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Gaping Inequality, The American Nightmare for Workers: Abigail Disney
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s flagship theme park, she disc...

Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
2023-02-03 Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Recovery Possible
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Who cleans up and rebuilds our communities after floods, fires, and hurricanes? COVID redefined America's definition of “essential workers,” but ma...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, KOWS and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
220203: Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Recovery Possible, 2/3/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Who cleans up and rebuilds our communities after floods, fires, and hurricanes? COVID redefined America's definition of “essential workers,” but ma...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Upstream: Worker Cooperatives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Artwork by Phil Wrigglesworth
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Alison Cohen, Advocate and Coordinator of the National Right to Food Community of Practice
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that food is a key intersectional point for health, labor, human rights, agriculture, environment, and climate change? Join Food Sleut...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teofilo Reyes, Ph.D., Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that restaurant workers have united to correct unfair labor practices in the workplace? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Die...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jill Lindsey Harrison, Ph.D., author of Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that pesticide drift is a widespread, largely invisible problem that disproportionately harms racially marginalized, Indigenous, and w...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Panics without Borders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gregory Mitchell
“Zombie Statistics” is what professor Gregory Mitchell calls them. Those are the chunks of data officials use to prove there is a rise in sex-traff...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The History of Democracy Has Yet to be Written
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas Geoghengan
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 07/14/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How old is too old to work? - Despite reaching retirement age, work never stops for civil servants in the Democratic R...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jul 15, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Community Wealth Building: An Economic Reset
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Jay Farrar - Legend Series
From: Art of the Song
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SHOW 911 (Air Dates: June 13 - 19, 2022) Our guest this week on Art pdf the Song is the legendary singer/songwriter, Jay Farrar. One of the foundin...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KEDT


  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
2022-01-28 State of the Unions: Navigating Job Creation and Destruction
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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With expanding electrical infrastructure and some jurisdictions beginning to ban gas appliances in new construction, the transition to a clean ener...

Bought by KUHF, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 11
220128: State of the Unions: Navigating Job Creation and Destruction, 1/28/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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With expanding electrical infrastructure and some jurisdictions beginning to ban gas appliances in new construction, the transition to a clean ener...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
08-15: Next Gen Farmers: A Land-Loving Story, 2/2/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Severine von Tscharner Fleming
In the next 20 years, farmland ownership in the U.S. will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres. Yet 70% of American farmland is owned by ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 28:28
Re:Work Radio: Stranded
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Indian migrant workers flee during the 2020 national lockdown., Credit: Re:Work Radio, a project of the UCLA Labor Center.
When India went into lockdown in 2020, millions of jobs disappeared and tens of millions of migrant workers struggled to get home, often on foot. M...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Dec 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Poison Makers: On Liberal Modernity
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show centers on the life and thought of Tanaka Shozo, a radical environmental thinker in early 20th century Japan who criticized the modernizin...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
H. Claire Brown Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that prison labor may be used in producing some of the food products you purchase at the supermarket? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Navina Khanna Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that food is our most intimate, powerful connection to each other, to our cultures and the earth? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and regi...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
210514: Journey of A Former Coal Miner, 5/14/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What motivates the activists? Grassroots activism can take many forms, from protests to letter-writing to citizen science to community organizing. ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Protecting Human Rights (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WCNY, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 10
Protecting Human Rights (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7