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MOCK TRIAL: Should the Courts Restrict Access to the Abortion Pill?
From: Open to Debate
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The Supreme Court will soon decide on a case surrounding a medication used for abortion, mifepristone, and whether the drug should continue to be a...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Women's History- Post-Dobbs Crisis: Visions for Abortion Access & Radical Care
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Fake clinics are feeding people disinformation, laws are criminalizing doctors and patients, and the climate of stigma and fear has only worsened s...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for January 17, 2024
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
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...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Criminalized Survival
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Activist, Kim Dadou Brown, Credit: Daniel A. Nelson
In this episode, Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson talk with us about their documentary, And So I Stayed. This award-winning film centers three...

Bought by WUWM, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In today's episode, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary M...

Bought by KVNF and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
70 Million – Forget Reform, They Want Abolition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mike Milton at the Freedom Community Center in St. Louis, MO., Credit: Joe Martinez
This week on Making Contact we're taking you to St. Louis, Missouri with the Podcast 70 Million to learn about the city's ongoing efforts to re-ima...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Reforming Prosecutor Power - Especially After Roe
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Prosecutors are immensely powerful, especially now, after the overthrow of Roe. They decide which cases to bring, what charges to make and what sen...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for January 12, 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 Planning to Use the Constitution’s 12th Amendment to Steal the...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jan 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fallen Heroes 2021
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
Best of Making Contact, 2021
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this special year-end episode, Making Contact producers and staff turn the spotlight on some the best shows they aired in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gender Justice Requires more than Money say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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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
Caregiving as Infrastructure
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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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 Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Since October 2019, people in Lebanon have been protesting corruption, climate denial, big finance, and government ineptitude. Where does that work...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
January 6th, 2020 RERUN - Progressive Strategy Summit 2019 & Fire Drill Fridays
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Laura interviewed activists and congresswomen to understand how they see this critical moment when business-as-usual politics simply won’t cut it. ...

Bought by WRIR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
116-01: A Radical Idea to End Poverty--The Stockton Experiment
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Natalie Foster, Economic Security Project
As president, Democratic Senator Kamala Harris wants to give up to $6,000 to working families each year... as a tax credit. Entrepreneur Andrew Yan...

Bought by KWMR, KWIT, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Kathleen Curry: Modern woman of the West
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with former Colorado legislator Kathleen Curry.

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
116: A Radical Idea To End Poverty
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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This week, we hear about a radical plan to end poverty: Universal Basic Income. Lauren talks to the team behind an experiment with Guaranteed Incom...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, WLPR , KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
102: “There is no peak fury”: Rebecca Traister, Author of Good And Mad: The Revolutionary Power Of Women’s Anger
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Rebecca Traister, Credit: One World Journalist
It’s safe to say that many American women are pretty angry these days. Since the founding of this country, women have been faced with men in power...

Bought by KWIT, KCSB-FM, KKRN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
80: Mid-term election revisit - Kate Black, Chief of Staff for EMILY's List
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kate Black
In 2017, 16,000 women had raised their hand to run for office. One year later, it's 42,000. But what does it actually take to to win? And what will...

Bought by WLPR , C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
RDD: This Midsize City
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking about EPIC. EPIC stands for engaging people, inspiring change. They're the largest young profess...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 1
2021-03-07 The Value of Care: Feminism and Ethics
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do notions like care, compassion, and empathy change the way we view our obligations to others?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
92: Do Haters Deserve Our Compassion? - Sally Kohn, author of "The Opposite of Hate"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sally Kohn, Credit: Paul Takeuchi
Can you find compassion in your heart for the haters in your life? CNN political commentator and first-time author Sally Kohn says if we keep on ha...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWIT, KUT and more


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
80: How To Get More Women In Office - Kate Black, Chief of Staff for EMILY's List
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kate Black
More women than ever are raising their hands to run for office. But what does it actually take to to win? And what will be different when they do? ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KWIT, KWMR, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7