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Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The emerging green economy promises to provide large-scale job creation while healing the Earth and building the middle class.
Bought by Panhandle Community Radio, KKRN, KFCF FM, and WDSE
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 4
A Ph.D. used to be a ticket to a comfortable career in academia. But, in recent years, increasing numbers of Ph.D.'s have had trouble finding jobs ...
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 29:01
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
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
Occupy Wall Street has changed the conversation about the distribution of wealth. So what now? What policy changes and initiatives should the mov...
- Added: Jan 30, 2012
- Length: 29:00
A look back at some of the most important issues of 2011: Attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate ...
Bought by KHNS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMUN
- Added: Dec 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
On this edition of Culture Clique, KQAL's Bill Stoneberg visits with Barbara Martinez Jitner, an Emmy and Golden Globe Nominated television and fil...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 37:50
- Purchases: 1
Issues of race, class and labor merge once again into a classic untold story – because we do not openly discuss those discomfiting matters in this ...
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 57:47
Dr. William Hanson, author of Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care.
Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 25:03
- Purchases: 1
Was the occupation of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin a resurgence of organized labor in the United States, or the last gasp for unionized ...
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 29:00
From: A World of Possibilities
On today's industrial farms, field workers harvest crops that they themselves can't afford to buy. Join us as we ask how much we're willing to pay ...
Bought by WRIR, KXOT Public Radio, and KHNS
- Added: Jul 04, 2011
- Length: 55:00
- Purchases: 3
Could the slow job growth rate of the Great Recession be attributed to new technologies replacing human labor and intelligence? Is artificial intel...
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 02:00
Today on Art Beat we feature an artist who works with what some may consider a difficult medium. Jeff Post works for Willet Hauser Architectural Gl...
- Added: Dec 10, 2010
- Length: 10:38
THE INITIATIVE OF A PRIEST TO HELP MIGRANT WORKERS FIND A WAY TO SUCCEEED IN THEIR NEW SOCIETY.
- Added: Jun 18, 2010
- Length: 27:59
It’s been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce, delivers “The State of World Trade” at a National Press Club luncheon on Friday...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 54:00
With around 80,000 Haitians expected to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that will allow them to legally work and live in South Florida, ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2010
- Length: 03:30
The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...
- Added: Nov 03, 2009
- Length: 29:00
Should government supplement markets to increase the public good? Should it regulate markets to protect the public good? How much is too much regul...
- Added: Sep 16, 2009
- Length: 01:30
How should we reward experts and how much? When the experts fail, should populist outrage be directed at those individuals or the system?
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 01:30
A Colombian immigrant was recently denied her investor's visa, forcing her to shut down her U.S. company and fire her six employees. Does immigrati...
- Added: Sep 11, 2009
- Length: 01:30
