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In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
Caption: Gordon Zurn & Les Leopold
Interview by Ken Winkes: Gordon and Les discuss what inequality is, how it happened, and what to do about it.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 28:13
Caption: Leonard, Lynne, Mark
Interview by Gary Kanter: Lynne, Leonard, and Mark continue their discussion about what the election of Trump and the GOP mean to the working class.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we return to Baldemar Velásquez and the FLOC, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. An organization created to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mark McDermott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mark continues the report on his experience doorbelling in Pennsylvania during the 2016 election.

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:48
Caption: Mark McDermott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mark reports on his experience doorbelling in Pennsylvania during the 2016 election.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:42
Caption: Chuck Collins
I have heard that inequality in America is at its highest point since the age of the Robber Barons. If true, many suspect it may get worse before i...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angelica Guillen
Interview: Angelica describes her life growing up in a migrant camp as well as reading some of her wonderful poetry.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 28:39
Caption: Elizabeth Schwartz
The first time a US Supreme Court ruling came out in favor of the LGBT community was in 1958. That was the beginning of a slow and arduous process...

Bought by KUAC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jamison and Yuvette at the BART Station going to Disney on Ice, Credit: Photo provided by Jamison Robinson
Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the poli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Edward Schultz
This is a personal story of the Vietnam War with Lynne Lorine Ludwick author of The Box.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ramsey Kanaan, PM Press
Interview by Gary Kanter: Ramsey discusses publishing, PM Press, and that ideas matter. PM Press seeks to create radical and stimulating fiction a...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:06
Caption: PSARA
Interview by Ken Winkes: Robby and Steve, members of the Puget Sound Alliance for Retirement Action, disclose what they have in mind regarding ret...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:28
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In this archive program, Ben Lerner, who was recently named a 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, discusses his first two books, THE LICHTENBERG FIGURE...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sharon Abreu & Mike Hurwicz
Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz, singers, songwriters, and activists Interview by Gary Kanter: Sharon and Mike, two passionate and harmonious voi...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:14
Caption: Susan Alan, NFWM
Susan Alan, Associate Director of the National Farm Worker Ministry Interview by Rich Austin: Susan gives the history, mission, and actions of the...

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Linda Allen
Interviewed by Mike Dumovich: Linda talks about her love of music and why she is an activist as well as singing many of her favorite songs and exp...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 28:25
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Rhiannon Giddens has become one of the strongest voices in music today. As one part of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, she dug deep into historical...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:05
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Doug Honig, ACLU
Doug Honig, Communication Director of the ACLU, Part 1 Interview: Doug gives the mission and history of the American Civil Liberties Union as well...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 27:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Peter Olney, ILWU
Interview: Peter talks about his co-authoring a series titled ‘Just a Whisper Now—A Look Back at the AFL-CIO’s New Voice After 20 Years’—an assess...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
Caption: Susan Alan, NFWM
Interview: Susan testifies that the almost 2 million farmworkers work hard, are skilled, and their work has dignity—it is work we all depend on. ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:11
Caption: Professor Eve Spangler
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine is baffling for most Americans. It’s understandable because it is so convoluted. How many of us h...

Bought by KPVL and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Emma's Revolution
Interview: Pat Humphries and Sandy O of the Emma’s Revolution, who were interviewed at the Western Worker Labor Heritage Festival, talk about thei...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 28:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kim Marks, Jen Wallis
Interview: Jen and Kim summarize the successful Railroad Safety Conferences, which included workers, community & environmentalists, as well as exp...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1