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Cooperation and Cooperatives vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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
How We Got Here, Part 3: The Fight For Meaningful Work
From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here
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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
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
From: Ian Ruskin
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
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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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
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
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
Episode 5: The Gods Must Be Bewildered
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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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
Episode 2: Ludlow and its Legacy
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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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
Scraping the Sky: Art Deco Architecture in the Twin Cities
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
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
The Nonviolent Path of Cesar Chavez
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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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
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Downtown Profile: Cottage Grove, Oregon
From: KLCC
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Profile of an Oregon City

  • Added: May 06, 2008
  • Length: 07:33
Crossing East: Exclusion & Resistance - Program Four
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Accounts of immigration laws designed specifically to restrict Asian Americans. THE ACTUAL SHOW LENGTH IS 59 MINUTES. THERE ARE SEVERAL VERSIONS O...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WCPN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WCPN, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Skywalkers of Akwesane
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How the dangerous skill of high steel became a rite of passage for a Mohawk tribe.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WFHB, KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 26
Georgia Market Bulletin
From: Helen Borten
Series: A Sense of Place: Third Season
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A chronicle of rural life in Georgia unfolds between the lines of a farmers' newspaper.

Bought by Audible


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Mother Warren
From: jessica lockhart
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A look into the labor history of one of the world's oldest paper mills.

Bought by WMPG, KVSC, WMPG, PRX Remix, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 11, 2004
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 9
The Orphan Train
From: Annie Wu
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Orphan Train riders re-live their journeys in search of a home in the West.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, Northeast Indiana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2004
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 33
The Story of the Peat Bog Soldiers
From: Arndt Peltner
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The most important anti-fascist and protest song of the 20th century

Bought by WRPI and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 27, 2004
  • Length: 38:37
  • Purchases: 2