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From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up a...
- Added: Jan 23, 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
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 16, 2023
- 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
Explore the complicated and rich history behind the compromises made in order to get the New Deal through, and what lasting consequences they have ...
Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 58:38
- Purchases: 2
The third episode of American Compassion dives into the story of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, exploring who he was and focusing on how FDR, born to w...
Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Aug 08, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
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...
Bought by RADIOLEX
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
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
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 19, 2019
- Length: 59:11
- Purchases: 1
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
A.J. Muste was referred to throughout the world as the “American Gandhi,” and he’s probably best known, if at all, for his leadership of the peace ...
- Added: Sep 05, 2018
- Length: 58:10
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 ...
Bought by WLPR
- 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...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- 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 ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- 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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Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR
- 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
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...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KZYX, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more
- Added: May 09, 2017
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 6
Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
