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Rising Against Asian Hate: Turning Grief Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Join Laura and Gina Kim for this impactful conversation on combating anti-Asian hate. A documentary series on PBS, Rising Against Asian Hate: One ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 8
URL - 50 Years After Roe, Is Reporting on Abortion Still Too White?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Forty percent of those who get abortion services in the U.S. are African Americans. Would you know it from the media coverage of the Supreme Court’...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Linda Villarosa: the Dobbs Decision: a Death Sentence for Black Women?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health a death sentence for women of color? The overturning of Roe v. Wade not only creat...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gender Justice Requires more than Money say the Feminists Taking on Philanthropy during Covid
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently made a splash by donating nearly $3 billion to more than 280 nonprofits working in ...

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


  • Added: Jul 14, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
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
Sex Trafficking in Southeast Minnesota
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we sit down with Laura Sutherland, the Safe Harbor Regional Navigator for Southeast Minnesota. The Safe Harbor Pr...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 21:00
Solitary Confinement: Locked Away with No Human Contact
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses solitary confinement and its physical and mental health impacts on prison inmates with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic p...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Feb 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Female Survival in Prison
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This episode is the second installment exploring women within prisons. First, we get updates on struggles in Bulgaria and Turkey, hear about propos...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:43
Impulse Under the Influence: A Repeat Prompted by Weekend Rape Reports
From: WFHB
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We revisit a 2014 program called Impulse Under the Influence in the light of two alleged rapes reported by female Indiana University students. One ...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:29
Motherhood by Choice not Chance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Before it was legal in the United States, some doctors would risk arrest to provide women with access to safe abortions. When that wasn’t possible,...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
How Far Have We Come? Justice for Female Inmates in 2013
From: Making Contact
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Up until fairly recently, the public knew very little about what happens to a woman when she lands in jail and is pregnant. What prenatal services ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:30
Civil Liberties for Sexists: The Purity Ball and Prostitution Laws
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Recently, a man convicted of aiding the prostitution of a young woman who was exploited by over 150 men, was given a 3 week sentence. This sente...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:45
A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support (Part III)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In the last of our three-part series, A Crisis of Care: A System on Life Support, we?ll hear from experts offering an insiders view on the continui...

  • Added: May 23, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
A Crisis of Care: Gina's Story (1 hour Special)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One mother's fight to save her daughter's life from a dysfunctional and inhumane health care system in California's prisons.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
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
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
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
RN Documentary: A Life of Ashes: Widows in India
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A personal journey of an Indian born producer of a widow to look at the situation of widows in India.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KXOT Public Radio, and WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Girls From Cambodia
From: Outer Voices
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An honest look into the sex industry in Cambodia

Bought by KUER, WRPI, KFOK-LPFM, WUFT, KUT-HD and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2006
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 17
Girls from Cambodia with newshole
From: Outer Voices
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Girls From Cambodia - an honest look into sex trafficking in Cambodia

Bought by WUFT, KUT-HD, WOSU, KQED, KUNM and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 9
Sisters in Pain
From: Down to Earth Productions
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This Peabody Award-winning documentary details the imprisonment and eventual release of 10 women who struck back against the men who violently abus...

Bought by WLRN, 90.5 WSNC, KQED, Louisville Public Media, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2004
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 11