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This commentary notes the great need for President Bush to provide much more relief to the thousands of farmworkers who've been struggling to meet...
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Mar 15, 2007
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Despite his extraordinary career, Lefty O'Doul has again been bypassed for admission to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame.
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Mar 04, 2007
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 01, 2007
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on silent films, which are among the most important, yet most neglected of the visual arts.
- Added: Feb 03, 2007
- Length: 03:01
This commentary notes the great need to provide paid sick leaves to the millions of American workers who can't afford to take time off even if they...
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Jan 25, 2007
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 20, 2007
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
This commentary celebrates the 70th anniversary of the fledgling auto workers union's spectacular victory over mighty General Motors.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Jan 20, 2007
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
A commentary about C.L. Dellums of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, one of the country's key labor and civil rights leaders for more than 6...
- Added: Jan 20, 2007
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 4
a commentary marking the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike, one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Dec 08, 2006
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
A commentary noting that the U.S. Mint is once again trying to peddle $1 coins that we don't want.
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 02:50
A commentary on the Bush administration's successful attempt to allow U.S. growers to continue using methyl bromide, the highly toxic pesticide ban...
- Added: Nov 18, 2006
- Length: 02:54
A commentary on the major role unions played in the Democratic Party's midterm sweep.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Nov 10, 2006
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
A commentary marking the anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, one of the most enduring and influential of American symbols.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Nov 05, 2006
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 1
A commentary noting that if pitcher Kenny Rogers did indeed use pine tar to gain an illegal edge on batters in the World Series, he was only doing ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2006
- Length: 02:48
Although most people work for a living, the mainstream media generally ignore their working lives.
- Added: Sep 15, 2006
- Length: 03:25
Unions have launched one of labor's biggest political campaigns ever in behalf of their Democratic Party allies.
- Added: Sep 08, 2006
- Length: 02:39
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
The "Wheatland Riot" nine decades ago laid the foundation for creation of an effective union and other steps to improve the miserable conditions of...
- Added: Jul 23, 2006
- Length: 03:14
A once-suppressed newsreel showing Chicago police chasing, killing and wounding strikers and their families on Memorial Day in 1937 played an impor...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KFAI Minneapolis, and KPFT
- Added: May 27, 2006
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 3
Although increasingly used by the CIA, FBI and other agencies and private employers, so-called lie detector tests are highly unreliable and serious...
- Added: May 07, 2006
- Length: 02:57
Ernesto Galarza, now largely forgotten, played a key role in the rise of the farm labor movement led by Cesar Chavez.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Apr 28, 2006
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
The Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914 was one of the most horrific events in U.S. labor history -- but one that led to desperately needed reforms.
- Added: Apr 14, 2006
- Length: 04:22
Who needs baseball when we've got cricket, our first national pastime?
- Added: Mar 23, 2006
- Length: 03:12
It's the 38th anniversary of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez's extraordinary 25-day fast.
- Added: Mar 09, 2006
- Length: 02:46
