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Fighting for the Future of Hong Kong
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 70th anniversary as months of pro-democracy demonstrations continue in Hong Kong. Demonstra...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
F-Word: Woodstock Urges Roaming
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
The Bitter 1890 Census Rivalry
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Minneapolis and St. Paul are known as the Twin Cities, but relationships weren’t always so sisterly. During the summer of the 1890 census, both cit...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The Fall of Saigon marked the bitter end of the American War in Vietnam and the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. ...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), KRDP, KMUN and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Erie Canal: Compressing Time And Distance
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
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On the third episode of A New York Minute In History we explore the Empire State’s most ambitious engineering feat…the Erie Canal. Completed in 182...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
Cooperatives, From Brooklyn to Brattleboro
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Socialism is as close as your closest coop.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
The Incident (OTB VERSION)
From: J. Ozoria
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This version of "The Incident" aired on WFUV and was part of the On The Brink Podcast Series.

  • Added: Jul 24, 2018
  • Length: 07:24
Remembering a near disaster: U.S. accidentally drops nuclear bombs on itself And Its Allies
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A nuclear bomb and its parachute rest in a field near Goldsboro, N.C. after falling from a B-52 bomber in 1961. If it had detonated, it could have instantly killed thousands of people. , Credit: U.S. Air Force
During the Cold War, U.S. planes accidentally dropped nuclear bombs on the east coast, in Europe, and elsewhere. "Dumb luck" prevented a historic c...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WUSF, Texas Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, KPBS and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 6
Specters of Attica: Reflections from Inside a Michigan Prison Strike
From: Making Contact
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On the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, hundreds imprisoned inside Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility refused to report to wor...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Race & The Media: 50 Years After the Kerner Report
From: Generation Justice Admin
Caption: Original collage art by Damon Davis
Narratives around people of color added fire to the social unrest of the late 1960s. In this episode of Generation Justice, we look at the Kerner R...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 45:27
The Spirit of Viet Nam Is Stronger Than U.S. Bombs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Colonialists, International Traitors, Think Carefully Before You Take Vietnam, Credit: To Lien (1978), Courtesy of Vietnam Victory Coalition
Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese Liberation Front inspired people of color around the world who were building movements for self-determination. Tod...

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


  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
February 26, 2018
From: WFHB
Series: Bring It On!
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William Hosea and Roberta Radovich welcome Liz Mitchell and Dr. Charlie Nelms

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 56:09
Phi Beta Sigma Turns 100!
From: WIL LAVEIST
Series: The Wil LaVeist Show
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Wil talks with Jonathan Mason, International President, Phi Beta Sigma.

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 16:51
Rethinking PTSD with journalist Sebastian Junger
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sebastian Junger, Credit: Tim Hetherington
With his book Tribe, author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger upends our ideas about PTSD.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 31:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Graystone Plaza celebrates 100 Years! Pt 4
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: The Glass Lady Project with Becky Mitchell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is Part 4 of this series: The Graystone Plaza With Speaker: John King This is part of The Becker County Museums Brown Bag Lunch Series

  • Added: Oct 23, 2017
  • Length: 17:44
The Graystone Plaza celebrates 100 Years! Pt 3
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: The Glass Lady Project with Becky Mitchell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is Part 3 of this series: The Graystone Plaza With Speaker: John King This is part of The Becker County Museums Brown Bag Lunch Series

  • Added: Oct 23, 2017
  • Length: 11:56
The Graystone Plaza celebrates 100 Years! Pt 2
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: The Glass Lady Project with Becky Mitchell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is Part 2 of this series: The Graystone Plaza With Speaker: John King This is part of The Becker County Museums Brown Bag Lunch Series

  • Added: Oct 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:48
The Graystone Plaza celebrates 100 Years!
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: The Glass Lady Project with Becky Mitchell
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is Part 1 of this series: The Graystone Plaza With Speaker: John King This is part of The Becker County Museums Brown Bag Lunch Series

  • Added: Oct 23, 2017
  • Length: 11:35
With Ears to Hear: Voices Against the Heroic
From: WFHB
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Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her award-winning audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voices fr...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 57:43
  • Purchases: 1
Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Assessing the legacy of the Virginia Tech shooting, 10 years on -- Profiling mass shooters -- How slow-motion video biases juries -- Understanding ...

Bought by WLPR , Central Florida Public Media, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 3
Healing in an Era of Mass Shootings (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Assessing the legacy of the Virginia Tech shooting, 10 years on -- Profiling mass shooters -- How slow-motion video biases juries -- Understanding ...

Bought by WCNY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Central Florida Public Media, KREV-LP, WCWP and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 15
Healing in an Era of Mass Shootings (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Assessing the legacy of Virginia Tech, 10 years later -- Profiling mass shooters

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRDP, WUGA (part of GPB), KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Woomera: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part Two
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In the second episode of our series on the mass escape from the Woomera refugee detention center in Australia, Aren Aizura parses out the stakes of...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:32
Woomera: Escaping From an Immigrant Detention Center, Part One
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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In 2002, imprisoned refugees inside Australia’s Woomera immigration prison coordinated with 2500 outside supporters who had pitched camp outside th...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:10
Robert W. Merry discusses presidential performance
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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On this Presidents' Day weekend, host Bob Kustra interviews Robert W. Merry about his book, "Where They Stand."

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 30:31

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