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Dr. Joanna Macy: Gifts of Uncertainty

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Dr. Joanna Macy is a long-time peace, justice, and ecology activist. A celebrated Buddhist teacher, Dr. Macy’s wide-ranging work spans Eastern and Western thought. She spoke at the 2009 Bioneers Conference held in San Rafael, California.


How We Survive: The ‘Crisis’ in Public Education

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We continue our series, ‘How We Survive’. This week? It’s a time of crisis in higher education. And as administrators cast an eye toward privatization, students are mobilizing for change, and a voice in the system.


Redefining Human Rights:
The Case for Food, Health Care & Housing

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Are food, housing, and health care human rights? A round table discussion about the right to healthy food, the right to housing, and the right to healthcare. Do Americans have these, and if not, what’s standing in the way?


How We Survive: The Currency of Giving

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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.


Cracking the Coup in Honduras

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Independent producer Chris Thomas takes us to the streets of Honduras to look at the roots of a long-standing conflict between a powerful oligarchy and the poor and dispossessed majority.


Trade Shifts: Reflections on the Seattle WTO Protests

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Ten years ago this week, thousands of people shook the streets of Seattle in protest of the World Trade Organization. On this edition, we revisit the voices from that week and find out how global economic forces have shifted in the past decade.


American Peace Activists on the Streets of Kabul

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Almost everyone in the U.S., in one way or another, does business with the banks. But the business of borrowing isn’t always fair. We talk to lenders who do things differently and those who stave off financial scams.


Women Rising IV: Women as Religious Activists (encore)

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Three courageous women struggling with religious issues within their own religions and across religious lines.



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