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Ever have a difficult conversation about climate? Pretty much everyone has. Knowing all the facts and figures only goes so far when talking to some...
Bought by WGCU, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz, Ohm Radio and more
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 12
Ever have a difficult conversation about climate? Pretty much everyone has. Knowing all the facts and figures only goes so far when talking to some...
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 58:59
In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, expectations were high that if systems-change around policing were possible anywhere, it might b...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
Series: Akins High School Spring 2021
DaShawn Barr played a prominent role in the racial justice protests that occurred in Austin, Texas in summer 2020.
- Added: May 28, 2021
- Length: 05:35
As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain mome...
Bought by KMUN, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR
- Added: May 19, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
The Biden administration has promised to make Covid-19 vaccines available to all US adults by May 1st, but getting a vaccine to those who need them...
Bought by KDNK, KWMR, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 24, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Bard College, a small Private University in New York State, offers the Bard Prison Initiative, or BPI, to interested inmates who have committed ser...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:33
Protecting forests by turning them into graveyards.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:19
In Great Britain, the milkman is returning to your door with glass milk bottles.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:24
A laundry mart owner cleans clothes for the homeless for free.
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 02:17
Toronto Chef, Jagger Gordon, came up with the Feed It Forward concept after seeing so much food go to waste in his industry.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
A high school janitor opens her heart and a closet full of neccessities for kids.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Badass biker chicks motorcycle through city traffic to get mother's milk to babies.
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Guests Chris Jonas, co-founder and Executive Director at Littleglobe, and Katy Gross, Littleglobe's Deputy Director and Education Director. Littleg...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Using the barbershop in black communities to help black men stay healthy.
- Added: Jan 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
While social distancing is pushing many artists to perform on video screens, Minneapolis musician Philip Shorey seeks small, in-person audiences. K...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Dec 13, 2020
- Length: 06:30
- Purchases: 1
Winona State University professor of geoscience and astronomer Jennifer Anderson talks with us about the latest Mars rover recently launched.
- Added: Dec 02, 2020
- Length: 27:08
A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together
- Added: Nov 22, 2020
- Length: 28:19
In this episode, we seek to make sense of the recent New York Times articles about the President’s tax returns. We also explore the U.S. tax system...
- Added: Oct 02, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we check in with potters, painters, writers, and action figure makers, to see how they’re faring during—and in spite of—the corona...
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 54:00
Nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty, making less than $26,200 a year for a family of four. Their stories and their struggles, however, are ...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 22, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Mishy Harman talks to two members of the IDF’s Home Front Command—a sergeant and a major. They discuss the army’s peculiar mission among the Ultra-...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 14:46
In the 21st century, why are we still dealing with misogyny?
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9 and more
- Added: Aug 17, 2020
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 15
Today, we're talking to Adam Cassi, who has his degree in Restoration Ecology from Defiance College, and is currently the Executive Director for K...
- Added: Aug 03, 2020
- Length: 06:22
