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It's Hispanic Heritage Month, so let's recognize their leaders, and raise a glass to the founder of the United Farm Workers. If you’re thinking Ces...
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 03:01
Interview by Gary Kanter: Hillary revisits the 20-year anniversary of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, sometimes referred to as ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 29, 2019
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” with David Jepsen, educator, historian, a...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 01, 2019
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 1
Do you know how we got Labor Day? Winston Smith's torture has begun, and Kim Davis' arrest is ordered by the Supreme Court
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 03:34:32
We return to Prince Edward Island where we’ll spend the next half hour with a father and daughter who produce what PEI has come to be known for the...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 27:06
On May 2, 1982, Exxon unexpectedly closed its oil-shale exploration and development project in Parachute, leaving 2,200 people out of work, causing...
- Added: May 02, 2012
- Length: 01:49
Washington's labor, immigrant and faith communities are promising a large and vocal turnout on Tuesday (May 1) for annual May Day marches and ralli...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 04:48
The tenth anniversary of 9/11 is a good time to recognize the importance of public employees.
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:43
It was 40 years ago this month that Walter Reuther died, yet the auto workers' leader remains an important inspirational figure.
- Added: May 20, 2010
- Length: 04:33
A commentary on labor leader Harry Bridges, one of the 20th century's greatest leaders of any kind, on the anniversary of his death.
- Added: Mar 18, 2010
- Length: 04:21
Of the many dramatic events in the long struggle to win decent conditions for America's farm workers, none have been more dramatic -- or influentia...
- Added: Aug 07, 2009
- Length: 03:11
It's the 75th anniversary of "Bloody Thursday," the day in July of 1934 when open warfare between police and striking longshoremen raged on San Fra...
- Added: Jul 02, 2009
- Length: 04:45
This documentary tells the story of the 1951 West Frankfort Mine disaster in which 119 men were killed in an explosion on the last shift before the...
Bought by KRZA, KPIK-LP, NPR Illinois, WMMT, KUT and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2008
- Length: 16:21
- Purchases: 6
A commentary noting Martin Luther King Jr.'s staunch support of union rights, which he died defending.
- Added: Apr 04, 2008
- Length: 02:58
A commentary noting that Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the staunchest and most effective supporters working Americans have ever had.
Bought by Prairie Public, WEZU, RadioFreePalmer, KBRP Community Radio, KUT and more
- Added: Jan 13, 2008
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 7
This narrationless soundscape commemorates the 80th anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jul 25, 2007
- Length: 15:38
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 23, 2007
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 20, 2007
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
This commentary celebrates the 70th anniversary of the fledgling auto workers union's spectacular victory over mighty General Motors.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Jan 20, 2007
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
A commentary marking the anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, one of the most enduring and influential of American symbols.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Nov 05, 2006
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 1
This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...
- Added: Aug 10, 2006
- Length: 02:28
The "Wheatland Riot" nine decades ago laid the foundation for creation of an effective union and other steps to improve the miserable conditions of...
- Added: Jul 23, 2006
- Length: 03:14
A once-suppressed newsreel showing Chicago police chasing, killing and wounding strikers and their families on Memorial Day in 1937 played an impor...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KFAI Minneapolis, and KPFT
- Added: May 27, 2006
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 3
The Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914 was one of the most horrific events in U.S. labor history -- but one that led to desperately needed reforms.
- Added: Apr 14, 2006
- Length: 04:22
It's the 38th anniversary of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez's extraordinary 25-day fast.
- Added: Mar 09, 2006
- Length: 02:46
