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On this week's program, coproduced with the Democracy Collaborative, Laura reports on a transatlantic experiment in cooperative community wealth bu...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Jun 20, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
As a follow-up to last week’s program, “The Elected Coup,” tonight we confront The Authoritarian Creep.

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Oakland High School
It’s 8:08am, the Friday before spring break, and under other circumstances Kathleen Byrnes would already be at work. “We would be in our classroom...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 08:26
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Finding the right number to raise Portland’s minimum wage is proving to be hard.

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
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2 Minute Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, gives facts about this massive trade and investment treaty being negotiated i...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
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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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California’s budget crisis has meant huge cuts in cities across the Bay Area. Pinole, a city of 18,000 in Contra Costa County, is no exception. Sin...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rep. Sander Levin  (D-MI 12th), Credit: Peter Stepanek
Congressman Levin spoke at a Nationol Press Club Lunceon on Monday April 19th. The Chairman of the House Ways and Means committee discussed severa...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
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Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 04:02
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Organized labor has reached a landmark agreement promising unfettered union rights to the 600,000 employees of Catholic health care facilities acro...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 04:21
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Organized labor played a major role in Barack Obama's election and expects much in return.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2008
  • Length: 03:40
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Meatpacking industry brings shifting demographic of foreign-born workers.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KOSU, WILL, and KBIA


  • Added: Sep 08, 2008
  • Length: 03:14
  • Purchases: 4
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Tyson Foods is accused of surpressing wages by hiring illegal immigants. The lawsuit points out problems in the government's handling of workplace ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KRFC


  • Added: Feb 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 2
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This is a commentary about the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan's firing of 11,500 air gtraffic controllers, an action that propelled A...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2006
  • Length: 02:28
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A conversation with Sister Margaret Rose Smyth, advocate and activist on behalf of the immigrant worker

  • Added: Apr 12, 2006
  • Length: 33:04
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President Bush's appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are going all out to deny wolrkers their legal rights.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2006
  • Length: 03:07
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A commentary on the 100th anniversary of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the most influential and colorful organizations in U.S. history.

Bought by BSR Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2005
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Report on Farmworker March in Salinas, CA

  • Added: Mar 31, 2004
  • Length: 05:05