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Growing Pains at The World's Largest Co-op?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:43
Making it Our Business: Co-ops on the Rise
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Riding the 1 bus: An unguided tour to East Oakland
From: KALW
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The most popular buses in Oakland are the 1 and the 1R. The 1, which is the local route, makes 105 stops in three different East Bay cities. It’s a...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 08:20
California's realignment policy threatens inmate fire-fighting labor force
From: KALW
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It’s summer in California, which means fire season is in full force – and it could be the worst one in years. The California Department of Forestry...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:17
Food trucks threatened by crime in Oakland
From: KALW
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Oakland is known for its food trucks, which serve everything from tacos and tamales to West African cuisine. But few know that this latest culinar...

Bought by NPR Illinois and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 2
Starting Over at Sea-Tac
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Refugees in Puget Sound
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New refugees have to juggle a lot. There's finding housing, getting kids enrolled in school; often there's learning English. And there's finding a ...

  • Added: May 23, 2012
  • Length: 08:10
A Bit of Downtime
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Woodcarving at Maine State Prison

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Barber Pole
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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The surprising history of a true cultural icon: the barber pole.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
Gloria's Glow
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: Gloria Lowe, Credit: Amanda Le Claire
How one woman is re-imagining the possibilities of living, working, and building a sustainable Detroit

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 2
The Mark of a Blacksmith
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Bob Jordan with his anvil, Credit: JP Davidson
Bob Jordan has a 3000-degree forge in his garage. He’s a blacksmith with over 40 years of experience – including work with German, Italian and Nort...

Bought by PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 3
Occupy Everything: An Oakland Story
From: Leila Day
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Thousands gathered in downtown Oakland to occupy the ports and shut them down. Exploring a night with the Occupy Oakland movement, partly a party...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 06:15
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
Dream Jobs 2011 Promos
From: Spectrum Radio
Series: Spectrum Radio
Caption: Inside Technology
15 and 30 second promos for "Dream Jobs 2011: Outside the Cubicle"

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KMXT, WEKU, WNIN, WCPN and more


  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: :45
  • Purchases: 9
The Wisconsin Workers Uprising (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Was the occupation of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin a resurgence of organized labor in the United States, or the last gasp for unionized ...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
The Passionate Pizza Man
From: Jill Strauss
Caption: Stephen Lanzalotta, Credit: Jill Strauss
Stephen Lanzalotta is an artisan bread baker in Portland, Maine. Lanzalotta discusses his passion for his craft and his philosophy of life while he...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
The Vendor's Hustle
From: Matt Rogers
Caption: Yolanda, tamale vendor
There are ten thousand street vendors in New York City, that magnet for the world's poor and America's hopeful; some licensed and some not. Vendors...

  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 48:34
Is That My Imagination?
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2008 Third Coast ShortDocs: Radio Ephemera
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The story of a mind on strike.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
One Day Longer, One Day Stronger in Madison
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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This Wednesday, the state of Wisconsin passed a controversial bill limiting the collective bargaining rights of public employees. Here, labor activ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 12:13
Best Craigslist Ad Ever?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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A humorous reading of a looking-for-work ad posted by a copywriter on Craigslist in Atlanta.

Bought by WABE and Vocalo.org


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 2
The Life and Death of the Infernal Noise Brigade
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Infernal Noise Brigade debuted at the Seattle WTO protests in 1999. Jill Friedberg from KBCS in Seattle has their story.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
Marching for Change: Street Bands in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Caption: The Infernal Noise Brigade in downtown Seattle., Credit: http://www.andrewstern.net/
We look at how political marching bands are stirring up public spaces; from the streets, to supermarkets to your facebook feed.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Labor Day 2010 - The Labor of Movies 10-35
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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This week on The Score – The Labor of Movies – Music from films about working men and women.

Bought by KRCU Public Radio, WVIA, WABE, Interlochen Public Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Expanding the Northwest Detention Center
From: Seattle Globalist
Caption: Northwest Detention Center, Credit: Alex Stonehill
April 16, 2009 - On any given day, 30,000 people are being held in detention centers across the country. With plans to expand the Northwest Detenti...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 08:36
Detention in the City of Destiny
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: GEO Guard at the Northwest Detention Center, Tacoma., Credit: Alex Stonehill
In 2004 a new detention center opened on the tideflats below downtown Tacoma. Owned and operated by a private corporation, it houses up to a thousa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:19
  • Purchases: 1
Living in Limbo
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Between Worlds/Behind Bars
Caption: Gabriela Cubillos prepares tamales in her home. , Credit: Eroyn Franklin
In our final segment, producer Jessica Partnow follows the story of one family living in immigration limbo in Auburn, Washington.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, XRAY.fm, KISU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 6

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