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In 2022, Eliza Donohue was caught in an avalanche while backcountry skiing. The accident left her with serious physical injuries, as well as mental...
- Added: May 01, 2024
- Length: 14:01
Firefighter and author Jeremy Norton talks about his new book "Trauma Sponges"
- Added: Oct 12, 2023
- Length: 11:55
On today's show, we'll be looking at the environmental impact of the rail industry and hear from people in two communities currently impacted by ra...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KMUN
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
This week on Making Contact we continue with our look at a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California and how they were f...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KMUN
- Added: Jan 10, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In our annual Fallen Heroes episode, we share words of inspiration from, and about some lesser-known grassroots activists who passed away in 2021.
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WXDU
- Added: Dec 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 29:00
The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right. They're also locking up asylum seekers f...
- Added: Jan 04, 2021
- Length: 29:59
Topic 1: A White's Supremacist's Journey Out of Hate. Topic 2: Dead Or Alive, Whales Give As Much As They Take From Their Ocean Environments.
Bought by KOWS
- Added: Sep 08, 2020
- Length: 51:30
- Purchases: 1
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
Five years after Michael Browns death at the hands of a police officer galvanized criminal justice reform activists in St. Louis, they're gaining s...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
It's Father's Day in the Lake County, California Correctional Facility. Listen as men get live messages from their children, as well as significant...
- Added: Jun 14, 2018
- Length: 58:09
Aisha Jumaan and Mohammad Al-Nimr Expose the US involvement with Saudi Aggression
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
One of my most popular shows of 2017. Originally produced in April 2017.
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 2
This week we feature an interview with Patrick, who reflects on his
experience with addiction and prison. His story is both deeply personal
and ana...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 30:10
Our focus for this episode is writing to prisoners. After some prison-related news, we speak with Lukah Revolt, who explains how she went from writ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 19:53
In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...
- Added: Mar 29, 2017
- Length: 29:50
Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 28:10
We return to the topic of education within the prison system. After some prison news, we hear a statement written by someone who taught in prisons ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2017
- Length: 29:04
In this episode, we introduce a new topic, going “off-paper.” When
prisoners finish their time and re-enter the free world, they confront a
whole h...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 28:12
We go to the neighboring state of Ohio this week in order to dig into
the history of Midwestern prison resistance. We share more of the story
of Si...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 29:54
This week, we hear some prison-related news and then return to the topic of pregnancy in prison. We continue our discussion with Dr. Alicia Suarez,...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:03