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- Added: Sep 09, 2022
- Length: 50:44
- Purchases: 1
Juan de Onate is responsible for brutalizing New Mexico’s Indigenous people...hear more about the history of the Spanish colonizer.
- Added: Jul 02, 2020
- Length: 59:02
Direct democracy. What are the pros and cons?
- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 25:55
The state and local offices that have a big impact on your life.
- Added: Dec 21, 2018
- Length: 21:52
Journalist Juan González discusses his new book, Reclaiming Gotham. He chronicles the evolution of the growth machine in America’s cities - from r...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week, we discuss the economics and ethics of hedge fund bets on life-saving medication. What’s wrong with companies like Turing Pharmaceutical...
- Added: Jul 10, 2016
- Length: 03:45
Science is a process of determining what is reality objectively. How do we sift the subjective from the objective for understanding economic propos...
- Added: Jun 26, 2016
- Length: 03:59
The public trust doctrine is designed to protect our natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Plaintiffs in a number of legal cases...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 05:10
Arctic opportunities and territorial claims are on the rise as temperatures change and the ice melts. Once impassable, the Arctic is now increasing...
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 05:31
On the eve of the 2015 General Election in the UK, take a jaunt through the etymology of election-related words.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2015
- Length: 09:01
- Purchases: 1
Do natural systems belong to the public or do they belong to corporate and private interests? Do corporate entities have an obligation to sustain r...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 05:30
- Added: Dec 03, 2013
- Length: 04:30
The outer bounds of the right to free speech, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter. How does the law tolerate speech that calls for lawlessness?
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 27:34
- Purchases: 3
Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 03:00
As a new federal report shows,unionized workers not only earn more than non-union workers, but also have much better benefits.
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 04:19
Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 06:05
This June, thousands of grassroots activists converged on Detroit, Michigan to attend the 2010 United States Social Forum. We were there and on thi...
- Added: Jun 29, 2010
- Length: 29:59
Former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24, was one of the greatest friends working people ever had.
- Added: Apr 29, 2010
- Length: 05:10
Workers Memorial Day on April 28 will honor the millions of men and women who've needlessly suffered and died because of workplace hazards.
- Added: Apr 23, 2010
- Length: 03:49
Senate Democrats loss of their filibuster proof 60 vote majority with the election of Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown seems certain to doom at...
- Added: Jan 22, 2010
- Length: 03:55
Jack Henning, a remarkable labor leader, led a lifelong crusade in behalf of working people.
- Added: Jun 11, 2009
- Length: 04:03
February sixth will mark the 90th anniversary of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 03:53
Organized labor played a major role in Barack Obama's election and expects much in return.
- Added: Nov 06, 2008
- Length: 03:40
Amid the speculation over Sarah Palin possibly becoming the first woman to serve as vice president, don't forget Frances Perkins, the first woman t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2008
- Length: 05:16
Organized labor is close to winning its battle to guarantee firm union rights ti U.S. workers.
- Added: Aug 22, 2008
- Length: 04:40
