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Dream of Democracy: American Dream 2:59 Barrett Golding & Jonathan Menjivar

Chicago college students ponder the definitions (and existence?) of the American Dream, for themselves and for eveybody. Produced for WBEZ Chicago Matters "Our Next Generation". [transcript]

Broadcast: Jul 2 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Dream of Democracy Subjects: Public Affairs, Youth, Politics

Cover of Juarez book: man climbing over border fence

Juarez 2: Gangs 8:43 Scott Carrier

City on the Edge: Profiles of the people of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez -- a place troubled by rampant poverty and corruption, where violence is a daily fact of life. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 28 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: International, Hispanic, Justice

Last Man in the Moon 6:25 Barrett Golding

Transmissions from the last lunar life: Apollo 17, the last manned moon mission. No one's been back since their departure, December 14 1972. (Music: Racket Ship.) [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 25 2004 on WNYC Radio Lab Subjects: Science, Travel, Technology

Juarez 1: Poverty in the Global Economy 8:44 Scott Carrier

City on the Edge; Part 1:A series of reports from "the laboratyory of the future": Juarez, Mexico, a town on the broder. Sez Charles Bowden: "If you have questions about what the global econony will eventuate in, go to Juarez. What we call the global economy -- no tariff, barriers, etc -- has been running there since the 60s. You have a 40-year record, and what it’s produced is one of the most violent cities in the world." [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 21 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Juarez: City on the Edge Subjects: Hispanic, International, Justice

Father’s Day 6:22 Jake Warga

Remembering a father with a pile of old recorded tapes. Winner of a 2005 NFCB Golden Reel.

Broadcast: Jun 19 2004 on APM Weekend America Subjects: Family, Holidays

Blind Dog 4:34 Scott Carrier

Fritz the dog loves to play Frisbee. He still catches it most of the time, though not as much as he used to… before he went blind. Somehow the sightless German Shepherd manages to hear and catch the flying disk mid-air. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 17 2004 on NPR Day to Day Subjects: Health, Sports

Dream of Democracy: Pink Bloque 5:37 Barrett Golding & Jonathan Menjivar

Putting a new face, sound and color on political activism (bringing the "femme back to feminism"). Their 6 P's: Pink, Performance, Public Space, Protest, Pop Culture, Party ("The Pink Bloque fights for our right to party while partyng while we fight."). Produced for WBEZ Chicago Matters "Our Next Generation". [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 7 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Dream of Democracy Subjects: Public Affairs, Politics, Youth

D-Day Radio 5:26 Barrett Golding

Broadcasts from the planes, boats, beaches and newsrooms: excerpts from the CBS network feed on June 6, 1944, when the Allied Forces began taking back Europe (with additional D-Day online photo/audio from FDR, Ed Murrow, and George Hicks famous actuality rom the beach-head invasion fleet).

Broadcast: Jun 5 2004 on APM Weekend America Subjects: War, Media, International

Paintmixers 5:57 damali ayo & Dmae Roberts

Performance artist damali ayo heads to hardware stores looking for paint in some shades of dark brown... her own: face, inner thigh, left breast. "I asked him if he could match any color. He said yes, and then I pointed to my skin. He said (and continued to repeat), 'I've never done a flesh tone' which I liked, because it was the first time my skin was referred to as a flesh tone." (Paint-scripts at Stories1st.org.) Re-aired on "The Nude," WNYC Studio 360. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 4 2004 on PRI/WNYC Studio 360 Subjects: Art, African American

Tije is Not Dead 2:42 Crossing the BLVD

Haitian-American activist Ray Laforest reads a poem about his brother Tije, who died mysteriously in Haiti in the late 1990s. Judith Sloan, Scott Johnson and Warren Lehrer produced the piece. From the Crossing the BLVD series (book/CD); interviews from mostly immigrants and refugees who now live in Queens NY. [transcript]

Broadcast: Jun 1 2004 on NPR Day to DaySeries: Crossing the BLVD Subjects: Politics, International, Family