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247: Democracy vs. Plutocracy Part One: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime, 1/31/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
What's Wrong With Work?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: What's Wrong With Work?
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It's not easy in America today to find work that matters, that’s meaningful, and that pays enough to live on. Which is the one thing we don’t talk ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Spokane Public Radio, WFHB, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Episode 163: The Ghoul of Grays Harbor
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis a...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 32:13
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
The United Auto Workers Union: Its Effect on American Life
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey, Archivist
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor recounts the history of the Centralia Massacre.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
The Working Tapes: Advertising Executive
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel interviews a female advertising executive in the 1970's for his book "Working."

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, and KZYX


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 3
Cedar Grove
From: Catherine Moore
Caption: Ye Must Be Born Again, Credit: Roger May
Is this post-industrial town dying, or being born again? Drawing from 300 years of labor and women’s history, the writing of novelist Mary Lee Sett...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 5: The Gods Must Be Bewildered
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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In 2002, retired FBI and CIA investigator Charlie Hess began writing letters Robert Charles Browne, a convicted murderer who claimed to have killed...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:18
The Pillsbury A Mill
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Pillsbury A Mill is a National Historic Landmark, and in the midst of a $150 million redevelopment project. But back in the 1800s, it was the b...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 04:31
Working: Then & Now
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Studs Terkel
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:13
  • Purchases: 10
Old Sturbridge Village
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Finns In Minnesota: Crosby's Communist Mayor" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Karl Emil Nygard
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 3
"Finns In Minnesota: The 1907 Mesabi Range Strike" by Britt Aamodt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Iron Ore Car
July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 2
Fordlandia, from Dream to Ghost Town
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The rise and fall of Henry Ford's Fordlandia, a rubber plantation and American colony in the Amazon.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 1
Barbara Martinez Jitner
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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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
History Speaks: Rails, Mines, Madams and Crooks
From: WTIP
Series: Arts and Culture
Caption: The railroad to nowhere near the border crossing on Gunflint Lake, Credit: Cook County MN Historical Society
A historical documentary that uncovers a long-lost story full of intrigue, mystery and wonder in far Northeastern Minnesota. Crooked businessmen, a...

Bought by KSRQ and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota


  • Added: Sep 20, 2010
  • Length: 26:41
  • Purchases: 2
John Berquist Shares the Story of a Song
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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We'll also travel back in time and hear the story of a song. John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of ...

Bought by mnartists.org


  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
Building Pueblo's Steelworks Museum
From: KRCC-FM
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New museum underway in Pueblo

  • Added: Jan 20, 2006
  • Length: 07:33