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The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 59:01
As the World Economic Forum takes place in Davos, Switzerland, we talk about the way central banks steer world development and for whom. Former Gol...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jan 24, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...
- Added: Jun 12, 2018
- Length: 58:19
Over 30million Americans are uninsured, and even more are sickened by the sky-high costs. While Congress seems sunk in a partisan fight over the Af...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
Interview: Part 3 of a 6 part series called ‘War on the Workers’ starts off with Rich being interviewed about how working class Americans are getti...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 28:21
A Vietnamese proverb says: “when eating a fruit, think of who planted the tree.” Taking that sentiment a step further, how often do we consider the...
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Fast Food Workers Strike in Over 100 Cities
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:59
What’s the difference between free trade and fair trade? If you want to learn more about “food sovereignty,” and how global trade policies affect l...
- Added: Oct 10, 2013
- Length: 28:00
Labor Day was created in the 19th century by the unions, to celebrate the economic achievements of American workers. But if we look at the 21st ce...
Bought by KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 29:01
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
Joe Carraro discusses the failures of how just funding more unemployment insurance doesn't fix our unemployment problem, and the government needs t...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:40
Tom Hoffman and Nathan Sooy of Clean Water Action (cleanwateraction.org) discuss how Marcellus Shale drilling affects water sources. Then Darryl M...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
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 LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
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...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
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
It should be obvious by now, with election day nearing, that Barack Obama should be the overwhelming choice of working people.
- Added: Oct 16, 2008
- Length: 05:14
First-time voter Autumn Campbell from Jeremiah, Kentucky hopes that her vote really counts this year, because she has a list of issues that she wan...
Bought by WSCS-FM
- Added: Nov 06, 2006
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
