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20220708: REWIND Firefight: How to Live in the Pyrocene, 7/8/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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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...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
Reducing Teen Break-up Violence
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO episode correspondent Yamini Ranjan explores the dynamics of dating and breakups among teens with three guests...

Bought by KUHF and WVPE


  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
What Research Says About a Post-Roe World
From: Tradeoffs
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The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggests will happen to people who are denied abortions ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 17:37
Militarization and Uvalde: the Context Media Coverage Omits
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Whether it’s Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX or Philadelphia, PA — we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of terror at the muzzle of a gun. But all mass s...

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


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Answering the Call, Part 2: Struggling to Staff the Nation's New Crisis Line
From: Tradeoffs
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 1
Vitality Code -- Groks Science Show 2022-06-01
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Neil Cannon discussed health and wellness and his new book, The Vitality Code.

Bought by KDX Worldround Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
From: Tradeoffs
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 22:11
Winning War, Building Peace: Activists from Ukraine, Russia & The US Debate
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The latest peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war may lead to an eventual ceasefire but not before displacing millions and damaging the air, water a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Women's History Month: Indigenous Women and Leaders’ Lessons on Community Care, a Tipi Town Approach
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral land...

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


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: How Trans People Are Reclaiming Their Stories: Laverne Cox, Sam Feder
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Trans liberation is the latest frontline in the struggle for civil rights. In their new documentary, Disclosure, director Sam Feder and producer Am...

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
2021-12-24 Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Southeastern Virginia currently experiences the fastest rate of sea level rise on the Atlantic seaboard, and that’s only projected to accelerate. F...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WBHM, WLPR , KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
211224: Managed Retreat: When Climate Hits Home, 12/24/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Southeastern Virginia currently experiences the fastest rate of sea level rise on the Atlantic seaboard, and that’s only projected to accelerate. F...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Where It's At (Vol.20)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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The latest JazzGrass musical expression of just what incarnation is going on out there in the world today

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:40
Extremist Ties of Survivalist Groups at Paramilitary Training Camps In Rural America (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/29/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, WNYE, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Red Road to the Future: Native Sovereignty is Key to Climate Justice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the midst of a national reckoning with white supremacy and colonial history, Indigenous people are demanding a new relationship with DC — honori...

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


  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Call 311 about tents? Here’s what homeless people and advocates say happens
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
LANDBACK! A Tipi Town Approach to Healing & Homelessness
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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On Indigenous Peoples' Day, Laura reports from “He Sapa‘’, the sacred Black Hills of South Dakota where NDN Collective is reclaiming ancestral land...

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


  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
COVID Diaries No2: Incarcerated
From: KRCL
Series: COVID Diaries
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Families share their concerns for incarcerated family members, call on the state to do more

  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 18:45
COVID Diaries No5: Addiction
From: KRCL
Series: COVID Diaries
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COVID has increased pressure on folks struggling with substance abuse disorder. In this edition of COVID Diaries, Tamrika Khvtisiashvili checked in...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 16:30
Life During COVID
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: unhappy masked man, Credit: https://snappygoat.com/free-public-domain-images-man_depressed_hoodie_unhappy/rbaXF2P4I275TeGAlqcCb1xcuuBZmgLxsv7PXwyGPcX1.html#,0,0.73b9015dfe5a5122dd72979ddbb7ad50a2964544
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for...

Bought by Radio Catskill, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Response: The Fight for Justice after the Grenfell Tower Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On June 14, 2017, a fire started in a 24-story public housing apartment in West London called Grenfell Tower. The fire raged all night and reduced ...

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


  • Added: Aug 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Big Pharma vs The People: The Fight to Save America’s Largest Generic Drug Manufacturer
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This July, America’s largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its parent ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to col...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Self Evident: Hate Goes Viral
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sojung Yi, Charlie Wang and Melissa Borja, Credit: Self Evident
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Cristina Jiménez: Dreaming & Building Immigrant Freedom
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In a recent episode called Unforget, Dream, Build, we featured two Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of the idea that immigrants are a ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3

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