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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
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
Episode 50: Action is the Antidote to Despair
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 04:16
In her new film, The Edge of Democracy, director Petra Costa tells the story of how Brazil went from a rising star among free nations to a democrac...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Guy Bryant talks to his foster son, Romario Vassell, about what it means to be a foster parent to more than 50 kids.
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2019
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 1
He built Facebook's business model.....and then realized he was addicted to his phone.
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 43:36
In addition to the regular calls from loved ones telling messages to the inmates, former residents of the Tule Rehab Facility, which provides servi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2019
- Length: 53:32
Oral History project about the Three Mile Island partial-meltdown.
- Added: Mar 25, 2019
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 4
If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 06:44
My first experience with Baltimore City Jail, I think I was 17 years of age, and it just seems like it’s been repeatedly ever since. I’ve been in a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
Payam Feili could have gone on speaking tours, received standing ovations at AIPAC, and become a symbol of all that is good about the Jewish State....
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Feb 14, 2019
- Length: 25:56
- Purchases: 1
What happens when a civilization collapses? You can't go camping in Joshua Tree, that's what.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
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
What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for sexual abuse? What does it sound like for a survivor to get her needs met? Hea...
- Added: Dec 10, 2018
- Length: 56:15
However you put it, food is as political as it gets. Today, we'll hear from farmers, organizers, workers, and seed-keepers who all attended the NES...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
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
This week, we re-visit radio Kingston, a station connecting communities and lifting up voices. Than joining Laura in studio, activist DeRay Mckesso...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Lake County filmmaker and cinephile Devin Negrete sits in on Radio Jail, waxing poetic about Lake County in between calls from loved ones telling m...
- Added: Nov 19, 2018
- Length: 56:36
- Added: Nov 06, 2018
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...
- Added: Oct 30, 2018
- Length: 28:00
There are things that hold history for each of us – a stitch, a book, a hat – things that we carry around for our whole lives. In this episode, we...
- Added: Oct 12, 2018
- Length: 10:43
- Purchases: 2
Rabbi Baruch Jean "BJ" Thaler sits in on Radio Jail and, in between calls, discusses the philosophy of incarceration and how those who committed cr...
- Added: Oct 07, 2018
- Length: 54:23
Money Matters not only covers money and markets but helps the community through a variety of public programs such as food drives, matching funds pr...
- Added: Oct 06, 2018
- Length: 04:00
“Organizing with a caring heart” - listen in on this powerful conversation between two New Mexican community organizers, women at opposite ends of ...
- Added: Oct 02, 2018
- Length: 17:31
Alternative facts.
Fake news.
How are journalists grappling with this moment?
Dive into one journalist’s reckoning with truth.
- Added: Sep 26, 2018
- Length: 44:42
