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Australian filmmaker Anna Broinowski wanted to stop an oil company from fracking in the park near her house. When her message fell short, she decid...
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 25:59
Program III looks at the tradition of singing out for social change, and how the music of the Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements g...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 52:41
- Purchases: 21
Host Alfred Bundy talks to West Ward Councilmen Candidate, Anton Wheeler
- Added: Jan 11, 2014
- Length: 31:29
The nation spends billions of dollars every year training future doctors. But health care experts worry we’re still not training enough doctors to ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 06:07
Some of the toughest decisions any of us will ever make will take place in a doctor’s office. But before those decisions ever come up, doctors must...
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 06:47
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again - legally - in 2008, mere months bef...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:24
Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin were the first same-sex couple to wed in San Francisco City Hall in 2004 and again -- legally -- in 2008, mere months b...
- Added: Jun 26, 2013
- Length: 29:05
- Purchases: 3
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In this first of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Performing ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 58:01
Anthropologist Margaret Mead had a lot to do with the "sexual revolution" in the 1960's
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:36
Lucretia Mott advocated for world peace, racial justice, women's rights, and compassion for the poor and imprisoned.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:32
We might imagine that the plays Hellman wrote against fascism during World War II and her fundraising for anti-Nazis imprisoned in France would hav...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:39
Goldman was repeatedly arrested and incarcerated during her life on charges of "inciting to riot" or disseminating birth control information, consi...
Bought by Radio Catskill
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 1
Asa Carter and Forrest Carter couldn’t have been more different. But they shared a secret.
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 01:13:55
George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 16:09
- Purchases: 4
Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.
Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 14:35
- Purchases: 6
On the job in the steel mills, the Ministers-in-Industry participants continue to shield their identities as seminarians to keep the situation real...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 15:41
Richard's course on Reinhold Niebuhr with Robert Bonthius, Wooster’s religion professor, confirms his decision to attend Union Theological Seminary...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 20:05
Richard spends the 1948 fall election season organizing student chapters of the League for Industrial Democracy on college campuses. Though loyal t...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 28:27
Richard and his friends sign up to work on the newly organized Carrot River Co-op Farm in the sparsely settled, harsh northern terrain of Saskatche...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 19:30
Author Colin Woodard interview on Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 58:24
In June 1948, Richard travels to Canada to see “democratic socialism” in action. First he hitchhikes 1,000 miles from Greenwich Village to Madison,...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 24:55
Richard’s leadership of the Student League for Industrial Democracy on the Wooster campus has not gone unnoticed. On of Richard's professors confro...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 19:17
During the summer of 1947, Richard works for the Dress Joint Board in New York City’s Garment District. From his co-workers Richard learns more abo...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 16:11
After his mother's death, Richard throws himself into his academic work, four jobs, and campus political and social activities. He earns a reputati...
- Added: Feb 10, 2013
- Length: 29:10
A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.
Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 4