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Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 43
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about people coming to terms with reality.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Special Report- Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism & Rice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
From: Tradeoffs
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It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2023
  • Length: 24:53
Texas Under Siege: Dobbs, Democracy & Bodily Autonomy in the Crosshairs
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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We’ve reconvened a panel of organizers and activists in Texas to discuss what has (or hasn’t) changed on the abortion, trans and voting rights fron...

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


  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice Encore
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
PRIDE SPECIAL- Imara Jones: Countering The Anti-Trans Hate Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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549 bills banning books, medical treatment, even access to the bathroom were introduced in 2023. As today’s guest says, the people driving the anti...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, Radio Catskill, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Black Maternal Mortality: How Do We Save Black Lives?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 31, 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 ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
V (formerly Eve Ensler): Reckoning with Our Past, Transforming the Future (Suggest- Women's History Month)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“Reckoning” is the new best-selling book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising, ...

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


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
“We Don’t Want to Leave Our Homes”: Stories from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian Diaspora
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, Ray brings us two stories from Armenia about disaster and discovery.

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


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Plant Remedies & COVID 19 w/Shontel
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
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Vaccines/Boosters

  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 11:22
Plant Remedies & COVID 19 w/Shontel
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
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Intro/Symptoms

  • Added: Jan 31, 2023
  • Length: 10:35
Once A Braided River
From: Barbara Bernstein
Caption: Risk in the North Reach, Credit: Kandace Manning
A tale about how Portland, Oregon abused and degraded the river that runs through it, and the current campaign to reclaim this stretch of river as ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:05
Acid Rain – What is it?
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
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Causes and effects

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:11
Sustainable Electronics Management
From: KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
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Donating used electronics for reuse

  • Added: Jan 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:09
Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s f...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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...

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


  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
National American Indian Heritage Month- Busting the Thanksgiving Myth: Native Sovereignty & the Red Road
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pilgrims, Indians, the myth of the grateful colonized person — it’s been at the core of a persistent but false Thanksgiving narrative that has dist...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Medicare’s Prescription Drug Plan Makeover
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Therese Humphrey Ball has struggled to afford her multiple sclerosis medications since her diagnosis in 2003., Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis for Tradeoffs
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 19:19
When judges dismiss claims of domestic abuse, children can pay the ultimate price
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Family court judges sometimes decide that domestic abuse claims are not credible. But making the wrong call can end with children paying the ultima...

Bought by WFHB and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Laguna Honda Hospital Must Self-Destruct in Order to Survive
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Laguna Honda Hospital's certification is under review, and doctors say this was preventable. Part 2.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
The Future of the AIDS Memorial Quilt
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in San Francisco. "Civic" hears from activists and officials about future plans for combating AIDS.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
While SF Fought COVID, HIV Prevention Efforts Stalled
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, resources were diverted from HIV prevention to battle the new health threat. "Civic" talks to doctors about how that ...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
2022-07-08 REWIND Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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We’re on track for yet another summer of record wildfires in the western U.S., endangering lives, displacing communities, and sending unhealthy smo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9

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