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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.

Bought by KPFT


  • 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.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Jan 20, 2007
  • Length: 03:20
  • 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
No Freedom of Speech at Constitution Day Parade
From: KVMR
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Group Censored at "Freedom of Speech" Parade

  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 06:02
Lower Manhattan Diaries
From: WFUV
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Three New Yorkers reflect on 5 years since the 9/11 attacks in audio diary form.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2006
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 1
Chinatown, Five Years Later: An Audio Diary
From: WFUV
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A Chinatown business owner shares her audio diary on what life's been like in the five years since the 9/11 attacks.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Sep 07, 2006
  • Length: 30:05
  • Purchases: 1
Buddy Holly Profile
From: KUT
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A profile of Buddy Holly on his 70th birthday

Bought by WUAL and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Sep 02, 2006
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 2
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
Voice of the Troubles: 25th Anniversary of the Irish Hunger Strike (Segment)
From: Charles Lane
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Exploring conflict in the modern world through the stories and experiences of the Irish Troubles

  • Added: Jul 09, 2006
  • Length: 10:52
Voice of the Troubles: 25th Anniversary of the Irish Hunger Strike (Cutaway)
From: Charles Lane
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Exploring conflict in the modern world through the stories and experiences of the Irish Troubles

  • Added: Jul 09, 2006
  • Length: 08:23
The Film that Exposed a Memorial Day Massacre
From: Dick Meister
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A once-suppressed newsreel showing Chicago police chasing, killing and wounding strikers and their families on Memorial Day in 1937 played an impor...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KFAI Minneapolis, and KPFT


  • Added: May 27, 2006
  • Length: 03:02
  • Purchases: 3
Burial At Sea
From: Adam Allington
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Bill Bricker has one particular memory that colors his observation of Memorial Day

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WTIP, Delta College Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 8
I Fought the Law
From: KUT
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a profile of songwriter Sonny Curtis, his song "I Fought the Law," and its influence on rock 'n roll

  • Added: May 11, 2006
  • Length: 05:50
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
THE CITY WILL RISE
From: Jesse Boggs
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Lessons learned and lost from a century's catastrophes

Bought by WRIR, KUT-HD, WETA, Central Florida Public Media, WKUF-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2006
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 14
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
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
Yesterday and Forever December Special
From: Helen Engelhardt
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Documentary composition featuring six widows in remembrance of Lockerbie tragedy - on 17th anniversary

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, KRPS, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 17, 2005
  • Length: 24:31
  • Purchases: 4
Labor Day: It Began in San Francisco
From: Dick Meister
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Despite what the official histories say, Labor Day actually was first observed in San Francisco.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KICI Iowa City, WTJU, and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 4
Our Anti-Labor Relations Act
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary noting that at age 70, the National Labor Relations Act is badly in need of reform.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2005
  • Length: 05:00
Japan-Asia Postwar
From: Steve Herman
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Time does not heal wounds Japan inflicted in Asia before and during WWII

  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:38
Hiroshima-60th
From: Steve Herman
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Hiroshima remembers 60 years ago when the city was attacked with an atomic bomb

  • Added: Aug 05, 2005
  • Length: 02:59
Japan-Nuclear
From: Steve Herman
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Six decades after Hiroshima talk of a nuclear Japan is no longer taboo

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2005
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
Reflections on Nagasaki by a Nez Perce Elder
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
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Nez Perce elder Horace Axtell reflects on witnessing the devasation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Bought by KPIK-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WMPG, WYSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 01, 2005
  • Length: 05:53
  • Purchases: 7

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