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At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...
- Added: May 16, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Americans are obsessed with work. American workers spend a lot more time at their jobs than other highly developed nations. Why?
Bought by KUHF, KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS and more
- Added: Apr 06, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 49:53
- Purchases: 1
The personal journal is often not meant for the eyes of anyone but the writer. When a stranger’s journal is read, the reader often becomes a voyeur...
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 29:00
Running a fast food operation in a country beset with mismanagement, corruption, and lack of infrastructure.
- Added: May 03, 2018
- Length: 04:30
Most of the lawsuits filed in Utah are debt collection suits, usually in the realm of a couple hundred dollars. And nearly all the debtors being s...
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 15:14
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
As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 56:31
Michael Honey discusses non-violent theorist and organizer James Lawson, and John Handcox, the Great Depression-era tenant farmer and union advocate.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2015
- Length: 25:20
- Purchases: 1
CD: Mike’s CD features one man's journey thru the turmoil of the Labor Movements beginnings, caustic comments by a crow, and a surprise ending call...
- Added: Oct 30, 2015
- Length: 28:20
Moroccan markets sell goods imported from Spain at a discount for buyers. But that discount comes at a price -- for the Moroccan women who bring th...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Oct 17, 2015
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 1
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 27:06
Joe describes the mission and activities of the Labor Network for Sustainability and includes letting us know how corporations successfully pit wor...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
Second of five broadcasts on what's at stake for women in the upcoming elections. Today's topic: the minimum wage.
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Labor celebrates with an introduction by Ken Winkes.
Interview: Rosalinda, who was raised in a local farm worker family and has worked long hours ...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 28:26
- Purchases: 1
This week Rosalinda tells her story about how she became an organizer, activist, and helped create a movement building collective of farm worker le...
- Added: Jul 02, 2014
- Length: 28:26
You're listening to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 12:12
- Purchases: 1
Kristen, Bobby, and Tom explain what happens when there is high unemployment and low wages and then tell us what we need to do to create an economy...
Bought by NPR Illinois
- Added: Jan 10, 2014
- Length: 28:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:59
One Chicago factory became a flashpoint back in 2008, when workers occupied the floor for days in protest. Now, those same employees are trying to...
- Added: Sep 05, 2012
- Length: 07:48
Maurice Caldwell is just one of hundreds of former inmates whose convictions have been overturned after spending years in prison. Now, Caldwell is ...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 10:46
- Purchases: 2
On this edition of Culture Clique, KQAL's Bill Stoneberg visits with Barbara Martinez Jitner, an Emmy and Golden Globe Nominated television and fil...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 37:50
- Purchases: 1
Russell Zacharison tells the story of how he got pinned down by his ATV for eight hours out in his pasture.
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 03:14
Follow a newspaper vendor through his day selling papers and changing his life.
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 06:53
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...
- Added: Jun 07, 2011
- Length: 06:15
