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Heather McGhee: Racism Costs Everyone
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Unforget, Dream, Build
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this episode, Laura speaks with Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of those narratives. They are “unforgetting” histories suppressed...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Kerri Arsenault
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Kerri Arsenault discusses her new book, "Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains."

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


  • Added: Jan 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Reporting on Covid in the Country
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Equipped with a facemask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports in this episode (from a responsible distance) on the impact of Covid-19 on one ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
513: Why Do We Have So Much Stuff? / 514: What's Wrong With Work?, 9/5/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Working through History
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We explore how Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. And:Now is the ideal time for work...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WLPR , WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Working through History
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Women at Work
Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. Historian Steven Reich suggests ways to change that.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, KRDP, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Farm Worker to Farm Owner
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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There’s a shift happening in American agriculture that has been hard to spot. Farm workers have entered mainstream consciousness through coverage o...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Deport Me - Monologue by Alejandro Fuentes Mena and Kirsten Wilson
From: Motus Theater Boulder
Series: Motus Theater UndocuAmerica Monologues
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Alejandro Fuentes-Mena tells the story of his hard working parents and shares his journey to becoming one of the first two DACAmented teachers in t...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 16:20
Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Gig Workers, driver's for app companies such as Lyft and Uber, are struggling during COVID-19. They're considered essential workers, so they can st...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: May 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The U.S. Economy Is Not Democratic or Good for the Planet
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The U.S. economy, weak or strong, is the question at the heart of the election. But it doesn't get to the reality which is that, whatever else it m...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WRIR, and KDNK


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
From Piers to Plantations
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: ILWU Local 142 Mural (section)
The story of Hawai’i, as told through the voices of Karl Malden, Ed Asner, Carroll O’Connor, Congressional members Patsy Mink, Neil Abercrombie and...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
407: What's Wrong With Work? / 408: Imagining Climate Change, 8/31/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Our Walmart (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing supplier...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WRGY, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
Our Walmart (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing suppliers...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
365: Is This The Socialist Moment? / 366: God Talk, 4/6/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Is This The Socialist Moment?" - It was a dirty word 25 years ago. But now, more politicians are identifying as Socialists. Has the move...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:57
“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
Inequality at Work
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfeld documents the pervasive and often subtle ways that successful black men – people like doctors, lawyers, and engine...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 12:48
  • Purchases: 1
Right to Work? Unions & Income Inequality
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld discusses the growing wealth gap between rich and poor Americans, decreasing labor union membership, and considers what ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 13:42
303: What's Wrong With Work? / 304: Automate It, 9/1/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Mike Elliott, former Burlington Northern Train Engineer, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mike Elliott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mike continues his story about his concern for train safety that lead him to become a whistle blower and put his own caree...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
295: Is Socialism Making A Comeback? / 296: The Sound Of Silence, 8/4/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Job Talk Episode 56
From: Paul Russell
Series: Job Talk
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Rediscovering the trades. How tiny houses helped reinvigorate high school students to learn carpentry, plumbing and design. Dave and Doug talk with...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 1
277: Center Of The World / 278: Hell Is Other People, 6/2/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58