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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
From the National Press Club with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
From: National Press Club
Caption: Kathleen Sebelius, Credit: NPC
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks about health care reform at the National Press Club.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 54:02
Animal Cruelty in Agriculture
From: Guy Hand
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
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[HOST INTRO] The ethical treatment of farm animals is a growing concern for many Americans. And that puts states with relatively few animal cruelt...

Bought by KISU


  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
No Brother of Mine
From: Todd Melby
Caption: Most sex offenders like Michael are released back into society. What then?, Credit: Diane Richard
“No Brother of Mine” offers an unflinching look at U.S. sex offender policy that reaches beyond the headlines and into the lives of real people. Re...

Bought by PRX Remix, WNIJ, WGBH Radio Boston, WNYC, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2010
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 17
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
Finding Our Bootstraps: Americans Deal With Recession
From: Michigan Radio Economy Special
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How people are finding the strength and situations that get them through economic hard times.

Bought by WVTF, KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 14
Hands of Stone: A Creation of Character
From: Ryan Schleicher
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An overview of the character perception of Tom Schleicher, the valued qualities that make up his character, and whether those valued qualities are ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:56
HUMANKIND: Universal Health Care
From: Humankind
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A Cambridge couple, both MDs and Harvard Medical faculty, have devoted their lives to researching and advocating universal health care. Provocative.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Iowa Public Radio, and WCQS


  • Added: Sep 08, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 3
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
Mind on the Brain
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A personal look at Traumatic Brain Injury.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:31
  • Purchases: 4
Medical Marijuana - New Jersey moves bill, New Mexico's active program
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: NJ Assembly Medical Marijuana hearing 6-4-09
Actuality Audio from the NJ Assembly health committee hearing on medical marijuana 6-4-09 and interview with New Mexico Drug Policy Alliance on the...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 10, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Making Contact: Survivors of Solitary Confinement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Purple Bus tours for Health Care
From: The Affiliated Media Foundation Movement
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Meet Kathie McClure. She's an attorney, mother of two, and the founder of health reform group Vote Healthcare. She's also the Purple Bus Lady and t...

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 06:44
Student Calls for Peace After Shooting + MSNBC Marijuana Inc with Al Roker
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Marijuana leaf
Commentary on the police shooting of 20 year old college student Derek Copp in Michigan last week plus a segment on my brief appearance in MSNBC's ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
Sea of Plastic
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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"The toilet bowl that never flushes"

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, WBEZ, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 4
Prisons In Crisis: A State Of Emergency In California (newscast friendly version)
From: JoAnn Mar
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California's prison crisis--how it started and possible solutions.

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WCBE, Capital Public Radio, and KUT-HD


  • Added: Aug 26, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Inland Waterways Transport & Freight
From: Niall Galway
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Inland waterways freight

  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 08:27
A California Story: Redwood Trees vs Solar Panels
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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When it comes to solar planels, is tree planting a crime?

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
President Change: What's Hope? What's Reality
From: Brian Sussman
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Fast-forward to January 2009. A new President is in the Oval Office. How will he ? or she ? grease the wheels of official Washington to get an age...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 32:03
Ask Your Lawmaker: Issues, Campaign 2008
From: Brian Sussman
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Capitol News Connection offers the first of its Campaign 2008 interactive series, ?Ask Your Lawmaker?. What issues matter most to your listeners? T...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 1
WWOZ Street talk-Live at Vaughns: Stories from a Mexican Drug Smuggler
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
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Dozens of Maryland law students come to New Orleans to volunteer and tonight they are all at the infamous bywater bar vaughns to hear stories from ...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2008
  • Length: 06:34
Carol's Pub on the Chicago Smoking Ban
From: Melissa Townsend
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Folks at this Chicago honky-tonk, Carol's Pub, give their opinion on the Illinois smoking ban in effect 1-1-08.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:27