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Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tom Copeland
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor introduces Tom Copeland and Tom gives the history, accomplishments, and character of the Wobblies lawyer, Elmer ...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
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This week, we speak on the phone with writer and prison abolitionist Craig Gilmore, who begins by discussing his recent piece in Commune Magazine. ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:02
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It’s been one year since the August 2018 National Prison Strike. This week, we feature a talk from Ben Turk and Amani Sawari- both of whom were imp...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
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This week, we hear from two people- Faith, who talks to us about the practice of inmate lending- and Jason Renard Walker, who speaks on the retalia...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:10
Caption: Mark McDermott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mark reveals his new presentation about patriotism, Unions, and American workers.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
Caption: A strikers' orchestra in the occupied Flint GM plant.
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...

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  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:15
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: LELO
“Learn Yourself” with Conor Casey, Labor Archivist for the Labor Archives of Washington Interview by Mike Dumovich: Nemesio, Cindy, Garry, and Cono...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:01
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We’ll say goodbye to the “Red Scare Next Door” in Evansville, Indiana and travel East to the Green Mountains of Vermont where it turns out that eve...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Bucyrus-Erie Strikers. Evansvillie, Indiana, 1948.
The “Red Scare,” often called McCarthyism, went much deeper than what was directed by Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s and had, even as ...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 1
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It is here that we find dynamite; it is here, in the midst of the Gilded Age, that we find an America much like it is now, with wealth amassed in t...

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  • Added: May 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Best known for his path-breaking work on the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, published in 1938, Trinidadian C.L.R. James was often at the c...

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 58:05
Caption: Conor Casey
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 3. Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor reports on the lifelong labor activist ...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:13
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Conor Casey
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor describes Anna Louise Strong, a 20th-century American journalist, activist, and supporter of the labor movement. ...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: "Locked Up" - Most of us will never know what really happens behind bars. Prisons are generally off limits to the public and press. This ...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
Gary Bryner tells Studs Terkel about being a union member and working in an auto factory for General Motors. Four decades later, he reflects on how...

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  • Added: May 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 6
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Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 22:05
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Men at "antipass" protest, near Johannesburg, 1950, Credit: Margaret Bourke-White/Time-Life/Getty Images
As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 56:31
Caption: Rosalinda Guillen, Ex Dir Community to Community
Labor celebrates with an introduction by Ken Winkes. Interview: Rosalinda, who was raised in a local farm worker family and has worked long hours ...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Karl Emil Nygard
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 3
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The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:12
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A conversation with Howard Zinn about the history of the workers' movements in the U.S.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2007
  • Length: 34:46