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Women's History Month- Andrea J. Ritchie: Emergent Strategies for Abolition Toolkit (3/13/24 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizer...

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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ben Jealous: Healing Parables for the Environmental Movement (August 16, 2023 Release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Sierra Club’s Ben Jealous discusses his plans for the environmental organization.

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


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
BIPOC Media Covered the Elections Differently
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When it came to the midterms, mainstream white pundits got a lot wrong that local, Black, Brown and BIPOC media got right, and they're still missin...

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


  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Conservation Corps MN/IA with Hollis Emery
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Today on DCK, we learn about Conservation Corps Minnesota and Iowa, which is an AmeriCorps agency that provides opportunities for young people to w...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 19:12
  • Purchases: 1
Building Public Trust For Public Health
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, The Laura Flanders Show premieres ‘Building Public Trust for Public Health’ on the challenges of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout across the...

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


  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Pre-Election Special: Noam Chomsky and Universalizing Resistance
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week Laura Flanders checks in with one of the leading social critics of our time, MIT professor emeritus, Noam Chomsky. He shares how this el...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Book Art, Credit: Paul Kivel
We speak with author Paul Kivel about his book, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice. The discussion offers a framework f...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mrs. Winona County on Crohn's and Colitis
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: KQAL's Teri Tenseth visits with Mrs. Winona County, Nicole Brennan, Credit: Doug Westerman
On this episode of "Culture Clique" we visit with the current reigning Mrs. Winona County. She will share with us details about her competition thi...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2016
  • Length: 12:47
Thwarting Democracy, the Battle for Voting Rights
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bloody Sunday-Selma, Alabama
It’s election season! But since the 2013 Supreme Court ruling on the Voting Rights Act, many states have pushed changes to voter laws that raise di...

Bought by KMUN and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Warrior Dash to Benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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On June 30th and July 1st in Hastings Minnesota, The Warrior Dash will be taking place. It's a 5K obstacle course that has participants jumping ove...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 09:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Incarcerated mother in Decatur Prison’s Nursery Program and Reunification Unit. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Shannon Heffernan http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Lauren Kessler, journalist and author of Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Lauren Kessler worked for minimum wage as an RA (resident assistant) while writing FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER'S (formerly titled, Dancin...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
AVR Interview: Robert Platshorn - Black Tuna Diaries: America's Most Notorious Marijuana Smuggler
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Black Tuna Diaries
Robert Platshorn "Bobby Tuna" spent 30 years behind bars after being convicted of marijuana smuggling in the 1970's. Out of prison now, Bob has pie...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 30:46
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03