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Ronek Park: Postwar Non-discriminatory Housing on Long Island
From: WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Series: A New York Minute In History
Caption: Veterans Park, North Amityville, Long Island, where the Ronek Park marker is located, Credit: Image courtesy of Mary Cascone
The latest episode of A New York Minute in History tells the story of Ronek Park, a non-discriminatory housing development built in 1950 in the vil...

  • Added: May 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
270: Commodity or Human Right? How Community Wealth Building Can Address the Housing Crisis, 5/29/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
Housing is a human right –– or so says the international human rights law. But could we organize our economies with that principle in mind? Across ...

  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Will Solar & Wind Power Our Future? Part 1
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Robert Bryce, a best-selling author, and Leia Guccione, Managing Director of Carbon Free Electricity at RMI, discuss solar and wind energy.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 27, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
Jimmy Carter : Profile in Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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EMBARGOED UNTIL THE PASSING OF PRESIDENT CARTER / / / On this program, we remember Former President Jimmy Carter by hearing an exclusive interview...

Bought by KNKX, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
What’s the Future of Natural Gas?
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Naomi Boness, Managing Director of the Natural Gas Initiative at Stanford University and Rachel Fakhry, Analyst for the Climate & Clean Air pro...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 18, 2024
  • Length: 26:02
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - A Deeper Look at Wrongful Convictions in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Wrongful convictions happen all the time in America, and they could happen to anyone. How do we stop innocent people from going to prison?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, KSTK, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 9
2024-05-17 Fighting Fossil Fuels in the Courts and on the Ballot
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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At age 9, Nalleli Cobo, suffering headaches, heart palpitations, nosebleeds, and body spasms, became an activist, driven to fighting to close the l...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KSQD Santa Cruz, WGCU, KOWS and more


  • Added: May 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Stephanie Flanders on A Trump Economy & What to Watch in The Ultimate Election Year
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Just in time for election season, Laura invites her sister Stephanie back to the program. Stephanie is the head of Economics and Government at Bloo...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
EU Energy and Climate Policy, Part 2
From: Casey Walker
Series: Energy Switch
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Dr. Carlos Batlle, Visiting Scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative, and Jonathan Elkind, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia's Center on Global Ene...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 1
IE: Inside Europe, 4/26/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Audio-guide to the revolution: join us for a journey through time and space as we visit the streets of revolutionary Lisbon. Then… The EU’s Green...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
IE: Inside Europe, 4/19/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on Inside Europe Existential crunch-time as EU seeks a coordinated response to develop-ments in the Middle East. More than just words: ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 27, 2024
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: The U.S. Finally Has Allowed Passage of U.N. Gaza Ceasefire: What Happens ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Inside ALEC: 50 Years of Driving Extreme Policies in America with Rep. Ro Khanna & Lisa Graves
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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We’re discussing what’s being done to expose and push back against the anti-democratic practices of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or A...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Eco Report – March 15, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week’s Eco Report feature we hear from Elisa Pokral, Community Outreach Coordinator of the newly rebranded Waste Reduction District of Monr...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:09
I&I - The need for chaos
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week, our Incentives & Instincts series with economist and friend Bryce Ward continues, with another episode discussing the rise of zero sum t...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 1
268: From Wealth Supremacy to Community Wealth Building: Models for Democratizing the Economy, 3/20/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders, Credit: Photo by Don J. Usner
Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. N...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Liz Cheney on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Liz Cheney shares the enthralling details from her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, of defending the Constitution while inside the Cap...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 25:14
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 6, 2024
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: Ongoing Gaza Catastrophe Rouses Michigan Primary Voters to Send Biden a C...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Land Grant University Systems Stirs Questions With Recent Investigation
From: KRCL
Caption: Indigenous college student, Alina Sierra, Credit: Bean Yazzie / Grist
Two-way interview with Tristan Ahtone, a member of the Kiowa Tribe and Grist editor-at-large investigates the Land Grant University system.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 05:57
What You Might Find on Your San Francisco Ballot: Party County Central Committees
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Election Special: Voters in San Francisco registered with the Peace & Freedom, Green, Republican or Democratic parties have extra choices in the Ma...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Has Citizens United Undermined Democracy?
From: Open to Debate
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The landmark Citizens United Supreme Court case is in the news again in this high-stakes election year. Those who agree with the decision say it up...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KICI Iowa City, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Idaho’s United Vision Project: Confronting Extremism in America's Heartland
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As the 2024 presidential election campaign heats up, Idaho is not a place that Democratic campaign strategists will be thinking about, but writing ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The RNC Weaves a Tangled Web, Pushing Early & Mail-In Voting to Its Base, While Litigating and Legislating to Limit It In Swing States
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
The RNC Weaves a Tangled Web, Pushing Early & Mail-In Voting to Its Base, While Litigating and Legislating to Limit It In Swing States

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Proposition F: Tying Cash Welfare to Drug Screening
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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March 2024 Election Special: Mayor London Breed is facing one of the most pivotal moments of her political career as she campaigns for reelection a...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Making Sense of Voting on Judges in San Francisco
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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March 2024 Election Special: Why are San Francisco residents being asked to vote on County Superior Court Judges? We talk to University of San Fran...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 22:13
  • Purchases: 1

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