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VoxPod #9 - From Seeds to Sales
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show features a profile of Seattle Youth Garden Works.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 10:22
VoxPod #4 - Acts and the Axe
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: VoxPod
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Today's show features a city actor and a country logger.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
In the male world of mechanics Only Girls can fix your car
From: Sarah Elzas
Series: Wo/men's work
Caption: Car mechanics Aurore and Melina at the Only Girls garage, Credit: onlygirls-auto.fr
Car mechanics tend to be male. A Paris-area garage is trying to change that by hiring women to appeal to women.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
Chapter 23 - On the Line
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:41
Chapter 22 - The Summer of 1950
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
In the summer of 1950, Richard goes to work in the steel mills of Pittsburgh. The job was both part of his theological education and necessary to h...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 22:16
Chapter 20 - Beginning at the Beginning
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard looks forward to his studies under Reinhold Niebuhr, one of the most challenging theological thinkers of his generation. In his last summer...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:41
Chapter 18 - The Election of 1948
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:27
Chapter 17 - Up on the Co-op Farm
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 19:30
Chapter 16 - The Shaping of a Socialist
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:55
Chapter 15 - A Turning Point
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 19:17
Chapter 14 - A Union Summer
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
During the summer of 1947, Richard works for the Dress Joint Board in New York City’s Garment District. From his co-workers Richard learns more abo...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 16:11
Chapter 1 - The Making of a Political Consciousness
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard receives an early political education from his Socialist cigar maker grandfather, by hearing over-the-counter conversations at the butcher ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Feb 02, 2013
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Aaron Brown - "Try New Things"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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KAXE contributor, Aaron Brown, reads a piece about trying new things. Brown's aspirations seem high initially before adding a healthy dose of reali...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:07
Sourcing Conflict: Mineral Supply Chains and Human Rights in the Congo
From: Ian Gray
Series: Ceres Sustainability Podcast
Caption: Gold from a days work by an artisanal miner in Kaniola in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Credit: By Sasha Lezhnev - Enough Project
This is the first episode in a mini-series covering the impacts corporate supply chains have on labor standards and human rights. We explore how re...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 16:00
1936 Chaplin's 'Modern Times' Debuts
From: Action Speaks Radio
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Factories closed; unions ignored; the Tramp asks, ‘What’s Next’? Chaplin previews a world beyond the factory and unionism where one’s identity is ...

Bought by WRIR, WRPI, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio, WRIR and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 6
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Dolores Huerta
From: KSLU
Series: In Your Face Women
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Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights

  • Added: Oct 08, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
The Conversation - Three - Peter Warren
From: Aengus Anderson
Series: The Conversation
Caption: Peter Warren, Credit: Eleanor Davis, www.doing-fine.com
The Malpai Borderlands Group is a coalition of ranchers and environmentalists who manage over 75,000 acres of grassland in Southeastern Arizona. Do...

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 35:38
Iraqi Kurdistan: On Oil and Agriculture
From: War News Radio
Caption: A farmer in Merikegia, a village in Iraqi Kurdistan., Credit: Rachel Stacy
Iraqi Kurdistan, once known for its rich soil, is rapidly becoming identified with its rich oil. War News Radio’s Amy DiPierro explains how these t...

Bought by KBGA 89.9 FM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:19
  • Purchases: 3
Dream Jobs 2011 Promos
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
15 and 30 second promos for "Dream Jobs 2011: Outside the Cubicle"

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KMXT, WEKU, WNIN, WCPN and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 9
What a Jobless Recovery Looks Like
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A stand-alone segment of the Planet Warning Series. Reports on the jobless "recovery" that the US has been moved into from the Great Recession.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Shipbreaking Worker
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Babu Hussein, Credit: Jashim Salam
Sandy Tolan profiles a 13-year-old laborer at one of Bangladesh's giant shipbreaking yards.

Bought by 'The Sea', Connecticut Public (WNPR), WBEZ, PRX Remix, and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 5
Runner
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Salina Kosgei, Credit: Stevie Mann
Jon Miller profiles the little-known Kenyan woman who won the 2009 Boston Marathon by less than one second.

Bought by 'The Sea', WXDU, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 07, 2009
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 5
Banker
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Brandon Davies, London, England, Credit: Robin Hunt
Sean Cole profiles an international banker living in London, both before and after the world banking crisis.

Bought by 'The Sea', WBEZ, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 5
Electronics Recycler
From: Homelands Productions
Series: WORKING
Caption: Vicky Ponce, Mexico, Credit: Magdalena Gonzalez Othon
Ingrid Lobet profiles a woman who joined a group of unemployed middle-aged women to open an electronics recycling plant in northern Mexico.

Bought by 'The Sea', WABE, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WNIJ, HCC Radio The Dragon and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 06:35
  • Purchases: 10