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Top of Mind - Ending Toxic Polarization in American Politics
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Division is nothing new in America, but this political divide feels different. Why are we so angry? How can we end this toxic polarization?

Bought by KMXT, KMXT, KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS and more


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Crime & Migration: An Abolitionist Plan for Immigration Justice
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When it comes to crime and migration, all sorts of politicians have justified mass detention and incarceration in the name of confronting a dangero...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
No, COVID Isn’t “Over,” and the Need for Continued Community
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: On an orange background, six black line illustrations depicting: a COVID-19 virus, a face mask, a lung filled with COVID viruses, a person's head tilted back with a nose swab, a swab in a test tube, and a rapid antigen test. In between these illustrations, Credit: Original image by jKartak from Pixabay. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
March marks four years since the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic. Public health failures and government inaction have forced communities to tak...

Bought by WUWM, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Pandemic and Profit (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Caption: Homemade masks made by the Auntie Sewing Squad Alt-text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat , Credit: Credit: Mai-Linh Hong
On today's show, we'll revisit the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic by looking at two alternative supply chains for masks during the fallout fro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Elizabeth Hernandez and other tenants protest rent hike , Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment Action
While wages have flatlined for most working class people, rents have reached new highs, leaving most people struggling. But it’s not just in the US...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Starting Over After Life in Prison
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Nearly half of people who leave prison will end up back behind bars. Why don't they stay out? And how would their lives be different if no criminal...

Bought by KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Burn Wild Episode 2
From: Dylan Haskins
Series: Burn Wild
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Episode 2 of 2 of Burn Wild. Journalist and writer Leah Sottile presents the story of two of America’s most wanted fugitive environmentalists. F...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WKSU, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 52:31
  • Purchases: 3
Burn Wild Episode 1
From: Dylan Haskins
Series: Burn Wild
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Episode 1 of 2 of Burn Wild. Journalist and writer Leah Sottile presents the story of two of America’s most wanted fugitive environmentalists. F...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WKSU, and Oregon Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 52:31
  • Purchases: 3
2022-10-14 Countdown to COP 27: Feeling the Heat
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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For decades, scientists and activists have called for action to slow the pace of global warming. The political process has struggled and largely fa...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WAMU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
221014: Countdown to COP27: Feeling the Heat, 10/14/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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For decades, scientists and activists have called for action to slow the pace of global warming. The political process has struggled and largely fa...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Will Latinization Bring Moderation? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 2 of 3)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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Part 2 of our series on understanding Hispanic voters

  • Added: Oct 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:16
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 11
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about local government.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Agony and the Ecstasy: Race and the Future of the Love Story Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We revisit a major race debate within the Romance Writers of America that began in 2019 and talk about why questions of race in art and in institut...

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


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Top of Mind - Harm Reduction-Saving Lives or Enabling Drug Use?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Do harm reduction methods prevent drug use long-term? Are they supposed to?

Bought by KSTK, KSTK, KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KOWS


  • Added: Mar 21, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Re:Work Soul Force, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Jr., Credit: Reed Hutchinson
On Dec. 11, 2021, the UCLA Labor Center’s historic MacArthur Park building was officially named the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center, in...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
December 10, 2021: Twice-stolen Wealth
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
"Inside The Statue: The Inside Story...50 Years Later
From: Paul Fischer
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DEC 26TH IS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPATION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY BY VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR. THIS IS THE DOCUMENTARY PRODUCED E...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 57:50
Mariame Kaba: Rooting Out Our Culture of Harm
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this inspiring Juneteenth conversation, abolitionist Mariame Kaba joins Laura and the Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis, to discuss how each of us—paren...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lessons From Defund the Police
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It's been a year since the call to "Defund the Police" rang out through the George Floyd Protests. The idea isn't new - redistributing police funds...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2 of The Pandemic Inside: Covid-19 and Prisons
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Joseph V. Conte Facility., Credit: Broward County Sheriff’s Office
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GN_6.34_ Tree Army
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
In an effort to combat their high levels of air pollution and reduce their carbon footprint, the People’s Liberation Army has deployed over 60,000 ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
Top of Mind - Star of David, Immigration
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 - Star of David; Topics 2 and 3 - Immigration

Bought by WMUU-LP, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 51:52
  • Purchases: 4
Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A new administration takes office in the midst of an ongoing public health catastrophe and an economic crisis, on the heels of one of the most pola...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Barn Raising For a Better America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the aftermath of the January 6th siege of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, Laura convenes a panel of pro-democracy activists to discuss...

Bought by KDNK and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 56:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Year Of Reckoning And Loss In The World Of Sports
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: TTBOOK Favorites of the Week for PRX Remix
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There's never been a year in sports quite like 2020. Sportswriter Kurt Streeter spoke to "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" executive producer Steve Pa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 11, 2021
  • Length: 15:17
  • Purchases: 1

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