Category: Social Conscience & Civil Rights
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Answering The Need
$3.95 Order NowWith the tightening economy, increased middle class anxiety, home foreclosures and lengthening lines at soup kitchens throughout the United States, more and more and more Americans will be relying on the good will of their neighbors. This documentary examines why people decide to offer their time and money to answer the need.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
$2.95 Order NowThe plight of Americans who still live in poverty, despite working full-time (perhaps even more than one job), is examined by award-winning author Barbara Ehrenreich.
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Bo Lozoff
$2.95 Order NowBo Lozoff, a teacher and singer who has visited more than eleven-hundred US prisons, trying to uplift inmates many of whom he says don’t belong there, believes that even while incarcerated, a person can become free.
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Bolder Giving
$2.95 Order NowSome people give no charity at all. But of Americans who do, the average family donation is 2-3% per year. This program examines how people arrive at the amount of their charitable contributions, where the money is contributed to, and what holds donors back from giving more, especially if they could afford to without hardship.
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Books to Prisoners
$2.95 Order NowThe Prisoners Literature Project, an all-volunteer service based in Berkeley, California, packages and ships books to people who are incarcerated, as a humanitarian gesture and one that helps inmates prepare for re-entry into society.
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Brain Surgeon’s Journey
$0.00 Order NowAn American pediatric brain surgeon describes his remarkable recent journey to Africa, where he volunteered to perform highly specialized operations on poor children in Uganda, and also met inspiring medical local colleagues.
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Business Ethics
$2.95 Order NowJ. Irwin Miller describes values that have guided him as both Chairman of a Fortune 500 firm (Cummins Engine) and President of the National Council of Churches.
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Children Left Behind
$3.95 Order NowThe moving stories of two young adults who have incarcerated parents and who endured unpleasant visits to prison as well as the heavy emotional baggage of having a loved one taken from them at a young age. (Part 1)
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Children’s Advocate Jonathan Kozol
$2.95 Order NowA visit with educator and National Book Award-winner Jonathan Kozol who continues his decades-long crusade on behalf of children he’s met in inner city schools.
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The Common Good
$2.95 Order NowThe heir to the Oscar Mayer fortune, Chuck Collins, examines income inequality, sustainable local economies and his personal journey in a provocative new book, “Born on Third Base.”
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Community Food Bank
$2.95 Order NowWe hear the moving story of Kathleen DiChiara, suburban housewife who became very concerned about human hunger in the 1970s. This motivated her to start collecting food at church, and eventually other sites, and then to organize distribution to people in the nearby inner city.
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Culture of Distraction
$2.95 Order NowChris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Empire of Illusion”, maintains that our popular culture cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy, dangerously relying on spectacle, false idols, and snake oil salesmen.
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Defending the Poor
$2.95 Order NowA look at the profession of Public Defenders, who with scant resources and drastically limited time, try to provide basic legal representation to poor people, some of whom are facing serious legal charges.
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Different Drummers
$2.95 Order NowDissatisfied with what they perceive as a distorted, negative picture from mainstream media, a Maine magazine publisher and a California radio producer created their own niches for presenting positive social trends.
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Dorothy Day
$3.95 Order NowWhen Pope Francis addressed Congress in 2015, he cited four great Americans: President Abraham Lincoln, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., writer and activist Dorothy Day and theologian Thomas Merton. Ms. Day, who died in 1980 at age 83, was a remarkable 20th century figure: journalist and founder of the “Catholic Worker” movement, which established soup kitchens and “houses of hospitality” in the Great Depression. More than 200 Catholic worker facilities remain in operation today.
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Eli Jaxon-Bear
$2.95 Order NowThe author of “Sudden Awakening,” Eli Jaxon-Bear, discusses his view that we brainwash ourselves into living with fear and aggressiveness when a deeply fulfilling life is available.
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Epidemic of Gun Violence
$0.00 Order NowA look at the problem of gun violence as a public health crisis, impacting not just emergency rooms but also long-term needs for healing from exposure to trauma.
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Equal Ground
$2.95 Order NowThe moving tale of the late Mae Bertha Carter, a sharecropper who raised thirteen children and also stood firm—against harassment—in her quest to integrate public schools in Sunflower County, Mississippi.
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Facing the Unthinkable
$0.00 Order NowThe current film ‘Oppenheimer’ reminds us of our unfinished business in the nuclear age. Hear Ira Helfand, an emergency room physician, describe the main barrier to addressing this problem: our denial that nuclear arms could cause the gravest emergency of all.
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The Freed People
$0.00 Order NowThe United States faced an unprecedented refugee crisis a century and a half ago: 4 million slaves were emancipated, primarily from plantations where they’d been held captive. Most possessed no more than the clothes on their backs and were now suddenly homeless and jobless.
In the chaos following the bloody Civil War, where would they go? How would they reunite with loved ones who may have been sold to a distant owner and never heard from again? How would people who’d been abused—sometimes savagely—and cheated out of compensation for their labors, and even legally prohibited from learning to read and write, now make the transition to a free life?
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Freeing the Innocent with Rob Warden
$2.95 Order NowEmboldened by a U.S. Justice Dept. estimate that ten percent of prisoners serving time are actually innocent, journalist Rob Warden describes his Chicago-based efforts to free inmates who are wrongly convicted.
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Freeing Modern-Day Slaves
$2.95 Order NowA conscience-stricken management consultant left the world of business and decided to volunteer his full-time efforts in the quest to free modern-day slaves held in shocking conditions.
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The Garden Project
$2.95 Order NowStep inside the garden of Cathrine Sneed, a prison social worker, who has found that when inmates leave their cells and connect with nature their rate of recidivism drops.
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Generous Giving
$2.95 Order NowWe examine current trends in charitable giving by individuals and foundations with Stacy Palmer, long-time editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and one of America’s most knowledgeable journalists about the nation’s $316 billion charitable sector.
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Giving Back
$2.95 Order NowThis documentary visits with people at different income levels to learn how they view the act of charitable giving and how they meet what for them is a moral obligation.
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Giving Circle
$2.95 Order NowRather than merely write checks to charities they don’t really know well, a group of concerned women formed a “giving circle” which identifies social needs and then seeks out worthy recipients.
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Catching Up with Granny D
$0.00 Order NowAs part of the Public Radio Collaboration “Who’s Democracy Is It?”, Humankind presents a lively, hour-long profile of “Granny D,” (Mrs. Doris Haddock of Dublin, New Hampshire). Famous for her 14-month walk across the United States to promote campaign finance reform, she is a fascinating American original.
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The Green Economy
$0.00 Order NowAs environmental visionaries see it, the future of energy is not in greenhouse gas-emitting fuels like oil and coal—whose supply is running out—but in sustainable, non-global warming sources like wind and sun and waves from the ocean and in the enormous storehouse of heat that naturally occurs deep underground. For a limited time, this show is available to listen to free of charge.
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Health Inequality
$0.00 Order NowIn this documentary, we ask why it is that the wealthiest Americans live as many as fifteen years longer than the poorest. It’s a troubling question during the pandemic, which has laid bare glaring discrepancies in health care. Nationwide, even with more people covered through the Affordable Care Act, nearly 28 million Americans remain without medical coverage.
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Helping Hands
$2.95 Order NowA thought-provoking essay about individuals who are moved to perform charitable acts. Is this serving God? Is it hard to perform such service selflessly, egolessly, without condescending? What blessings and lessons does the “giver” receive?
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Homeless Students
$2.95 Order NowThe story of a bright inner city high school student from Boston, who has launched a series of citywide clothing drives inspired by the needs of fellow students who are homeless or displaced.
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Hospitality
$2.95 Order NowThe stress of having a seriously ill loved one being treated in a hospital in a strange city is lessened by a compassionate army of volunteers in Boston who open their homes to provide lodging and a sympathetic ear.
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Ida B. Wells’ Battle to Uncover the Truth
$0.00 Order NowBorn to enslaved parents on a Mississippi plantation during the Civil War, Ida B. Wells emerged as a powerful investigative journalist. She overcame death threats and published widely in her quest to document the domestic terrorism against African Americans that came to be known as lynching. Ida Wells published the first major study of that crime. A close associate of Frederick Douglass, she helped to found the NAACP and advocated the right to vote for women and black Americans. Her amazing life story is finally gaining recognition, nearly 90 years after her death.
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Income Inequality
$2.95 Order NowWe consider the dramatic increase in income inequality—now at levels that preceded the Great Depression—and how this wealth gap relates to a host of conditions, from personal illness to incarceration.
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Jim Hightower
$2.95 Order NowPart raconteur, part rabble-rouser, Austin’s Jim Hightower (former Texas Agriculture Commissioner) honors the American tradition of small groups of citizen activists who take on corporate and government policies that trample the powerless.
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John Lewis’ Mission
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