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Anne Feeney, Union made, Hell raiser, and the Best Labor singer-writer in North America!
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Anne Feeney
Interview: Anne talks about her life as an activist, agitator, mom, and much more and the show will highlight three of Anne’s favorite songs.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
Larry Brown, President of the WA ST Labor Council, and Union Songs
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Larry Brown, WSLC's President
Larry Brown, President of the WSLC Union Songs: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Unionnation Band’s ‘Let’s Go Help...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington: Seattle General Strike of 1919.
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event ho...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
Elise Bryant, Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Elise Bryant
Interview by Gary Kanter: Elise gives her history and describes what the Labor Heritage Foundation is all about.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gary Kanter, Song writer, Singer, Humorist
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his Learn Yourself series by interviewing his fellow host Gary Kanter about his new CD, with all his ori...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 27:58
Mike Dumovich, Blues Player & Singer, and Gary Kanter, Song Writer and Singer, No 3
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary and Mike
Mike and Gary continue their Songs of Progress featuring music that has impacted the lives of working people with songs and history of Joe Hill.

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:04
221: Burnout / 222: Getting Jazzed, 11/18/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Burnout" - Ever get the Sunday Night Blues? This hour, how to take back your weekends and the culture of overwork. HOUR TWO: "Getting ...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Conor Casey and Crystal Rogers, archivists for the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor and Crystal
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Crystal and Conor report on a women in labor history project. Rebel Girl: written by Joe Hill, arranged and sung by H...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 27:35
  • Purchases: 1
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Everett Massacre, Holding the Fort-Sung by IWW
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event h...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 27:52
Mike Dumovich’s and Gary Kanter’s Labor Day Program
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter & Mike Dumovich
Mike and Gary host this year’s Labor Day program by playing music from artists that are important to them and the labor movement.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 27:36
  • Purchases: 1
Gary Kanter, song writer, singer, humorist, and his Ballad of Sakuma Farms song
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter & Mike Dumovich
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Gary gives his history with the Farm Workers in Skagit County.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 27:38
Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz, singers, songwriters, and activists
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Sharon Abreu & Mike Hurwicz
Sharon and Mike, two passionate and harmonious voices for being, feeling, speaking and singing for peace and environmental sustainability, talk and...

  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 28:11
Labor, Climate & The Music Behind Movements
From: Context Partners
Series: Movement Making
Caption: Pete Seeger entertaining Eleanor Roosevelt, honored guest at a racially integrated Valentine's Day party marking the opening of a new chapter of United Federal Labor in then-segregated Washington, D.C., Credit: Joseph A. Horne via Library of Congress, 1944
A conversation with Andrew Revkin, who's best known as a longtime New York Times environmental journalist but is also a songwriter and was for 20 y...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 04, 2015
  • Length: 15:58
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1236 Program for Sept 1-7, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We begin this show playing recent bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass takes a look at bluegrass music and social class, and the Gem sets the tone for t...

Bought by WOUB, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1236 A New Look at Social Class and Bluegrass. For regular users, piece for Sept 1-7, 2012. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
Marching for Change: Street Bands in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Caption: The Infernal Noise Brigade in downtown Seattle., Credit: http://www.andrewstern.net/
We look at how political marching bands are stirring up public spaces; from the streets, to supermarkets to your facebook feed.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gems of Bluegrass #1037 Here's to the Working Man
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: OPhil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The old bluegrass comes from people who did hard, manual labor such as mining coal and farming. In bluegrass songs you hear about the danger of the...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WAMU, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 4
Story of a Song
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of Scandanavian-Americans for almost 40 years. Here’s a story fr...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
Allen Ginsberg - Dylan
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Author Alan Ginsberg recognizes Bob Dylan as the heir apparent to the Beat poets. (1995)

Bought by AIFM and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :52
  • Purchases: 2