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LEDE: “Organic,” “Locally-grown,” “Certified Humane,” “GMO-Free." We've all seen the labels stamped on packages of chicken breast at the grocery ...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 14, 2016
- Length: 10:44
- Purchases: 2
Steve Miles imports an exciting and cutting-edge portfolio of Spanish wines.
- Added: Dec 13, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. In "Cannery Row" the hobos poach a chicken over a campfire, in a 5-gallon coffee can. What they don't know,...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, and KUT
- Added: Sep 17, 2010
- Length: 26:55
- Purchases: 5
Earthworm dumpster dives and subsists off of what so many of us unknowingly waste.
Bought by KSFR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WDBM, Vocalo.org, KUT and more
- Added: Nov 18, 2009
- Length: 11:16
- Purchases: 8
Florida's highly exploited tomato pickers are aiming at new targets in their nationwide struggle to win decent wages and working conditions
- Added: May 30, 2008
- Length: 04:35
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 03:52
- Added: Aug 17, 2007
- Length: 01:53
A strong movement is under way to win decent treatment for the miserably treated tomato pickers whose work is essential to the hugely profitable fa...
- Added: Apr 26, 2007
- Length: 03:24
This commentary notes the great need for President Bush to provide much more relief to the thousands of farmworkers who've been struggling to meet...
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Mar 15, 2007
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 15, 2007
- Length: 02:11
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the Bush administration's successful attempt to allow U.S. growers to continue using methyl bromide, the highly toxic pesticide ban...
- Added: Nov 18, 2006
- Length: 02:54
This is a commentary noting that the Internet has become a major tool for selling easily exploited kids the junk food that has helped make childhoo...
- Added: Jul 29, 2006
- Length: 03:11
The "Wheatland Riot" nine decades ago laid the foundation for creation of an effective union and other steps to improve the miserable conditions of...
- Added: Jul 23, 2006
- Length: 03:14
A commentary explaining how the immigration reform bills in Congress would seriously harm immigrant farmworkers
- Added: May 15, 2006
- Length: 03:47
A plate full of homemade food, the gift of a Thanksgiving meal, connects a lonely, blind, old woman and the shy little girl next door.
Bought by WTIP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WHRV, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: Nov 12, 2005
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 19
A commentary on unionizing pizza delivery drivers.
- Added: Jan 28, 2005
- Length: 03:32
Good plum pudding is out there (and so is really bad plum pudding)
Bought by KZUM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and Jennifer Cecil Moore
- Added: Dec 17, 2003
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 3
