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Young Voices Debate Tough Topics: DEI and Climate Change
From: Open to Debate
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Two days. Four questions. Ten judges and high school students participating in the national championship run by Incubate Debate, the U.S.’s fastest...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Why People Don’t Vote: Surveys Show Many Nonvoters Don’t Think Their Vote Matters
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Why People Don’t Vote: Surveys Show Many Nonvoters Don’t Think Their Vote Matters

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUTC, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
Steve Arveschoug on leadership, anxiety and getting help
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Steve Arveschoug is the executive director of Big Sky Economic Development in Billings and an advocate for leaders to embrace vulnerability and men...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 08, 2024
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
Eco Report - May 3, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this edition of Eco Report, Kade Young and Noelle Herhusky-Schneider continue their conversation with Maggie Sullivan, the Watershed Coordinator...

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 30:26
Benji Backer on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Benji Backer offers climate crisis strategies from his perspective on the political right. Author of "The Conservative Environmentalist," he starte...

  • Added: May 03, 2024
  • Length: 29:25
War Of The Words
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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Dr. Jo Lukito of the University of Texas, Austin has made using science to understand political language her life’s work. She joins Jess for the th...

  • Added: May 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Eco Report - April 26, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
Caption: Eco Report - WFHB
On this Fund Drive edition of Eco Report, Kade Young continues his discussion with Maggie Sullivan, Watershed Coordinator for the Friends of Lake M...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2024
  • Length: 30:07
Michael D. Smith on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Michael D. Smith reflects on leadership and shares his enthusiasm for the new Climate Corps. The CEO of AmeriCorps, he is deeply committed to commu...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 30:33
Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Beth Silvers and Sarah Stewart Holland dig into political identification, a decline in church attendance, and the search for shared American values...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:52
Secretary Deb Haaland on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Secretary Deb Haaland emphasizes her obligation to future generations, discussing the urgency of climate change and the crucial inclusion of Indige...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 24:48
Eco Report - March 29, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week's Eco Report feature, part 2 of WFHB Environmental Correspondent Robert Shull's conversation with Marcia Veldman, founder of the South...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 30:35
Eco Report - April 05, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this edition of Eco Report, Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze gets updates from Steven Stewart of Indiana Forest Alliance about plans to log...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 27:58
Eco Report - April 12, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this edition of Eco Report, Maggie Sullivan, Watershed Coordinator for the Friends of Lake Monroe, shares how healthy the lake is and how long i...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 28:54
Priya Subberwal on storytelling, ecology and resilience
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Priya is an interdisciplinary ecologist and artist with an extensive background in multimedia storytelling and a passion for connecting with the na...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 1
Sonnet for Antoinette
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This is a sonnet written for Antoinette, the school receptionist at the school in Georgia where a man stood outside, then fired a high powered wea...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
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
Women's History- Post-Dobbs Crisis: Visions for Abortion Access & Radical Care
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Fake clinics are feeding people disinformation, laws are criminalizing doctors and patients, and the climate of stigma and fear has only worsened s...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Francesca Abroad: Following an American high school student’s year in Sarajevo
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, follow an American high school student studying in Sarajevo. You’ll hear what she felt, what she learned, and how she...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
Looking at the Unbearable with Dr. Gabor Maté & V (formerly Eve Ensler)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Experts say we must look at the root causes of our pain, and yet the US is in the grip of a battle over exactly that — with efforts to ban books, c...

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


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Park High School students on youth climate action
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guests are Victoria, Remy, Josie and Anders—four students from Park High School in Livingston, Montana. These students are part of a sc...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 27:37
  • Purchases: 1
Dress to unrepress: Women who dressed like men, broke rules and made history
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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This hour on Audacious: A conversation with Tracy Dawson, author of 'Let Me Be Frank: A book about women who dressed like men to do shit they weren...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 50:02
Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
From: Tradeoffs
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 23:50
Hisako Hasegawa
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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The Belvedere Hotel is in the heart of New York City’s theater district. Many of its guests come to see the sights, take in a show. But there are a...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:55
How to Fortify Democracy in 2024: A Citizen’s Guide by Sam Daley-Harris
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Civic courage — what does it look like and how can more of us embody it? Our guest Sam Daley-Harris believes we need advocacy organizations to tra...

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


  • Added: Jan 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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You’ve seen them in protests since the start of the Israel/Hamas war — from New York City’s Grand Central Station and the Statue of Liberty, to the...

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


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6

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