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S2 Ep 8: Needle exchanges and harm reduction
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: David Venes (right) poses at the Tacoma Needle Exchange van with his dog, Ethel, and outreach worker, Laura Reynolds., Credit: Amber Cortes
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 22:21
Facing Our Fears – What’s Real & What’s Imagined?
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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It’s easy to be fearful in the world today. But how much of our fear is based on things that are not actual threats? Today, 3 takes. One says fear ...

Bought by WUFT


  • Added: Nov 30, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Resolving Conflict, “Town Meeting” Style
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Long before the United States became a nation and implemented American democracy as we know it today, there were town meetings. Nearly 400 years la...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Resolving Conflict, “Town Meeting” Style
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Long before the United States became a nation and implemented American democracy as we know it today, there were town meetings. Nearly 400 years l...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
2019-11-08 California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WFHB, KBBI Alaska, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
191108: California’s Story: How Did It Get Here?, 11/8/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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California has long led the country in environmental action. It established strong automobile emission standards; it preserved fragile lands from d...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Facing Our Fears – What’s Real & What’s Imagined?
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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It’s easy to be fearful in the world today. But how much of our fear is based on things that are not actual threats? Today, 3 takes. One says fea...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KSFR, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Learning Lessons from History to Make Peace Today
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Sarah Holtz speaks with three historians who warn against the danger of historical amnesia to p...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Let's Visit Virginia: The Virginia Historical Society, Tucker Nelson & Famous Virginians
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Let's Visit
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The Virginia Historical Society is the place to go for Virginia history. Tucker Nelson took time to chat and educate us on Virginia history and so...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 13:52
Marc C. Johnson, author of "Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Burton K. Wheeler"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra talks with Marc C. Johnson about his book "Political Hell-Raiser"

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUT...

Bought by KALW, WVAS, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: May 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, Dr. Rasheed Part One
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Melanie & Rusty had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Imad Naji Rasheed recently. He was a professor at the University of Baghdad, Iraq and is a s...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 04:14
Dennis Flannigan, Retired Pierce County Councilmember, WA State Rep, Secretary of Point Defiance Aids Project, and a Pioneering Community Leader with many credits, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Dennis Flannigan
Interview by Gary Kanter: Dennis tells his story of how he became an activist who made things happen from the West Coast to the East Coast.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Masonic Temple Restoration Project with Lee Gundersheimer
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we learn about the restoration of the Masonic Lodge here in Winona with Lee Gundersheimer, arts and culture coord...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jan 22, 2019
  • Length: 30:48
  • Purchases: 1
Grappling with the Violence of Whiteness
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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In this episode of Peace Talks Radio, our guests turn the lens on Whiteness, asking how the notion of Whiteness came to be, how it has shaped Ameri...

Bought by KSFR and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Pond #04: The Colossi of Buffalo
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Buffalo, New York, was at one time the world’s foremost grain port. More than 30 enormous grain silos still attest to that fact – awesome colossi m...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Judiciary in Democracy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What is the role of an unelected judiciary in a democracy?

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Oct 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
Cindy and Nemesio (Jr) Domingo and Garry Owens, LELO, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: LELO
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington Interview by Mike Dumovich: Nemesio, Cindy, Garry, and Cono...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:06
The Occult Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How did the study of the occult give birth to modern science?

Bought by WVTF, WLPR , WLPR , KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Karl Marx
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Why read Marx today?

Bought by KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Theo Anderson, Writer and Historian, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Theo Anderson
Interview by Ken Winkes: Theo explains what happened to the middle class and why the rise of support for progressive candidates.

  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 27:58
The Untold Story of the Minnesota Department of Transportation's First Ever Open House in St. Cloud
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Minnesota Department o...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2018
  • Length: 26:29