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Meet the BIPOC Press- Ibram X. Kendi: How to Make America Antiracist?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight over what can and can’t be taught in schools is shaping up to be one of the most controversial issues in a pivotal mid-term election year...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Immunocompromised in a COVID Weary World
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Lindsay Ryan, an immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 14:43
  • Purchases: 1
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Refugee Stories from Kyiv to Tripoli
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we hear stories from people seeking refuge, and how war and immigration policy impact people on the ground.

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


  • Added: Apr 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Aiming High: Kamiah high schooler on city council
From: Lauren Paterson
Caption: Kaylee Hunt stands in front of Kamiah's City Hall.
The Kamiah (CAM-EE-EYE) City Council has been struggling for nearly a year to get a fourth City Council person. Now, they’ve successfully appointed...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 02:52
Water Ethics Network
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Aceh, Indonesia , Credit: Creative Commons @Rachmat04
This week on World Ocean Radio we're introducing listeners to the Water Ethics Charter-- recommendations from a global Water Ethics Steering Commit...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 05:08
Imani Perry: The Future of Democracy Depends on the South
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As goes the South, so goes the nation. It may be a cliché but according to this week’s guest it’s true. In South to America: A Journey Below the Ma...

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


  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
How to Fund Ocean Conservation
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio: five suggested strategies as laid out by Karl Burkart (Managing Director of One Earth and formerly the Director of ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 05:12
Medicare’s Unprecedented Alzheimer’s Drug Decision
From: Tradeoffs
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In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 22:47
Changing the Narrative About First Nations - Australia
From: Native Voice One
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Starting in 2019, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advocates began an ambitious two year effort to flip the script on sovereignty, self-determ...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Jan 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Fiona Hill on Saving Democracy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In the third and final episode of our series on Putin’s Russia, we feature an interview with Fiona Hill.

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Brothers On Three with Abe Streep
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guest is Abe Streep, author of Brothers On Three, a chronicle of the Arlee Warriors boys basketball team’s amazing run of state champio...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 26:21
  • Purchases: 3
EE 21-46: Frances Moore Lappé reflects on fifty years since her groundbreaking book, 11/12/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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It started as a one page handout and grew into a multi-million copy best seller. Lappé shares the origins of Diet for a Small Planet, and where the...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 54:01
13-14: Inalienable: Belonging to the Earth Community, 10/27/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Joanna Macy
Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecologica...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
COVID Diaries No1: Indigenous Communities
From: KRCL
Series: COVID Diaries
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Utah's Indigenous Communities share their experiences during COVID and quarantine.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 21:51
COVID Diaries No8: The Unsheltered
From: KRCL
Series: COVID Diaries
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RadioACTive's COVID Diaries series wraps with a look at the ways COVID has impacted unsheltered members of our community and the organizations that...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 22:01
COVID Diaries No7: Asian Americans
From: KRCL
Series: COVID Diaries
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In this #COVIDdiaries entry, Asian Americans in Utah share their experiences as hate-crimes and hate-speech targeting them are on the rise.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 22:40
Covid Couldn’t Stop Worker Owned Co-ops
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gay Calif. Supreme Court Justice values struggle
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Martin Jenkins makes history as the first openly gay Supreme Court of California justice, and only the third Black man ever to serve on the state's...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
The Night Sky
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Waimea State Recreation Pier, Waimea, HI USA, Credit: Casey Horner @mischievous_penguins
This week on World Ocean Radio we're looking to the night sky, to ponder the wonder contained therein, and to explore the danger of polluting it fo...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 05:08
The Future of Energy is Indigenous: Water Protectors v.s. Enbridge's Line3 Pipeline
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain mome...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR, and KVNF


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Guaranteed Income Initiatives Combatting Structural Inequality (Re-Air)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Thousands of Americans recently received direct payments from their government as part of the Biden Administrations American Rescue Plan to address...

Bought by KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - Music of Spheres, Go FlyEase, Prison Pell Grant
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Music of Spheres; Topic 2: Go FlyEase; Topic 3: Prison Pell Grant

Bought by KOWS, RADIOLEX, WYAP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KTNA


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 5
Price Lab: Digital Humanities Podcasting
From: KUNM
Series: Augmented Humanity
Caption: Julie Napolin
We talk with Julie Napolin, who helped create the Price Lab podcast, and with Sarah Milinski, the Price Lab program manager and podcast producer. ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Mariame Kaba: Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this inspiring Juneteenth conversation, abolitionist Mariame Kaba joins Laura and the Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis, to discuss how each of us—paren...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
COVID-19 and Applying to College
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Blunt Youth Radio producers cover the impact COVID-19 had on the college process looking at how both high schools and colleges adapted to support t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1

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