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Pete Seeger's Early Years: Music, Politics, and the Banjo
From: Adam Morse
Series: There Is A Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
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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
But Next Time Part 1: California Wildfires and Protecting Our Farmworkers (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: KBBF board President, Alicia Sanchez prepares a recording for the station., Credit: Amanda Lopez
As fires ravaged California’s wine country in 2017, farm and service workers, especially non-English speakers, were some of the hardest hit. Hear m...

Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Memes with Force: Transforming the Political Imaginary
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In “Memes with Force,” producer Bella Bravo, speaks with Adrian Wohlleben and Paul Torino, Americans who contributed to the gilets jaunes at its ou...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference
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
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
Aging Isn't a Problem, Ageism Is
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Someone turns 65 every 8 seconds in this country, and as our elderly population grows, so does the need to build an economy around our future selve...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jun 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Hunger and Work Strikes
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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We learn about the Chicago Community Bond Fund, a group that bails people out of Chicago's Cook County Jail and strives to end pretrial detention....

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:31
Life of the Law #83: Recuse Yourself
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...

  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 30:36
Chapter 23 - On the Line
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 15:41
Chapter 18 - The Election of 1948
From: Margaret Poethig
Series: On the Sidewalks of New York
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:27
Buffalo Creek Disaster Remembered
From: WMMT
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This Sunday, February 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Disaster in Logan County, West Virginia. The disaster occured when the da...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 1
Who Won the Egyptian Revolution?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: by natalia & gabriel on flickr
Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship is gone, but a military council now rules Egypt, and has kept much of Mubarak’s repressive apparatus. Meanwhile extrem...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Battleground Wisconsin
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This documentary examines the volatile issues that are tearing at social fabric of the state of Wisconsin. Its Republican governor is determined...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 31:58
  • Purchases: 1
Scene of the Crime
From: Paul Bieber
Caption: Little girl in Nuevo Milenio
In Colombia, where evidence is marred by politics, emotion and time, conclusions are hard to come by.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 29, 2010
  • Length: 10:56
  • Purchases: 1
SaveTheLibrary.Org: Shannon Salmon's Quest
From: Ben May
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The libraries of Los Angeles might shut down in a few years, unless the people of the city rally and write letters, demanding they stay open. Plans...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 59:40
A Day in the Life of Nadeem Awan
From: Seattle Globalist
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This story follows a day in the life of Nadeem Awan, a child laborer and student in Karachi, Pakistan.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
"A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE POOR"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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A modern look at the world's poor and the causes of poverty

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:48
  • Purchases: 1
Jorge Aguilar, II
From: Pauline Bartolone
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Day in the Life of a Latino Public Interest Lawyer

  • Added: Nov 01, 2007
  • Length: 02:15
Blind Traveler
From: daniella ponet
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Pat, a blind activist and singer/poet, describes her life in New York City

  • Added: May 13, 2007
  • Length: 10:01
Pastures of Plenty: The Future of Farm Labor
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Pastures of Plenty: A History of California Farm Workers
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Program 4 in a four-part series about farmworker history

Bought by KSQD Santa Cruz, KVMR, North State Public Radio, KZYX, WCBU and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2007
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 16
Passaic On Strike!
From: New Jersey Historical Commission and NJN Public Radio
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In 1926, 16,000 Wool Workers Strike for nearly a year in New Jersey

Bought by WVTF, KBRP Community Radio, Iowa Public Radio, KLCC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2006
  • Length: 54:55
  • Purchases: 10
Labor Express for 2-20-05
From: WLUW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is the Feb. 20th 2005 episode of Labor Express in full.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2005
  • Length: 58:21
Labor Express for 2-13-05
From: WLUW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is the Feb. 13th 2005 episode of Labor Express in full.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2005
  • Length: 01:04:11
Labor Express for 12-5-04
From: WLUW
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This is the Dec. 5th 2004 episode of Labor Express in full.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2005
  • Length: 01:02:56