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At the core of our civilizational breakdown is an extractive economy that wastes both nature and people, at the same time it is Hoovering extreme w...
- Added: May 29, 2024
- Length: 28:30
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 28:30
Nagi Daifallah was a young farm worker from Yemen who participated in the 1973 Grape Strike along with the UFW until he was murdered by a Sheriff....
- Added: Sep 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
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
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Tom Copeland, Author, & Conor Casey, Labor Archivist, on Elmer Smith & the Centralia Tragedy, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley RadioSeries: We Do the Work
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
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
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
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
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mark reveals his new presentation about patriotism, Unions, and American workers.
- Added: Apr 05, 2019
- Length: 28:01
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...
- Added: Jan 23, 2019
- Length: 59:15
- Purchases: 2
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 58:35
