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Lesbian and pansexual dating: The Etiquette Show - Anni (Part - 2) MNN
From: Ray Samuels
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Anni continues discussing her dating etiquette related experiences and insights. Anni self-identifies as a CIS-gender female who has fluid sexualit...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:01:30
GN_3.51_Burning Man Bike
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 3
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Thousands of abandoned bikes from Burning Man Festival are put to good use.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Gayle Manchin Sworn In as ARC Co-Chair
From: Curtis Tate
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Gayle Manchin was sworn in Thursday as the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. As Curtis Tate reports, the wife of West Virgin...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: :42
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...

  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
Empowering Women for the Prosperity of Nations
From: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Caption: Amanda Ellis is a founding member of the Financial Alliance for Women.
GEGI is an international index analyzing gender equality. We discuss the results of the latest index to learn how women fare across the 158 nation...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 43:49
A Stimulus Check that Comes Every Month
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Thousands of Americans recently received direct payments from their government as part of the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan to addres...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
2021-04-09 Investing in a Clean and Equitable Recovery
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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The COVID-19 shutdown has hit women and minorities hardest: four times as many women as men dropped out of the workforce in September 2020, with La...

Bought by KUHF, 90.5 WESA, WITF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
A new study says troops are leaving the military because of sexual assaults and harassment
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Amber Davila left the Army after she was sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier. A new study found sexual assault doubles the odds that a service member will leave the military within 28 months., Credit: Courtesy Amber Devila
The RAND Corporation study concluded that the cost of sexual assault and harassment extends beyond the victims. It's also causing troops to leave t...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KPBS, North Country Public Radio, and KPCC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 5
Women Rising Radio: Election Protection and Democracy Part Two
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Voting Rights Advocates Carolina Miranda, Andrea Miller and Pam Wilmot, Credit: Carolina Miranda photo - Carolina Miranda Andrea Miller photo - The Tennessee Tribune Pam Wilmot photo - The Boston Globe
Women Rising Radio re-visits the 2020 election year, to assess the outcomes and talk with those who made those outcomes happen, the grassroots elec...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
F-Word: Royalty, Racist? Really?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"In the context of the Divine Right of Kings, the who-said-what-to-Harry and Meghan question. is most certainly missing the white supremacist fores...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
You Can't Deal With Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy: Vijay Prashad
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require a pro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Under pressure to address sex crimes in the ranks, an Army unit is asking soldiers for ideas
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: In a "Shark Tank" style event, 34 soldiers in the 18th Airborne Corps submitted proposals to improve the Army program that responds to sexual harassment and assault. The Corps has committed to implementing the concepts of seven finalists., Credit: Marygian D. Barnes / U.S. Army
Army leaders concede that a program designed to eliminate sexual harassment and abuse has not achieved its goal. So the 18th Airborne Corps held a ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KPCC, KPBS, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 4
Top of Mind - The Better Half, Cashless Society
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 and 2 - The Better Half; Topic 3 - Cashless Society

Bought by WYAP, RadioStPete Florida, and KOWS


  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 51:54
  • Purchases: 3
Part IV: “Estoy orando por ti” (I am praying for you)
From: Jed Alexander
Series: The Whistleblower Project
Caption: Picture of Dr. Bernard Rosenfeld, Credit: Provided by Dr. Rosenfeld
ID number 78002 belonged to then young resident and physician, Dr. Bernard Rosenfeld at Los Angeles County - USC Medical Center, where in the early...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 17:31
The Junot Files:Amy Bruni
From: Jim Junot
Series: Lights, Camera, Author!
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An interview with Amy Bruni, star of "Kindred Spirits" and author of "Life with the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts"

  • Added: Dec 10, 2020
  • Length: 23:56
#SayHerName: Black Women, Police Violence and Abolition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: #SayHerName, Credit: Wikimedia Commons
2020 will marked six years since the #SayHerName movement was created. Today, the deaths of Black women and girls at the hands of law enforcement s...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
RDD: The Victory Center
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Today we're talking to the Victory Center, an organization with a mission to provide hope and support to cancer patients, survivors, and their fami...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 06:15
Amid continued anger about Vanessa Guillen's death, critics say the Army often ignores sex crimes
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Josey Garcia, Pharaoh Clark, and Jourdyn Parks hold a banner as they march through San Antonio in July, shortly after Vanessa Guillen's body was found near Fort Hood., Credit: Jolene Almendarez / American Homefront
Following Guillen's killing, the Army launched an independent investigation into the climate of Fort Hood, but critics say the problems are systemic.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, WUSF, and Colorado Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 5
Domestic Violence in Lockdown: COVID-19 and the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
F-Word: Mourn Justice Ginsburg, Fight to Close Irwin Detention Center
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"...one fitting way to honor the historic justice would be to take action on some unfinished feminist business. Justice Ginsburg is on my mind toda...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
State Attorney Dave Aronberg on The Rise of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence & Human Sex Trafficking during the Covid-19 Frenzy
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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State Attorney Dave Aronberg on The Rise of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence & Human Sex Trafficking during the Covid-19 Frenzy. How is Unemployment,...

Bought by WCNY and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 28, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Top of Mind - 2020 Labor Day Special Episode
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We're marking Labor Day with a special episode about a group of women in Appalachia who defied stereotypes to get better living conditions for thei...

Bought by WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUHF, and KOWS


  • Added: Aug 24, 2020
  • Length: 54:25
  • Purchases: 4
Peaceful Assembly
From: Steve Plotkin
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Protests over the death of George Floyd and others have continued for weeks as many local jurisdictions begin to approve police reform measures. E...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 03:53
2021-03-07 Misogyny and Gender Inequality
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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In the 21st century, why are we still dealing with misogyny?

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 15
RDD: Momentum in 2020
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Theater, concerts, arts festivals all seem like a distant memory with the ongoing pandemic of 2020. That means Crystal Phelps, of Toledo's Arts Com...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2020
  • Length: 06:02

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