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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
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
Explore the complicated and rich history behind the compromises made in order to get the New Deal through, and what lasting consequences they have ...

Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 2
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The final section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and acceptable to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 3 lo...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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The second section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and susceptible to crisis like the current pandemic. Part 2 ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
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The first section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and susceptible to a crisis like the current pandemic. Part 1...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
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Best known for his path-breaking work on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938, Trinidadian C.L.R. James was often at the c...

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:05
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September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 19:17
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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
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Brian Frayer and Pete Kovac both DoD Law Enforcement officers

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Today on The Union Edge, Michael J Wilson of Americans for Democratic Action, (ADAction.org) and his guests Andy Gussert Citizens Trade Campaign (c...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 49:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on The Union Edge, Jack Wade & Doug Cunningham, then our new program, "What Vets Need to Know”. Later, Jack Shea, Allegheny County CLC Presid...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:02
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Today on The Union Edge, Jim Little, International President of the Transport Workers Union,(TWU.org) then labor history with Charlie McCollester a...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:02
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Today on The Union Edge, Maggie Priebe of Working America (workingamerica.org) and later Tim Burga President of the Ohio AFL-CIO (ohaflcio.org), Ti...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:09
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Today on The Union Edge, National Workrights Institute (workrights.us) president Lew Maltby will join ADA (ADACtion.org) national director Michael ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on The Union Edge we're featuring the building trades. Rich Stanizzo, President of Pittsburgh Building and Construction Trade Council; Willia...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Charlie McCollester with the Battle of Homestead Foundation (battleofhomesteadfoundation.org) and Rosemary Trump of the Pennsylvania Labor Hist...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Darryl Moch, Executive Director for The Labor Heritage Foundation, Later Tom Hoffman, Western Pennsylvania Director for Clean Water Action and Rach...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Dr. Charlie McCollester with the Battle of Homestead Foundation (battleofhomesteadfoundation.org) and Rosemary Trump of the Pennsylvania Labor Hist...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Frank Empsak, Executive Director of Workers Independent News, we will talk about Wisconsin and Gov. Walker telephone call.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Dan Wilson of Blue Goat Technologies, we will be talking about union information technology and Labor Tracks, which is a customizable solution that...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Gerard Oleksiak, Pennsylvania State Education Association Treasurer (PSEA.org)

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Gary Allen, General Vice President of the International Association of Machinist, assigned to the Western Territory discusses a variety of labor to...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:02
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Tom Hoffman and Nathan Sooy of Clean Water Action (cleanwateraction.org) discuss how Marcellus Shale drilling affects water sources. Then Darryl M...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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A stand-alone segment of the Planet Warning Series. Reports on the jobless "recovery" that the US has been moved into from the Great Recession.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2010
  • Length: 02:00