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Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Everett Massacre, Holding the Fort-Sung by IWW
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Mike continues his special segment of We Do The Work called ‘Learn Yourself” that explores an historical labor event h...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 27:52
Mike Dumovich’s and Gary Kanter’s Labor Day Program
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter & Mike Dumovich
Mike and Gary host this year’s Labor Day program by playing music from artists that are important to them and the labor movement.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 27:36
  • Purchases: 1
Gary Kanter, song writer, singer, humorist, and his Ballad of Sakuma Farms song
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter & Mike Dumovich
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Gary gives his history with the Farm Workers in Skagit County.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 27:38
Best Music for Work
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Listen to these tunes to have a better time at work...based off a recent article in The Telegraph UK.

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Annual Western Worker Labor Heritage Festival, Part 3
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Annual Western Worker Labor Heritage Festival
Katie Ryan, IATSE Local 16, Maimuna Syed, CA Labor Federation, Rachael Warino, CA Labor Federation

  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:37
Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival
George Mann, Folk Singer, Rebel Voices, Political Singing Duo, Chris Chandler, Singer-Songwriter, Luci Murphy, Cultural Warrior

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 28:36
Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival
Shelley Kessler, Labor Council, Charlie King, Musical Political Satirist, and Hali Hammer, Singer-Songwriter Interview by Gary Kanter: Shelley, Cha...

  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 27:58
Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz, singers, songwriters, and activists
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Sharon Abreu & Mike Hurwicz
Sharon and Mike, two passionate and harmonious voices for being, feeling, speaking and singing for peace and environmental sustainability, talk and...

  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 28:11
Episode #27: MusiCares Stories
From: Kill Rock Stars
Series: The Future of What
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Benefits can be hard to come by in the music business. So where do people turn in emergencies? In 1989 the Recording Academy created the MusiCares ...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:45
Tom Breiding on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR
From: WNJR
Series: acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR studios
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Tom Breiding on acousticSongs LIVE! from WNJR

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:13
Whatcom-Skagit IWW Members, Linda Allen, and the Joe Hill Concert
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Joe Hill, IWW, Linda Allen
Interview: Members of the Whatcom-Skagit IWW and Linda Allen talk about the legendary organizer and Labor song writer Joe Hill, sing his songs, an...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2015
  • Length: 27:49
Seattle Labor Chorus, Janet Stecher, Director/Conductor, and Bob Barnes, Founding Member
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Seattle Labor Chorus
Interview: Janet and Bob talk about the how the Seattle Labor Chorus started, their music, and how to join as well as playing three of the choir’s...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 28:54
Avotjca and Nina Fendel, Annual Western Worker Labor Heritage Festival
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Nina Fendel and Avotjca
Interview: Nina Fendel—singer and founder of the Labor Heritage Festival—gives more information about the festival, and Avotjca—singer, poet/playw...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
Anne Feeney, Union made, Hell raiser, and the Best Labor singer-writer in North America!
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Anne Feeney, Singer-Song Writer
Anne talks about her life as an activist, agitator, mom, and much more and the show will highlight three of Anne’s favorite songs.

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Winona Works Project: The Musician
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Welcome to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from the depar...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 20:44
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1236 Program for Sept 1-7, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We begin this show playing recent bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass takes a look at bluegrass music and social class, and the Gem sets the tone for t...

Bought by WOUB, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1236 A New Look at Social Class and Bluegrass. For regular users, piece for Sept 1-7, 2012. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
Working: What a Waste
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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Even Broadway characters are under-employed and unsatisfied with their jobs.

Bought by KPIK-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WDET Detroit Public Radio, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Life and Death of the Infernal Noise Brigade
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Infernal Noise Brigade debuted at the Seattle WTO protests in 1999. Jill Friedberg from KBCS in Seattle has their story.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
Marching for Change: Street Bands in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Caption: The Infernal Noise Brigade in downtown Seattle., Credit: http://www.andrewstern.net/
We look at how political marching bands are stirring up public spaces; from the streets, to supermarkets to your facebook feed.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Labor Day - White Collar vs Blue Collar
From: Janean Jorgensen
Series: Broadway Matinee - Songs from the Stage & Screen
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Laborious songs, including from the Stephen Schwartz musical Working

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, WDET Detroit Public Radio, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Labor Day 2010 - The Labor of Movies 10-35
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: The Score with Edmund Stone
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This week on The Score – The Labor of Movies – Music from films about working men and women.

Bought by KRCU Public Radio, WVIA, WABE, Interlochen Public Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Gems of Bluegrass #1037 Here's to the Working Man
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: OPhil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The old bluegrass comes from people who did hard, manual labor such as mining coal and farming. In bluegrass songs you hear about the danger of the...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WAMU, and Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920


  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 4
Story of a Song
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Our History
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John Berquist of Eveleth has been telling stories and performing traditional music of Scandanavian-Americans for almost 40 years. Here’s a story fr...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 29, 2010
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 2
WWOZ Street Talk-Silent Second Line
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The musicians Union will organize a march on Aug. 26 to address many of the issues facing working musicians in New Orleans

  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 08:20