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Caption: Emotionally Leaning in to Life
This is the first of the series of shows for Women with Women. Lauri Rich was my first guest and she addressed the question "Can a woman have it al...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 46:22
Caption: A trapeze student, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dolores Huerta and Jason Fuller, Credit: Generation Justice
Generation Justice's Jason Fuller interviewed the legendary Dolores Huerta about the struggle for women's rights.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 10:43
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Co-founder/CEO and the National Director of Free The Girls explain how this organization helps women and girls who are victims of human trafficking

  • Added: Oct 06, 2013
  • Length: 49:36
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We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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What would the American labor force look like if not for the contributions of women? The short answer: It would be a shell of itself, says Jones-De...

Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Don Byles talks to his daughter Mackenzie about their family's funeral home.

Bought by WEZU and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 2
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the immigration debate and what it means for women.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act and what still needs to be done.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Chinatown, Manhattan, Credit: Meredith Nierman, WGBH
If you think slavery ended in 1865, think again. Human traffickers have picked up where Jim Crow left off.

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 5
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Rachel comes full-circle. She goes from being a college student to be a stripper and then back to starting all over again.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:57
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Although the rest of the nation is on its way to a slow recovery, unemployment among black women remains stubbornly high. Jones-DeWeever explores t...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
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April 29, 2013-Denver-Auraria campus custodians, students, faculty, and concerned citizens marched on the Auraria campus denouncing undignified wor...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
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A woman arms herself before leaving for work; an 18 year old girl spends three months in an Alaskan cannery; and that woman on the phone is not who...

Bought by KUAC, XRAY.fm, KOSU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Aspen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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A documentary on Adrian Chi Tenney, a female professional driver in Los Angeles, CA.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
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What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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It's been a hundred years since women textile workers waged one of the most important strikes in US labor history.

  • Added: Jul 05, 2012
  • Length: 05:16
Caption: Roxanne Brown, Credit: Jennifer Esperanza (c)
The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class.

Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, and WDSE


  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 4
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
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Stacy Cordury and Bill Poundstone, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Despite the anti-discrimination laws, many pregnant workers are being legally fired for being pregnant.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
Caption: Building 92, Credit: Shannon Geis
Ever wondered what goes on behind the gates of the Brooklyn Navy Yard? We found out!

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 08:52
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The need to combat sexual harassment on the job is drawing lots of attention.

  • Added: Dec 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:53