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211112: Climbing, Conservation and Capitalism, 11/12/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Rick Ridgeway estimates he’s spent about five years of his life sleeping in tents, often in the world’s most remote places alongside fellow outdoor...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
When Your Country Doesn’t Trust You
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re revisiting an episode we first released in May that explores the structural racism Asian Americans face within our government.

Bought by WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
GN_3.26_Life After Life
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Why be buried in a casket when you can be buried as a tree? Bios urns are giving people a second shot at life after death.

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
04-23-21 Living With Climate Disruption
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The impacts of climate change may come fast or slow. A wildfire amplified by drought may rip through a town in a matter of hours, or rising seas ma...

Bought by WCNY, KCPW Salt Lake City, KJZZ, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
210423: Living with Climate Disruption, 4/23/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The impacts of climate change may come fast or slow. A wildfire amplified by drought may rip through a town in a matter of hours, or rising seas ma...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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
Geraldine's Story: How Public Schools Are Failing Black Students with Dyslexia
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Geraldine Robinson, center, and one of her sons, right, wait for her to be honored for her advocacy by the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund in September 2019
Black students with dyslexia carry a heavy burden in public schools. This program centers around a grandmother who fought for years to get her gran...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Dr. Hassan Tetteh: It Took Perseverance to Keep Going
From: Shefik Macauley
Series: Shefik presents Invocation: The Journey Continues
Caption: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Dr. Hassan Tetteh is a board-certified surgeon specializing in thoracic surgery, critical care, heart and lung transplantation, rese...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:05
United We Dream and the Fight for Immigration Justice
From: When We Fight, We Win!
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How was the largest student immigrant movement in the US built? What are the deep-rooted issues and adversity that immigrants face in the USA today...

  • Added: May 27, 2020
  • Length: 44:40
Sampler for A SUDDEN LOSS - Memorial Day Tribute to Those Lost to COVID-19
From: Paul Ingles
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NOT FOR BROADCAST: On this page is a programmers' audition sample of the program A SUDDEN LOSS which will be released for download on Wednesday, M...

Bought by Boise State Public Radio, KSJE, 90.5 WESA, WHRV, KWGS and more


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 15:13
  • Purchases: 8
Replacing Detention with Meditation, "When I was White"
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Replacing detention with meditation. Topic 2: A complicated personal journey across race

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 48:34
  • Purchases: 1
Lockdown
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Sandip reflects on the connections between us, and the responsibility of us all to remain apart.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Resolving Conflict around Perceived Mental Illness
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This Peace Talks Radio program discusses lessening the stigma around commonly named mental illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, and psychos...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why are we making this podcast?
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch (left) and Kyle Norris work on the first season of Finding Fixes at Anna's dining room table., Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
We want to answer a question a lot of people ask us: Why are we making this podcast? Why make a podcast about solutions to the opioid epidemic? On...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 11:21
Susan Kuklin, author of "We Are Here To Stay: Voices of Undocumented Young Adults"
From: Generation Justice Admin
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Susan Kuklin is an author of more than thirty books for children and young adults, well known for her photo essays for young children and her oral ...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 21:08
A Peace Choir and a Peace Elder
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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We'll meet the founders of the New Mexico Peace Choir, and also a military veteran and long-time peace activist Sally-Alice Thompson who, at 95, is...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Mar 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Peace Choir and a Peace Elder
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We'll meet the founders of the New Mexico Peace Choir, and also a military veteran and long-time peace activist Sally-Alice Thompson who, at 95, i...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Elena
From: Media Humboldt
Series: Immigrant Voices
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Elena from El Salvador was excited to come to the United States but found her predicament for her and her son difficult. Not knowing any English, s...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 1
Osborn, John Jay:  A Marriage as a Separate Entity
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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“Listen to the Marriage” is a novel by John Jay Osborn, a retired lawyer and law professor. The story centers a marriage counselor and a recently s...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
People Like Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sayu Bhojwani
Less than two-thirds of the U.S. population is white, yet Congress is comprised of 81% white men. The discrepancy is also reflected in elected offi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2018-09-02 Carbon Captives
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Fossil fuels have helped bring people out of poverty around the world, and many people working in the industry are proud of their contribution. Wil...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, NPR Now, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Protecting and Defending Civil Rights
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with civil rights lawyer, Barbara Phillips, who is also a contributing writer to the anthology "Voices of Civil Rights Lawyers...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Tucson is Our Home, an Interview with Mayor Rothschild
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Houda recently had an opportunity to sit down and talk with Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:56
In Safe Hands
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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When we began Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship 20 episodes ago, Houda was focused on studying journalism and political science. But over the p...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:23
The First Woman on Utah's Supreme Court
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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Last November, Christine Durham retired from Utah's Supreme Court. She was the state's first female Supreme Court Justice. She joined Doug Fabriz...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 17:00