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Episode 2: Ludlow and its Legacy
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
It's Time We Cut Welfare
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Peacetalks radio takes us down ‘The Non-Violent path of Cesar Chavez’, through conversations with Chavez’ colleague and friend Delores Huerta, and ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Behind the Kitchen Door: Restaurant Workers' Fight for Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Saru Jayaraman
Americans eat out more than any other people. But the workers who put food on our restaurant tables are struggling to feed themselves and their fam...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Demystifying Unions with Bill Fletcher Jr.
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Bill Fletcher Jr.
Unions are getting weaker, and even more threatening, says labor leader and author Bill Fletcher Jr., the general public no longer understands or s...

Bought by WMMT and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
StoryCorps: Boyd Applegate and Rhonda Dixon
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Big-rig driver Boyd Applegate tells his sister, Rhonda Dixon, about volunteering at the polls nearly every Election Day for 20 years.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WEZU


  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 4
Laid Off and Looking for Answers: An East Kentucky Coal Miner Speaks
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
Caption: Gary Bentley with his daughter Lily
Since January, thousands of coal miners have been laid off in Central Appalachia. We’ve heard a lot of opinions about the causes of this decline a...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 11:31
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Leadership: Segment B
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Consulting firms have long helped corporations make their operations more efficient and profitable, but now moral leadership is being added to the ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Leadership: Segment A
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Consulting firms have long helped corporations make their operations more efficient and profitable, but now moral leadership is being added to the ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 20:40
  • Purchases: 1
Competitive Ethics: Segment B
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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The field of competitive intelligence illustrates the distinction we draw in our professional lives between ethics and law. Attorney Richard Horowi...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 14:46
  • Purchases: 1
Competitive Ethics: Segment A
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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The field of competitive intelligence illustrates the distinction we draw in our professional lives between ethics and law. Attorney Richard Horowi...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 10, 2012
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 1
Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
From the National Press Club: Hilda Solis
From: National Press Club
Caption: Hilda Solis, Credit: NPC
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
Transformations in Medical Professions
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Dr. William Hanson, author of Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond the Comfort Zone
From: The Drucker Institute
Series: Drucker on the Dial
Caption: Gail McGovern
Host Phalana Tiller interviews Gail McGovern of the American Red Cross and Scott Keller of McKinsey & Co. about management challenges across divers...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
Millennials Face a Tough Job Market
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Reporter Rina Palta takes a hard look at how the toughest job market in decades will shape this recession generation.

Bought by WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 12:48
  • Purchases: 1
FAR FROM HOME, BUT FAR FROM FORGOTTEN
From: Voices of Our World
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE INITIATIVE OF A PRIEST TO HELP MIGRANT WORKERS FIND A WAY TO SUCCEEED IN THEIR NEW SOCIETY.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 27:59
Gridlock, On Highways and In Legislature
From: David Schultz
Caption: Scientists at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia perform cutting edge neuroscience research. A Janelia Farm exec says Northern Virginia's congested highways makes hiring and retaining employees difficult., Credit: Matt Staley/Janelia Farm
Business execs in Northern Virginia, typically a core Republican constituency, are beginning to lose patience with the GOP over its refusal to rais...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 04:41
The Local Aftermath of Bush-Era Workplace Immigration Raids
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We go to Postville, Iowa and Laurel, Mississippi--two communities where the largest workplace immigration raids happened in 2008.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 14:53
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Our Bootstraps: Americans Deal With Recession
From: Michigan Radio Economy Special
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How people are finding the strength and situations that get them through economic hard times.

Bought by WVTF, KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 14
Ethics and Experts
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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How should we reward experts and how much? When the experts fail, should populist outrage be directed at those individuals or the system?

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Immigrants and Jobs
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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A Colombian immigrant was recently denied her investor's visa, forcing her to shut down her U.S. company and fire her six employees. Does immigrati...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
Active Voice Radio - Steve Early: Embedded With Organized Labor
From: Chris Goldstein
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Longtime journalist and union specialist Steve Early looks to the present and future of American unions

Bought by KSFR and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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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
Active Voice Radio 10-22-08: Economic History: Felicia Khornbluh- The Battle for Welfare Rights
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Duke university Professor Felicia Kornbluh- discusses her book The Battle For Welfare Rights : Politics and Poverty in Modern America

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Oct 22, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1