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Steve Arveschoug on leadership, anxiety and getting help
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Steve Arveschoug is the executive director of Big Sky Economic Development in Billings and an advocate for leaders to embrace vulnerability and men...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
War Of The Words
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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Dr. Jo Lukito of the University of Texas, Austin has made using science to understand political language her life’s work. She joins Jess for the th...

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Priya Subberwal on storytelling, ecology and resilience
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Priya is an interdisciplinary ecologist and artist with an extensive background in multimedia storytelling and a passion for connecting with the na...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 1
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
Looking at the Unbearable with Dr. Gabor Maté & V (formerly Eve Ensler)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Experts say we must look at the root causes of our pain, and yet the US is in the grip of a battle over exactly that — with efforts to ban books, c...

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Park High School students on youth climate action
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guests are Victoria, Remy, Josie and Anders—four students from Park High School in Livingston, Montana. These students are part of a sc...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
How to Fortify Democracy in 2024: A Citizen’s Guide by Sam Daley-Harris
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Civic courage — what does it look like and how can more of us embody it? Our guest Sam Daley-Harris believes we need advocacy organizations to tra...

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


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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You’ve seen them in protests since the start of the Israel/Hamas war — from New York City’s Grand Central Station and the Statue of Liberty, to the...

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


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
016: Stuttering out loud: embracing speech diversity and fighting shame around stuttering, 12/29/2023
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
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Stuttering has long been the butt of many jokes. People who stutter are working to change that.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
Debt, Democracy & Disarray: Astra Taylor on “The Age of Insecurity” (Release Date- December 20, 2023)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The average household holds over $100 thousand in debt. The climate crisis, threats to democracy, and global wars add more worry to our already str...

Bought by KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, WNYE, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Prison Creative Arts Project: Imagination in the Face of Incarceration
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) is an independent program of the University of Michigan that supports formerly incarcerated artists, facili...

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
BIPOC Media on the Fight for Fair Wages — & Anti-racist Unions
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Over 450,000 workers have gone on strike in 2023. Many are celebrating this revival of labor power, but what does it mean for workers of color — of...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, WNYE and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Josh Olsen of Montana Wilderness School
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is Josh Olsen, co-founder and program director of the Montana Wilderness School, a Bozeman based organization that offers expedit...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Colette Pichon Battle on Climate Justice Reparations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Climate change isn’t looming, it’s here. We have crossed what some call the change horizon. Can it also be a liberation horizon? “There’s beautifu...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Naomi Klein: Tackling the “Doppelganger”, Disinformation & Lies
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new book, "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World”, award-winning journalist Naomi Klein describes being confused with Naomi Wolf, a con...

Bought by KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
70 Million - Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Harris, photographed in her home. , Credit: Amarr Croskey
On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting m...

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


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
2023-08-11 Just a Walk or Bike Ride Away: The 15-minute City
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Can you imagine if everything you needed in your everyday life was just a walk or bike ride away? That’s the goal of the 15-minute City, a new name...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
230811: Just a Walk or Bike Ride Away: The 15-minute City, 8/11/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Can you imagine if everything you needed in your everyday life was just a walk or bike ride away? That’s the goal of the 15-minute City, a new name...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Frances Goldin, Rabble Rousers & A NYC Housing Struggle Wins (August 9, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A new film tells how New Yorkers, led by Frances Goldin, won a 50-year housing struggle against developer Robert Moses.

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


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Anita Cameron & Keith Jones on The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Civil Rights Milestone With Miles To Go
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Disability justice activists Anita Cameron & Keith Jones join Laura Flanders to discuss The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). What are the suc...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE, RadioStPete Florida, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
What is a Solidarity Economy? [The Kola Nut Timebank Story]
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What if there was a way to trade time and share skills with your neighbors in a way that met a range of needs without involving cash? Since 2017, t...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WNYE


  • Added: Jul 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
America's Drug Price Nightmare: Public Production Can Save Lives
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What progress is being made to tackle America’s killer drug price problem?

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


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2023-05-05 Get Up, Stand Up: What Actions Move the Needle?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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From the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, activists have long sought to bring pressing issues into the public c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
20230505: Get Up, Stand Up: What Actions Move the Needle?, 5/5/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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From the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter, activists have long sought to bring pressing issues into the public c...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
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