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January 6th, 2020 RERUN - Progressive Strategy Summit 2019 & Fire Drill Fridays
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Laura interviewed activists and congresswomen to understand how they see this critical moment when business-as-usual politics simply won’t cut it. ...

Bought by WRIR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
How do you win a local Texas election? - A talk with Sheri Soltes, candidate for Travis County Commissioner
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Sheri Soltes is a nonprofit CEO in Austin, Texas, and she's running for Travis County Commissioner, Precinct 3, covering parts of Austin, Lakeway, ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 14:45
116-01: A Radical Idea to End Poverty--The Stockton Experiment
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Natalie Foster, Economic Security Project
As president, Democratic Senator Kamala Harris wants to give up to $6,000 to working families each year... as a tax credit. Entrepreneur Andrew Yan...

Bought by KWMR, KWIT, Louisville Public Media, KCSB-FM, KWIT and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
Speaking As If They Know, Part Two: Reproductive Choice, Provider Trust and Billing Specialists
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: HCFA-1500 Forms are Required, Credit: Susan Cook
When women exercise reproductive choice, are her reasons for doing so protected as a private communication between a provider and a patient?

  • Added: May 31, 2019
  • Length: 06:47
Kathleen Curry: Modern woman of the West
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with former Colorado legislator Kathleen Curry.

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
116: A Radical Idea To End Poverty
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
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This week, we hear about a radical plan to end poverty: Universal Basic Income. Lauren talks to the team behind an experiment with Guaranteed Incom...

Bought by KKRN, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, WLPR , KCSB-FM and more


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
102: “There is no peak fury”: Rebecca Traister, Author of Good And Mad: The Revolutionary Power Of Women’s Anger
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Rebecca Traister, Credit: One World Journalist
It’s safe to say that many American women are pretty angry these days. Since the founding of this country, women have been faced with men in power...

Bought by KWIT, KCSB-FM, KKRN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
80: Mid-term election revisit - Kate Black, Chief of Staff for EMILY's List
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kate Black
In 2017, 16,000 women had raised their hand to run for office. One year later, it's 42,000. But what does it actually take to to win? And what will...

Bought by WLPR , C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Year of the Woman (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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- In Virginia, an unprecedented number of women were elected to the House of Delegates last year. We hear from some of those women about what it wa...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, WVAS and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
RDD: This Midsize City
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking about EPIC. EPIC stands for engaging people, inspiring change. They're the largest young profess...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 1
2021-03-07 The Value of Care: Feminism and Ethics
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do notions like care, compassion, and empathy change the way we view our obligations to others?

Bought by KMUN, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
92: Do Haters Deserve Our Compassion? - Sally Kohn, author of "The Opposite of Hate"
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Sally Kohn, Credit: Paul Takeuchi
Can you find compassion in your heart for the haters in your life? CNN political commentator and first-time author Sally Kohn says if we keep on ha...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KCSB-FM, KSJD, KWIT, KUT and more


  • Added: May 10, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Being a Woman at Utah's Capitol
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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KUER's Nicole Nixon has been looking into the sexual dynamics at Utah's State House. She spoke with some of the women--legislators and lobbyists--...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 18:00
80: How To Get More Women In Office - Kate Black, Chief of Staff for EMILY's List
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kate Black
More women than ever are raising their hands to run for office. But what does it actually take to to win? And what will be different when they do? ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KWIT, KWMR, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Liz Watson
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Democratic candidate for Indiana’s 9th district, Liz Watson joins Michael Glab in the WFHB studios for a special live edition of Big Talk!

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 09:01
Dr. Marjorie J. Spruill - Divided We Stand
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Dr. Marjorie J. Spruill, author of Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized ...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
Rise to Run Helps Women with Political Aspirations
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Rise to Run is a national organization working at the grass roots level to instill confidence and skills in young women with political aspirations.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 07:43
  • Purchases: 1
Amelia Bonow: How a Facebook Post and Tweet Started a Movement
From: The Art of Risk
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It definitely can feel like a risk when you’re honest and open but it doesn’t usually result in threats to your personal security. But this is exa...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 45:46
In Sturgeon
From: Missouri Audio Project
Series: Speaking of Public Health
Caption: Missouri Sunset, Credit: Jonathan
Lise Saffran heads to Sturgeon, Missouri, to explore notion of the rural/urban divide in America.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 06:24
How to Have A Social Conscience: A Citizen's Guide to the Psychology of "Less Than"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Girls Wanna Have Fundamental Rights, Credit: Susan Cook
Millions of women all over this country are protesting the denial and exclusion of women’s rights by the new Washington, DC throne holder. So to e...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:09
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry: Today, More Men Who Act like Unwanted Pregnancy Has Nothing to Do With Men?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: In another time- Democratic National Convention 1996, Credit: Keith Meyers/NewYork Times
The Sixty Second Moral asks questions about what is right or wrong in 60 seconds more or less. So, today, we ask, will there be yet another man who...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:32
Feminism Today
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Let's take a look at what it means to be a feminist. Students from Winona State University along with Dr. Mary Jo Klinker fill us in on how feminis...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KVSC, and KZYX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 42:59
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending November 25, 2016
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Democrats' Failure to Address Economic Insecurity Gave Trump Election Adva...

Bought by WRIR, WMUU-LP, and 91.7 WHUS Storrs


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Women Rising 32: Nuclear Weapons Abolitionists Part 2
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: 8/9 Nagasaki Day Protest at Livermore Labs, Credit: photo by The Resource Center for Nonviolence rcnv.org via Twitter @RNCV1
Women Rising Radio presents Part Two of our miniseries on global activists fighting for a phase-out of nuclear weapons and energy. Part Two focus...

Bought by Radio Catskill and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Citizen’s Guide to Small-minded Denigration: A Sixty Second Moral Inquiry, Two and ½ Minute Conspiracy Theory presented in a Sonnet for The Department of Poetic Justice
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In honor of the upcoming Presidential race, The River Is Wide presents a melding of our favorite features. A Citizen's Guide, A Sixty Second Moral ...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:34