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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
Some observations on the 4th of July (parts one through four)
Bought by Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, KWMR, KRZA and more
- Added: Jun 30, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 13
400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, many people agree reparations are due, but what would they look like? How about a...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, and Kevin Bacon lead an all-star cast in a timely portrait of an American civil-rights struggle.
Bought by KKRN, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, AMERICAN REVOLUT...
Bought by KALW, WVAS, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: May 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Interview by Ken Winkes: Tim describes his family history, his life in Sequim, Washington, and as a reporter as well as his new book called “News F...
- Added: May 10, 2019
- Length: 28:00
Francesca talks with Glenn Silber about the acclaimed documentary he co-directed, The War At Home. It’s about the anti-war movement in Madison, Wis...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:00
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
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 06:02
Ranney’s day-to-day life on the factory floor is punctuated by spontaneous wildcat strikes over management abuses, an immigration raid, industrial ...
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Today we explore the question, “Can Electoral politics lead the way to Revolution?," with August Nimtz.
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Ferrer's Modern School was not new pedagogy. We have known its truths for as long as authorities have forced children into rows and rote learning, ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2019
- Length: 58:15
Marshall Curry talks how demagogues push our buttons, the definition of patriotism, and why 20,000 Americans showed up to cheer at a Nazi rally at ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2019
- Length: 16:10
Our house was always getting raided because it was a drop-off point for the supply route that was going into Wounded Knee.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 11, 2019
- Length: 04:25
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 08, 2019
- Length: 19:49
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedo...
- Added: Feb 05, 2019
- Length: 29:00
A mini-history of Minnesota's first women-only theater company. Formed in 1976, At the Foot of Mountain Theater staged plays written by women and t...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 01, 2019
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 2
Have your listening audience enjoy Presidents Day with a fun musicial experience.
Bought by KMXT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, and KMXT
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 01:01:02
- Purchases: 3
Our guest in this program was the 1992 Peace and Freedom Party candidate for the 1st Congressional District in California, Phil Baldwin. We spoke a...
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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...
- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 59:15
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 20
A turning point in American free speech.
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 21
On Stay Human - a triumph for majority rule: the 100th Anniversary of the Prohibition Amendment. Steve Downing on The Lost Generation, music from t...
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 59:22
The image is of a badly abused enslaved man called variously “A Typical Negro,” “The Scourged Back,” “Gordon the Slave,” or “Poor Peter," who is tu...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 59:25
