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In Search of Opportunity
From: Voices of Our World
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We visit a Westchester, NY good neighbor program, Neighbors Link, serving Latino immigrants to the area.

Bought by KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, WYSO, WVAS and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2005
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Grassroots Goes Global
From: WFUV
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A report on grassroots organizations driving change in how big nonprofits raise funds for global causes.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2005
  • Length: 04:08
Tnn # 3
From: Rhinos
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Monthly Youth Audio Magazine

  • Added: Apr 19, 2005
  • Length: 30:22
The job of an Ombudsman (#109)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What's the difference between being an agent versus an advocate?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
[Insert Racist Comment Here] (#108)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Do we have an ethical obligation to respond to offensive speech? How about, just to listen to it?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
THINK GLOBAL: Joseph Stiglitz commentary
From: Public Radio Collaboration 2005
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Commentary from Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, author of "Globalization and its Discontents."

Bought by WCOM, WGVU, WBST, WYSO, WDIY and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 7
Black Tension
From: Hana Baba
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A look at the sometimes tension-filled relationship between African immigrants and Black Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KISU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 10
Dying for Water: Indians, Politics and Dead Fish in the Klamath River Basin
From: Rhoby Cook
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A Native radio documentary on the impact and aftermath of the 2002 Klamath River fish kill.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, and KVMR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
To Ride or Not to Ride
From: Radio Arte
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Spoken Word/Commentary on CTA spending

  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 06:13
Islamic History - Made in America
From: Hana Baba
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A long feature on the the first female-led Islamic prayer in history, and the new Progressive Muslim movement that's behind it.

Bought by KCUR


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 13:41
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Executive Director of Life's End Institute
From: Sheila Edmundson (Smart City)
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This interview provides information about alternatives to conventional end of life decisions

  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 17:37
Honor and Kill Your Parents (es#107)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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How do the differences between principles and practices influence our perception of right and wrong?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
My Body My Temple
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
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Women writers reading their own works about how breast cancer affects their body image

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KLCC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 30, 2005
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 4
Life Before Social Security
From: Richard Paul
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A look a life for the elderly in the years before Social Security was created

Bought by WBEZ, New Hampshire Public Radio, WYSO, KVMR, and WSHU


  • Added: Mar 30, 2005
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 5
Moon, Mars and Money
From: Richard Paul
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Will we go back to the Moon and on to Mars? A reality check.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WSHU, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 3
1995 Anne Waldman - Simulacrum (Not a Real Life, Cheap Imitation)
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Waldman in a strong political performance of her poetry

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Virtual Classrooms (ES#106)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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How is it that by not knowing people in person you end up knowing their person really well?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
No Child Left Unrecruited
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the military's devious, expensive and escalating attempts to recruit high school juniors and seniors.

Bought by WUSF


  • Added: Mar 20, 2005
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
Equal Rights and Same Sex Marriage (es#105)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Why is marriage like voting? Because they have both been the subject of "legal" governmental discrimination.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nose to Nose in a Restaurant (es#104)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What should you do when bottle of cologne is seated at the table next to you?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
How to treat a service dog (es#103)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Don't you want to just hug a service dog? Pet it? Give it treats? Well, don't! Here's why.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2005
  • Length: 01:05
  • Purchases: 1
Toxic Workplace (es#102)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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What can you do to make an emotionally toxic workplace better?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Protecting College Students' Tender Parts (ES#101)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Conservative students allege that liberal bias on college compuses offends their intellectual sensitivities.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caring for Aging Parents (ES#100)
From: Dean Ritz
Series: Ethically Speaking
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Do we have an obligation to care for our aging parents as we do our children?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KDNK


  • Added: Mar 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
Destroy It To Save It
From: Richard Paul
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A trip back to a neighborhood the Supreme Court ordered destroyed

Bought by WETA, BSR Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 3

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