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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
birthday cake batter runs amok
- Added: Aug 28, 2006
- Length: 02:21
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
Passage of the constitutional ban on same-sex marriages sought by President Bush could make him an Eliot Ness, chasing violators as Ness chased vio...
- Added: Jun 15, 2006
- Length: 03:25
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
Would it surprise you to hear that Sleeping Beauty, a fire-breathing dragon, Prince Charming, and our president all have something in common? Stanf...
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 22:00
Who needs baseball when we've got cricket, our first national pastime?
- Added: Mar 23, 2006
- Length: 03:12
- Added: Mar 17, 2006
- Length: 06:15
Poems about betrayal in love by John updike and Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Added: Mar 10, 2006
- Length: 04:00
It's the 38th anniversary of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez's extraordinary 25-day fast.
- Added: Mar 09, 2006
- Length: 02:46
We're ignoring the innocent quail that our VP thought it amusing to stalk and kill.
- Added: Mar 04, 2006
- Length: 02:00
Thanks to two California doctors, we may finally be able to abolish the barbaric practice of capital punishment.
- Added: Feb 25, 2006
- Length: 02:49
Oh, it's not easy, that business of seeking better health through exercise.
- Added: Feb 16, 2006
- Length: 02:26
A Commentary from Scotland on issues affecting the Bush/Blair conduct of the war in Iraq
- Added: Feb 05, 2006
- Length: 08:48
