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The budget impasse in Minnesota brought a state government shutdown at Fiscal Year's end – June 30. State workers were furloughed July 1, in the ab...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 51:48
Caption: Heartland Democracy Governance Panel, Credit: Craig Stellmacher
TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL was there May 18 at First Universalist Church in Minneapolis with Cameraman CRAIG STELLMACHER to record the Heartland Democracy...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:59
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Issues of race, class and labor merge once again into a classic untold story – because we do not openly discuss those discomfiting matters in this ...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 57:47
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TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI explore the raging ethical dilemma and Constitutional questions around post-incarceration civil commitme...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship is gone, but a military council now rules Egypt, and has kept much of Mubarak’s repressive apparatus. Meanwhile extrem...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 2 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian E...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Global warming is no longer a fear for the future. It’s threatening human civilization, now. Part 1 of a special 2 part series produced by Brian Ed...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Tom Vilsack, Credit: NPC
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack describes his hopes for his upcoming meeting in Europe with the other G20 agriculture ministers

  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
State Senator Joe Carraro meets State Senator Barack Obama. His impression back then plays true to today.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:32
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Obamacare was a program put together by and for special interests, without eliminating any of the inefficiencies and corruption that are already pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 08:58
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Lobbyists have corrupted both major political parties to give us the current health care and financial systems we have, and why we have never had t...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Economic recovery efforts pushed by President Obama and Congress are simply another attempt to throw good money after bad. More importantly, he sho...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
The Supreme Court's recent decision in the Citizens United case, in which activist "conservative" judges took it upon themselves to grant corporati...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:59
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Senator Joe Carraro as The Average Joe showing how the government wasting Stimulus money that was supposed to improve the economy and create jobs b...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:59
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Sen. Mark Miller addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon his return to Madison, WI

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:40
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Sasha Abramsky, a California-based journalist and author, explains why the recent measure to legalize marijuana in California, which polls showed m...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 38:22
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The first election after the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court decision reveals the money-drenched look of elections to come.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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We hear about hip-hop and change in Cuban society, and what people on the ground are saying about new phases in the Cuban revolution.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: http://michiganwro.blogspot.com, Credit:  Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
We go to Michigan, where from the city of Detroit, to the farmlands and countryside, citizens are battling to gain greater control over the bounty ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 28:56
Caption: An Afghan laborer holds a cup of tea., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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Dick Armey, the former House Majority Leader, speaks about conservatism at the National Press Club.

  • Added: Mar 26, 2010
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: Scientists at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia perform cutting edge neuroscience research. A Janelia Farm exec says Northern Virginia's congested highways makes hiring and retaining employees difficult., Credit: Matt Staley/Janelia Farm
Business execs in Northern Virginia, typically a core Republican constituency, are beginning to lose patience with the GOP over its refusal to rais...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 04:41
Caption: Homes Not Games
Vancouver Olympic organizers promised legacies - improvements to the community. They promised their nearly 9 billion dollar investment would pay h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 13, 2010
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at President Obama's first year in office.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:28:37
Caption: UN Goldstone's ''Kangaroo Court'' Report -- on Gaza, Credit: SLG
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's Spontaneous Responses to the UN Kangaroo Court Findings of alleged ''War Crimes'' in Gaza

  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 04:39