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Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on th...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week, Laura talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement. If we take the ...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
We live in extremely violent times. Words can provoke aggression, insult and personal harm very quickly. Politicians spend much time trying to r...

  • Added: May 30, 2016
  • Length: 04:26
Caption: What Clean Elections Won't Clean, Credit: Susan Cook
Clean elections protect constituent rights so wealthy individuals or self-serving personal interests or six-figure job candidates don’t exploit the...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:44
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A new center supporting documentary film production and research has been established at Indiana University's Media School.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:45
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Scott Horton, attorney and contributing editor at Harper’s Weekly, author of the recent book, The Lords of Secrecy: Th...

  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:00
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Host Doug Storm is joined by David Delaney from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Steve Myers from the School of Informatics and Comp...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 59:40
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
Caption: An old clutch replaced might work better..., Credit: Susan Cook
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Toby Hawkins
This piece was produced for the 2nd Annual KCRW 24-Hour Radio Race, by Vanessa Lowe and Kent Sparling. It made it to the top ten finalists out of ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:09
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The public officials and the political candidates who shape public discourse through the impulsive and shallow convey far more about their ethics t...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:21
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The civil liberties of the Constitution are wholesome, pure, and good. They sometimes require holding two ideas in the mind at the same time, not e...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 05:36
Caption:  Species: Corruptjodchuckcasaliz Newjerseyish, Credit: Susan Cook
Coming through the transom today, a letter from New Jersey to share. Civil Liberties: New Jersey-style!! How are they taken? Oh, I guess they mean ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: Maine Guide William Sewall and Teddy Roosevelt, Credit: Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library (detail) 520.12-015
Just before the Olympics, the country if not the world received, from a bully pulpit, a message from my state's junior United States senator. On te...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: "...as close as you can to the truth, that wild horse that once you catch..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right. Thinking about what is right sometimes means finding the question that needs to ...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 01:01
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by Amy Friedman- Advertising company, Carmichael Lynch would never want to be viewed as outdated. But what happens when history threatens to get a ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:19
Caption: Organically-grown political influence is made in one way- and money can't buy it. , Credit: Susan Cook
No matter how many lawsuits are filed to make political influence available to the highest bidder, there is one kind that you can't pay for or crea...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Acupuncture is an ancient intervention for helping raise "chi"- pronounced "GEE" in English. For those for whom acupuncture treatments have enhanc...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 02:54
Caption: The Ponies would act fast when funding was cut. , Credit: Susan Cook
Long ago, The Cavalier, horsemen who helped Charles I fight off The Roundheads, created "Dos and Don'ts" for choosing the Ponies to stand by them ...

  • Added: May 17, 2011
  • Length: 01:36
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Hear what happens when award-winning filmmakers are locked in a room with world-class technologists for ten days to be creative, write code, and he...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 10:00
Caption: Pot Culture book
Back issues of High Time magazine were pulled from eBay and CBS turned down a Times Square advertisement from NORML: Chris Goldstein interviews Ste...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2010
  • Length: 13:54
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Youth Mic asks people what they think about how media portrays beauty.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2009
  • Length: 03:21

  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 2