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Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (ENCORE)

The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands. Not only could widespread vaccination campaigns help...

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70 Million: When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime

  A year ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. The goal is to reverse some of the negative impacts of the War on Drugs by approaching drug use from a health-centered...

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Ollas Populares- Lessons from Lockdowns

Reporter Rosina Castillo takes us to her Buenos Aires neighborhood. There, a community arts organization called La Casona de Humahuaca hosts an olla popular, a community kitchen, to feed hundreds of...

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Well Nourished: How Mutual Aid is Transforming Food Security for Single Moms...

  Federal food programs, like WIC, face big changes coming out of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health. Meanwhile, a single moms collective in Ohio holds it down for the single...

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Pandemic and Profit

To mark the three year anniversary of the official start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ll be looking at two alternative supply chains for masks that emerged in the fallout of the Trump administration’s...

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Queens Memory Podcast: Seeing Signs

This episode is also available in Tagalog / Mapapakinggan din itong episode sa Tagalog: The “Little Manila” Mabuhay mural represents welcome, best wishes and life. It greets you in bright yellow on a...

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Well Nourished: How Mutual Aid is Transforming Food Security for Single Moms...

Members of the single moms collective, Motherful, gather for a photo. (Photo thanks to Motherful) Federal food programs, like WIC, face big changes coming out of the White House Conference on Hunger,...

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A History of Traditional Root Healing (ENCORE)

Author Michele E Lee holding a copy of her book. (Photo by Anita Johnson) In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm.  When we  think of natural remedies we tend to think of...

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The Shadow of Nuclear Colonialism

The text “The Shadow of Nuclear Colonialism” superimposed on an image of the explosion at 9.0 seconds after the Trinity detonation on July 16, 1945. (Photo illustration by Lucy Kang; background image...

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How Ollas Populares fed Buenos Aires through a pandemic (Encore)

Neighbors line up for a hot meal at La Casona de Humahuaca’s olla popular during pandemic lockdowns. (Photo thanks to Nuevo Encuentro Comuna 5) We travel to Buenos Aires with reporter Rosina Castillo...

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