PRX - Pieces for Topic: Women

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Caption: Host Martha Burk
On November 19th citizens of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will vote on the first city-level 20 week abortion ban in the U.S., with no exceptions for r...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
President Obama got a short reprieve when Russia put forward a plan to avoid a U.S. missile strike on Syria by sequestering Syria’s chemical weapon...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on why House Republicans took their 40th meaningless vote to repeal Obamacare before getting out of town for a 5...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Two and one half minute commentary from series host Martha Burk on the House abortion ban vote and women.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Pussy Riot member, Credit: courtesy Roast Beef Productions
The 2013 South By South West Film Festival, in Austin, Texas, is the setting for this Fresh Talk feature. Cathy Byrd meets filmmakers Mike Lerner a...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 12:24
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We'll focus on the needs of families who have the least amount of resources and are most under attack. Guests will include Jessica Aranda, with So...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2012
  • Length: 28:45
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The story of Elena Fonseca, a remarkable women from Montevideo, Uruguay. Elena was a diplomats wife who lived in a number of countries before retur...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Domestic workers in Texas., Credit: Flickr user: Nuevo Anden
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Rally in support of the Ohio Prevention First Act, Credit: creative commons Flickr user ProgressOhio
Reproductive health services for women are under attack, leaving poor women and women of color lacking access. But a broad coalition of women is st...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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From persistence to flexibility, neighborhood team leader Paula offers an inside look at what it takes to be a volunteer with President Obama's re-...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: Harmeet Dhillon is the chairwoman of San Francisco’s Republican Party.
San Francisco’s Republican Party has a new chair, and it’s not your average Republican. Let’s take some demographical statistics of GOP supporters....

  • Added: Apr 06, 2011
  • Length: 06:54
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This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mairead Maguire
This time on Peace Talks Radio, a 2006 conversation with Northern Ireland Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire. Also talk about middle school...

Bought by KWMR, KCNP, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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Josimene is ten years old. She is one of Haiti's 300,000 restavecs, or child slaves. While her parents were promised she'd be educated if they sen...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2009
  • Length: 12:57
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The war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now a decade old, and the impacts on women's health and safety in the country are dire. This progra...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2009
  • Length: 38:50
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Professor of Politics Asma Barlas discusses her experiences as a Muslim and her research regarding women and Islam

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:00
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Hour 2 of two-hour lecture "If Women Mattered" by Gloria Steinem

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with radical activist Charlene Mitchell, who ran for president with the Communist Party in 1968.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2006
  • Length: 13:20
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Interview with Nell Bernstein about her book All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated

  • Added: Dec 24, 2005
  • Length: 04:12
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A profile of Alix Olson - award winning spoken word performance artist/activist considered by some “one of the ten most dangerous women in America.”

Bought by KUER, KUT, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 11
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Deep In Our Hearts is an award winning hour-long documentary about four white women who defied the color line to work in the southern Civil Rights ...

Bought by WCPN, KZYX, WRPI, KUT, KLCC and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 19
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Muslim scholar Leila Ahmed argues for an alternative to fundamentalist Islam, for an oral, ethical tradition, passed down from mothers and grandmot...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFUV, and KZYX


  • Added: Jun 30, 2004
  • Length: 17:40
  • Purchases: 4