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  'We built this together.' The 20-year legacy of KUOW's RadioActive

  Late last month, KUOW announced the station was ending its RadioActive Youth Media program. For 20 years, RadioActive brought listeners the stories and perspectives of young people in the Pacific Northwest. Soundside producer Noel Gasca reflects on what the program has meant to the over 6,000 youth who participated - and what will be lost.

  • Libby Denkmann
  • Noel Gasca
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  Why one young Marine refused to fight in Iraq

  It’s been more than 20 years since Darren Fisher said 'no' to fighting in the so-called war on terror.

  • Olivia Asmann
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  Building community is 'an act of social justice’ at the Seattle Fandango Project

  RadioActive’s Vivi Cardenas-Habell says the Seattle Fandango Project played a key role in her upbringing. But she didn’t fully appreciate it until Covid took it away.

  • Vivi Cardenas-Habell
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  At 16, my grandma had an abortion. At 18, I’m telling her story

  In the summer of 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade made abortion legal nationwide, Elaine Fichter was 16 years old and eight weeks pregnant.

  • Natalie Lahr
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  My grandfather’s 'Little Story': A journey through war and prison in Vietnam

  My grandparents and their children lived comfortably in southern Vietnam. But everything changed on April 30, 1975.

  • Aaron Ton
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  Separated from his family in Eritrea at 7, this Seattle man now mentors East African kids

  When Habtom Hagos was 7 years old, he was separated from his family.

  • Alex Mengisteab
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  The First Night Project makes cancer ward stays a little easier for teens

  A cancer diagnosis "sucks." And the hospital stays that follow don't make it any easier.

  • Sidh Shroff
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  'I thought Columbia was going to save me': The realities for first-generation college students

  When Khanh Doan got into their dream university, they quickly realized going to college wouldn't end their struggle with depression.

  • Jana Le
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  'Joy and happiness was left behind': The true cost of the American Dream

  When RadioActive's Rediet Giday was three months old, her family moved to the United States — without her.

  • Rediet Giday
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  Walking the Nile in his shoes

  A daughter reflects on the emotional and challenging journey her father, an Ethiopian refugee, had to make in order to save his life and pursue his dreams.

  • Eliham Mohammed

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