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This week, we hear from two people- Faith, who talks to us about the practice of inmate lending- and Jason Renard Walker, who speaks on the retalia...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:10
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

Bought by WMPG and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan examine Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the first trade’s women were tr...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: David Jepsen
Interview by Mike Dumovich: David talks about his new documentary and how important this film is to students, history, and workers.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 15, 2019
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Jepsen & Conor Casey
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” with David Jepsen, educator, historian, a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Jepsen & Conor Casey
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself' with David Jepsen, educator, historian, a...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Oct 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 1
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If "Bring Your Kid To Work Day" was a competition, Jack's father would win.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2019
  • Length: 02:37
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In Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots ...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 58:26
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Furiture maker, Aspen Golann describes a handmade Nantucket Windsor chair.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:06
Caption: David Jepsen
Interview by Mike Dumovich: David talks about his new documentary and how important this film is to students, history, and workers.

  • Added: Apr 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:03
Caption: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Mark McDermott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mark reveals his new presentation about patriotism, Unions, and American workers.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
Caption: Conveyor belts in abandoned Wrigley gum factory.
Ranney’s day-to-day life on the factory floor is punctuated by spontaneous wildcat strikes over management abuses, an immigration raid, industrial ...

Bought by WCPN and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan continue their conversation about Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the f...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
Caption: High Voltage Women by Ellie Belew
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor, Ellie, and Megan examine Seattle City Light’s Electrical Trades Program and how the first trade’s women were tr...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
Caption: Seattle General Strike Solidarity Centennial
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event ho...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 27:57
Caption: A strikers' orchestra in the occupied Flint GM plant.
Loomis focuses on the necessity of government supporting workers’ rights for there to be any Union movement. The state has to protect the worker an...

Bought by KZYX and KMUN


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 2
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: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:01
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: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 28:06
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New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: Left to right: Miriam Levine, A. J. Muste, and Judith Malina sit in front of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1963.
A.J. Muste was referred to throughout the world as the “American Gandhi,” and he’s probably best known, if at all, for his leadership of the peace ...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:10

  • Added: Aug 11, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
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We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Bucyrus-Erie Strikers. Evansvillie, Indiana, 1948.
The “Red Scare,” often called McCarthyism, went much deeper than what was directed by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and had, even as ...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 1