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Frank Kostrencich has been working the night shift as a crane operator at the Port of Los Angeles for the past 26 years. Using his precision and ex...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Fire engines roar through the city with their sirens warning cars to move out of the way. For most of us, these sirens are nothing more than that, ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 01:01
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was a “whistleblower?”
Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her inter...
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- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that a truly sustainable food system, includes standards for working conditions, fair wages and pricing, gender equity, and environmen...
- Added: Feb 19, 2016
- Length: 28:00
Boots Riley—activist, author, and “The Coup” front man is interviewed by Edge of Sports blogger Dave Zirin
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- Added: Feb 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In her new play, Sweat, Lynn Nottage gives voice to the human cost of workers without work.
Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 3
Immigration. That’s a major hot button issue.
In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws designed to make it easier to deport unauthor...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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Dr. Robert Forrant, University of Massachusetts-Lowell History Professor, Bread and Roses Strike
Interview by Rich Austin: Robert gives us the rea...
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 27:45
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Benefits can be hard to come by in the music business. So where do people turn in emergencies? In 1989 the Recording Academy created the MusiCares ...
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- Length: 53:45
Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...
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- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 28:59
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A look at some businesses that promote social justice, fair trade and labor practices, and thereby peace.
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- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 57:36
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we explore multi-level marketing. Is it a pyramid scheme? Is it good for the seller? What are people’s impressio...
- Added: Sep 17, 2015
- Length: 01:07:58
Jack London is known for his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North. But, that’s overlooking the real story. London was a reporter who made n...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...
Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Adam Graff, a member of New Orleans' all-volunteer, mental health crisis unit, speaks with his wife, Jacqueline, about the surge in patients after ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 01:53
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement?
Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 01:01:11
The Fair Food Program is recognized as one of the great human rights success stories of our day. This unique farmworker- and consumer-driven initia...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
The Bonfires of Social Enterprise episode with Detroit fashion writer turned job maker and social enterprise entrepreneuer. Karen Buscemi is trying...
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 28:08
Remember how much real estate Serial took up in your brain? Now imagine having 75 crime stories in your mind all the time, and the cases are active...
- Added: Jul 26, 2015
- Length: 26:44
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 29:01
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Just a stone’s throw from Orlando’s Disneyworld, Florida’s Lake Apopka used to be a premier recreational lake, until agricultural chemical runoff p...
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 28:00
When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the
renow...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
This is the first in a series of podcasts in collaboration with EthicalSystems.org to explore behavioral science in the workplace. In this installm...
- Added: Apr 13, 2015
- Length: 25:59
Today, 47-million Americans live in poverty. That places this country at the bottom among industrial nations for the divide between the haves and h...
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
