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In this week’s Eco Report feature we hear from Elisa Pokral, Community Outreach Coordinator of the newly rebranded Waste Reduction District of Monr...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:09
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Congress is wrangling over the Farm Bill, which includes over $3 billion for giant agriculture corporations and multimillionaire "farmers" who don'...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Summer in August is known as “dog days” – hot and muggy, panting canines with tongues hanging out, alongside their disgruntled people. Some of th...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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Two episodes about people struggling to see eye-to-eye.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host Martha Burk
A new group is mobilizing Moms across the country, hoping to change the way schools teach and operate, and they've got some high profile support. W...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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A Council on Academic Freedom launched at Harvard March 2023 and has some similar goals to a panel I helped create with Yale President Peter Salove...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 35:37
Caption: An unhoused man who goes by “Si Pues” sits with his belongings after moving them around the block during a sweep in Van Nuys, Calif. on July 29, 2022. Once the sweep was finished he will move back to the same spot., Credit: Alisha Jucevic
This week on Making Contact we continue with our look at a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California and how they were f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Former U.S. Senators Doug Jones and Bob Corker discuss the results of the midterm elections and what lies ahead of a newly divided Congress.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 37:42
Caption: Members of the single moms collective, Motherful, gather for a photo, Credit: Motherful
Ohio's single mom collective, Motherful, shows what it's like when pregnant and parenting people make decisions for themselves.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on Making Contact - with assistance from our podcast partners, 70 million - we head to the state of Alaska, where rising violent crime an...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The first of 3 episodes in a mini-series on Hispanic American Swing Voters. During National Hispanic Heritage Month, and in the lead-up to the 20...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2022
  • Length: 31:21
Caption: End of Bay State Bipartisanship?: These Not So United States (MA Part Two)
Former MA Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and UMass Amherst Professor Alex Theodoridis discuss how national polarization is affecting Massachusetts politics ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
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Jack Eidt discusses new government transitions in Honduras and Colombia. Professor Gerard Pigeon covers the history of Haiti, and why we have seen...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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New York City taxi drivers were drowning in debt because they had to buy their licenses from the city. We join our friends at the podcast Self-Evid...

Bought by WXDU, WFHB, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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EcoJustice Radio Executive Producer Jack Eidt shares speeches and discussions from multiple street actions on national and international climate,...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands....

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Wait, I’m Not the Crazy One! Sarah Longwell, Conservative Watchdog of Republican Sanity
Sarah Longwell on Republican accountability post-Trump, in conversation with creator/host and lifelong Independent Robert Pease, and co-host and Ex...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:20
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The Outro Message to “Artists-In-Presidents: Transmissions to Power” is a soundscape bringing together messages from across the 21 episodes, and ne...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2021
  • Length: 07:20
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“We can’t lose sight of the fact that we need each other, especially because we don’t have precisely the same experiences, feelings, or words.” As...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:47
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“There is an urgency to save our time from becoming the cost of business.” Raqs Media Collective’s trio-logue binds economics to climate change, e...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 11:10
Caption: Jaime is speaking to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition about the 12 Moms initiative., Credit: But Next Time
In cities around the globe community organizers and direct service agencies are often the first line of response when a climate fueled natural disa...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose y...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
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“Resistance, and the fight for freedom are still sacred for us. We must not lose our last hope or abandon our dreams. And we want you not to lose y...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:31
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“[O]urs was a struggle not to take power. But to dismantle power altogether. We made presidency an empty seat, a void, a space never to be acquired...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 11:46