PRX - Pieces for Topic: News
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On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...
Bought by WUWM, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
As fires ravaged California’s wine country in 2017, farm and service workers, especially non-English speakers, were some of the hardest hit. Hear m...
Bought by KMUN and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 05, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A conversation with Americonned Director Sean Claffey. Despite an increase in productivity in recent decades, compensation for the American worker ...
- Added: Jun 21, 2023
- Length: 07:19
Low paid workers tell the story of the “Fight for 15,” the exploding nationwide movement for fair wages.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The internet has put whistleblowers in the public eye, and the government’s crosshairs. The world’s biggest institutions are running scared and cra...
- Added: Oct 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Coal is embedded into the culture and image of Eastern Kentucky, but the industry is declining in the region. And it's declining permanently. The c...
- Added: Dec 12, 2013
- Length: 18:17
Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Thousands gathered in downtown Oakland to occupy the ports and shut them down. Exploring a night with the Occupy Oakland movement, partly a party...
- Added: Nov 29, 2011
- Length: 06:15
Follow a newspaper vendor through his day selling papers and changing his life.
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 06:53
Was the occupation of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin a resurgence of organized labor in the United States, or the last gasp for unionized ...
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 29:00
A fantastic documentary produced by Worker's Independent News in conjunction with WORT Community Radio, WI. It cronicles WI governor Scott Walker's...
- Added: Apr 07, 2011
- Length: 55:00
How people are finding the strength and situations
that get them through economic hard times.
Bought by WVTF, KGNU Community Radio, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Dec 18, 2009
- Length: 58:29
- Purchases: 14
George Parker, president of Washington DC's Teachers Union shares some astonishing confessions about the lack of accountability in the union and ho...
- Added: Sep 18, 2008
- Length: 13:13
audio postcard of the Writer's Guild East Strike
- Added: Nov 21, 2007
- Length: 01:53
- Added: Feb 26, 2005
- Length: 58:21
- Added: Feb 26, 2005
- Length: 01:04:11
Documentary on harbor workers who evacuated Manhattan on September 11, 2001.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WLRN
- Added: Sep 08, 2004
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
