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Bold Women of Montana - 0301 - Eloise Cobell
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: Bold Women of Montana
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Learn about today's bold woman with Beth Judy in honor of women's history month.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 01:59
Saket Soni: How Trafficked Workers Pulled Off “The Great Escape”
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“THE GREAT ESCAPE: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America” tells the story of one of the largest human trafficking schemes in...

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s f...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sarah Jones on Sex & Making an “Unorthodoc”
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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


  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Constant Wonder - Where Is Hope? Towns Rebuild Their "Lifescapes" After Disaster Strikes
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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After the Camp Fire consumed the town of Paradise, CA, the high school football team played a special role in bringing the town back to life.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 2
Pride Month: Imara Jones, The Anti-Trans Hate Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

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


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Winning War, Building Peace: Activists from Ukraine, Russia & The US Debate
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The latest peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war may lead to an eventual ceasefire but not before displacing millions and damaging the air, water a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Women's History Month: The Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid Say Gender Justice Requires more than Money
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

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


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Constant Wonder - Cancer Survivorship, The Ice Bucket Challenge
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Topic 1: Cancer survivors unite, not to cure the disease, but to destroy myths that surround it and to improve life for survivors. Topic 2: The 201...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
Where It's At (Vol.20)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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The latest JazzGrass musical expression of just what incarnation is going on out there in the world today

  • Added: Dec 20, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:40
Extremist Ties of Survivalist Groups at Paramilitary Training Camps In Rural America (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/29/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, WNYE, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Films That Keep People Out of Prison: Complete Picture (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/22/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film...

Bought by KWMR, WNYE, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
How Critical Race Theory Changed an Election & What Dems Could Do About It
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From the contest for governor of Virginia to school board races across the country, opposition to Critical Race Theory proved an effective tactic f...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Paramilitary Industrial Complex is Growing in Americans' Backyards
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "Veteran activists organizing across this state [Nor...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
2021-09-24 Preparing for Disasters We Don’t Want to Think About
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed structural weaknesses and inequities that existed long before 2020. Like COVID-19, climate change is another “threat...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Guaranteed Income Initiatives Combatting Structural Inequality (Re-Air)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Thousands of Americans recently received direct payments from their government as part of the Biden Administrations American Rescue Plan to address...

Bought by KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
2021-07-23 How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
210723: 2021-07-23 How a Manufactured Car Culture Blocks Transit , 7/23/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The United States is famous for its car culture. But a hundred years ago, pedestrians didn’t want cars to take over the streets — and it took decad...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
Minneapolis: Not giving up on police abolition
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, expectations were high that if systems-change around policing were possible anywhere, it might b...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
BIPOC Journalists On Covering COVID and Racism
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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BIPOC journalists reflect on what it is to be veterans of two of the most devastating wars in recent history: the coronavirus pandemic and the cent...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: May 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Energy is Indigenous (and it wont involve pipelines!)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As Canadian oil giant Enbridge defies orders to shut down their dangerous Line 5 pipeline in Michigan, indigenous environmental activists gain mome...

Bought by KMUN, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
GN_3.36_Healthy Wealthy Yogurt
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A multi-billion dollar yogurt company is sharing the wealth with their employees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
210514: Journey of A Former Coal Miner, 5/14/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What motivates the activists? Grassroots activism can take many forms, from protests to letter-writing to citizen science to community organizing. ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00

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