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Back to SearchHow We Can End Gender-Based Violence
Episode 264
Gender-based violence – why are states so bad at making it stop? This week, in her first appearance since fleeing Brazil, women’s rights advocate Deb…
6 years, 9 months ago
Extreme Cities: Ground Zero for Climate Change
Episode 263
No matter how we tackle climate change, cities are key. They emit massive amounts of carbon and they’re ground zero for the climate crisis. But could…
6 years, 9 months ago
F-Word: From Voice of America to NPR, New CEO John Lansing's Glass House
"I don’t know about you but I take a teeny weeny bit of offense when a guy in a glass house lobs a great big stone and expects me not to notice the s…
6 years, 9 months ago
Special: Our Economy, For and By The People
Episode 262
Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit has …
6 years, 9 months ago
Alice Sheppard and STREB: Beauty, Risk, Mobility, and Inclusion
Episode 261
This week, dance as world-changing movement with two artists who expand our ideas about beauty, risk, mobility, and inclusion. Wheelchair dancer and …
6 years, 9 months ago
Storming the Federal Reserve
Episode 260
This week we talk about the way central banks steer world development and for whom. Former Goldman Sachs manager Nomi Prins, author of Collusion: How…
6 years, 10 months ago
F-Word: Woodstock Urges Roaming
"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New Yo…
6 years, 10 months ago
Music, Spirit & Protest: The Hippie Idea, Woodstock & Climbing PoeTree
Episode 259
Can music make a movement? This week, legendary music producer Danny Goldberg will reflect on 50 years since Woodstock and go in “Search of the Lost …
6 years, 10 months ago
New Justice: A World Beyond Prisons
Episode 258
Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the land of the free? Sustained campaigns for change are beginning …
6 years, 10 months ago
Audio Exclusive: Artists as Agents of Change, Celebrating Ben Barber
Enjoy a panel discussion moderated by Laura Flanders and a key note address by Oskar Eustis, director of the famed Public Theater in New York, featur…
6 years, 10 months ago