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Most of us, when we encounter a fruit fly, are focused on keeping it out of our food. But what if it was your job to feed fruit flies?
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 54:00
It's Hispanic Heritage Month, so let's recognize their leaders, and raise a glass to the founder of the United Farm Workers. If you’re thinking Ces...
- Added: Sep 21, 2023
- Length: 03:01
- Added: Sep 03, 2023
- Length: 01:58:03
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 20, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
In the next 20 years, farmland ownership in the U.S. will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres. Yet 70% of American farmland is owned by ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2022
- Length: 28:28
As the coal industry in West Virginia declides, a nonprofit is offering displaced workers an environmentally friendly industry instead—beekeeping.
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 02:38
Two 1 hour music specials for Labor Day or Labor Day Weekend.
Each hour is newscast compatible. Each hour stands alone and either hour can be chos...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Prairie Public, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF and more
- Added: Aug 18, 2021
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 25
While the election results are still undecided well hear from Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, abou...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK
- Added: Nov 04, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
The great British songwriter, Jez Lowe, recorded live in performance at Binghamton's Cranberry Coffeehouse in September, 2019.
- Added: Sep 06, 2020
- Length: 58:00
In 2018, Puerto Rico based actor, composer and filmmaker Juan Botta left job security behind to center on his creative life. That’s when he launche...
- Added: Oct 29, 2019
- Length: 12:52
Furiture maker, Aspen Golann describes a handmade Nantucket Windsor chair.
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 01:06
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
What's it like trying to hold a whole elementary school together?
- Added: Dec 17, 2018
- Length: 04:56
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
Senor Jorge has lived a multicultural life. Hear how he came to be a Spanish teacher in Austin, Texas.
- Added: Dec 17, 2018
- Length: 04:20
Team Building Facilitator/Songwriter of The Song Team, Founder Jeff Jacob on Helping to Rebuild Community one Song at a Time
Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio
- Added: Aug 06, 2018
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 2
Interview: Janet and Bob talk about how the Seattle Labor Chorus started, their music, and the way to join as well as playing three of the choir’s...
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 28:48
Low paid workers tell the story of the “Fight for 15,” the exploding nationwide movement for fair wages.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...
Bought by WJCT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WKCC, KRDP and more
- Added: Sep 04, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 9
All of us are on this planet because we were born. Still, for most of us, giving birth is so mysterious. Many people don’t really learn about what ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 28:00
When Frances Mayes moved to Tuscany, Italy she left behind her family and roots in Fitzgerald, Georgia. In her new memoir Under Magnolia, the
renow...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 6
Janice Sage is hosting an essay contest with her Center Lovell Inn as the award.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 07:22
A warm, personal story about the lives and challenges of energy workers "behind the light switch."
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 16:49
In the 1930’s, many African-American artists and intellectuals traveled to the Soviet Union, seeking a society free of class and racism. Joseph Roa...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 03:24
Just how dumb do they think we are? Who would believe that destroying the ecosystems on which all life depends, while dis-employing more and more p...
- Added: Apr 08, 2015
- Length: 28:30
If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 4
