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A look at some businesses that promote social justice, fair trade and labor practices, and thereby peace.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 57:36
- Purchases: 1
Keila McCracken says that clothing can tell people who we are, what we like, and even where we're from. And she should know. She's a sustainable fa...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WDBM
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 13:55
- Purchases: 2
On this episode of Culture Clique, we explore multi-level marketing. Is it a pyramid scheme? Is it good for the seller? What are people’s impressio...
- Added: Sep 17, 2015
- Length: 01:07:58
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...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...
Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
Adam Graff, a member of New Orleans' all-volunteer, mental health crisis unit, speaks with his wife, Jacqueline, about the surge in patients after ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 01:53
- Purchases: 3
Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement?
Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 01:01:11
The Fair Food Program is recognized as one of the great human rights success stories of our day. This unique farmworker- and consumer-driven initia...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise episode with Detroit fashion writer turned job maker and social enterprise entrepreneuer. Karen Buscemi is trying...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 28:08
Remember how much real estate Serial took up in your brain? Now imagine having 75 crime stories in your mind all the time, and the cases are active...
- Added: Jul 26, 2015
- Length: 26:44
When he was just a boy, Victor Ayala whose family was struggling in Guadalajara crossed the Rio Bravo on his own, only to be taken back to Mexico. ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2015
- Length: 28:06
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Just a stone’s throw from Orlando’s Disneyworld, Florida’s Lake Apopka used to be a premier recreational lake, until agricultural chemical runoff p...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 28:00
When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the
renow...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
After months on strike, FairPoint Communications workers reflect on going back to work.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 06:19
While advocates and politicians seek an alternative, more integrative model to the AbilityOne program, Gladys, a disabled worker wonders if the Abi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 03:24
This is the first in a series of podcasts in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org to explore behavioral science in the workplace. In this installm...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 25:59
Would you believe, here at the beginning of the 21st century, that every order of fast-food served with a slice of tomato is part of a system of sl...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more p...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
Despite growing newfound interest in food, diets and nutrition, how many question where their food comes from and the conditions under which it was...
Bought by WRGY
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Every day of the week John stands near the corner of Laburnum Avenue and Brook Road in Richmond, Virginia’s Northside. He holds a sign that reads: ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 27:05
