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Traveling Light
From: With Good Reason
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If you take a bus ride this holiday season, it's probably just to get where you need to go. But when Kath Weston travels on buses, it's usually pa...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:45
Two Jobs, Still Not Making It
From: PRX PromCom
Series: Promise Commentaries
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A 21-year-old woman describes the difficulty of paying the bills while working at a deli and Wendy's. What do the candidates have to say about that?

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
  • Purchases: 1
7. Kym Tuvim. Your piano teacher has a secret talent.
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job (2007-2008 series)
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Day Job is a look at how (Seattle) musicians pay the rent.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 04:10
Darwin of the Mind
From: With Good Reason
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Two interviews for the curious among us: Why we can thank the anarchist movement for an 8 hour work week , then a discussion of new insights into t...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2008
  • Length: 29:36
Housing the Homeless
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Ed Paige had been homeless for twenty years. But now, thanks to an innovative housing facility in Portland Maine, Ed finally has a stable place to ...

Bought by WMPG and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
We Put Our Lives Into This Place
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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After 60 years in business, Moosehead Manufacturing Company is closing up shop because of overseas competition.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
Where You Least Expect It
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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As a maintenance man at The Waynflete School and a working writer, Michael Macklin?s world is filled with sawdust, kids, and poetry.

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1
Taxi Line
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Somali taxi drivers in Portland Maine sit with their frustrations, hopes, and memories.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 1
Gloria Steinem lecture Hour 2
From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum
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Hour 2 of two-hour lecture "If Women Mattered" by Gloria Steinem

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Passaic On Strike!
From: New Jersey Historical Commission and NJN Public Radio
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In 1926, 16,000 Wool Workers Strike for nearly a year in New Jersey

Bought by WVTF, KBRP Community Radio, Iowa Public Radio, KLCC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2006
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 10
Dispelling the Myths - Rough Cut
From: Tiziana Rinaldi
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A conversation with Sister Margaret Rose Smyth, advocate and activist on behalf of the immigrant worker

  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 33:04
Tending the Barter's Island Bridge
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Step out onto the Barter's Island Bridge as Duane and Dwight Lewis run around in circles opening the bridge for passing boats.

Bought by SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Making Ice
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Jim Leo has been driving in circles for eighteen years but he?s not dizzy yet. Producer Dylan Merriam takes us out on the ice with an experienced Z...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
Stick Poke Scrape Dump
From: Bill Palladino
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A rhythmic essay describing the producer's first job cleaning up a drive-in theater.

Bought by WDBM, KFAI Minneapolis, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 3
Rugged and Beautiful
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Visit with two female WWII Liberty Ship welders from South Portland, Maine.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Yellowstone Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Voices Without a Vote
From: rebecca moon
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The memory of my father inspires our search for working non-voters in Carolina.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2004
  • Length: 05:40
A Family Yarn
From: Rupa Marya
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In the wake of NAFTA, a family of woolen mill workers in Maine salvages their livelihoods by returning the industry of yarn-making to the home.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, PRX, KFAI Minneapolis, WBST and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 13