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The Fight for Union Rights
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the major battle that is shaping up in Congress over union rights.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Feb 16, 2007
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Commentary: Sick Workers and Kids Need Our Help
From: Dick Meister
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This commentary notes the great need to provide paid sick leaves to the millions of American workers who can't afford to take time off even if they...

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Jan 25, 2007
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Six Days When Seattle Stood Still
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the Seattle general strike that broke out 88 years ago.

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2007
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
Commentary: Sit Down! Sit Down!
From: Dick Meister
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This commentary celebrates the 70th anniversary of the fledgling auto workers union's spectacular victory over mighty General Motors.

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
Dancing in the Rain: The Oakland General Strike
From: Dick Meister
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a commentary marking the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike, one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
Labor Won -- Big!
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the major role unions played in the Democratic Party's midterm sweep.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Nov 10, 2006
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Grabbing that First Chance to Vote
From: Appalachian Media Institute
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First-time voter Autumn Campbell from Jeremiah, Kentucky hopes that her vote really counts this year, because she has a list of issues that she wan...

Bought by WSCS-FM


  • Added: Nov 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Man Who Didn't Die
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary marking the anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, one of the most enduring and influential of American symbols.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Nov 05, 2006
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Seven O'Clock in the Morning
From: Jefferey Sweeton
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Jose Luiz speaks from a dirty and weed filled lot, begging the City of Chicago to let him keep the broken and abandoned land...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2006
  • Length: 12:09
A True American Hero
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on Gene Debs, who died 80 years ago this month, but whose economic and political ideas remain vital, valid and essential.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Oct 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
CL 2006 General Billy Cooper "Children at war"
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Gen Billy Cooper talks about job corps the government program that provides skills training to disadvantaged youth.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
Commentary: Censoring Labor
From: Dick Meister
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Although most people work for a living, the mainstream media generally ignore their working lives.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:25
Labor & the Democrats: A Winning Combination?
From: Dick Meister
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Unions have launched one of labor's biggest political campaigns ever in behalf of their Democratic Party allies.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2006
  • Length: 02:39
Commentary: Labor's Unhappy Anniversary
From: Dick Meister
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This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2006
  • Length: 02:28
The Legacy of Wheatland
From: Dick Meister
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The "Wheatland Riot" nine decades ago laid the foundation for creation of an effective union and other steps to improve the miserable conditions of...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2006
  • Length: 03:14
Leaving the Mountains
From: Appalachian Media Institute
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Growing up in rural Appalachia Machlyn Blair didn't think he would have much in common with teenagers from other places. But the current immigrat...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WGXC, WMNF, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2006
  • Length: 01:36
  • Purchases: 11
Commentary: Don't Bite the Immigrant Hands that Feed Us
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary explaining how the immigration reform bills in Congress would seriously harm immigrant farmworkers

  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:47
The Farmworkers' Angry Champion
From: Dick Meister
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Ernesto Galarza, now largely forgotten, played a key role in the rise of the farm labor movement led by Cesar Chavez.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
The Massacre at Ludlow
From: Dick Meister
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The Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914 was one of the most horrific events in U.S. labor history -- but one that led to desperately needed reforms.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:22
Want More Money? Join a Union
From: Dick Meister
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Although well in the minority, unionized workers do much better financially and otherwise than their non-union counterparts

  • Added: Mar 15, 2006
  • Length: 02:25
Commentary: What Cesar Chavez Taught Us
From: Dick Meister
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It's the 38th anniversary of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez's extraordinary 25-day fast.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 02:46
Bush vs. Labor
From: Dick Meister
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President Bush's appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are going all out to deny wolrkers their legal rights.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 03:07
Growing Up in a Coal Community
From: Appalachian Media Institute
Caption: Natasha Watts interviewing community members., Credit: Rebecca O'Doherty, Youth Radio
Growing up in a coal community, mining is a part of your everyday life. In light of the recent SAGO mine disaster Natasha Watts reflects on what i...

Bought by WGXC, WGBH Radio Boston, WXLV-FM, The Nature Podcast, and PRX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 5
Son of a Coalminer
From: Appalachian Media Institute
Series: Living with Coal in Eastern Kentucky
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Josh Fleming grew up in a family of miners. In this piece he talks with his father about what being a coal miner has meant to his family and why h...

Bought by WGXC, WEKU, The Nature Podcast, WBEZ, WXLV-FM and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 6
Commentary: Gene Debs, American Hero
From: Dick Meister
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Few leaders have done more for ordinary Americans than Eugene V. Debs, born 150 years ago.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2005
  • Length: 04:06

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