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GN_2.18_Guerilla Grafting
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 2
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
There is a group of fruit loving, social-justice minded people who are breaking the law, all over San Francisco by illegally grafting fruit-bearing...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:42
GN_6.25_ Radio Free Radio
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.
KNCE True Taos Radio began in October of 2014 as a radical experiment in community radio in Taos, New Mexico.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
A Million Scorched Joshua Trees
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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It's almost the Great Conjunction and we've been on the run, on the road, rambling around. It was time to visit the devastation on Cima Dome, where...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 150: 76th and Yates
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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On May 8, 2013, a man named Timothy Jones was arrested in Chicago. He says it wasn’t until he got to the police station that he found out that he w...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 31:41
Reporting on Covid in the Country
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Equipped with a facemask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports in this episode (from a responsible distance) on the impact of Covid-19 on one ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Water Inequality, Radicalization, and War Letters
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Millions of Americans Lack Access to Clean Water and Indoor Plumbing. Topic 2: Combating Extremism: Use Peer Pressure, Not Logic or Fear. ...

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


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 4
Graphic Artists Drawing Comix At The Margins: Nate Powell and Mohammad Saba'aneh
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This show originally aired 15 months ago, before the death of civil rights rights movement leader representative John Lewis on July 17, 2020. Laur...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Covid in the Country
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is being rural a pre-existing vulnerability in this crisis? Equipped with a mask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports (from a responsible dis...

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


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
S2 Ep 6: Treating addiction from the ER
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Justina Bauthues (center) poses for a photo with her parents, Lisa and Tom Hilton.
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:04
How to Get More People to Ride the Bus
From: Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Series: Ways & Means Podcast
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What motivates commuters to leave their cars behind, and take the bus or a bike to work instead? A government innovation team in Durham, North Caro...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 15:20
  • Purchases: 1
Alice Sheppard and STREB: Beauty, Risk, Mobility, and Inclusion
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, dance as world-changing movement with two artists who expand our ideas about beauty, risk, mobility, and inclusion. Wheelchair dancer an...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
How does an architect of Facebook's biz model reckon with what he built?
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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He built Facebook's business model.....and then realized he was addicted to his phone.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 43:36
#875- The worlds happiest country goes broke?
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Rated the happiest country on earth, this country just reached an economic impasse and the ruling government resigned. Preview first. Controversial...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2019
  • Length: 04:40
A perpetrator priest speaks out — in dialogue with a survivor
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. In high school, she was sexually abused by her Catholic teacher, a former nun. Today, the...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Jay MacLeod - "Ain't no makin' it" - the perils of achievement ideology
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with author and sociologist Jay MacLeod.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Masterpiece in the Mire
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Each day starts off at ground zero. Based on my motivation, it'll either be mundane or it'll be a masterpiece.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
An imaginary reckoning with Pope Francis
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 06:44
Michele Gelfand, author of "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Michele Gelfand about her book "Rule Makers, Rule Breakers"

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Pregnancy to Prison Pipeline: Media Matters
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and KDNK


  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Prescription for Integrity
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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They've tried us all different kids of ways, but they know that we are strictly professional.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 1
A survivor and her perpetrator find justice
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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What does it sound like for a perpetrator to take responsibility for sexual abuse? What does it sound like for a survivor to get her needs met? Hea...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 56:15
StoryCorps One Small Step: Amina Amdeen and Joseph Weidknecht
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Two people on opposite ends of the political spectrum reflect on the moment that brought them together nearly two years ago: a protest just days af...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
A journalist reckons with truth
From: Stephanie Lepp
Series: Reckonings
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Alternative facts. Fake news. How are journalists grappling with this moment? Dive into one journalist’s reckoning with truth.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 44:42
Imara Jones: Transgender Narratives Are Expansive
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Despite efforts over the last two years to curtail progress for trans people by the current administration, trans activism has gained momentum and ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Sep 26, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daily Tweet Cycle
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
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Can tweets reveal how thoughts and moods shift throughout the day?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4

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