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Top of Mind - Ending Toxic Polarization in American Politics
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Division is nothing new in America, but this political divide feels different. Why are we so angry? How can we end this toxic polarization?

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  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Meet the BIPOC Press: Is Earth Day Still Relevant?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Corporate greenwashing has hijacked Earth Day, but the ideas behind the holiday are more urgent than ever. There are environmental issues all aroun...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Monica Guzman on the importance of curiosity to build relationships that bridge divides
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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Welcome to News in Context. I’m Gina Baleria. In this episode, we explore how bridging by building relationships and being curious can connect peo...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
NY Times Columnist David Brooks on How to Know and See a Person
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we talk with New York Times columnist David Brooks, about his new book - How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Not Wanted at Harvard? BIPOC Media on Claudine Gay, Anti-Zionism & Diversity in Education
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Dr. Claudine Gay made history as the first Black President of Harvard. She faced fierce backlash over the school’s statements on the Israel-Hamas W...

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
(January 3, 2024 Re-Air) Naomi Klein: How Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories Gain Power
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new book, "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World”, award-winning journalist Naomi Klein describes being confused with Naomi Wolf, a con...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
BIPOC Media on the Fight for Fair Wages — & Anti-racist Unions
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Over 450,000 workers have gone on strike in 2023. Many are celebrating this revival of labor power, but what does it mean for workers of color — of...

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Sonali Kolhatkar: “Rising Up” for Social Justice, With YES! Magazine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As the Israel/Hamas conflict continues, what is media’s role?  Across the globe, reporting shapes political and cultural landscapes — and Sonali Ko...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Connecting Outside of the Algorithm: Circumventing the Mediated World of Digital Media Via In-Person Connection, with Riaz Patel
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
In this episode, we explore how much of the information we get is mediated - edited - and we all get different edits based on what the algorithm th...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Before the Ground Runs Dry: BIPOC Media on the US Water Crisis
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode of Meet the BIPOC Press, a monthly collaboration between The Laura Flanders Show and URL Media, we take a closer look at the US wa...

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
Naomi Klein: Tackling the “Doppelganger”, Disinformation & Lies
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In her new book, "Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World”, award-winning journalist Naomi Klein describes being confused with Naomi Wolf, a con...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Tracking & Defending Press Freedom in the U.S.
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we discuss press freedom in the U.S. in the wake of a police raid of the local paper in Marion, Kansas. In that raid, officers con...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Asian Americans & Anti-Blackness: Truth vs. Fiction on Affirmative Action (August 2, 2023 release)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Texas Under Siege: Dobbs, Democracy & Bodily Autonomy in the Crosshairs
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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We’ve reconvened a panel of organizers and activists in Texas to discuss what has (or hasn’t) changed on the abortion, trans and voting rights fron...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice Encore
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai'a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on th...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Chesa Boudin on how criminal justice reform can improve public safety, and the importance of basing decisions on evidence and data
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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Welcome to News in Context – I’m Gina Baleria. In this episode, we talk with former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, founding executive director of ...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Queens Memory Podcast- Seeing Signs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: The "Little Manila" Mabuhay mural, represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a sky-blue field on the wall of Amazing Grace Restaurant, evoking the taste and fragrance of the Filipines. Calamansi fruits and sampaguita blos, Credit: Jake Hofileña
This episode is from the Queens Memory Podcast, a project archiving stories from Queens, New York. “Little Manila” is a Filipino enclave dating ba...

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  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
230512: Amy Westervelt on Drilling, Denial and Disinformation, 5/12/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Amy Westervelt has made a career out of exploring the underbelly of the oil industry through complex and compelling storytelling. Through her inves...

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
Lynn Parramore on Reframing Economics for the People & Solving Systemic Economic Issues
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore how economic issues are often talked about in ways that minimize the needs of those who may not have the means to withs...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Eric Tars on How Seeing Humanity Helps Us Address Homelessness More Effectively
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore how othering has led to increased marginalization and vilification of people who are un-housed, and how civity can help...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Countering The Politics of Division by Coming Together in Solidarity, with Ian Haney López
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore how engaging across our racial and class divides can help bring us together to care for and nurture our democracy. My ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:32
Black Journalists on Police Violence: Reporting from the Inside Out
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis generated a significant amount of conversation and coverage, while the killing of environmental activ...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Effects of Strategic Racism on Democracy, with Ian Haney López
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the strategic use of racism in electoral politics to divide citizens across racial and other differences in an effort t...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 29:32
Strengthening Democracy by Increasing Social Trust & Cultivating Connections Across Difference, with Robb Willer
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore a massive new study on improving the health of democracy. The Strengthening Democracy Challenge invited more than 30-th...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
D.A. Larry Krasner Facing Impeachment: Criminal Justice Reform in the Crosshairs
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a predominantly white state legislature overturn the votes of a predominantly Black city? Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s District Attorney was e...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7

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