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2023-03-17 A Global Just Transition – For Whom?

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KUNM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more

230317: A Global Just Transition – For Whom?, 3/17/2023

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

According to the United Nations Development Program, 54 countries, accounting for half the world’s population, face such critical debt burdens that...

Labor Day Special - "Workin’: The Work Song in Jazz and Popular Music"

From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials

Jazz for the Labor Day holiday, with special guest jazz historian Ted Gioia (author of the book WORK SONGS). Featured artists include Duke Ellingt...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WNMU-FM, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, WRGY, KBBI Alaska and more

Working

From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works

Everyday working people tell their stories.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more

Episode 132: Herrin Massacre

From: Criminal
Series: Criminal

In the summer of 1922, in a town in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. Men, women, and children came out of their houses to ...

E's Barbershop Lounge

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

This barbershop built my character. I started off sweeping floors. I own the shop now.

Bought by PRX Remix

The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel

From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes

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

Choreography of Care

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Ingrid Tischer, director of development, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) and Making Contact Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong, Credit: Alice Wong

Community Storytelling Fellow, Alice Wong asks, how do people with disabilities who rely on personal assistance negotiate their relationships with ...

SoundsLA - Operating a Crane at the Port 150 Feet High

From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions

Frank Kostrencich has been working the night shift as a crane operator at the Port of Los Angeles for the past 26 years. Using his precision and ex...

Designing Above 50 Million Gallons of Water

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media

Caption: Sketch of the design for the park, Credit: West Seattle Blog

A tour around a newly undergrounded reservoir with Mark Brands, the landscape architect who designed the park to be built above it.

Bought by KLCC

Blowing the Whistle, Paying the Price

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: A deformed baby duck found at Kesterson NWR, Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...

Bought by WNJR and KMUN

Lilian Alfonso, Metal Scrapper

From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life

At USA Recycling in East LA, a two-story yellow crane smashes cars, refrigerators and stoves into neat piles of wreckage all day. The mistress of t...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio

99% Invisible #73- The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems (Standard 4:30 Version)

From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)

A poet makes a city.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more

The Alchemy of Lobster Fishing

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix

Growing Pains at The World's Largest Co-op?

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

Making it Our Business: Co-ops on the Rise

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer

The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

Bought by KALW

Riding the 1 bus: An unguided tour to East Oakland

From: KALW

The most popular buses in Oakland are the 1 and the 1R. The 1, which is the local route, makes 105 stops in three different East Bay cities. It’s a...

Dream Jobs 2011 Promos

From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio

15 and 30 second promos for "Dream Jobs 2011: Outside the Cubicle"

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KMXT, WEKU, WNIN, WCPN and more

The Vendor's Hustle

From: Matt Rogers

There are ten thousand street vendors in New York City, that magnet for the world's poor and America's hopeful; some licensed and some not. Vendors...

Expanding the Northwest Detention Center

From: Seattle Globalist

Caption: Northwest Detention Center, Credit: Alex Stonehill

April 16, 2009 - On any given day, 30,000 people are being held in detention centers across the country. With plans to expand the Northwest Detenti...

Detention in the City of Destiny

From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars

Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill

In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

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