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Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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The Fall of Saigon marked the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. This captivating NEH-funded documentary shares st...

Bought by WFAE, WPCA-LP, WCPN, Prairie Public, KVNF and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 16
NYC Organizers Say #NOHQ2 and Win
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before the news broke of Amazon's HQ2 pulling out of NYC's L.I.C., we looked at the resistance the plan provoked and why, and considered how develo...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Immigration Stories (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Immigrants to the United States share their personal stories of how they journeyed from Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, a...

Bought by WCPN, KXCV, WGZS, WNMU-FM, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Heroes of American Dissent (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Michael Higginbotham is the author of "Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism In Post-Racial America". He has a list of people—some well known, some n...

Bought by WCNY, KICI Iowa City, WCSU-FM, WGZS, KEDT and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
A Shortcut Through 2018
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A retrospective of another troubling year featuring the marches, the elections, the shootings, bombings and all the fake news, mixed with the music...

Bought by KUNM, 'The Sea', KRCB 104.9, KMXT, KISU and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:49
  • Purchases: 10
I Am Because I Am: The Expansion of Gender Identity
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: a diagram of sex, sexuality and gender, Credit: Robin Hubbard
I Am Because I Am, explores the expansion of gender identity and presumed roles in our society. A look beyond the socially constructed ideas of wha...

Bought by WVAS, KQED, Boise State Public Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Response: Uneven Burns
From: Making Contact
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In the aftermath of Northern California’s Tubbs Fire in 2017, undocumented families found support outside of traditional disaster service agencies ...

Bought by KQED


  • Added: Nov 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
All Mixed Up-2018 Election
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Fanning The Flames
A Mid-Term Mashup featuring examples of the importance of voting, and avoiding the pitfalls of political fear & loathing in 2018

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 1
Making the Decision to Fight (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-We talk with one of six people suing the Trump administration for rescinding DACA, a program that allows people who came to the U.S. as undocument...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KXCV, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
Making the Decision to Fight (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-We talk with one of six people suing the Trump administration for rescinding DACA, a program that allows people who came to the U.S. as undocument...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRZA, WFHB, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
Can a Progressive Candidate Win in Rural America?: Anthony Flaccavento
From: Laura Flanders
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Anthony Flaccavento is running for the US House seat in Virginia's 9th district, a large, sparsely populated region in the southwestern corner of t...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
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For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
10 years after the crash: Recovery Not for All
From: Making Contact
Caption: Nomi Prins and Julianne Malveaux
This month is the ten year anniversary of the stock market crash of 2018. Nomi Prins talks about her new book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigg...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
The Right to Dissent (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-What happens when we push back against injustice? When we stand up for what we think is right? Does the Constitution protect us? All of us? From t...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 12
Pilgrimage (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WCNY, WDSE, WCSU-FM, KWTF community radio for Sonoma County, WTJU and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
NFL, Free Speech and a New Thing called a 'Book'
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Take a knee, and try to understand the politics of sports...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:20:18
“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
We Got Next: Youth Poets Changing the World
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Constellations | Very Quiet, Credit: Flickr
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore how the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival has challenged mainstream cultur...

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


  • Added: Jan 02, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Parenting From Prison, Inside Out
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Marni and Jim Family, Credit: Marni Corrigan
When one or both parents are incarcerated the family is also incarcerated and are adversely affected in profound ways that exacerbate existing stru...

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


  • Added: Dec 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
More to Say: President Trump & Public Lands
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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During his first official visit to Utah, President Trump announced the largest cutback to national monument land in U.S. history. Bears Ears and G...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
Sir Floyd
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
Caption: Sir Lister Floyd, Jr. on 1100 Ward Street, Credit: Wendel Patrick
We meet Sir Lister Floyd, Jr. on the 1110 block of Ward Street

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
San Francisco Mime Troupe -- Michael Gene Sullivan Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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Michael Gene Sullivan talks opening minds, speaking truth to power, and the myth of the middle class.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2017
  • Length: 33:23
Adult use marijuana sales get underway in Reno
From: Brian Bahouth
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Just before midnight on Jun 30, two lines of smiling, well-behaved people snaked around two sides of the Blum marijuana dispensary on Virginia Stre...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2017
  • Length: 10:02
The Political Power of Music: A conversation with Dave Randall
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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We’re joined by guitarist, producer, composer and author Dave Randall. His book, Sound System, newly out from Pluto Press, is an insider’s view of ...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:01
America's Defining Moment
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Election Day eve, 2016...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 02:40:48