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Angela Davis: A Revolutionary Roadmap for Building a Better Future
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this first episode of Laura Flanders & Friends (formerly The Laura Flanders Show), Laura is joined by Angela Davis, a leading voice in the movem...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Liz Cheney on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Liz Cheney shares the enthralling details from her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, of defending the Constitution while inside the Cap...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 25:14
Women's History Month (3/20/24 release)- Climate Catastrophe, Lessons From the Frontlines: Colette Pichon Battle, Taproot Earth
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In our continuing coverage of the ongoing climate catastrophe, we often ask what we can learn from the experiences of people living on its frontlin...

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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Women's History Month- Andrea J. Ritchie: Emergent Strategies for Abolition Toolkit (3/13/24 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizer...

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


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Marjorie Kelly on the Capitalism Crisis: “Wealth Supremacy” is Killing Us
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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"Capital bias" prioritizes wealth over people and the planet. What are the consequences? That question is at the core of “Wealth Supremacy: How the...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, Radio Catskill, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Man in the President's Limo
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Last Witness
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. There are many photos from that day — Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in aboard Air ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KUCB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 2
Documenting an Invisible Island
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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For more than a century, it was almost impossible to find out much about people buried on Hart Island. But in 2008, that all changed — thanks in la...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 17:56
Bridging Political Divisions
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Alyson Spery
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we explore political division. Research shows that polarization isn’t just something we see in politics or wi...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
SEEKING PEACE ON EARTH: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2023)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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It's a compendium of highlights from just one season in the long-running award-winning PEACE TALKS RADIO series. You'll hear clips from our series ...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2: Unholy Alliance
From: GBH News
Series: The Big Dig
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In the early 1970s a radical idea took shape: tearing down Boston’s elevated downtown highway, and rebuilding it underground.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
Part 1: We Were Wrong
From: GBH News
Series: The Big Dig
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There is a strange irony behind the Big Dig: the most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 53:57
National Writers Series: Heather Cox Richardson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Detroit Free Press columnist Neal Rubin talks with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 1
Colette Pichon Battle on Climate Justice Reparations
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Climate change isn’t looming, it’s here. We have crossed what some call the change horizon. Can it also be a liberation horizon? “There’s beautifu...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Emergent Strategies for Abolition: Andrea J. Ritchie’s Toolkit for Activists
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In “Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies”, movement lawyer and organizer Andrea J. Ritchie has written a toolkit for organizers...

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


  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
National Writers Series: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Benjamin Busch talks with journalists Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson about their book "American Gun."

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
World in Progress 21/09/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead. Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...

Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Catastrophic Capitalism in 2023: The Invisible Causes of Economic Inequality
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, we explore the consequences of “capital bias”, or prioritizing wealth and the wea...

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


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
World in Progress 08/24/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week, an emotional outpouring in Argentina over the return of an aircraft used during Argentina's military dictatorship for the notorious "dea...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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
Frances Goldin, Rabble Rousers & A NYC Housing Struggle Wins (August 9, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A new film tells how New Yorkers, led by Frances Goldin, won a 50-year housing struggle against developer Robert Moses.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, WNYE, and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Anita Cameron & Keith Jones on The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Civil Rights Milestone With Miles To Go
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Disability justice activists Anita Cameron & Keith Jones join Laura Flanders to discuss The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). What are the suc...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE, RadioStPete Florida, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Cultural Appropriation Consideration
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Claudia Fox Tree
On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we’ll explore the challenges surrounding conflicts around cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation invo...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Jun 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
799: Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time / 800: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/3/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Donald Trone– "Fiduciary Responsibility"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Though some people dislike the idea, money has become an important and complex aspect of life. Many choose to invest in stocks and mutual funds, ho...

  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Jumaane Williams & Hell Gate on Rikers: Why is it So Hard to Close a Jail?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The plan to permanently close Rikers in New York City and replace it with four borough facilities has hit roadblocks. Why is it so hard to close a ...

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


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5

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