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EE 23-22: Gloria Lucas of Nalgona Positivity Pride celebrates all body types, 5/26/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Treatment for eating disorders is often inaccessible and ineffective, especially in communities of color. The founder of Nalgona Positivity Pride h...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for February 1, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Nuclear War Threat and Climate Crisis Move ‘Doomsday Clock’ 90 Seconds t...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 19, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: After Last Jan. 6th House Committee Hearing, Trump Continues to Escape Acc...

Bought by WFHB, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WETS


  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
URL - 50 Years After Roe, Is Reporting on Abortion Still Too White?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Forty percent of those who get abortion services in the U.S. are African Americans. Would you know it from the media coverage of the Supreme Court’...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Black Candidates, BIPOC Media: Making Coverage Complex and Better
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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New York City will likely elect its second African American mayor in November. Eric Adams, currently the Brooklyn Borough President, was declared t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Ma...

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for January 27, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Joe Biden’s Immigration Reform Proposals Will Test Prospects for Bipartisa...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for January 13, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump, GOP Extremism Constitutes a Direct and Continuing Threat to Democr...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Unforget, Dream, Build
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura speaks with Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of those narratives. They are “unforgetting” histories suppressed...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Election 2020 Special: More Than a Vote
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Voting in one of the most momentous presidential elections in the nation’s history is over. The morning after polls closed nearly 136 million ballo...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
200612: Will Climate Matter in the Election?, 6/12/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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With less than four months before early voting begins in the presidential election, America is enraged and inflamed across the country. People of a...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Environment Injustice As Usual During Pandemic
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura speaks with grassroots environmental organizers Cindy Donis and Laura Cortez from East Yard Communities for Environmental Ju...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 11, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Single-Payer System Would Be More Effective in Managing Pandemics; Julian ...

Bought by KMXT and WKPW


  • Added: Mar 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
John Carlos Frey on America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: John Carlos Frey, Sand and Blood, book cover art, Credit: John Carlos Frey
On today's program, John Carlos Frey, author of Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border, explores increased militarization at th...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Symbols of Resistance Part One: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chicano Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: film cover art, Credit: Freedom Archives
Our radio adaptation of the film Symbols of Resistance: A Tribute to the Martyrs of the Chicano Movement, offers a reflection on the untold stories...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 31, 2019
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Puerto Rico’s Uprising Demands Fundamental Change Beyond the Resignation ...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for June 12, 2019
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump Retreats From Mexico Tariff Crisis He Alone Created; June 15 Nation...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dana Frank on the Long Honduran Night
From: Making Contact
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June 2019 marks ten years since then President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a military coup. In this program, Dr. Dana Frank, author ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 10, 2019
From: Scott Harris
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Trump-Appointed Federal Judges Overturning Worker, Women’s, Consumer, Env...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Devon Peña — the art of decolonizing...everything.
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPlanet host Alan Wartes talks with professor Devon Peña.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2018-09-02 Carbon Captives
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fossil fuels have helped bring people out of poverty around the world, and many people working in the industry are proud of their contribution. Wil...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, NPR Now, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Andrea Doll, Human Rights Activist, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Andrea Doll
Interview by Ken Winkes: Andrea examines human rights in Guatemala from firsthand experience.

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:01
Michele Stelovich, President of the NWWCLC, & Edgar Franks, Organizer for C2C
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Michele and Edgar
Interview by Lori Province: Edgar and Michele discuss agricultural and food workers with a focus on Sarbanand Farms in Whatcom County.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2018
  • Length: 28:08
Edgar Franks, Civic Engagement Coordinator for Community to Community Development
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Edgar Franks
Interview by Lori Province: Edgar discusses agricultural and food workers.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:02