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StoryCorps: Neoma Farr and Greg Yance
From: StoryCorps
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Greg Yance and Neoma Farr worked alongside each other during the Great Flood of 1993, to gird the town of Niota, Illinois from the rising waters of...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jul 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Dumovich, Blues Player & Singer, and Gary Kanter, Song Writer and Singer, No 3
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary and Mike
Mike and Gary continue their Songs of Progress featuring music that has impacted the lives of working people with songs and history of Joe Hill.

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:04
The United Auto Workers Union: Its Effect on American Life
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Dynamite Has No Politics: The Anarchism of Lucy Parsons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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It is here that we find dynamite; it is here, in the midst of the Gilded Age, that we find an America much like it is now, with wealth amassed in t...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Legacy of C.L.R. James
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
Vegas Vic: Salt Lake City Native
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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When you think about Las Vegas, you might picture casinos, opulent hotels and neon signs. Like the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, Circus Cir...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 12:37
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey, Archivist
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor recounts the history of the Centralia Massacre.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2018
  • Length: 27:59
Mike Dumovich, Blues Player & Singer, and Gary Kanter, Song Writer and Singer
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mike and Gary
Mike and Gary continue their Songs of Progress featuring music that has impacted the lives of working people with songs and history of Utah Phillips.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:29
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey, Archivist
Conor enlightens us on the life and accomplishments of Tyree Scott in his quest to improve wages and working conditions of minority workers in the ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 27:57
"Flames of Discontent" tells story of 1916 miners' strike on the Iron Range
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Historian and author Gary Kaunonen has written a new, award-winning history of a 1916 miner's strike on the Iron Range, "Flames of Discontent." WTI...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 26:26
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Dumovich, Blues Player & Singer, and Gary Kanter, Song Writer and Singer
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary and Mike
Mike and Gary introduce their new segment called Songs of Progress featuring music that has impacted the lives of working people. They begin with t...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 28:02
Freedom to Exit: The Libertarian Use of Market Ideology
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Original Walton's Five and Dime, now the Wal-Mart Visitor's Center, Bentonville, Arkansas., Credit: Photo taken by Bobak Ha'Eri. (CC BY-SA 2.5)
Elizabeth Anderson joins us to talk about her book Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). In many workp...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
Matilda and the Wobblies
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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From the Ukrainian Pale to Bridgeport, Connecticut. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Radicalized by d...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:12
Fight For Five: The Flambeaux Strike Of 1946
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Mystick Krewe of Comus, 1933 Parade, Credit: The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection / The Historic New Orleans Collection
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a retrospective look at Mardi Gras, and the year that carnival took place in the dark. Hear the TriPod Xtra...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 12:02
TriPod Xtras: Rien Fertel On Flambeaux
From: WWNO
Series: TriPod: New Orleans At 300
Caption: Krewe of Cynthius, 1948 Parade, Flambeau Carriers. , Credit: The Charles L. Franck Studio Collection / The Historic New Orleans Collection
Tripod Xtras feature one on one interviews with special guests. This week’s TriPod episode focuses on Mardi Gras 1946 and the strike of the flambea...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 23:25
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 3.
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 3. Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor reports on the lifelong labor activist ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:13
  • 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: Conor Casey
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor describes Anna Louise Strong, a 20th-century American journalist, activist, and supporter of the labor movement. ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 28:09
  • 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 and Crystal
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Crystal and Conor report on a women in labor history project. Rebel Girl: written by Joe Hill, arranged and sung by H...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 27:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Working Tapes of Studs Terkel
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In the early 1970’s, author Studs Terkel went around the country with a reel-to-reel tape recorder interviewing people about their jobs. The result...

Bought by KCUR, WWNO, Michigan Radio, WWNO, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 68
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Gigi Peterson, Author & Historian, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey and Gigi Peterson
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event h...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 2
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington, Gigi Peterson, Author & Historian, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey and Gigi Peterson
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event h...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 2
179: Locked Up / 180: Being Broke and White, 6/24/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Locked Up" - Most of us will never know what really happens behind bars. Prisons are generally off limits to the public and press. This ...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Edward Alden, author of "Failure to Adjust"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Alden about his book about how America got left behind in the global economy.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
Harbor Views: Portraits of a Working Waterfront
From: Sophie Kazis
Caption: Clean Up Man at Bergie’s Seafood from the New Bedford Whaling Museum’s exhibition, “Working Waterfront: Photographic Portraits”. 2009. New Bedford. Photo by Phil Mello.
Phil Mello has been photographing New Bedford’s working waterfront for over 40 years. He started as an amateur, documenting the inner world of the ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Working Tapes: Auto Mechanics
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Lee Singer (1971)
In the 1970's, Studs Terkel interviewed Duke and Lee Singer at their auto repair shop in Geneva, Illinois. He was looking for a story about fixing ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 2

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