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Caption: New Bedford Harbor, Credit: Derek Hawkins (cc)
New Bedford Harbor ranks among the worst harbors in the country for surface oil spills. Harbor officials and environmental groups can’t even agree ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 06:50
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Many of the Rohingya who have been forced to flee their homes are now living in crowded and dirty camps where skin infections, diarrhea and other a...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
Caption: Hussein Aladdin and Iman Ali arrived in the US in 2010 as refugees.  Aladdin has been living with lung cancer since 2009 but is unsure if it was caused by the environmental degradation from the recent wars in his home country., Credit: Photo: Ashley Murray
Hussein Aladdin is an Iraqi refugee who settled in Pittsburgh with his wife Iman Ali and their three sons. He is now managing lung cancer and memor...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 04:18
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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
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A fence separates Hamden, a Connecticut suburb, from three public housing projects in the neighboring city of New Haven.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 07:26
Caption: Money Matters Award Winning Host Marc Cuniberti
Biting commentary. This piece leans somewhat right of spectrum. Preview first. Comments on social spending and free markets. Rousing news piece. Ev...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Harold Blackledge, a 79-year-old agricultural pilot, stands in front of his 1975 Piper Pawnee Brave in one of his hangars at the Watonga Regional Airport. The drought — the worst he’s seen — has dried up aerial spraying work in Oklahoma, he says., Credit: Joe Wertz
The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:30
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Officer Denise Cookie Boulden is a Detective for the Seattle Police Department. She’s well known for her work with youth and the elderly. Detecti...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:31
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The Oakland Unified School District is in debt to the state. It owes $6 million a year until 2026 and needs every dollar it can save. But over the ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 08:09
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Law enforcement agencies across the country have policies protecting people of color from being racially profiled. Studies have shown, however, tha...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 08:48
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How can we make schools safer for LGBTQ students? We start by letting LGBTQ youth take the lead in developing student-centered solutions. Listen to...

Bought by WAMC and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Karabakh Foundation
Eric Schwartz talks a about his life in Eurasia, the differences between social media in the Caucasus the United States and his experiences as a me...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 35:57
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Maurice Caldwell is just one of hundreds of former inmates whose convictions have been overturned after spending years in prison. Now, Caldwell is ...

Bought by KFAI and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:46
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira, Y-Press
Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira
In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
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In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marty Whiteman found himself in a struggle with Chesapeake Energy, which leased the gas under his farm. , Credit: Reid R. Frazier
What happens when your land sits on top of a rich natural gas deposit, but you don't own the mineral rights. In Wetzel County, West Virginia, many ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:05
Caption: The kitchen at Occupy Oakland is open to all and staffed by volunteers. , Credit: Photo by Jaime Omar Yassin (hyphenatedrepublic.com)
The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to develop in cities around the country and here all around the Bay. Early this morning, San Jose police ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 10:17
Caption: John Haynes, a Protestant, from Sydney, Australia, was cut out of three wills for marrying Helen, a Catholic, in 1962, Credit: John and Helen Haynes
Mixed marriages - family fatwas and ruptured romance due to religious bigotry in Australia, told through compelling personal stories. Winner, GOLD ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 53:20
Caption: Mom Mike and Chuck
Are you beginning to recognize that your parents are no longer able to live independently. Are they struggling with remembering people, events, dat...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2011
  • Length: 45:10
Caption: SF county inmate Michael Steele, Credit: SF Public Defender’s Office
California has what one might call a pressing problem when it comes to its prison system. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed a lower court’s ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:02
Caption: Watchtower at Pelican Bay State Prison, Credit: Rina Palta
If you’re convicted of committing a felony in California, you can end up in many kinds of prisons. Steal a lot of money in a Ponzi scheme – you mig...

Bought by KUOW and WAMC


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:13
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jeremy Profitt
For some soldiers, post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, really is a four-letter word. A PTSD diagnosis means you may need treatment for the res...

Bought by WAMC and KHNS


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Under CC License from Thomas Marthinsen. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomma/4906491235/
How has the drug war changed America, 40 years on?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 24:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Unemployed oyster shucker Tam Nguyen , Credit: Barry Yeoman
For many of Louisiana's oyster shuckers, shrimp peelers, and deckhands, survival after the BP oil spill meant accepting one-time payments of $5,000...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 17, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1