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In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Welcome to the show! This four minute introductory episode informs folks of what topics, ideas and objectives this podcast will have.
- Added: Mar 02, 2024
- Length: 04:02
In this first of a two-part program, we take a deep dive into regenerative ocean farming, an extraordinarily productive and low-impact way of produ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2023
- Length: 28:30
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...
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- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
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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...
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- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 59:00
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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...
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- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 59:02
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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
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A new administration takes office in the midst of an ongoing public health catastrophe and an economic crisis, on the heels of one of the most pola...
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- Added: Jan 21, 2021
- Length: 28:00
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What do you see when you peek behind the curtains of neoliberal capitalism? What happens when you lift the veil off? Well, you see a mythological c...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 56:09
How extreme is wealth disparity in the U.S.? Imagine every person in the economy walks by, in order of income from low to high, with heights propor...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 28:31
American labor leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in June of 1918 to a movement rally in which he condemned US involvement in the First World War....
- Added: May 01, 2020
- Length: 57:48
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The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 59:01
Conspicuous climate disruption is here now. At the same time, a global super-elite of fossil fuel mega-billionaires has cinched a political strangl...
- Added: Oct 14, 2019
- Length: 28:30
The docks of San Francisco and Durban, South Africa – two essential locations where a commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics spa...
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 59:01
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
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
Laura talks to SEIU International President, Mary Kay Henry (of the Service Employees) and labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about worker wins, challeng...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 28:35
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Food stamps, Social Security, and Medicaid are not the only, or even the largest, social welfare programs in America. Professor Suzanne Mettler rev...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 23:45
Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 22:05
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When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 30:36
While advocates and politicians seek an alternative, more integrative model to the AbilityOne program, Gladys, a disabled worker wonders if the Abi...
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- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 03:55
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Tragic incidents in Bangladesh brought the issue of labor rights to the global stage once again. What are some new approaches to keeping factory wo...
- Added: Jul 31, 2014
- Length: 21:14
Interview: Stan talks about what trade agreements are really about—the power to divide the profits—and then explains the changes in the power relat...
- Added: Jul 28, 2014
- Length: 27:50
A Vietnamese proverb says: “when eating a fruit, think of who planted the tree.” Taking that sentiment a step further, how often do we consider the...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 28:00
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
