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In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
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
Unions in Utah faced some battles in the Utah Legislature this year. Jeff Worthington of Utah AFL-CIO discusses some of the wins this session and h...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 04:53
From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
The American Dream – the idea that anyone can achieve success in the U.S. through hard work and determination – is under scrutiny, and some worry i...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, we learn about two historic negotiations – one failed and one successful – from the negotiators themselves. We begin with a peace...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, WLPR , Oregon Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 20
Fines and fees have become the default way we punish people; deterrence is the ultimate goal, but do fines actually deter bad behavior?
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 4
Did you know that chefs are uniquely positioned to drive food system change for good? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda...
Bought by KVNF, RadioFreePalmer, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
UAW Strike Demands Fairness for Workers, as US Automakers Spend Billions ...
- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
Unions may be on the verge of a resurgence. After decades of declines, workers are organizing across household-name companies, like Starbucks, Amaz...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, KUOW, WGBH Radio Boston, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Aug 28, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 10
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
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Ohio GOP’s Aug. 8th ‘Issue One’ Referendum Threatens to Impose Minority Ru...
- Added: Jul 19, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The oldest members of the Millennial generation are reaching their forties and feel they’ve been left behind emotionally and financially. Those who...
Bought by WMUU-LP and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 28:30
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
Last year, more people traded the New York chill for the Florida sun than ever before. But is it a better bet? Those who argue “yes” say New York’s...
Bought by WMUU-LP and WNED Buffalo
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Parkland School Shooting Victim’s Father Calls for National Education Stri...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s flagship theme park, she disc...
Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more
- Added: Mar 15, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
Joshua Potash, a New York City-based anti-capitalist abolitionist discusses the history and theory behind mutual aid with our partners at The Respo...
- Added: Jan 23, 2023
- Length: 29:59
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: GOP Extremists are Burning Down the House; Republican House Vote to Repeal...
- Added: Jan 19, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUT
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Georgia GOP Voter Suppression the Media Missed, Likely to Spread Across th...
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
