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Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank
From: Green Connections Radio
Caption: Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, Ph.D. touring the 2013 DC Auto Show, Joan Michelson of Green Connections holding mic, Credit: Austin Lee
Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank - An Interview from the 2013 DC Auto Show

  • Added: Feb 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:54
The Beat : Bill Caldwell - "Dog Days"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
The Beat: Danny Klecko - "124 Degrees"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Poet Danny Klecko provides a vivid glimpse into the world of baking with a look at the camaraderie amongst bakers preparing a new batch of pastries...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
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
The Microfinance Heretic
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: jacket Cover, Credit: design by Kirk DouPonce
Hugh Sinclair traveled to several continents while working for numerous banks, agencies and institutions, and saw microfinance from the ground up. ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Corporate Feudalism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dennis Marker
America’s middle class is in dramatic decline. But, what caused the downfall?

  • Added: Jul 23, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
OCCUPY THIS HOUR
From: Joyride Media
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Jackson Browne, David Crosby and Ani DiFranco and others discuss how Occupy and other movements inspire their socially conscious music. Hosted by ...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, KSUT and more


  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Inspiring Leadership - A conversation with John Caparella
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: The Emotion Roadmap to Inspired Performance
I interviewed John Caparella, President of the award winning Venetian and Palazzo Resorts and the Sands Expo and Convention center in Las Vegas. Jo...

  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 56:41
America Beyond Capitalism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: dollarsandsense.org
Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy is the subtitle of professor Gar Alperovitz's updated work centering the most recent developme...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
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
At Auto Plants, A Reversal of Fortune
From: Changing Gears
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
Caption: Brothers Justin and Derick Jewell, 22 and 24 years old. Justin is a two-tier worker and makes $16 an hour. As a traditional worker, Derick makes $28 an hour.
The American Dream is that each generation will do better than the last. But the families of auto workers no longer have that expectation. As Detro...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:15
This is What Democracy Looks Like: Wisconsin's Worker Uprising
From: Charles Showalter
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A fantastic documentary produced by Worker's Independent News in conjunction with WORT Community Radio, WI. It cronicles WI governor Scott Walker's...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
Best Craigslist Ad Ever?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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A humorous reading of a looking-for-work ad posted by a copywriter on Craigslist in Atlanta.

Bought by WABE and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 2
Detention in the City of Destiny
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
Living in Limbo
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Gabriela Cubillos prepares tamales in her home. , Credit: Eroyn Franklin
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 6
Finding Our Bootstraps: Americans Deal With Recession
From: Michigan Radio Economy Special
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How people are finding the strength and situations that get them through economic hard times.

Bought by WVTF, KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 14
The Future of Farming in Vermont -- with slideshow!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Lydia Ratcliff is a survivor. She's farmed her 90 acre plot of land in Andover Vermont for 43 years, and though she's now come down with chronic ob...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 01, 2009
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 2
That Job Sucked Anyway
From: Megan Hall
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Stories, anecdotes, and fantastical rants about the woes of working life

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 34:06
  • Purchases: 2
Truckers & PubRadio
From: Public Radio WorldWide - PRWW.org
Series: Guess Who's Listening?
Caption: Champion Truck Association Drivers Listen to Lots of Public Radio - Do You Know Why?, Credit: SLG
Truckers Are Tuning In to PubRadio Big Time!

  • Added: May 17, 2009
  • Length: 17:28
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Brother Purham: A Steelworker's Story
From: Ayana Contreras
Caption: the Arcelor Mittal Steel Mill, East Chicago, IN. Formerly Inland Steel, Credit: Ayana Contreras
Recorded by fellow retired steelworker Joe Gutierrez, and produced by Ayana Contreras, this piece was created for Vocalo.org in conjunction with Th...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 10:00
A Hidden Community
From: Liz Jones
Series: A Village Away from Home
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A look at how an indigenous Mexican migrants adapt to city life.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 08:58
"Those CCC Boys"
From: Vermont Public
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It's now 75 years since the first Civilian Conservation Corps camps opened. More than three million men served in the CCC, which changed the Americ...

Bought by WVTF, WRPI, KWMD, KUT-HD, and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 23:59
  • Purchases: 5
Downtown Profile: Cottage Grove, Oregon
From: KLCC
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Profile of an Oregon City

  • Added: May 06, 2008
  • Length: 07:33
The Other End of the Line: Profile of a 911 Operator
From: Aaron Henkin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a look at life on the phone at the Baltimore City Police Department's 911 call center

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 08:10
  • Purchases: 1

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