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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
Documenting an Invisible Island
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 17:56
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
S2 Ep4: Some Patients Find Relief in Medical Marijuana
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Robin Guerrero overdosed on black-market fentanyl, but now has found tremendous relief from pain and anxiety by using medical marijuana.
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 24:49
S2 Ep 2: Treating acute pain to prevent opioid dependence
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Megan and Scarlett coming home from the hospital, Credit: The Swarners
Washington State law around opioid prescribing has recently changed. Reporter Eilís O’Neill follows a couple, Megan and Ben, through the birth of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 19:04
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
Rearranging the Numbers
From: Martine Chaussard
Caption: Ted Davis’ completed (and oddly shaped) Sudoku puzzles from a book called “Tricky Sudoku”
Pat and Ted Davis have been married for more than fifty years. But since Ted started showing signs of depression and dementia, he has become so qui...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 10:52
Oh, Give Me a Home | Promos
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Jumping Bison, Credit: Reuben Maness & Oakland Zoo
Radio promos for Threshold Season 01

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 3
Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 3 | Born Free
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Many cattle ranchers view wild bison as a threat to their livelihoods. But some think cattle and bison can coexist. On episode three of Threshold, ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
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
#1: Annalise, Here We Are
From: Nadia Abuelezam
Series: Palestinians Podcast
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In our first episode of Palestinians Podcast, we hear from Annalise Raziq, a storyteller from Chicago Illinois. Annalise describes her struggle wi...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 35:57
Getting around San Francisco after 65
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Christine Atkinson being helped off an On Lok van by driver Esteban Escobedo., Credit: Isabel Angell
Part of getting older means you can’t get around like you used to. Maybe you can’t drive a car anymore, or hike up those big San Francisco hills to...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 05:24
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
Moving Hands
From: Sara Robberson
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Paying for college is challenging for most students, but it's extra tricky for Jose Luis Zelaya. Jose is a graduate student at Texas A&M, but he is...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:08
WMMT - Reasons
From: The National Center for Media Engagement
Series: American Graduate
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Youth-produced content exploring the various reasons students drop out of high school, such as bullying and teen pregnancy.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 04:59
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
Cheryl Rogowski: Farm-to-Plate Innovator
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
Caption: Cheryl Rogowski, Farmer and MacArthur "Genius"
Where does our food come from? Since we pay close attention to so many aspects of food in the holiday season, host Majora Carter visits Cheryl Rogo...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, KVMR, KEDM, WZEN.org and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Marla Spivak: Think Like a Bee
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
Caption: Marla Spivak, Bee Researcher and MacArthur "Genius"
When you sit down at your holiday table, thank a bee. A third of the food on your plate is made possible by these pollinators, whose numbers are be...

Bought by KUER, KPIP-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, WLPR , KEDM and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Sharon Hanshaw: Leading Out of the Ruins
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Before Katrina, Sharon Hanshaw owned a beauty salon and lived in a house on a tree-lined street. All that all changed when the hurricane hit Biloxi...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Reimagining a New Way of Life
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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New Orleans East is home to the most-dense ethnically Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. In the Gulf region, about 80 percent of Vietnamese ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGNU Community Radio, Vermont Public, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8