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How our cities are designed has a direct impact on our humanity towards
one another.
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB
- Added: Feb 26, 2024
- Length: 57:44
- Purchases: 2
More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...
- Added: Jan 27, 2022
- Length: 23:30
All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...
- Added: Jul 23, 2021
- Length: 04:26
Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 04:12
Public banks serving public interests. Find out more about BLEXIT at NextCity.org and learn about the Banking for Justice campaign at NewEconomynyc...
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 03:00
This episode, we focus on two individuals who are working to organize support systems for communities that are directly affected or targeted by law...
- Added: Mar 02, 2017
- Length: 29:15
In one of America's most expensive cities, there's a fringe political party whose name sums up their concerns: The Rent is Too Damn High. That city...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 1
There are at least 7,000 homeless people in San Francisco each night, and only enough shelter space to house a small fraction of them. This is one ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 1
Imprisonment, oppressive laws, and harassment of journalists - these are just a few means of censorship around the world. The use of these repressi...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
At the age of 51, William Bennett was one of the oldest people in California who could claim that. But in June 2013, eight months after leaving pri...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 07:25
At the Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center, two dozen residents of North Beach come on a recent Tuesday night to hear from neighbors who have experi...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 08:11
Protests against the tech industry’s impact on housing have grown in number and variety. They’ve been personal, with individual tech executives bei...
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 05:23
It’s a Tuesday evening in Oakland’s City Hall. A group of people ranging in age from their 20s to 50s are sitting, many in front of their laptops. ...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 04:54
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 05:13
On this edition, political science professor David Shirk sheds light on the history and politics of the war on drugs in Mexico. And an emerging mov...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KRZA
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
The number of older Americans working full time has been rising steadily for years. Many work because they have to. Some work because they want to ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 1
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 3
