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A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part II)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the second of a three-part series, 'A Crisis of Care,' a look inside California's prison health care system. We'll hear how a state-sancti...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
TILL FEAR DO US PART
From: Voices of Our World
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Domestic Violence and How to Reach Out for Help

Bought by WJSU


  • Added: Mar 24, 2008
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (Part I)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This is the first of a three-part series, "A Crisis of Care," a look inside California's prison health care system. In this first show, "Gina's Sto...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
This I Believe - Brigid Brockway
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Ohio listener Brigid Daull Brockway believes she should stick her nose into other people's business.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
"Women RIsing XVI: Civil Disobedience and Resistance"
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Anti-war activist, Medea Benjamin takes her pro-democracy and pro-environment activism to new heights with CODEPINK. And Burmese activist Saw Mya...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
This I Believe - Sister Helen Prejean
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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"Dead Man Walking" author Sister Helen Prejean says to watch what she does to see what she believes.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 3
Secret Asian Woman
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Secret Asian Woman is a brief personal history of Mixed Race in America.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KUOW, KUNM, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Luck's No Lady
From: Libby Conn
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This half hour documentary examines a growing public health concern for women: pathological gambling.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 2
Get Support to Deal with Breast Cancer
From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
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No one should have to go through breast cancer alone. A look at the availability of patient services

  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 08:25
Mammography: Won't Help if You Don't Use it
From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
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A discussion of advances in mammography and reasons to use it

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 09:17
  • Purchases: 1
Genetic Advances in Detecting and Preventing Breast Cancer
From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
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Discussion of Genetics and Breast Cancer

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising XV: World Health Activists
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this program, we profile two activists, Prudence Mabele and Mary Pipher facing two of the most difficult health and human rights issues of our t...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
Clinton at Iowa State University
From: Iowa Public Radio
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Hillary Clinton delivered the annual Mary Louise Smith lecture sponsored by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics

Bought by Word for Word ELECTION COVERAGE


  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 32:34
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising XIII: Enterprising Women
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this program we profile four women entrepreneurs leading a worldwide grassroots movement to create micro-enterprise.

Bought by KHNS, KFAI Minneapolis, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Aug 28, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady
From: KUT
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This is an edited version of the award-winning documentary that was produced for KUT in 2001. 'Lady Bird Johnson: Legacy of a First Lady' chronicle...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WEKU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KFSK


  • Added: Jul 12, 2007
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 4
Women in the Military
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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How is the integration of women into the military coming along? Carol Burke, author of Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane, and the High-and-Tight: Gend...

  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 28:46
In Search of the Lost Feminine
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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1) What are the myths we live by? And how have they effected us and our culture, past and present? Craig Barnes, author of In Search of the Lost ...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 28:45
  • Purchases: 1
Brand New Day - Graduation Day for Homeless Mothers
From: Mary Rose Madden
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Eight women graduate from a program that has showed them self-sufficiency skills...

Bought by KPFA


  • Added: May 14, 2007
  • Length: 11:28
  • Purchases: 1
Mothers, Migrants and Maids of Honor
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Through their own words, we pay tribute to the many working women of color who are struggling for acceptance, recognition and their rights.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 07, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with syndicated ("Dear Amy") advice columnist AMY DICKINSON
From: Tish Pearlman
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AMY DICKINSON, author of the nationally syndicated "Dear Amy" advice column talks, with great humor, about her her life and work.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
A Better Day, A Better Place
From: Libby Conn
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Marilou, age 58, talks about her past experiences as a homeless woman in Boston and the food bank she runs today for the needy in her new community.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2007
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
Death In Juarez
From: Voices of Our World
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Femicide...the term for killing women. What is the root cause of violence towards women?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 27:56
  • Purchases: 2
Movements
From: Emily Howard
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A news magazine devoted to reporting, learning from, and analyzing social movements.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
Lockdown on Life: Stories from Women Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Transgendered-women forced to live in a men's prison, moms in prison, and doulas helping incarcerated expectant mothers.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
How To Go Head-to-Head With O'Reilly on The Factor
From: Paul Levinson
Series: A View to Media
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advice from personal experience about how to get the last word

  • Added: Dec 17, 2006
  • Length: 03:48

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