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This week, we listen to Kathleen Rumpf share her stories of her time inside FMC Carswell, a United States federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas for f...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:44
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Bob Kustra talks with Lindsey Hilsum about her book "In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin"

  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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An Interview with Deborah Campbell about her Investigative Non-Fiction Book "A Disappearance in Damascus"

  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
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Bloomington author Annette Oppenlander discusses her books, including a coming of age novel set in World War II Germany, with Michael Glab on this ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 08:38
Caption: Miriam Nobre, Credit: http://marchamulheres.files.wordpress.com/
We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence; Stella Soh, Kathy Kelly, and Miriam Nobre.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
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We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On January 24, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the ban on women serving in combat roles in the military. War News Radio reporter Amy DiPie...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
Caption: Rear Adm. Wendi Carpenter congratulates Lt. j.g. Carolyn Bloomfield for earning her carrier qualifications during the Women in Aviation Conference.
Juggling work and motherhood is always hard, but imagine if you were an admiral in the Navy.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
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As reports of Qaddafi soldiers raping women emerge from Libya, we talk to feminist Gloria Steinem about the root causes of sexual violence against ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:01
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When Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe first started reporting on sexual abuse in her country, the language didn't even have a word for "rape."

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
Caption: Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Pakistan.
Acclaimed Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ("Children of the Taliban") talks with us about the insidious tactics employed b...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 09:09
Caption: A Moro rebel in Sultan Kudarat, Southern Philippines, on Feb. 19, 2008., Credit: Mark Navales
Annabelle Abaya, who has served as the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process in the Philippines and founded The Conflict Resolution Group Found...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stella Sabiiti speaking on a panel in Austria in 2006., Credit: Frank Helmrich
Through the African Union’s Peace and Security Department, activist Stella Sabiiti works with rebels who inflict violence on civilians in conflict ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:53
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Why would a woman join an armed group? Tufts Professor Dyan Mazurana talks to us about how a cycle of violence is much more to blame for women's pa...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
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Professor Joshua Goldstein debunks the idea that biology hardwires men for fighting wars and women for staying on the sidelines on this week's podc...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
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Playwright and activist Lynn Nottage explains how after interviewing survivors of Congo's civil war in 2004, she was inspired to write "Ruined," wh...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
Caption: A meeting for rape victims near Walungu, South Kivu in DRC in 2001.
For our first podcast episode, we go to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has been called the "rape capital of the world." Jocelyn Ke...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 09:39
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From "Endless Summer" 8/13/2010: War News Radio reports on the status of women in Afghanistan, how they have come to be marginalized in most aspect...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 08:05
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From "Uploading the War" (7/16/10): War News Radio reports on efforts to provide Afghan women with education.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:15
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Nationally, female soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan make up the fastest growing group in today’s veteran population. But after serving ...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2010
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 2
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:00