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This episode delves into Pete Seeger's early years growing up in upstate New York and at boarding school; his political worldview as channeled thro...
- Added: Mar 03, 2024
- Length: 48:39
On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...
Bought by WUWM, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Time - Maria Dodaro is a swim coach and aquatics director. Swimming coaches help swimmers perfect their breathing techniques, swim speed, and may w...
- Added: Dec 22, 2021
- Length: 01:46
What would life look like if we oriented our week not around work—but rest? In this episode, we explore our personal and societal need for rest and...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...
Bought by WXDU, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...
Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 08, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
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
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 59:11
- Purchases: 1
Community residents, longshoremen, small businesspeople, tribes and environmentalists got together and stopped a massive oil by rail terminal in Va...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KRZA, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jun 09, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
A quick biopic on the life of Tom Landry with a focus on his finest season.
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 04:24
Wendy Oxenhorn says "musicians and their records have saved our lives time and time again. We owe them the services they need to age well."
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 10
All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Who was your favorite teacher in high school? We all have that unforgettable teacher that sets us on our life’s trajectory. But most of the time we...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:29
When you get into a taxi, you usually know where you are coming from, where you are going. But what about your taxi driver? This week we travel wit...
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 29:02
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
A conversational profile of Cesar Chavez featuring his United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, Chavez scholar Jose-Antonio Orosco and Texas ...
- Added: Mar 19, 2014
- Length: 58:45
- Purchases: 43
This is a story of one city, one global company, one mother and one American dream.
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 24:58
On December 5, 2013, fast food workers across the country walked out on a one-day strike, demanding fairer wages. But what's really at stake? The G...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 06:08
At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 28:06
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
What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:14
Dolores Huerta left her teaching job as a young woman to commit herself to working in the struggle for equal rights
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:14
According to the 2010 census, Marin City is now a median-income community. But a stigma and challenges remain. Marin City still has higher crime an...
- Added: Aug 31, 2012
- Length: 05:59
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 06:01
- Purchases: 2
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
