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Two and one half minute commentary on why House Republicans took their 40th meaningless vote to repeal Obamacare before getting out of town for a 5...
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Unions are getting weaker, and even more threatening, says labor leader and author Bill Fletcher Jr., the general public no longer understands or s...
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Mindlessly we go about lives. We don't even realize our prejudices. We don't even know our assumptions. We buy into whatever it is that the medi...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 31:30
- Purchases: 1
How much doe we know about the food we eat?
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 27:59
A 60 second quake, wreaked complete, long term havoc over the country of Haiti
- Added: Jul 17, 2013
- Length: 26:50
An interview with investigative journalist, bestselling author, and economist Greg Palast, on the economic crisis in Greece.
- Added: Jun 23, 2013
- Length: 25:22
Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the gender gap and gun control, and why it will make a difference in the next elec...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Renowned musician Jen Chapin joins host Ian Lawton, who muses on the miracle of being alive in each moment. By reframing the eastern idea of "empti...
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 28:59
Pregnant women in America’s prisons are being shackled to their beds; others are being sterilized. Correctional institutions claim the policies are...
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Ian Lawton's theme in this episode of Soulseeds Radio explores putting fear in perspective. As Emerson said, "Do the thing you fear and the death o...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Soulseeds Radio host Ian Lawton explores casting your whole vote -- not just voting once every four years, but letting your whole life, all your wo...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 29:27
- Purchases: 1
Ian Lawton looks at many sides of Faith -- taking power where you can control things in your life, surrendering where you can't control things in y...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 1
Welcome to Soulseeds Radio with host Ian Lawton -- talking today about hope which is not just an idea, not just a philosophy, but something that's ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
From Palestinian farmers to shootings at the US and Mexico border; living in the shadow of the wall.
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Energy policy expert Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation talks about what state and local governments, as well as Congress and the Pr...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 28:18
Professor Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ makes the case that the US’ criminal ju...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
On this edition we take a look at the Zack Chambers Emergency Services Foundation, whose aim is to develop first-response emergency services in two...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
It's that time again. Every year since 2009, Minneapolis-based Queer Bike Gang has hosted the LGBTQA-themed alley-cat bike race, Cirque du So Gay. ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
In spite of the current state of the economy, the next 25 years will see an unprecedented rise in human wellbeing.
- Added: Sep 28, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 29:01
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill will suggest that we must move beyond the narrow perception of the ocean as a natural system...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 05:38
