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Season 1, Episode 12 - 'Partnerism' feat Dr Riane Eisler
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Partnership vs Domination society.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
247: Democracy vs. Plutocracy Part One: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime, 1/31/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Catastrophic Capitalism in 2023: The Invisible Causes of Economic Inequality
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, we explore the consequences of “capital bias”, or prioritizing wealth and the wea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
250: Building the Solidarity Economy: Awakening to Our Mutuality and Shifting the Terrain of Power, 5/24/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Manuel Pastor
At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...

  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Viva Brother Nagi from Kerning Cultures
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
What's Wrong With Work?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: What's Wrong With Work?
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It's not easy in America today to find work that matters, that’s meaningful, and that pays enough to live on. Which is the one thing we don’t talk ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Spokane Public Radio, WFHB, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
643: If Your Clothes Could Talk / 644: Why The Classics Matter, 12/4/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'If Your Clothes Could Talk' - Whether you know it or not, your closets are filled with personal information. Do you think about what are...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Protecting Human Rights (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WCNY, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 10
Protecting Human Rights (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, WJCT, WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Protecting Human Rights (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by WCPN, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
Protecting Human Rights (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Kirsten Gelsdorf has spent over 20 years working for the United Nations and other organizations in the humanitarian sector.

Bought by WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
UBI and Utopia: Part Two of The Automation Ruse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is economic historian Aaron Benanav, and our show is about automation and the future of work where the road to Utopia (yellow brick and o...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 3
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Irene Hall
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor reports on the lifelong labor activist Irene Hull.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Anna Louise Strong
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor describes Anna Louise Strong, a 20th-century American journalist, activist, and supporter of the labor movement.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WYAP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conor Casey and Crystal Rogers, Archivists for the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey & Crystal Rogers
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Crystal and Conor report on the ‘Women in Labor History’ project. Song: Rebel Girl: written by Joe Hill, arranged and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Jess Walter
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Jess Walter discusses his new book, "The Cold Millions."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Ramon Torres, President of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, Jason Holland, WPEA Organizer, and Edgar Franks, C2C Organizer
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Familias Unidas por la Justicia
Interview by Gary Kanter: Ramon, Jason, and Edgar tell the story of how a group of farm workers ended up negotiating a great union contract.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Ellie Belew, author, and Megan Cornish, retiree from Seattle City Light, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Ellie Belew and Megan Cornish
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
Cooperation and Cooperatives vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cindy and Nemesio (Jr) Domingo and Garry Owens, LELO, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington Interview by Mike Dumovich: Nemesio, Cindy, Garry, and Cono...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Cindy and Nemesio (Jr) Domingo and Garry Owens, LELO, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: LELO
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington Interview by Mike Dumovich: Nemesio, Cindy, Garry, and Cono...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
New Virginians (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A traveling exhibit called New Virginians: 1619-2019 & Beyond from The Library of Virginia in Richmond features oral histories and photographs reco...

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WMUU-LP, KXCV, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
New Virginians (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A traveling exhibit called New Virginians: 1619-2019 & Beyond from The Library of Virginia in Richmond features oral histories and photographs reco...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KXCV, WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 06, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4