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Labor Safety, Project 2025, & the Far Right’s Plot Against Workers: What You Need to Know
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What risks do working people face this Labor Day? Workers continue to die on the job and struggle to protect worker safety, but the dangers for lab...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Is Organized Labor the Campaign Money Bogey Man the Right Claims? The Data Shows Otherwise.
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Is Organized Labor the Campaign Money Bogey Man the Right Claims? The Data Shows Otherwise.

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
925: Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love? / 926: More Than Just A Game, 8/17/2024
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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: Aug 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:59:00
261: Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt?, 8/7/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Saru Jayaraman, Credit: Alex Akamine
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: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Civics 101: Strikes, Unions, and Workers' Rights
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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This is the story of what happens (and what's happening) when the American workforce tries to get a seat at the table.

Bought by WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2024
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 12
250: Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power, 6/12/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Manuel Pastor
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 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
269: Solidarity Economics: Taking It to the Bank to Build Community Wealth , 4/24/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
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
Tax Day: Who Gets the Gold Mine, Who Gets the Shaft?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
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
Utah Labor Union Battles and Wins
From: KRCL
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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
248: Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, 2/7/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann, Stacy Mitchell and Maurice B.P. Weeks
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
247: Democracy vs. Plutocracy Part One: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime, 1/31/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann
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
Is the American Dream in Decline?
From: Open to Debate
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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
The Negotiators: Confronting Conflict
From: Rob Sachs
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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
Top of Mind - The Hidden Cost of Fines and Fees
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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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
Katherine Miller, advocate and author of At The Table: The Chef’s Guide to Advocacy
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 20, 2023
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: UAW Strike Demands Fairness for Workers, as US Automakers Spend Billions ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
827: Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love? / 828: Our Time Of Mourning, 9/9/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Do Unions Work for the Economy
From: Open to Debate
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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
821: Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time / 822: Everything Is Exhausting, 8/19/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 19, 2023
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: Ohio GOP’s Aug. 8th ‘Issue One’ Referendum Threatens to Impose Minority Ru...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Jul 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Will Millennials Be Left Behind?
From: Open to Debate
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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
03-16: Raced and Classed: The Journey from Diversity to Equity, 6/21/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Rinku Sen
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
Is Florida Eating New York's Lunch?
From: Open to Debate
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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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 12, 2023
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: Parkland School Shooting Victim’s Father Calls for National Education Stri...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gaping Inequality, The American Nightmare for Workers: Abigail Disney
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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

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