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She Fought Goodyear in 2009:Today's Women Are Still Winning
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
In 2009 Lilly Ledbetter learned she had been paid 40% less than men in the same Goodyear Tire & Rubber job. It was a long slog, but she won, and wo...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Season 1, Episode 7 - 'Green Amendment' feat Maya K van Rossum
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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We all deserve clean air and clean water.

Bought by WDSE, KTRT RADIO INC, and WOJB


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Insurance in a New Climate Era
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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We are aware of the key role played by insurance, more so as we face increasing events of extreme weather destruction. Government agencies are sign...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 05:16
Poisoning the Hudson...Again - with Dr. Gordon Edwards
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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What's wrong with dumping a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River?

Bought by WRFA-LP, WYAP, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
Pete Buttigieg on Repowering America
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From EV's to conspiracy theories

Bought by Classic107.3, KGUA, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Why is America So Afraid of China?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Have the US and China given up on engagement?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Tribute to the Late Urban Provocateur Mike Davis
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to th...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
The Pandemic Lessons We Haven’t Learned (And Why It’s Not Too Late)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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It’s been three years since the lockdowns of COVID-19. How can we make up for lost time?

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Why China Can’t Forget the Century of Humiliation
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Authors Orville Schell and John Delury join Ray to discuss China’s quest for global dominance.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Why the World Cup is So &#*$&%! Expensive
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray teases the tournament's most interesting storylines and untangle FIFA's complicated ledger to understand why the tournament is so expensive.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Fight to Keep Native Kids on Tribal Lands
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We focus on two cases that are affecting the past and future of indigenous children in North America

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
How Technology Fights – and Fuels – Misinformation
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of On Shifting Ground, we look at the global relationship between misinformation, war, and peace.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Larry Brilliant on Stopping The Next Pandemic
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode of “On Shifting Ground,” epidemiologist Larry Brilliant joins Ray Suarez to break down what the global pandemic response com...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Hate Speech and Extremism: What to Listen For Ahead of Midterm Elections
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Former Obama speechwriter, Cody Keenan, joins Ray to discuss his new book, "Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America." And lat...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
What Brittney Griner’s Detention Can Teach Us About Putin’s War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we tell the stories of two Americans detained abroad—not by rogue terrorist groups but established foreign governments.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Historic Political Transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jack Eidt discusses new government transitions in Honduras and Colombia. Professor Gerard Pigeon covers the history of Haiti, and why we have seen...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Feeding 7.9 Billion…Without Wrecking the Planet
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we hear from two experts with competing visions of how we can sustainably feed a growing planet.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Lost Children of Turtle Island: The Forgotten History of Indian Boarding Schools
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Our guests Indigenous Activists SunRose IronShell and Manape LaMere speak on the history and impact of the Indian Boarding Schools, generational tr...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
A Blurred Civilian/Soldier Line? Accountability and Ethics in the Age of Drones
From: Mateo Schimpf
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First, Ray talks with journalist Azmat Khan about accountability remote warfare and later, with professor Shannon French, about the ever-evolving f...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Transforming Pain Into Hope: 25 Years After War in Sierra Leone
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray interviews Aminatta Forna and Chernor Bah: two Sierra Leoneans who are working to rebuild their country after growing up in the shadow of civil...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
How the Story of Vincent Chin Still Inspires Calls for Asian American Justice
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We revisit a 2021 interview with filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña about her documentary, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and then speak with her and activist...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
NATO and the “Age of Disasters”: The Future of Crisis Management
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray sits down with Ivo Daalder, President of the Chicago Institute on Global Affairs and former US Ambassador to NATO, to discuss the alliance’s ev...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
30 Days of Wearing My Trash with Rob Greenfield - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Each US resident creates an average of 4.5 - 4.9 pounds of trash per day. For many, once it’s in the garbage can, it’s out of sight, out of mind. H...

  • Added: May 30, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
White Supremacist Terrorism: From Christchurch to Buffalo
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez invites Daniel Byman, author of Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism, to discuss the roots of the global white...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and WUGA (part of GPB)


  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Biden’s Ukraine Strategy, At Home and Abroad
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Ray Suarez discusses President Biden’s Ukraine strategy with US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet. Then, KPBS’s Gust...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4