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She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Welcome to Overshoot: Have a Nice Day - 2020 Edition
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Since 1972, study after study has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth’s ecosystems to bear. Welc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jul 12, 2020
  • Length: 51:49
  • Purchases: 1
Ep. 1: The Death of Kollin Elderts
From: Honolulu Civil Beat
Series: Offshore
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Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell introduces the deadly events of Nov. 5, 2011 when a white off-duty federal agent shot and killed a Nat...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 36:35
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law Episode #67: The Stop
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law Episode #61: Outside the Womb
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The law isn’t actually written in stone. It morphs and changes with the times. What happens when laws change all of a sudden and people find themse...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 19:32
Life of the Law Episode #59: The Trauma Room
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 24:26
  • Purchases: 1
"Fresh Dressed" 2015 Sundance Documentary Submission
From: Sara Wagner
Series: Sundance Wrap
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Commentary by Director Sasha Jenkins of "Fresh Dressed"

  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:56
Interrogators Without Pliers
From: Matt Thompson
Caption: Hanns Scharff "Master Interrogator" of the Luftwaffe, Credit: Scharff Estate
Why torture doesn't work. How to trick the enemy into revealing secrets. Lessons from the Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe. The British Poli...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 27:31
  • Purchases: 2
Public Comment Periods and Government Bodies: is this microphone working?!
From: Civic Commons
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
When it comes to public comment periods, school board and city council meetings are just plain weird.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:30
"The War You Don’t See" A film by John Pilger
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: U.S. soldier at Tahwilla, Iraq in 2008., Credit: U.S. Army
Was mainstream media in cahoots with government forces in the lead up to the Iraq War? In his film, “The War You Don’t See,” Australian journalis...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Unreal World of Narcissists and Sociopaths
From: Jari Chevalier
Caption: The Brain of a Sociopath
Narcissists and Sociopaths have always been among us and yet recent research brings us new understanding of just what these serious emotional disab...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 47:10
SUPREME COURT ACTIVISM IN CITIZENS UNITED
From: Joseph Carraro
Series: THE AVERAGE JOE
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
The Supreme Court's recent decision in the Citizens United case, in which activist "conservative" judges took it upon themselves to grant corporati...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:59
The Revolving Door
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The revolving door between the federal government and its favorite contractors sets up abuses.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
The Arsenal of Democracy is disappearing
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The US has been hemorrhaging high-paying manufacturing jobs since the 1959s.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2010
  • Length: 01:59
In Connecticut, Companies Choose Shared-Work Over Layoffs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 07:10
Non-profits Make Jobs by Supporting Micro-Enterprise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...

Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 3
How We Survive: Getting Creative About Jobs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.

Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Oscar Grant and Police Accountability
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Independent Minds: Jack Kevorkian
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: Independent Minds
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Discover how a curious pathologist turned into an expert on death and challenged our ideas of life and self-determination.

Bought by WNIN, WHRV, Iowa Public Radio, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 55:55
  • Purchases: 4
SURVIVORS: Solitary Confinement in America's Prisons
From: Claire Schoen
Caption: Robert King Wilkerson spent 29 years in solitary confinement., Credit: Terry Foss
In this half-hour radio documentary, "survivors" of solitary confinement paint a picture of what it looks, sounds and feels like to live for years ...

Bought by KMUZ, KOSU, KGNU Community Radio, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Breaking Through the Blue Wall of Silence
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Oakland protestors lay in the position Oscar Grant was in when he was killed, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
Who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong—the police chief or the people? Cities across the country are creating civilian oversig...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Roundup At The Little Book Cliffs Range
From: Amy Marsh
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at BLM round-ups of wild horses and whether they are necessary

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Nov 02, 2007
  • Length: 17:52
  • Purchases: 1
Kalashnikov Culture
From: A World of Possibilities
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Counting the toll of the small arms trade

  • Added: Aug 28, 2007
  • Length: 55:00
Convicting Chevie Kehoe
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
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A new inquiry into a notorious murder case that asks: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?

Bought by Audible and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 2