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Jumaane Williams & Hell Gate on Rikers: Why is it So Hard to Close a Jail?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The plan to permanently close Rikers in New York City and replace it with four borough facilities has hit roadblocks. Why is it so hard to close a ...

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  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Special Report: Deciding the Fate of Democracy in North Carolina
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this special report, we examine anti-democratic election law and a legal case — Moore vs. Harper — which is to be decided this term by the US Su...

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  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Rising Against Asian Hate: Turning Grief Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Join Laura and Gina Kim for this impactful conversation on combating anti-Asian hate. A documentary series on PBS, Rising Against Asian Hate: One ...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Gaping Inequality, The American Nightmare for Workers: Abigail Disney
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s flagship theme park, she disc...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: Resistance, Money, and the Struggle for Trans Rights
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Black Journalists on Police Violence: Reporting from the Inside Out
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis generated a significant amount of conversation and coverage, while the killing of environmental activ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Reunification Camp Survivor Recounts Horrific Experience
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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When a family court rules that a child was brainwashed into lying about parental abuse, judges routinely order the child into programs called reuni...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Industry of Defending Child Abusers
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Family court judges routinely grant full custody to a parent after a child alleges they’re abusing them. That’s because they believe the other pare...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
The Monsanto Saga with Carey Gillam
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The sordid story of the corrupt Monsanto corporation, which created a highly toxic, cancer-causing pesticide and then developed GMO crops that were...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:32
Something in the Water with Deena Winter
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Investigative reporter Deena Winter talks about 3M dumping PFAS chemicals and the impact on the health of kids in the area.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:02
North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolina’s electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened a...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Toxic Turf with Amy Griffin
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Are artificial turf fields causing cancer in young athletes?

  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:14
What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a pla...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Gina Kim: Rising Against Anti Asian Hate
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In March 2021, a 21-year-old man murdered eight people, including six women of Asian descent, at three spas in Atlanta, Georgia. The act of violenc...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
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’...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Linda Villarosa: the Dobbs Decision: a Death Sentence for Black Women?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health a death sentence for women of color? The overturning of Roe v. Wade not only creat...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Part II: Ryan Merkley
From: Jed Alexander
Series: "What is Mis / Dis?"
Caption: Ryan Merkley, Aspen Institute , Credit: Picture provided by Ryan Merkley
Managing Director of Aspen Digital at the Aspen Institute, Ryan Merkley briefly discusses a report on mis- and disinformation released in November,...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 07:41
Congressman Jamie Raskin On January 6th: After a Failed Coup, a Successful One?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, intended to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America, “...

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  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Karate Camp 2021: Afflatus
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Tonight on The Live Feed we head back to this year’s Karate Camp festival to check out a set from Winona’s own, Afflatus. Afflatus will take you on...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 45:25
Karate Camp 2021: Immaculate Beings
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of The Live Feed we revisit Karate Camp to hear from The Immaculate Beings. Their bandcamp page would describe them as an eclectic ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 01:06:35
Bomb Threats Shake HBCUs During Black History Month
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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More than 20 Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) received bomb threats at the start of Black History Month — including a threat on V...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Extremist Ties of Survivalist Groups at Paramilitary Training Camps In Rural America (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/29/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
In Buffalo with India Walton: An Insurgent Candidate Runs for Mayor
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Eyes across the nation are on the mayoral election in Buffalo, New York, where insurgent candidate India Walton could become the first Black woman—...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4