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270: Commodity or Human Right? How Community Wealth Building Can Address the Housing Crisis, 5/29/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
Housing is a human right –– or so says the international human rights law. But could we organize our economies with that principle in mind? Across ...

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Stephanie Flanders on A Trump Economy & What to Watch in The Ultimate Election Year
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Just in time for election season, Laura invites her sister Stephanie back to the program. Stephanie is the head of Economics and Government at Bloo...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Trust-Busting 2024 with Stacy Mitchell & Matt Stoller: A Bipartisan Battle Against Monopoly Power
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is 2024 the year of trust-busting? This bipartisan issue of small versus big is a fight taking place on the streets and in the federal and state co...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
2024-04-12 Nearly 2 Years In… Is the Inflation Reduction Act Delivering Yet?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In August 2022, Congress passed the biggest piece of climate legislation in our nation’s history: The Inflation Reduction Act, which put $400 billi...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, WLPR , Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 10
240412: Nearly 2 Years In… Is the Inflation Reduction Act Delivering Yet? , 4/12/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In August 2022, Congress passed the biggest piece of climate legislation in our nation’s history: The Inflation Reduction Act, which put $400 billi...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:56
268: From Wealth Supremacy to Community Wealth Building: Models for Democratizing the Economy, 3/20/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders, Credit: Photo by Don J. Usner
Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. N...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
267: Community Wealth Building: Democratizing the Economy, 2/21/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the economy, cre...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Marjorie Kelly on the Capitalism Crisis: “Wealth Supremacy” is Killing Us
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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"Capital bias" prioritizes wealth over people and the planet. What are the consequences? That question is at the core of “Wealth Supremacy: How the...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, Radio Catskill, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
(December 27, 2023 Re-Air) Jubilee Justice Black Farmers' Rice Project: 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 KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Insurance in a New Climate Era
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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We are aware of the key role played by insurance, more so as we face increasing events of extreme weather destruction. Government agencies are sign...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 05:16
World in Progress 28/09/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Why Croatia’s abortion debate is heating up. Abortion is legal in Croatia. So why are women having to travel to Slovenia to...

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Is the Banking System Safer Than It Was in 2008?
From: Open to Debate
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Silicon Valley Bank. Signature Bank. Credit Suisse. The global banking system may be facing its most significant crisis since 2008. Some say erodin...

Bought by WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
EE 23-15: Take a bite of the big apple at Gables Bagels, 4/7/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A new little bagel shop with a big personality brings an East Coast vibe to a Midwestern town.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
He was right about inflation. Biden wasn’t. Larry Summers on what’s coming next
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the A...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 40:25
Community Wealth Building: An Economic Reset
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...

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


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
2022-05-06 Big Money: Investment Managers Driving Corporate Action
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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More than half of Americans are invested in the stock market, either directly or through their retirement funds, but individual investors rarely th...

Bought by WGCU, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 11
220506: Big Money: Investment Managers Driving Corporate Action , 5/6/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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More than half of Americans are invested in the stock market, either directly or through their retirement funds, but individual investors rarely th...

  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
Ocean Capitalism: Under the Guise of New
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Is economic growth antithetical to the overall health of society? This week on World Ocean Radio we discuss the concentration of capital and offer ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 05:26
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
The Changemaker’s Playbook
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Former Obama campaign Chief Operating Officer Henry De Sio, Jr., shares his insights on how to approach the unique challenges and opportunities of ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Signs of speculation, cause San Francisco leaders to spend millions to buy apartment buildings
From: KSFP
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Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has promp...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
This New Cooperative Business Model Could Change Everything
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many of the world’s most successful businesses began as someone’s good idea. But the path from startup to conventional financial success typically ...

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


  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Earth Overshoot 2021
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: overshootday.org | #MoveTheDate, Credit: footprintnetwork.org
This week on World Ocean Radio we're discussing Earth Overshoot Day 2021 which landed on July 29th, meaning we are running an ecological deficit be...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 05:17
2021-03-28 Repugnant Markets: Should Everything Be For Sale?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Should we have the freedom to buy products or services that might upset or disgust some people?

Bought by WNYO, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUN, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 10