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Making Contact: How We Survive: The Currency of Giving (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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A look into how struggling communities around the U.S. are meeting each others needs, without charity, or even exchanging a dollar.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Dec 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
BackStory - Aliens from... Inner Space? Outsiders in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Americans have always feared "alien" invasions, especially those by other earthlings.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Marfa Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, 90.5 WSNC, WRIR and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
BackStory - Early and Often: Voting in America
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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In this pre-election special, the American History Guys consider the evolution of American democracy. What did the Founders think it entailed? How ...

Bought by WRIR, WCBE, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WRPI, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
How We Survive: Predatory Mending
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Community Check Cashing in Oakland, CA, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
This week we talk to lenders who are doing things differently and to people who are helping others stave off financial scammers.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
The Greening of America: A New Deal for Everyone?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Trainees at Solar Richmond, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
President Obama wants a New Deal–– only this one is green. Obama plans to create more than two-and-half million “green” jobs over the next two year...

Bought by WVPE


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Tax Foreclosures and Open-Air Drug Markets in Camden New Jersey
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Camden Tax Foreclosures and Open Air Drug Markets, Credit: Frank Fulbrook
Frank Fulbrook discusses his paper "Urban De-vitalization: How Drug Prohibition is Destroying City Neighborhoods" the only study of how empty build...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: May 27, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Gene Amondson, Prohibition Party
From: Dave Brooksher
Series: Third Party Candidates Running for President of the USA
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A Brief Interview with Gene Amondson, the Prohibitionist

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 10:20
Active Voice Radio 8-31-07 - Johnathan Mooney- The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal
From: Chris Goldstein
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Author Jonathan Mooney joins us to discuss his newest book The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal

Bought by WXXI, WXXI, and KSFR


  • Added: Aug 31, 2007
  • Length: 29:32
  • Purchases: 3
From Turmoil to Tourism: Following the Path of Abraham
From: A World of Possibilities
Series: The World of Islam
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Walk across the Middle East in the footsteps of Abraham

Bought by WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Unseen World of Islam
From: A World of Possibilities
Series: The World of Islam
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An exploration of the origins of the Muslim faith and its relationship with the West

Bought by Northstate Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, Lower Cape Communications, KSUT, KDLG and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 6
The Wind Will Carry Us: Moving Beyond the Oil Economy
From: A World of Possibilities
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Oil is heading out and wind is blowing in. So jump in the truck for a ride to the plains where wind is the new power.

Bought by WAER


  • Added: Oct 28, 2004
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1