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Caption: Sarah Bruno
Poet Sarah Bruno, 18, is a senior at Walter Payton College Prep and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago. Expl...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: Essie Linzy
Poet Essie Linzy, 17, is a junior at Whitney Young and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as an Indy Poet. Her piece, I Don’t Like Girls, is abou...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:06
Caption: Ashaki Howard
Poet Ashaki Howard, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing her high...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:48
Caption: Team Kenwood Academy
This team piece is performed by Kenwood Academy’s Epic Sound, comprised of poets: Ashaki Howard, 17, a senior; Kristen Turner, 16, a junior; Rachel...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
Caption: Samuel Carroll
Poet Samuel Carroll, 17, is a junior at Lincoln Park High School and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago. For...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dominique James
Poet Dominique James, 16, is a sophomore at Walter Payton College Prep and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:27
Caption: Team Youmedia Chicago
This team piece is performed by Youmedia Chicago, comprised of poets: Dominique James, 16, a sophomore at Walter Payton College Prep; Malcolm Londo...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:21
Caption: Christian Palacios
Poet Christian Palacios, 16, is a sophomore at Whitney Young; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high school. Villians gives ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:49
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For the sake of the country's future, teachers are one group of public employees we must all support.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:11
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The attempt by Wisconsin's governor to all but eliminate union rights of state employees is one of the most important labor developments in decades.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Politicians and others who caused our economic troubles are attempting to shift the blame to public employees, whose vital work benefits us all.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:45
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The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a leader in the fight for racial equality, should be high on the list of those we honor during ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
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U.S. employers are in effect stealing millions of dollars from their employees by underpaying them.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:19
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Republican members of Congress are trying to block President Obama's plan to modernize the country's crumbling infrastructure.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:14
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Seventeen-year-old A. Greene has one simple problem with the environmental "green" movement: it just doesn't seem all that green to her.

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:53
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Democrats and their allies, particularly organized labor, who lost big in the midterm elections, are facing major contests with Republicans in the ...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 05:31
Caption: "Sustaindinavia!" is a miniseries about sustainability in Scandinavia, from Energy Priorities., Credit: Energy Priorities
Carbon policy is a big issue. It's a great time to examine how Copenhagen Denmark has solved multiple problems by integrating energy systems right ...

Bought by WSKG


  • Added: Nov 01, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Organized labor is facing a major election challenge in California that's certain to have a major impact on unions and anti-union forces everywhere.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
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It's Hispanic Heritage Month, an excellent time to honor three of the most important Hispanic labor leaders in US history - Cesar Chavez, Dolores H...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 08:04
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It's way past time that we updated the law that supposedly guarantees women workers pay equal to that of men.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 03:16
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An AFL-CIO report shows that many of those who rescued victims of the 9/11 attacks are still suffering from serious injuries and illnesses.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 04:13
Caption: John Steinbeck, Credit: FANPIX.net
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. In "Cannery Row" the hobos poach a chicken over a campfire, in a 5-gallon coffee can. What they don't know,...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, KZYX, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 17, 2010
  • Length: 26:55
  • Purchases: 5
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The AFL-CIO has begun a drive to recruit young workers to grow and strengthen the labor movement.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:10
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Labor Day is a good time to honor the invaluable but much maligned public employees.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 03:44