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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
Caption: Valerie Kaur
In a world that’s unraveling from climate disruption and gaping inequality, another climate crisis confronts us: the climate of hate and othering. ...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Angelina McCall after graduating from nursing school in the spring of 2020. , Credit: Photo courtesy the participants
After Angelina McCall left her job at a Tucson ER, she wondered if she was cut out for nursing. Then a volunteer position on the US-Mexico border h...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
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Personal experiences illustrating God's guiding hand.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
Caption: Faygele ben Miriam at his last Seder before his death in 2000., Credit: Courtesy of the University of Washington Library, Geoff Manasse special collection.
Patrick Haggerty and his friend, Ronni Gilboa, remember their friend, Faygele ben Miriam, a gay rights trailblazer who fought against workplace dis...

Bought by KRVS and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Have So Much Stuff?" - From baby showers to estate sales, we fill our lives with material possessions. Why do we do it? HOUR...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Ears Adrift celebrates the Seabee birthday month and Women's History Month. Hoorah, Seabees!

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 05, 2020
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 1
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“Better Fences, Better World” is number five of eight special episodes of The Flyovers. The series is underwritten by StartUp Colorado, a non-profi...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 46:18
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HOUR ONE: "What's Wrong With Work?" - Journalists in tents. Professors below the poverty line. When good jobs don't cut it anymore, what's wrong wi...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Stephanie Land discusses her memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive." She also reads a few short passages.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
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HOUR ONE: "What's Wrong With Work?" - Journalists in tents. Professors below the poverty line. When good jobs don't cut it anymore, what's wrong wi...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "Is Socialism Making A Comeback?" - It was a dirty word 25 years ago. But now, more people are identifying as Socialists. Is Socialism co...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Workers across Texas have to fight to receive their wages and fair treatment. The Workers Defense Project Band gives their fight a soundtrack. Thi...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Father Noel Hickie was working as a hospital chaplain when he met Marcia Hilton, a bereavement counselor, at a hospital in Eugene, Oregon. For 25 y...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Aug 01, 2017
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chuck Collins
I have heard that inequality in America is at its highest point since the age of the Robber Barons. If true, many suspect it may get worse before i...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sharon Abreu & Mike Hurwicz
Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz, singers, songwriters, and activists Interview by Gary Kanter: Sharon and Mike, two passionate and harmonious voi...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:14
Caption: Mark McDermott
Mark McDermott, a Union Activist, Community Organizer, and Historian Interview: Mark tells us how we can and must work together to protect victori...

  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 27:39
Caption: Migrant Mother, Credit: Dorothea Lange
Author Elizabeth Partridge provides an authoritative biographical essay for a new book on the work of the twentieth century’s most important photog...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2013
  • Length: 17:29
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
Caption: Ron McHargue with son Mike McHargue
Ron McHargue [mic-KAR-guh'] describes to son Mike his fall from a ladder on a metal grain tank

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Diana Hansen and her daughter Tanya Mitchell
Diana Hansen, wheat farmer, recounts losing her arm, relearning to do everything and refusing to be a victim.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Brett Schrom with his sister Neesha Schrom
Brett Schrom [sh'-RAHM], a hay grower/beef producer, describes to his sister Neesha how his harobed threw him off.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:26
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19-year-old Noe Rueda (R) talks to his high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez (L), about growing up poor in Chicago.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Charles Blackwell teaching at LightHouse for the Blind
Blind since a hiking accident in 1971, Charles Blackwell has not let his disability prevent him from becoming a vibrant visual artists. In this seg...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 1