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Escape to Cairo from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, we bring you a story from our partner Kerning Cultures about Patrice Lumumba’s children, and their escape to Cairo.

Bought by WXDU and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fallen Heroes 2021
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In our annual Fallen Heroes episode, we share words of inspiration from, and about some lesser-known grassroots activists who passed away in 2021.

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and WXDU


  • Added: Dec 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Mrs. Hamer, Echoes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Fannie Lou Hamer, Credit: Howard University Library Systems
Fannie Lou Hamer's 100th birthday is Oct 6. She's no longer alive, and may not be as widely known as others in the civil rights movement --- but he...

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


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
bloomingOUT - From the Archives : Post-Convention Roundtable - September 29, 2016
From: WFHB
Series: bloomingOUT
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The bloomingOUT crew takes a week break from the live program, but hopes you enjoy this re-airing of a post-Democratic and Republican National Conv...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 57:47
May Day Artist Fury
From: Artsy Fartsy Show
Series: Artsy Fartsy Show
Caption: May Day General Strike 2012, Credit: Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt
In celebration of May Day, The Artsy Fartsy Show covered art in immigrant communities, activism and the artistic influences within the Occupy Wall ...

  • Added: May 31, 2012
  • Length: 52:11
My Medicine: Irvin Rosenfeld, one of the 4 federal medical marijuana patients
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: My Medicine cover
An interview with one of the 4 surviving federal medical marijuana patients, Irvin Rosenfeld. His new book, My Medicine, looks back at a lifetime o...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
AVR Interview: Robert Platshorn - Black Tuna Diaries: America's Most Notorious Marijuana Smuggler
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Black Tuna Diaries
Robert Platshorn "Bobby Tuna" spent 30 years behind bars after being convicted of marijuana smuggling in the 1970's. Out of prison now, Bob has pie...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2009
  • Length: 30:46
The Mission to End Prohibition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: a man standing in a field of marijuana, Credit: www.treehugger.com
A former undercover narcotics officer, and a leading drug reform activist, examine the roots of America’s current drug policy, and suggest how we m...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
Active Voice Radio: Marijuana is Safer
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Marijuana Is Safer
An interview with Paul Armentano on his new book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We driving People to Drink?

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Aug 12, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
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
Drug Czar's Office Gone to Pot and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An essay discussing a recent review ordered by Congress of the ONDCP and an interview with Howard Wooldridge of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
Active Voice Radio Special- New Jersey Senate Passes Medical Marijuana Bill
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We speak with activists and an MS patient who testified before the Senate Health Committee.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
2008 Interviews: Barney Frank, Judy Polumbaum, Jim Douglass, Marnia Lazreg, Steve Bloom
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Some author interview highlights from Active Voice Radio 2008

  • Added: Jan 07, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
Active Voice Radio 10-29-08: Steve Bloom: Pot Culture and Si Kahn: The Fox in the Henhouse
From: Chris Goldstein
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Steve Bloom on his book Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life also Si Kahn on his book The Fox in the Henhouse:How Privatization T...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 29, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 10-22-08: Economic History: Felicia Khornbluh- The Battle for Welfare Rights
From: Chris Goldstein
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Duke university Professor Felicia Kornbluh- discusses her book The Battle For Welfare Rights : Politics and Poverty in Modern America

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 10-8-08: FBI Uniform Crime Report- Marijuana Arrests 2007
From: Chris Goldstein
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Chris speaks with Allen St. Pierre of the NORML Foundation about the over 820, 000 Americans arrested in 2007 on marijuana violations.

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 08, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 6-25-08: Terry Aladjem - The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice
From: Chris Goldstein
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Terry Aladjem of Harvard University discusses his new book that explores the psychology and philosophy of Vengence in America

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 5-28-08: Paul Dutton Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France
From: Chris Goldstein
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Professor Paul Dutton takes us on a tour of the facinating differences between the US and French healthcare systems...we can learn more from the Fr...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: May 28, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Active Voice Radio 4-18-08: Columnist Froma Harrop- Obama, Drugs and Everyone Else
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
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Harrop goes over some of the other powerful politicians who have admitted past substance use...but were never arrested. Froma and Chris discuss the...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Apr 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1