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YSLTF = You Should Listen To Friday. Follow this podcast feed to get a batch of stories that you should listen to, every Friday. More info at ysltf.tumblr.com. Curated by Sam Greenspan of 99% Invisible.

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  4. The Happiest Accidents (The Organist)

    The legendary polymath broadcaster Studs Terkel hosted a radio show on Chicago’s WFMT for 45-years, interviewing an astonishing range of artists, thinkers, workers, and activists. The writer and publisher (and prolific interviewer in his own right) JC Gabel dips into Terkel’s massive archive to highlight three moments where Terkel stumbles sidelong into moments of sublime illumination, including arm-wrestling with Zero Mostel, sparring with Muhammad Ali, and impromptu guerrilla street theater with the organizer Saul Alinsky.

    Produced by JC Gabel and edited by Nick White.

    Photo courtesy WFMT and the Studs Terkel Radio Archive

    http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-organist/episode-50-the-happiest-accidents

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  7. New York After Rent, pt 1 (Theory of Everything)

    The financial crisis of September 2008 overshadows one of the most important events in recent New York History: the arrival of Airbnb. And while your host wasn’t paying attention back then either, today he is fed up with the commodification of every square inch of the city. But what if the Airbnb economy is also changing the way New York City dreams and makes art? Can it be stopped? Housing Activist Murray Cox gives us a tour of his insideairbnb project, Sociologist Richard Ocejo takes us on a jaunt through Hell Square, and legendary performance artist Penny Arcade shows us around “the big cupcake”.

    Huffduffed from http://toe.prx.org/2015/04/new-york-after-rent-i-of-iii/

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  8. 695BGK (Criminal)

    Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It was just before 2am on December 31, 2008. Edwards followed the SUV and ran the license plate number. His computer indicated that the SUV was stolen, and Edwards drew his gun and told the two men to get down on the ground. It wasn’t until later that he realized he’d typed the wrong license plate number into his computer. He was off by one digit. By the time he realized his mistake, one of the men had already been shot in the chest at close range.

    Huffduffed from http://thisiscriminal.com/episode-18-695bgk/

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  10. The UVA Story (On The Media)

    [Originally from Saturday, December 06, 2014 - 10:00 AM] "Last month, Rolling Stone published an explosive, 9,000 word feature titled “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA.” The author, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, opened with a terrifying description of a female college freshman being raped by seven University of Virginia fraternity brothers. The story portrayed not just a brutal crime, but a woeful administration response bordering on obstruction of justice and an unreconstructed UVA rape culture. But at its core, Erdely’s article was about a single event, a ritualistic gang rape, told by a single source, the victim nicknamed Jackie. The Rolling Stone article reverberated far and wide, inciting a national conversation about rape on college campuses. But, on Friday, Rolling Stone magazine retracted the story." http://www.onthemedia.org/story/special-uva-story/

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