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Audio documentaries from the front lines

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and KICI Iowa City

LaMont Dottin

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Back in 1995, LaMont Dottin was 21 years old and a freshman at Queens College when, one evening, he didn’t come home. His mother went to the local ...

Hisako Hasegawa

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

Cesar Irizarry

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Angel Irizarry spent years working as a detective, and in 2021 he set out on a personal investigation to track down an uncle who’d been estranged f...

Angel Garcia

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

When Annette Vega was seven years old, she found out the man she called “dad” wasn’t her biological father. But all she knew was that her mom had h...

Neil Harris Jr.

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island

Around 2015, a young man who called himself Stephen showed up in Manhattan's Riverside Park. Locals noticed him sitting on the same park bench day ...

Are We A Democracy Or A Republic?

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?

Bought by Vermont Public

Gerrymandering

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

The line between fairly splitting a state into voting districts, and purposely grouping voters to give one party an advantage.

Bought by WKSU and Vermont Public

How Secure Are Our Elections?

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...

Bought by Vermont Public

Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

In preparation for the upcoming election, we’re going to talk about lies, manipulation, and confusion.

Bought by WHFR and Vermont Public

Why Vote, And How To Do It

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

We vote for our leaders, and those leaders represent our interests, but the impact of your vote isn't always so clear. Here's why you should vote a...

Bought by WYPR, WKSU, KSKA, and Vermont Public

BLACK LIVES MATTER meets BLACK ROCK CITY

From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man

One principle guiding Burning Man is "Radical Inclusion." But it's never been racially diverse. Activists like Favianna Rodriguez are changing that.

Poisonous Legacies

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Uranium mining in Niger: a filthy, toxic business. Fifty years after the end of America’s war on Vietnam, traces of US chemical weapons linger. And...

Special Report: Deciding the Fate of Democracy in North Carolina

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

In this special report, we examine anti-democratic election law and a legal case — Moore vs. Harper — which is to be decided this term by the US Su...

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

Sarah Jones on Sex & Making an “Unorthodoc”

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Sarah Jones, Tony Award-winning performer and comedian, is making a different kind of documentary. She calls it an ‘unorthodoc’ about sex, power, r...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more

The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more

The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon (ENCORE)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

But Next Time, Episode 3: Rising Waters

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

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

Why A Major Immigration Law Might Be Unconstitutional

From: Mateo Schimpf

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Emily Green tells us the story of Edgar Lopez, a grandfather of four who was killed trying to make his way back hom...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge

The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked gas projects that would tur...

Bought by WXDU and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Locked Down and Loaded: The 2020 Gun Surge and Violence Prevention (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Tom Nguyen, founder of L.A. Progressive Shooters, at the Route 66 Shooting Park in San Bernardino, CA. March 27, 2021., Credit: Monica Lopez

Regardless of race, gender, or political affiliation, Americans in 2020 bought guns; many, for the first time. In this show, we hear from gun and m...

Big Pharma vs The People: The Fight to Save America’s Largest Generic Drug Manufacturer

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

This July, America’s largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its parent ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR

Episode 2: Everyone Eats

From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement

A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ballot Question Two Takes on Political Partisanship

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

The great state of Alaska is different in many ways – its vast size, low population, and great distance from “the lower 48” (states). Politics in A...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis

Cooperation and Cooperatives vs Authoritarianism in Spain

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer

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