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  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Thom Hartmann
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
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
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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 ...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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
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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 WCPN, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
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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 WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5

  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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A traveling exhibit called New Virginians: 1619-2019 & Beyond from The Library of Virginia in Richmond features oral histories and photographs reco...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
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A traveling exhibit called New Virginians: 1619-2019 & Beyond from The Library of Virginia in Richmond features oral histories and photographs reco...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, KRDP, WYAP, WFHB and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
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In Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:26
Caption: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:00

  • Added: Aug 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Best known for his path-breaking work on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938, Trinidadian C.L.R. James was often at the c...

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:05
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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
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, The RDD meets the FLOC, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. An organization created by Baldemar Velásquez to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Robert Forrant
Dr. Robert Forrant, University of Massachusetts-Lowell History Professor, Bread and Roses Strike Interview by Rich Austin: Robert gives us the rea...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 27:45
Caption: Cecelia Tichi
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
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There’s a small town in Idaho where prostitution was practiced openly—in effect, decriminalized. The practice was tolerated, even embraced, until 1...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
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
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Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
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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: Migrant Mother, Credit: Dorothea Lange
Author Elizabeth Partridge provides an authoritative biographical essay for a new book on the work of the twentieth century’s most important photog...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 17:29