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Frank Empsak, Executive Director of Workers Independent News, we will talk about Wisconsin and Gov. Walker telephone call.
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Dan Wilson of Blue Goat Technologies, we will be talking about union information technology and Labor Tracks, which is a customizable solution that...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Gerard Oleksiak, Pennsylvania State Education Association Treasurer (PSEA.org)
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Gary Allen, General Vice President of the International Association of Machinist, assigned to the Western Territory discusses a variety of labor to...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:02
In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 06:02
Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:53
Statistics demonstrate the decline of the middle class, and that the problem is a long term one.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 01:59
Union organizers Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings were the victims of one of the most outrageous frameups in U.S. history.
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 06:05
It's the 50th anniversary of one of the most dramatic and influential death penalty cases ever, the Caryl Chessman case that drew worldwide attent...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: 05:01
Dick Armey, the former House Majority Leader, speaks about conservatism at the National Press Club.
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 54:01
Feet in Two Worlds and Polish Daily News reporter Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska recently produced an audio profile of the innovative Polish musical group, ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2010
- Length: 07:27
Dave Zirin and Elizabeth Terzakis take a look back at the history of discrimination against women in sports, and we’ll hear where the long battle f...
Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, KMXT, 90.5 WSNC, KUT and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 6
IN IT’S THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMEN;S DAY PROGRAM, CASA ATABEX ACHE & MOMMAS HIP HOP KITCHEN PRESENT “.A WOMYN OF COLOR’S RESPONSE TO ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2009
- Length: 54:15
It's the 90th anniversary this month of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Although much media attention is being paid to "Milk," the movie about gay rights hero Harvey Milk, we shouldn't forget that not long ago media co...
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 04:13
- Added: May 06, 2008
- Length: 03:30
A commentary noting that few women are more deserving of special attention during Women's History Month than farm worker leader Dolores Huerta.
Bought by KGLP and KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Mar 03, 2008
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played a major role in the struggle of African Americans for equal rights.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WDBM, and WEZU
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 3
Few leaders have left a greater legacy than labor leader Jack Hall, a major figure in the transformation of feudalistic Hawaii into a democratic st...
- Added: Dec 20, 2007
- Length: 04:43
A commentary noting that author John Steinbeck was one of the best friends American workers ever had.
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 04:18
This commentary notes that although now largely forgotten, labor leader Lou Goldblatt was one of America's most influential leaders of any kind.
- Added: Sep 20, 2007
- Length: 04:13
This commentary is about the fierce steelworkers strike of 1919 that was one of the key events leading to the mass unionization of American industry.
- Added: Sep 13, 2007
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 2
Sasha Abramsky says America is a prison nation. He says that, thanks to twenty-five years of policy changes, prisons are the American story. Abram...
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Aug 06, 2007
- Length: 49:59
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the Homestead strike, one of the most violent and most significant in labor history.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 11, 2007
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
It was 50 years ago this summer that a judge rejected attempts to ban poet Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" as obscene and virtually ended government book-b...
- Added: Jun 30, 2007
- Length: 03:30
