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Caption: Laura Flanders
In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Saru Jayaraman, Credit: Alex Akamine
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Today we’re stalking the middle class – from Marx to Middletown (Muncie, IN) to Macomb County, Michigan – to reveal what it’s hiding. David Roedige...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
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13 of us die on the job every day in the US and that’s a number based on less than reliable employer data. These are often called "accidents," but ...

Bought by WCPN and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of peaceful strikers (1912 Lawrence textile strike)
While citizens are encouraged to fear and blame so called outside agitators the real menace lies within: a business community committed to the ranc...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 58:12
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Food stamps, Social Security, and Medicaid are not the only, or even the largest, social welfare programs in America. Professor Suzanne Mettler rev...

  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 23:45
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An argument in favor of increasing the minimum wage to a living wage

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
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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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Over one million North Carolinians make the minimum wage at their job: Seven-twenty-five an hour. While many states and cities have recently raised...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
Caption: Gillian Locascio, WA Fair Trade Coalition
Interview: Gillian explains the current trade agreements being secretly negotiated and how they are hurting Americans and democracy. The effects o...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2014
  • Length: 28:04
Caption: Chris Reykdal, 22nd LD Rep
Chris Reykdal, Boeing Extortion with 22nd LD Representative from WA State Interview: Chris explains why Washington State was extorted by the Boei...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 27:58
Caption: OURWalmart Members & Community Organizer
OURWalmart members, Betty Shove and Patty Mannion with OURWalmart Community Organizer, Jeremy Blomberg Interview: Betty and Patty tell personal ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:12
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Federally, marijuana production is still a major crime, one that can land you in prison for decades. Yet, in northern California, there’s a whole e...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 11:26
  • Purchases: 1
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This documentary examines the volatile issues that are tearing at social fabric of the state of Wisconsin. Its Republican governor is determined...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 20, 2011
  • Length: 31:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the failures of how just funding more unemployment insurance doesn't fix our unemployment problem, and the government needs t...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:40
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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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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People disagree on the reason for having a government.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2008
  • Length: 02:02
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Today we speak with author Chuck Collins of the Institute For Policy Studies, whose new book is titled The Moral Measure of the Economy

  • Added: Sep 24, 2007
  • Length: 28:01