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On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...
Bought by WUWM, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
As fires ravaged California’s wine country in 2017, farm and service workers, especially non-English speakers, were some of the hardest hit. Hear m...
Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Sep 23, 2022
- Length: 49:00
- Purchases: 1
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 07:35
Someone turns 65 every 8 seconds in this country, and as our elderly population grows, so does the need to build an economy around our future selve...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK
- Added: Jun 13, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 04:31
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 18:17
It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial crisis, Central Appalachia and much of rural America may be hard hit by pending closures of post offices...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 21:19
Thousands gathered in downtown Oakland to occupy the ports and shut them down. Exploring a night with the Occupy Oakland movement, partly a party...
- Added: Nov 29, 2011
- Length: 06:15
Follow a newspaper vendor through his day selling papers and changing his life.
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 06:53
Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship is gone, but a military council now rules Egypt, and has kept much of Mubarak’s repressive apparatus. Meanwhile extrem...
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
This documentary examines the volatile issues that are tearing at social fabric of the state of Wisconsin.
Its Republican governor is determined...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 31:58
- Purchases: 1
April 16, 2009 - On any given day, 30,000 people are being held in detention centers across the country. With plans to expand the Northwest Detenti...
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 08:36
Jessica Partnow takes us through a night in the life of Ali Jaffri, a professional telemarketer in Lahore, Pakistan.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KCRW, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 03:44
This story follows a day in the life of Nadeem Awan, a child laborer and student in Karachi, Pakistan.
- Added: Jul 10, 2009
- Length: 05:22
From 1908 to 1917, Hine took thousands of pictures for the National Child Labor Committee, exposing the dangerous conditions that children endured ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: May 17, 2009
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
A look at how an indigenous Mexican migrants adapt to city life.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 08:58
A look at the economic forces that push the Purepecha from home and pull them toward Seattle.
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 09:02
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 1
