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  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Breaking the chains of slavery, Credit: empirical_perception
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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jim justice speaks with Gerald Hankerson and Teresa Clark of Washington Community Action Network (CAN!), Clint Weckerly of SeaMar, and Rev. Josefin...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 27:59
Caption: A Dam Nice View, The Hoover Dam, Credit: Amyn Kassam
As we look for a solution to global energy problems and a way out of the climate crisis- some are turning to dams and hydroelectric power as a sour...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the National Writers Series
Somali-Dutch feminist, activist, writer and politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali thrilled a packed audience at her National Writers Series. Speaking with dip...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WNIJ, KBGA 89.9 FM, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, KVSC, WNYC and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 38
Caption: Homeless Iraq Veteran Eddie Towne picks up survival gear at the Veterans Administration Stand Down in Biloxi, Mississippi., Credit: Rhonda J. Miller
The goal of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is to end veteran homelessness by 2015. But it's slow going in Mississippi, where hundreds of h...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
Caption: Kyndall Goss
Kyndall Goss of Tacoma, Wash. talked with KPLU about healthcare.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: :17
Caption: Josh Morrissette
Josh Morrissette of Tacoma, Wash. talked with KPLU about gay marriage.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: :34
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As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, an interview from 2006 with the author Kurt Vonnegut...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 22:59
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Bev Harris of founder of Black Box Voting, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan elections watchdog group shares with us the dangers to our voting proc...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Voter ID Laws - Brentin Mock - New Orleans based journalist who serves as lead reporter on Voting Rights Watch tells us about the Voter ID laws tha...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
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A "newsical" analysis and roundup of both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions... plus the spin war to come over the closely watche...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 56:02
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Greg Palast - investigative reporter for BBC television. Greg discusses his latest book Bil...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Aug 23, 2012
  • Length: 28:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 09:17
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Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 11:30
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Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Marijuana is legal for medical use under California law, but sale and possession are still federal crimes. Raids on growers and dispensaries – and ...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angela Davis and Tim Wise, Credit: SpeakOut
Anti-racist author Tim Wise examines how society is being divided and conquered on the basis of race and class. But legendary activist Angela Davis...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Many women don't still have their "I Believe Anita Hill" buttons., Credit: Susan Cook
Much is heard about the new Republican attack on women, a not- so thinly veiled attack on credibility, the females’ , that is. Women, you may reme...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 04:46
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The Obama vs. Romney 2012 presidential campaign has begun...just in time for the Memorial Day weekend...the unofficial start of summer. They are al...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 55:55
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Seldom do citizens witness the workings of that Refinery known as Political Hostage Taking. There is much to learn from the John Edwards' trial abo...

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:49
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Former Colorado Congressman David Skaggs talks about the lawsuit in Federal Court to have the Taxpayer Bill of Rights declared unconstitutional bec...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 24:11
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A look at the latest strange detour in Campaign 2012...The War on Women...told thru narration, music and soundbites.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 56:15
Caption: 1999 US Postage Stamp, Credit: Istock photo
Recent controversies surroundings reproductive health issues have sparked outrage among across the country. From the halls of Congress, to Richmon...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:54