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Despite what the official histories say, Labor Day actually was first observed in San Francisco.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, WTJU, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Aug 17, 2005
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 4
Thousands gathered in downtown Oakland to occupy the ports and shut them down. Exploring a night with the Occupy Oakland movement, partly a party...
- Added: Nov 29, 2011
- Length: 06:15
Since 1989, San Francisco has been a sanctuary city -- a place that offers undocumented migrants a chance to start a new life, without the threat o...
- Added: Jun 03, 2016
- Length: 11:40
Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 09:01
The older we get, the harder it is to think of ourselves as “old.” But as far as the government is concerned – specifically, the federal correction...
- Added: Jun 22, 2013
- Length: 09:45
This week on TSWI, a Labour Day special on the right to a good boss. With stories from the United States, Canada, Argentina, Italy and South Korea...
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 2
International Human Rights Day, Chicago Teachers, and More!
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 02:59
Mobile home parks -- often in terrible conditions -- have become the defacto solution for a farm worker housing shortage in the Eastern Coachella V...
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 2
Freud never quite cornered the market on Conscience. After two weeks spent with the Burns/Novick film ‘The Vietnam War”, the complexity of conscie...
- Added: Oct 01, 2017
- Length: 05:56
If you want to hire a worker in Oakland, you’re going to have to pay a little bit more these days. At the beginning of the month, Measure FF, overw...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 06:30
Fran Quigley is our guest. He’s a clinical professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and author of If We Can Win...
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- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 07:35
![Caption: A wall upstairs at [freespace], Credit: Jen Chien](https://s3.amazonaws.com/production.mediajoint.prx.org/public/piece_images/251940/frees_square.JPG)
The seed idea for [freespace] came from a 48-hour hackathon called the National Day of Civic Hacking. A hackathon is when people get together for a...
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 08:36
Federally, marijuana production is still a major crime, one that can land you in prison for decades. Yet, in northern California, there’s a whole e...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 11:26
- Purchases: 1
Organizing the Maine Lobstering Union
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:59
- Purchases: 2
This story explores what life is like in the US working without papers
Bought by KUOW, KRUA, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2008
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
It’s 8:08am, the Friday before spring break, and under other circumstances Kathleen Byrnes would already be at work.
“We would be in our classroom...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 08:26
Federal judges overseeing the massive litigation hope to keep cases from dragging on for years. As many as a million people were exposed to contami...
Bought by KTEP, Texas Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KUT, and KRPS
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 5
From the Ukrainian Pale to Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Radicalized by d...
- Added: Nov 14, 2017
- Length: 58:12
Minute Men on Our US-Washington State & BC Border Interviews
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 06:23
Congressman Levin spoke at a Nationol Press Club Lunceon on Monday April 19th. The Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee discussed severa...
- Added: Apr 30, 2010
- Length: 54:00
As a follow-up to last week’s program, “The Elected Coup,” tonight we confront The Authoritarian Creep.
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- Added: Feb 07, 2017
- Length: 58:15
- Purchases: 1
There has been a sudden shift in the hopeful tides that the Christmas season brings- toward hope that the majority in the US Senate will change. T...
- Added: Dec 13, 2017
- Length: 03:39
The Marine Corps says the private companies that make military uniforms fell behind because of inflation and COVID-related labor shortages.
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 4
Ten thousand refugees a day stream out of Pakistan’s Swat Valley to escape the fighting between government troops and the Taliban.
This week, the ...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: May 15, 2009
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
