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Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Today, three to five giant corporations control up to 80% of almost every industry and marketplace. These monopolies depress wages, exploit workers...
- Added: Jun 25, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Housing is a human right –– or so says the international human rights law. But could we organize our economies with that principle in mind? Across ...
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Just in time for election season, Laura invites her sister Stephanie back to the program. Stephanie is the head of Economics and Government at Bloo...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR and more
- Added: May 14, 2024
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. N...
- Added: Mar 19, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the A...
- Added: Aug 31, 2022
- Length: 40:25
On this show we discuss the Banking on Climate Chaos report, digging into how banks are supporting fossil fuel companies and causing further climat...
- Added: May 16, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Our three guests today are all PhD candidates in various departments at Indiana University. We discuss the graduate workers’ strike, the formation ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 58:59
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Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has promp...
- Added: Dec 09, 2021
- Length: 29:30
True to his campaign promise, President Biden dove right into the climate crisis on Day One, signing a stack of executive orders that signaled his ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 58:59
Incoming President Biden faces an unimaginable set of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a gutted economy and a nation reeling from the r...
Bought by MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Ohm Radio , WMUU-LP, WAMU and more
- Added: Jan 14, 2021
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 13
President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. But after the destructive environmental policies of t...
Bought by WAMU, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 10
President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. That’s becoming evident looking at his emerging team....
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 58:58
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
More Than 90,000 Deaths & Whistleblower Testimony Confirm Trump’s Catastr...
Bought by WKPW
- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Starting with real estate reforms in the 1970s supposedly instituted to open a path to the American Dream for Black citizens, Keeanga-Yamahtta Tayl...
- Added: Dec 11, 2019
- Length: 59:01
There is not one U.S. state, county, or metropolitan area where a minimum wage earner working full-time can afford a two-bedroom apartment.
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Today’s show focuses on the way the cigarette industry shaped the form and legal structure which all corporations would follow in the US. One of th...
- Added: Apr 30, 2019
- Length: 59:19
The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 04, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Despite having the top-selling luxury car in 2018, and a loyal if not rabid customer base, Tesla has been facing major challenges. In August, maver...
- Added: Mar 27, 2019
- Length: 58:56
Ranney’s day-to-day life on the factory floor is punctuated by spontaneous wildcat strikes over management abuses, an immigration raid, industrial ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
After a year of climate-amplified fires and hurricanes around the country, New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel tells host Greg Dalton how climate ...
Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KFOI Radio, KWIT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Oct 25, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 6
Chinese factories churn out parts and products that end up in our cars, our kitchens and our cell phones. And all that productivity has improved th...
Bought by WJCT, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFOI Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Oct 17, 2018
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 7
While citizens are encouraged to fear and blame so called outside agitators the real menace lies within: a business community committed to the ranc...
- Added: Aug 13, 2018
- Length: 58:12
