: Jan 01, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times talks with series host Martha Burk on what it's like to cover the presidential campai...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 28:30
With nuclear power back on the agenda, three prominent female activists tell their stories: Kaori Izumi was part of the grassroots campaign to shu...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, WXDU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Nov 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
