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Thoughts on a proprosal in Congress to fund bridge repairs across the U.S.
- Added: Nov 20, 2007
- Length: 03:08
Why Hughes couldn't succeed as Undersecretary of State despite her best efforts.
- Added: Nov 20, 2007
- Length: 03:07
A commentary about the miserable pay and working and living conditions of tobacco harvesters.
- Added: Nov 01, 2007
- Length: 04:02
A commentary noting that author John Steinbeck was one of the best friends American workers ever had.
- Added: Oct 25, 2007
- Length: 04:18
A commentary about the growing number of women going into law, medicine and other professional occupations -- and the blatant discrimination they f...
- Added: Oct 18, 2007
- Length: 03:39
A commentary noting that the two sometimes hostile factions of the labor movement are waging major campaigns to recruit new members and strengthen ...
- Added: Oct 11, 2007
- Length: 03:59
A commentary on the extraordinary campaign that Democratic presidential candidates are waging to win union endorsements.
- Added: Sep 27, 2007
- Length: 03:52
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
This commentary outlines the extraordinary career of Fred Ross, one of the most successful community organizers ever, the man who trained Cesar Ch...
- Added: Sep 04, 2007
- Length: 04:29
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
To a man -- and woman -- the Democratic presidential candidates say they're great friends of American workers. True or false? The answer could depe...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 25, 2007
- Length: 03:39
- Purchases: 1
Despite the great importance of teachers, they are by far the most poorly paid of all professionals.
- Added: Apr 11, 2007
- Length: 03:36
Congressman Pete Stark is a rare politician. He takes seriously the separation of church and state and actually has the political courage to say he...
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 03:44
- Added: Mar 14, 2007
- Length: 18:46
Despite their importance to our security, airport screeners aren't allowed to exercise their full civil rights.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Mar 08, 2007
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 01, 2007
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
The number of Americans over age sixty-five is expected to double to seventy million in the next thirty years, and the experience of old age often ...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Feb 12, 2007
- Length: 27:58
- Purchases: 1
PRI's Michael Arnold: the 12th of 14 interviews conducted at the annual PRPD conference -- on ThoughtCast!
- Added: Jan 15, 2007
- Length: 05:11
a commentary marking the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike, one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Dec 08, 2006
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the major role unions played in the Democratic Party's midterm sweep.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Nov 10, 2006
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Although most people work for a living, the mainstream media generally ignore their working lives.
- Added: Sep 15, 2006
- Length: 03:25
Acclaimed oral historian Studs Terkel believes when it comes to action, there is strength in numbers.
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, KBGA 89.9 FM, KZYX and more
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 7
News you don't get delivered to your front door or tune into at 6 and 11. A Small Voice from the Nation's Capital
- Added: Jun 04, 2006
- Length: 01:00:09
