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In this episode, we learn about two historic negotiations – one failed and one successful – from the negotiators themselves. We begin with a peace...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, WLPR , Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 20
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This July, America’s largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its parent ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This hour features three intimate stories that grapple with the messiness and the triumph of existing as a person, from the outside body to the ins...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, Prairie Public, WRVO Public Media, New England Public Media, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
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From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Ears Adrift celebrates the Seabee birthday month and Women's History Month. Hoorah, Seabees!

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 1
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This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
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If you're a good listener, you'll probably be a damn good therapist

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 1
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It's hard to come here as an immigrant. You leave everything behind.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
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I smile, even when it hurts.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Painting, landscaping, demo work, dish washer... I'm available.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
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I repossess autos, boats, motorcycles, things of that nature. It’s rough. I’m just the messenger.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2017
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
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In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 68
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode of Wish We Were Here, we tell the remarkable story of Bishop Castle--an incredible piece of folk architecture that is likely one of...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 59:08
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In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:18
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On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
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Do you know how we got Labor Day? Winston Smith's torture has begun, and Kim Davis' arrest is ordered by the Supreme Court

  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:34:32
Caption: The outdoor observation deck on the Foshay Tower in Minneapolis, MN., Credit: Noel Clark
The skyline of the Twin Cities in the 1920’s and 30’s was an ever-changing sight. Buildings like the Foshay Tower, the Ramsey County Courthouse and...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 28:06
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Biohackers grow their own ink from soil-dwelling bacteria., Credit: La Paillasse
What does it mean to live in a world where biotech is done for and by the people? How long might it be until we are all growing our own ink, laund...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
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A conversational profile of Cesar Chavez featuring his United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, Chavez scholar Jose-Antonio Orosco and Texas ...

Bought by KDNK, KGUA, WWNO, KGLP, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:45
  • Purchases: 43
Caption: Your new favorite podcast.
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 06:08
Caption: Luis & Luisa Quintero of Luis' Tacqueria in Woodburn, OR, Credit:  Photo by Richard Jensen
Throughout the West, historic discriminatory laws have excluded people of color from settling and owning property. Because of that, many Western st...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 2