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What's next for Millinocket, Maine

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 1
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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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Before the coming of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, there was the IWW - the Industrial Workers of the World - to lead a major and fiercely fought...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
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The surprising history of a true cultural icon: the barber pole.

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:56
Caption: Building 92, Credit: Shannon Geis
Ever wondered what goes on behind the gates of the Brooklyn Navy Yard? We found out!

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 08:52
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On this edition of Culture Clique, KQAL's Bill Stoneberg visits with Barbara Martinez Jitner, an Emmy and Golden Globe Nominated television and fil...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 37:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 2
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88-year-old Frank Curre remembers serving on the U.S.S. Tennessee during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDBM, WVBI-LP, WEZU, KUER and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 10
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Labor leader Gene Debs died 85 years ago this month, but remains an important inspiration for those struggling against powerful anti-labor forces.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
Caption: A tobacco auction from 1959, Credit: WHTJ Charlottesville
A third-generation tobacco auctioneer reflects on the end of live auctioneering in Durham, North Carolina. Co-produced by Kate Waters and Mara Zepe...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Sep 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
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The child labor laws that protect young workers from severe exploitation are under serious attack.

  • Added: May 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:55
Caption: Grand Portage Stockade
The Civilian Conservation Corps worked for nine years throughout the United States. The successful program begun by President Franklin Roosevelt in...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 09:45
  • Purchases: 1
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An interview with Hal Donahue, a military expert and writer for the Huffington Post.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Today on The Union Edge Gerard Oleksiak, Pennsylvania State Education Association Treasurer (PSEA.org) and later Doug Cunningham of Workers Indepen...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Buy American with Barbara Toncheff and her guest Michelle Nash-Hoff of savingusmanufacturing.com, later Labor History with Charlie McCollester

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 01:34
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Prometheus Radio Project joins The Union Edge in Pittsburgh to celebrate Rep. Mike Doyle’s championship of the Local Community Radio Act. This law ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Today on The Union Edge, Bob Martinez, General Vice President of the International Association of Machinists, (GoIAM.org), Boeing Vs. Airbus, The S...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 40:51
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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