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"Honorable people can do terrible things" says Andrea Pitzer in her book "One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps." We talk to Andr...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Dec 17, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Nov 20, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
During the summer of 1967, Plymouth Avenue in North Minneapolis went up in flames. This was during a period known as the Long, Hot Summer when frus...
Bought by KVSC and MPR News Stations
- Added: Jul 18, 2019
- Length: 52:58
- Purchases: 2
Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and prop...
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 17:38
It's the 1970s and Exxon Research and Development wants to be the "Bell Labs of Energy."
- Added: Jan 21, 2019
- Length: 19:18
Anthony Flaccavento is running for the US House seat in Virginia's 9th district, a large, sparsely populated region in the southwestern corner of t...
- Added: Oct 31, 2018
- Length: 28:00
The Living Well Show presents Marceline Lasater, Attorney at Law, One person, One vote? A Texas attorney explains why, since 1911, our votes are no...
- Added: Aug 19, 2017
- Length: 28:31
On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton Universit...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:18
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 03:14
Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 27:19
September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Sep 18, 2016
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Penny Rosenwasser is an activist and author of “Hope Into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite our Fears.” On this edition of Making Co...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Dollar General is coming to Georgetown...
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 02:53:07
Anton Treuer co-founded Bemidji’s Truth and Reconciliation group. He’s been producing a series for Northern Community Radio called Anishinaabenaaji...
Bought by WGZS
- Added: Jan 19, 2016
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 1
Our guest David Blight reminds us that Americans are re-fighting the Civil War 150 years after it ended. Historians, he said, “buried the questions...
- Added: Apr 11, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
In this provocative radio essay, a commonplace encounter with racial profiling opens the door to the vast and painful reality of racism in the Unit...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Feb 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Why torture doesn't work. How to trick the enemy into revealing secrets. Lessons from the Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe. The British Poli...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRPI
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 27:31
- Purchases: 2
In the foothills of the Sierra Nevada lies the San Juan Ridge. On the Ridge, tucked away amongst towering pines, flanked by two forks of the Yuba R...
- Added: Oct 03, 2014
- Length: 28:25
We’re looking at liberal Zionism, enduring a crisis after a brutal summer in Gaza. It’s prompted handwringing for American Jews and Israelis who ar...
Bought by WRPI, KZYX, and Radio Catskill
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 3
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: May 22, 2013
- Length: 03:36
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
Listen back as KUT’s Rebecca McInroy talks about what it means to be “American” with UT Anthropology Professor John Hartigan, The Department Chair ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 01:01:51
Anton Treuer recently spoke at the Bemidji Public Library about subjects addressed in his book "Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Wer...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 40:35
- Purchases: 1
