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Official history says the first Memorial Day celebration was held in Arlington National Cemetery on May 30, 1868, where Union and Confederate soldi...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:00
We are aware of the key role played by insurance, more so as we face increasing events of extreme weather destruction. Government agencies are sign...
- Added: Oct 18, 2023
- Length: 05:16
While everyone wants to move on from COVID-19, but professor of epidemiology at Michigan University Bhramar Mukherjee says that the future depends ...
- Added: May 31, 2022
- Length: 06:00
This week we're discussing the consequence of consumption. We point to a recent exhibit entitled "Waste Age: What Can Design Do?" that highlights t...
- Added: Jan 25, 2022
- Length: 05:32
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has been dominating the news cycle for some weeks. The story points to tragic mismanagement of the city’s water...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 05:44
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks :As politicians one-up each other, what’s the difference between the candidate as demagogue- who openly app...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 01:21
In this episode of World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill continues discussion of the global water crisis. This week he talks about water audits conduc...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 05:31
There is a demand in this country that corporations acknowledge that they are not people. Until corporations wake up one morning, and say, “I‘m r...
- Added: Dec 02, 2014
- Length: 03:50
“Slapping Both Cheeks” will try to offer some insight into the facts of incarceration in our society and community and into the idea of social just...
- Added: Nov 11, 2014
- Length: 01:54:02
A recent legal case involving a man from Kiribati claiming refugee status from the impacts of climate has captured world media attention. In this e...
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 05:33
Commentary: More than 850,000 minimum wage workers in 10 states will be getting raises in the new year.
- Added: Dec 27, 2012
- Length: 04:03
It's time for President Obama to help the country's home care workers.
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 02:21
Commentary: Student athletes get very little of the millions generated by college football's bowl games.
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 04:01
Commentary: It's time to enact a proposed law that would give workers the absolute right to unionization.
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 04:13
- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 02:45
Raising the minimum wage should be a key post-election priority.
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 04:33
Commentary: Labor faces its greatest election challenge in California.
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 02:41
Repealing the union-crippling Taft-Hartley Act should have been a prime issue throughout the election campaign.
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 03:13
Commentary: John Steinbeck was a great champion of farm labor.
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 02:56
Commentary: Although we're recovering from the Great Recession, most of the new jobs are low-paying, non-union jobs.
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 03:01
Urgently needed "green retrofitting" of the nation's infrastructure can benefit everyone
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 04:18
Anti-labor forces have launched a major drive to stifle the political voice of workers and unions.
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 05:51
Labor is planning an extensive campaign for President Obama's re-election.
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 03:23
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 03:07
The Internet has had a profound impact on media labor coverage.
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 07:03