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Tax Day: Who Gets the Gold Mine, Who Gets the Shaft?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share.  But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
821: Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time / 822: Everything Is Exhausting, 8/19/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
03-16: Raced and Classed: The Journey from Diversity to Equity, 6/21/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Rinku Sen
What we do to each other, we do to the Earth. To protect our common home, we’re being called upon to bridge our differences to create beloved commu...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Going For Broke, Part Three: Can Work Be Love?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and w...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KZYX, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
The History of Democracy Has Yet to be Written
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas Geoghengan
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Compromise and Concessions
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: American Compassion
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
Explore the complicated and rich history behind the compromises made in order to get the New Deal through, and what lasting consequences they have ...

Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 2
Political Songs for Pandemic Times
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 813 (Air Dates: July 27 - Aug 2, 2020) Today we present a special edition of Art of the Song featuring Political Songs for Pandemic Times. We ...

Bought by WMPG, GCR (Global Community Radio), KZMU Moab Community Radio, KNBA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Tell the Bosses We're Coming
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Shaun Richman
A myriad of issues have come to light as we deal with the COVID pandemic. We are discovering weaknesses in our health care and workforce. Neither i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Stacked Crooked: Renting Rooms In the Humanities Ghetto
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Where It's At! (Vol. 12)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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Further reflections of just what in carnation's going out there in yonder wider world beyond the countours of WoodWarbler's JazzGrass.....

  • Added: Dec 16, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:40
A Technology Tsunami
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ed Hess
America is set to lose tens of millions of job in the next 15 years. Some of the best research today estimates that one half of all U.S. jobs will ...

Bought by KCBX, KZYX, and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
365: Is This The Socialist Moment? / 366: God Talk, 4/6/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Is This The Socialist Moment?" - It was a dirty word 25 years ago. But now, more politicians are identifying as Socialists. Has the move...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:57
Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jonathan D. Karmel
America’s workers are experiencing another setback in workplace safety. The Trump Administration is blocking a rule that requires most employers to...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolution at the Federal Reserve and Public Banking: Nomi Prins & Thomas Hanna
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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As the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland, we talk about the way central banks steer world development and for whom. Former Gol...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interchange – Shooting the Gulf: Allan Sekula In the American Grain
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:19
The Legacy of C.L.R. James
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Best known for his path-breaking work on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938, Trinidadian C.L.R. James was often at the c...

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:05
The War On Normal People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Yang
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Healthcare Isn't Big Business Or Big Philanthropy! Ben Palmquist & Dr. Steffie Woolhandler
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Over 30million Americans are uninsured, and even more are sickened by the sky-high costs. While Congress seems sunk in a partisan fight over the Af...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Shaping the Future of Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Kochan
America’s workforce and the economy are rapidly changing. As is the type of work we do. Flip that coin over and you’ll see that institutions and po...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Toxic Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas M. Shapiro
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The One Percent Solutiion
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Gordon Lafer
Americans may vote for polar opposite candidates … liberal or conservative. Their vote may express ideological differences. But, on principles and ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Right to Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric de Leon
The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Viking Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: George Lakey at Occupy Philly
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Born on Third Base
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chuck Collins
I have heard that inequality in America is at its highest point since the age of the Robber Barons. If true, many suspect it may get worse before i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1