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Cell Phones and Brain Cancer with Ellen Marks
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 23, 2023
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 2
The GOP, Gun Violence, and a Great Plan
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
If you're getting nervous these days about going to the grocery or taking your kid to the ballpark for fear of getting shot, rest easy. Republicans...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Militarization and Uvalde: the Context Media Coverage Omits
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Whether it’s Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX or Philadelphia, PA — we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of terror at the muzzle of a gun. But all mass s...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Covid-19 Demands a National Reckoning
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The U.S. already has over one million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and tens of thousands of deaths. Victims of the disease are disproportionately bl...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Battlefield Earth
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Well you'll never guess who joined us all the way from Whitesburg, Kentucky, to talk about the particular desert landscape of SE New Mexico and Eas...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
One Long Night: Andrea Pitzer on the Global History of Concentration Camps
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
128: The Connection Between Extremism & Misogyny - Jessica Reaves, Anti-Defamation League
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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We're hearing more from and about American extremist groups lately, like white supremacists and Incels. One thing their members have in common is m...

Bought by KWIT, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 10
All Families Belong Together: Immigration & Incarceration
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Families torn apart at the border and through our prison system. Can we use this moment of public awareness to create change? Emani Davis, a long-s...

Bought by KDNK and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Monopoly capitalism may be on its last legs! This week, economist Michael Hudson joins us to say his predictions on the Trump budget have come true...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 04, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Democrats and the European Left - Do They Connect?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Xenophobia, austerity, and an activated constituency -- there's a lot in common across international progressive fronts. Voices from the Progressiv...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 29, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Divesting Is The First Step
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Power politics and the politics of power - this time on the show, we talk with New York Citys Chief Resilience Officer, Daniel Zarrilli, about the ...

Bought by KDNK and KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Your Call: Media coverage of the resistance at Standing Rock & Trump's new national security advisor
From: KALW
Series: Your Call Media Roundtable
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This week, we’ll discuss coverage of Donald Trump's new national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Who is McMaster? We’ll also talk about t...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
ALLAN WOLPER TALKS TO DAVID ROZENHOLC
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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David Rozenholc is the tenant lawyer who took on Donald Trump in one of the most famous cases in New York City real estate history. Rozenholc preve...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:52
Disaster Tourism
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Rubble after the collapse in Vivekananda , Credit: Sandip Roy
A recent disaster in Kolkata brings out the lookie-loos - and much more.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Heat of the Moment: Sea Level Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Insult to Injury?: American Indian Sports Mascots
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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They may not have made it to the Superbowl- but the “Washington Football team” has gotten a lot of attention this season- not so much for their per...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kid on Kid Shootings: Time for Prison
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
According to the latest statistics available, one teen or child is killed with a gun every 3 hours 15 minutes, many by their peers. It's time for ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s Dirty Wars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Drone attacks. Black sites where prisoners are tortured. Guantanamo is still in operation. As we enter the 6th year of Barack Obamas presidency, I...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Slumdog Space Race (November 7, 2013)
From: Timothy Spangler
Series: The Bigger Picture
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
Brunei to Implement Sharia Law (October 23, 2013)
From: Timothy Spangler
Series: The Bigger Picture
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What the adoption of Sharia in Brunei can tell us about the importance of modern interpretations of Islamic law.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
What About Haiti?
From: Vinny Cannizzaro
Series: A Community of Voices
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A 60 second quake, wreaked complete, long term havoc over the country of Haiti

  • Added: Jul 17, 2013
  • Length: 26:50
Not In Our Backyard: Fighting Pollution in Richmond, California
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
Moyers & Company Show 103 How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of our Economy
From: Moyers & Company
Series: Moyers & Company
Caption: Bill Moyers, Credit: Dale Robbins
Big banks are rewriting the rules of our economy to the exclusive benefit of their own bottom line. But how did our political and financial class s...

Bought by KRDP, WMNF, KBRP Community Radio, WGCU, BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2012
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 21