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Fast Food Workers Strike in Over 100 Cities
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:59
Did you know that Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the United States, and that the average Wal-Mart worker earns just $8.81 per hour, fo...
- Added: Nov 01, 2013
- Length: 28:00
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
We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights...
- Added: Sep 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
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
Professor Chomsky recently invited Free Speech Radio News to his office in Cambridge for an extended interview, conducted by our producer, Catherin...
- Added: Jul 06, 2013
- Length: 25:33
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Air Occupy radio show interviews Noam Chomsky about Gaza, Occupy Wall Street movement, Labor, and the media.
- Added: Feb 20, 2013
- Length: 44:18
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
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
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Dec 14, 2012
- Length: 01:52:57
Can and should the government guarantee economic security?
Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WBEZ, KREV-LP, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Nov 29, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 6
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
America’s middle class is in dramatic decline. But, what caused the downfall?
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 28:54
The city of Oakland considers a risky wager to cover pension debt.
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 05:54
Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 29:01
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn interviews Steph Larsen, Assistant Director of Organizing, Rural Organizing and Outreach at the Center ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2012
- Length: 28:00
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
Issues of race, class and labor merge once again into a classic untold story – because we do not openly discuss those discomfiting matters in this ...
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 57:47
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis talks to the National Press Club about the Obama Administration's plans to help the nation's economy.
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 54:03
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
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
