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Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy

Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy

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This is the official podcast of the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy. Our mission is to continue the distinguished legacy and lifetime work of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to advance American democracy through multigenerational civics education, civil discourse and civic engagement.
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Featuring candid, meaningful discussions that get beneath the surface of issues, this podcast aims to inspire, inform and deliver practical insights on the challenges affecting charity and nonprofit leaders today. For the benefit of leaders across the sector and for people who care about the important work of charities. Tackling a different theme each episode, Dhivya O’Connor, a charity CEO herself, invites top CEOs to share their unique insights, expert knowledge, and lessons learned runnin ...
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Wild salmon give their very lives so that life itself can continue. They are the inspiration for each episode asking change-makers in this world what they are doing to save the things they love most. Join filmmaker, Mark Titus as we connect with extraordinary humans saving what they love through radical compassion and meaningful action. Visit evaswild.com for more information.
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Discussions of great movies from a Catholic perspective, exploring the Vatican film list and beyond. Hosted by Thomas V. Mirus and actor James T. Majewski, with special guests. Vatican film list episodes are labeled as Season 1. A production of CatholicCulture.org.
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Join Rachel and Hannah on the Sinister South Podcast as they explore the shadowy corners of South London. Each episode digs into the gritty true crime stories that have left their mark on the local streets of South London. They’ll introduce you to the victims and dissect the mysteries while giving you a taste of the places these dramas unfolded. It’s not all doom and gloom; Rach and Han also have plenty of nonsense to chat about! So whether you're a true crime buff or just curious about the ...
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Feed your soul and fill your toolbox every Thursday with Benn Marine (a trans man, outdoors person, political organizer, and social justice advocate) as he interviews organizers, activists, artists, academics, and experts about their experiences and knowledge on building community and creating change. They dive deep into social movements, fundraising, building teams, volunteer leadership development, self care, recruitment, time management, launching non-profits, resiliency work, digital org ...
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Terra.do is an online climate school. We teach you everything climate, connect you to an online community of changemakers and put you to work remotely on high-impact climate projects that need your unique skills. Our podcasts are focused on climate change, sustainability, development, conservation, and many more issues focused on developing countries, starting with India.
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Through out time events have occurred that have shaped human history. Spirit voices from the past have many stories to tell. Channelers, Barry and Connie Strohm have been conducting live channeling sessions and relaying those stories and messages from those on the other side. Listen in to the ones that have witnessed history first hand and those that made history themselves.
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Empty office buildings. Workforce changes allow for more remote work. American downtowns are struggling. The pandemic-led changes in where and how we work and live have weakened and withered many urban cores. The office vacancy rate in Houston is some 26 percent; in Phoenix it is above 20 percent. This shift means fewer workers, fewer businesses to…
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Welcome back to another episode of "Sinister South." In this ninth instalment, we delve into the dark and convoluted case of Daniel Morgan, a private investigator brutally murdered with an axe in a South London pub car park in 1987. Despite five police investigations, the case remains unsolved, mired in corruption, conspiracy, and scandal within th…
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We are excited to revisit this fascinating discussion with Judge Douglas Ginsburg as he delves into past, present, and future struggles for liberty through the lens of the US Constitution - just in time for the 4th of July and the celebration of our Country’s independence. Judge Ginsburg is the author of Voices of Our Republic, the companion to the…
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Episode 8 of Sinister South takes a twisted turn down Stanstead Road as we uncover the bizarre and brutal case of Shaun Corey. In 2011, Shaun's on-off partner Karen Otmani, also known as Tammy Cameron, turned their tumultuous relationship deadly. Shaun, a kind-hearted Northerner looking for a fresh start in London, met Otmani on an online dating si…
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Woody Tasch is the founder and chairman of the Slow Money Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing the flow of capital to local food systems, connecting investors to the places where they live and promoting new principles of fiduciary responsibility that bring money back down to earth. Since 2010, via local Slow Money networks in dozens of co…
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"Empowerment is the ability to make choices... and... having economic tools, economic resources is a way of providing the means for those choices." The world has come a long way since 1974 when women in America could not have their own bank account or checking account without their husband’s signature. The 1st United Nations World Conference on Wom…
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In 1936, Pope Pius XI published his encyclical on the motion picture, Vigilanti cura. The encyclical deals with the grave moral concerns raised by the cinema, which had by then become a ubiquitous social influence (though it was also a still-evolving medium, as the transition from silent film to talkies had only recently been completed). Pius holds…
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The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute for American Democracy presents a conversation with author and historian Claire Rydell Arcenas and Liam Julian, director of Public Policy at the Sandra Day O'Connor Institute. In her book America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life, Rydell Arcenas seeks to better understand and illuminate the cr…
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Episode 7 of Sinister South uncovers the chilling story of Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, two French biochemistry students who moved to London for prestigious internships at Imperial College. In the summer of 2008, these promising young men were brutally murdered in a crime that shocked the nation and raised serious questions about the UK justic…
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Episode 6 hears Rach discuss the case of Michelle Confait whose unsolved murder changed the way police investigate crimes involving children as suspects. Throughout this episode we try to give focus to Michelle who has somewhat been forgotten in their own death, while also discussing the horrific miscarriage of justice and police activities that we…
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AlexAnna Salmon is President of the Igiugig Village Council. She is of Yup’ik and Aleut descent and was raised in the village of Igiugig, Alaska. In 2008, AlexAnna graduated from Dartmouth College with a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Native American Studies and Anthropology. After graduating, she returned to work for the Igiugig Tribal Village Co…
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Surprise! We said fortnightly...we changed our minds! Hannah is back this week with a historic case from Southwark where we meet a husband and wife murder duo from the early 1800s! Meet the Mannings, a delightful pair who perpetuated a crime that became known as the Bermondsey Horror, the cold blooded murder of Patrick O'connor, a wealthy businessm…
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There is broad scholarly agreement that our current political world owes much to what Thomas Paine was the first to call the "age of revolutions"—that is, the several late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century decades during which revolutions rocked the globe. But what gave rise to the age of revolutions? Why, suddenly, were era-spanning monarch…
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**TRIGGER WARNING: ALL THE BAD THINGS** Hannah talks us through one of the most infamous cases in Catford, the murder and discovery of Rochelle Holness at the notoriously scary Milford Towers estate in 2008. Rochelle was brutally murdered and hidden by a sub-human who should have been stopped much earlier in his criminal career. Hannah explains jus…
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Stacy Bare is a husband, father, skier, rafter, surfer and climber. As a veteran of the Iraq war, he co-founded the Great Outdoors Lab (GO Lab) in 2014 to put scientifically defensible data behind the idea of time outside as healthcare in partnership with Dr. Dacher Keltner at the Greater Good Science Center at UC-Berkeley. Stacy is a 2014 National…
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Episode 3 sees Rach and Han step back in time *queue Dr Who music* to 1871, Kidbrooke near Greenwich as Rach discusses the brutal murder of Jane Maria Clouson. Jane was a "Maid of All Work" for a Greenwich-based family ", The Pooks", and Edmund, the youngest son, was undoubtedly fraternising with the help! So much so that he got Jane pregnant... an…
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Joshua Hren, editor-in-chief of Wiseblood Books, joins the podcast to review Wildcat, the new Flannery O'Connor biopic directed by Ethan Hawke and starring Maya Hawke and Laura Linney. The film is a respectful and nuanced portrayal of O'Connor and her faith, accomplished by extensive quotation from her prayer journal and letters, as well as several…
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Episode 2 of Sinister South takes us to Streatham as Hannah tells the terrifying story of grade A monster Mario Celaire and his brutal attack and murder of girlfriend Cassandra McDermott and attack of ex-girlfriend Kara Hoyt. Sounding like something out of an episode of Luther, this episode takes a hard turn into the world of terrifying domestic vi…
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Ash Rodriguez is a Seattle-based award winning food writer and photographer. She is the author of three cookbooks; Date Night In, Let’s Stay In, and Rooted Kitchen - which just came out here in the Spring of ‘24. Ash is also the host and co-creator of the James Beard nominated series, Kitchen Unnecessary; an online series which uncovers the world o…
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The Criteria crew continue their journey through the works of today's most significant Christian filmmaker, Terrence Malick. The New World is an underrated masterpiece about Pocahontas and the founding of Jamestown in 1607. Starring the 14-year-old Q'orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas, Colin Farrell as John Smith, and Christian Bale as John Rolfe, Malic…
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Welcome to the first episode of "Sinister South", where we (Rach and Han) dive headfirst into one of South London's most baffling mysteries—the unsolved murder of Debbie Linsley. Back in 1988, Debbie was tragically stabbed aboard a train travelling from Orpington to Victoria. This chilling puzzle has stumped detectives for decades and remains unsol…
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With an audacious goal to lift 20m people in Africa out of extreme poverty by 2030, Dianne Calvi, President and CEO of Village Enterprise, joins us to share how they plan to make this happen. Centred around their core value of ‘Ubuntu’, a South African term, which means ‘humanity’ or ‘I am because we are’, Village Enterprise seeks to transform live…
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In occupied France during World War II, a Communist woman named Barny (Emmanuelle Riva) enters a confessional for the first time since her first Communion. She is there not to confess but to troll the priest by saying “Religion is the opiate of the people.” To her surprise, Fr. Léon Morin (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is not thrown off balance, but offers a…
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Perhaps no extant product of the U.S. Constitution has received more bipartisan animus than the Electoral College. Since 1800 there have been more than 700 proposals introduced in Congress to amend or eliminate the way in which America chooses its presidents. Yet the Electoral College lives on. Why do we have this system? Why does it inspire such c…
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Thomas and James discuss two classic Hollywood films dealing with the moral problems of overweening ambition - specifically in the context of show business. All About Eve (1950), which won six Oscars and features razor-sharp dialogue and an unforgettable performance by Bette Davis, is set in the world of the theater, while The Bad and the Beautiful…
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Continuing our trek through the filmography of Terrence Malick, the world's greatest living Christian filmmaker, we arrive at The Thin Red Line (featuring Jim Caviezel in his breakthrough role). This film came in 1998 after Malick's twenty-year hiatus from directing movies, after which he never took such a long break again. Focused on the experienc…
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Please join us and listen to this wonderful message of love and rebirth by our Lord. As he resurrected from the grave we can all re-dedicate our lives to living a life of following his words. Please tell your friends about his messages. We are currently trying to consolidate all of our podcasts in a single location. All of our shows are available f…
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In this edition of Channeling HIstory, we interview the spirit of the conservative talk show host, Rush Limbaugh. His answers to questions tonight are as straight forward as his answers in life. Please subscribe to our channel, give us a like and tell your friends about our shows. You can hear or download all of our podcasts at the following link h…
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“There is a problem! Business has a problem, the world has a problem, because we are just not utilising the talents, the ambitions, the drive of half the world’s population (the female half)... Economic gender justice is essential both for women’s freedom and equality, but also for the development of the world.” We are honoured to have on the podca…
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In this very interesting edition of Channeling History, we interview the spirit of Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, and the spirit of Fred the Alien who gives us insight into the future and what weapons are on other planets. Please tell your friends about this unique show. We will soon be leaving Podomatic. Please bookmark and lis…
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There are many ways to make a movie. Only a few of those ways fit within the Hollywood mold. We believe that rather than taking pop culture as their sole model, Catholics and Catholic filmmakers should be open to a wide variety of artistic approaches. Thus, in this episode James and Thomas discuss the early career of the great Iranian director Abba…
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In this edition of Channeling History, we interview the spirits of two of the greatest minds that ever lived, Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla. We ask them questions related to modern times and religion. Please feel free to download the show and tell your friends. All of the Channeling History archives are available on our YouTube channel in my nam…
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You may be surprised to hear that one of the more morally profound new movies we’ve seen recently is a Godzilla reboot! The original 1954 Godzilla had its own ideas, being a way of processing Japan’s nuclear trauma and the ethical implications of superweapons. But the new Godzilla Minus One goes even deeper, examining not only the trauma of the war…
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In this edition of Channeling History, we bring you Part 2 of our channeling with the three Supreme Court Justices, Scalia, Ginsburg and O'Connor. In this edition, the discuss abortion and the interpretation of Roe v. Wade and free speech on social media. Please subscribe to our channel, give us a like, leave a comment and tell your friends about t…
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Widely considered one of the greatest films ever made, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story is a quiet, gentle yet tragic family drama about the distance that can grow between elderly parents and their adult children. It's a critique of the transformation of culture and mores in postwar Japan, particularly the loss of filial piety, but it's not just specific…
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Would you like to know what Jesus really looked like? Does the Shroud of Turin really show the body of Jesus? How did the Resurrection really take place? In this unique video, we bring you the truth about this information and prove the exitance of Jesus. If you have any doubts that Jesus walked the earth and still comes to individuals from heaven, …
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There must be something in the water – everyone’s talking about the Vatican Film List! Just after the Criteria crew concluded three years going through the list, Word on Fire has published their own book about it, Popcorn with the Pope: A Guide to the Vatican Film List, with essays on all 45 films by David Paul Baird, Fr. Michael Ward, and Andrew P…
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In this edition of Channeling History, we channel the spirits of past Presidents, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. They discuss our current government in Washington and what they would do to solve our current problems. This is a highly informative show. Please tell your friends about our show.…
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This is the first episode of a series covering the complete filmography of Terrence Malick, who is arguably both the most important Christian filmmaker working today and the most important filmmaker working today, period. What sets Malick apart from a number of other directors whose work deals with a religious search, is that his films are not just…
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In this edition of Channeling History, we interview four movie stars that participated in military action during WW2. We speak with Jimmy Stewart, Clark Gable, Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Coogan and discuss the role they played in the military. You will be surprised at the bravery shown by these individuals in time of war. Please tell your friends ab…
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