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The Covid pandemic of 2020 challenged musicians, artists and performers like nothing before, ever -- and they adapted, in all different ways. "Musi...
- Added: Dec 21, 2020
- Length: 51:58
Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
This week Laura Flanders checks in with one of the leading social critics of our time, MIT professor emeritus, Noam Chomsky. He shares how this el...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
What does it look like to adopt a public health approach to safety, policing, and economic development? In February, 2020, Laura visited Newark, N...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 16, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
On our last episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Jonie McIntire mentioned how important it was to check in with friends during this time of quaranti...
- Added: May 04, 2020
- Length: 05:59
Former inmates surprise Eugenie and Flipper with a pop-in to the studio during the show. Listen to their stories, In addition to the regular calls ...
- Added: Apr 26, 2020
- Length: 56:19
For these few weeks as humans suffer, the earth is healing itself.
- Added: Apr 09, 2020
- Length: 06:00
For the month of April, The Rough Draft Diaries is going to bring you a short series of phone interviews detailing how the community has been affec...
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Our radio adaptation of the film, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, explores Judi Bari’s bold activism to save the Redwood Forest in the face of corporate gre...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Mar 03, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, Laura interviews British comedian and activist Jess Thom, TourettesHero, about her performance of Samuel Beckett’s play “Not I”. T...
Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR
- Added: Jan 29, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Episode 50: Action is the Antidote to Despair
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:16
In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
In addition to the regular calls from loved ones telling messages to the inmates, former residents of the Tule Rehab Facility, which provides servi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2019
- Length: 53:32
What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
We speak with author Paul Kivel about his book, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. The discussion offers a framework f...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Dec 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
However you put it, food is as political as it gets. Today, we'll hear from farmers, organizers, workers, and seed-keepers who all attended the NES...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This week, we re-visit radio Kingston, a station connecting communities and lifting up voices. Than joining Laura in studio, activist DeRay Mckesso...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Lake County filmmaker and cinephile Devin Negrete sits in on Radio Jail, waxing poetic about Lake County in between calls from loved ones telling m...
- Added: Nov 19, 2018
- Length: 56:36
For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 28:00
Rabbi Baruch Jean "BJ" Thaler sits in on Radio Jail and, in between calls, discusses the philosophy of incarceration and how those who committed cr...
- Added: Oct 07, 2018
- Length: 54:23
Social movements and party politics - inherently at odds or natural allies? This week, in his first in-depth TV appearance, Maurice Mitchell, the n...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 28:00
Science and environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New York Times. ...
Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KVNF, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 7
This week, The RDD is at a coffee shop in Downtown Bowling Green. Since 1989 Grounds for Thought has offered coffee, used books, records and comic...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 16, 2018
- Length: 06:13
- Purchases: 1
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...
- Added: Jul 13, 2018
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
