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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...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUT
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 49:00
- Purchases: 1
This week, we take a look at farming communities on opposite sides of the world: both struggling to adapt to climate change, and to better manage o...
Bought by KTSW 89.9, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
The great American housing crunch and what organizing can do about it. This week on The Laura Flanders Show, we discuss some of the challenges and ...
Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR
- Added: Jul 25, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 03:08
This week on the show: What's changed in the textile industry five years after the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh ? --- Women in Poland take to...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 30:00
Recent national surveys from the National School Supply and Equipment Association show teachers spend an average of $500 to nearly $1,000 a year ou...
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 03:49
What is the future of work? Today, all of our careers are being transformed by big data, from how we find it, to how we collaborate with others, to...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:15
It’s 8:08am, the Friday before spring break, and under other circumstances Kathleen Byrnes would already be at work.
“We would be in our classroom...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 08:26
In downtown Los Angeles, activists have gone without food for two weeks. The women are campaigning for a raise in the minimum wage. Today L-A Mayor...
- Added: May 12, 2015
- Length: 04:56
Alyssa Arian has worked in San Francisco restaurants for a decade and, like most servers, she got into it for the tips.
“Some nights you leave wit...
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 09:06
The way we make a living is changing. For about a third of Americans, regular hours and benefits are giving way to a patchwork of contracting, temp...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee? From coffee farmers in Colombia to...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRIR, and KVSC
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Sky-high rents, Google buses and gentrification are all buzzwords around the Bay Area. But that is not the case in the city of Richmond. With unemp...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:59
Stan Sorscher, Labor Representative for SPEEA Local 2001, Part 2
Interview: Stan, Labor Representative for the Society of Professional Engineerin...
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 28:13
Rent control has been a way for cities to regulate their housing prices and evictions since World War One, in the wake of a big housing shortage in...
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 05:13
In California a surprising trend is taking place, one that is threatening precisely what makes community colleges unique – their accessibility to a...
- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 10:58
Reactions to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 02:59
In robust economic times, America’s armed services have had to hustle to recruit qualified soldiers. But when civilian unemployment is high and th...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:59
2 Minute Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, gives facts about this massive trade and investment treaty being negotiated i...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 01:59
From: Green Connections Radio
Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank - An Interview from the 2013 DC Auto Show
- Added: Feb 16, 2013
- Length: 04:54
This is the first episode in a mini-series covering the impacts corporate supply chains have on labor standards and human rights. We explore how re...
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 16:00
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
