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StoryCorps: Mark Woodley and Jon Winkleman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: The Action Tours protest at the Macy’s 34th St Store in NYC on Nov 29, 1991., Credit: Meryl Levin
On Black Friday 1991, AIDS activists protested the department store's refusal to rehire a Santa who had HIV. The man who inspired the protest recon...

Bought by KALW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 2
643: If Your Clothes Could Talk / 644: Why The Classics Matter, 12/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Caring for Aging Adults
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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More than 1 in 5 American adults is a caregiver for an elder -- usually a parent or grandparent or spouse. How to look after our surging older popu...

Bought by WUWM, WAMU, WVBI-LP, Morehead State Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 18
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for November 24, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for November 24, 2021: This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: GOP’s Embrace ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Headwaters' Brenda Solorzano on trust-based philanthropy
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Brenda Solorzano is CEO of the Headwaters Foundation, an organization dedicated to a Montana in which all people, especially those most vulnerable,...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:25
  • Purchases: 3
Re:Work Radio: Trafficked, the Journey of Lester Ramos (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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One of the most common forms of trafficking is labor trafficking. In this episode, Re:Work Radio brings you the story of Lester Ramos and his journ...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Letting the Light In
From: Laura Joyce Davis
Series: Shelter in Place Season 3
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What would life look like if we oriented our week not around work—but rest? In this episode, we explore our personal and societal need for rest and...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Poison Makers: On Liberal Modernity
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Finntown
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn
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In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 18:31
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 20, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Campaign Demands AT&T End Support for Extremist One America ‘News’ Network...

Bought by RADIOLEX and WKPW


  • Added: Oct 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
But Next Time Part 2: From the Ashes
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...

Bought by WXDU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Inequality ... what's the problem?
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which host Justin Angle speaks with economist Bryce Ward about some of the broader cha...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 3
I&I - What's up with the labor markets?
From: Justin Angle
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Incentives & Instincts is a monthly series on A New Angle in which Justin Angle, marketing professor at the University of Montana College of Busine...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:31
EE 21-41: ‘Food Safety’ Could Include Long-term Health and Environmental Concerns , 10/8/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic argues that narrowly focused food safety regulations in the US are failing to address th...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Fire and Water: From California to Iran
From: Mateo Schimpf
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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
Covid Couldn’t Stop Worker Owned Co-ops
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
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...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
It’s Magic: Birth Justice and Black Maternal Health
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Allegra Hill, co-founder of Kindred Space L.A.
Through the work and birth stories of midwife, Allegra Hill, the producers of Re:Work Radio explain how Black midwives in Los Angeles are helping w...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Working
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Everyday working people tell their stories.

Bought by KKRN, KMUN, KFCF FM, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 34
GN_7.34 Corrosive Coal to Beautiful Bee
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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As the coal industry in West Virginia declides, a nonprofit is offering displaced workers an environmentally friendly industry instead—beekeeping.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 02:38
Labor Day Music Special - One Hour or Two Hours
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Music Specials
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Two 1 hour music specials for Labor Day or Labor Day Weekend. Each hour is newscast compatible. Each hour stands alone and either hour can be chos...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Prairie Public, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 25
Episode 163: The Ghoul of Grays Harbor
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis a...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 32:13
The Apple Seed - Labor Day 2021 Special
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On this episode of the Apple Seed we explore tales of different types of labor.

Bought by WVPE, RadioStPete Florida, WJCT, Morehead State Public Radio, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 8
StoryCorps Historias: Casimiro "Cas" Torres
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Casimiro “Cas” Torres reflects on how his childhood led him to incarceration at New York City’s Hart Island, where he buried the poor and unclaimed...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 1

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