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Lisa Servon, author of "The Unbanking of America"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra interviews Lisa Servon about her book "The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives"

  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Ben Day, Executive Director of Healthcare Now
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Ben Day, Healthcare Now
Interview by Ken Winkes: Ben gives a report on the politics of single payer healthcare.

  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Dynamite Has No Politics: The Anarchism of Lucy Parsons
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
April Sims, Political & Strategic Campaign Director for the WA ST Labor Council, AFL-CIO
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: April Sims, WSLC
Interview by Gary Kanter: April discusses how organized Labor is managing in Washington State.

  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 27:56
The Legacy of C.L.R. James
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
The War On Normal People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Yang
According to a 2016 report by Business Insider magazine, three of the world’s largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Healthcare Isn't Big Business Or Big Philanthropy! Ben Palmquist & Dr. Steffie Woolhandler
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Over 30million Americans are uninsured, and even more are sickened by the sky-high costs. While Congress seems sunk in a partisan fight over the Af...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
RDD Meets TLC
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week you'll meet Brittany Ford, a co-lead for The Welcome Toledo Lucas County Initiative (TLC). They work to build a more welcoming and inclus...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 06:44
The Golden Age of Flattery (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Golden Age of Flattery (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-A new book "Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy" investigates how we lose sight on how destructive that behavior can be. -Managers who...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 02, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 9
Michele Stelovich, President of the NW WA Central Labor Council
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Michele Stelovich
Interview by Lori Province: Michele describes right to right, which is not about work but instead about taking freedoms away from workers.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for January 31, 2018
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Oxfam Reports the World's Top 1% Captured 82% of Global Wealth Created in ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Michele Stelovich, President of the NW WA CLC and Edgar Franks, Organizer and Civic Engagement Program Coordinator for Community to Community Development
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Michele and Edgar
Interview by Ken Winkes: Michele and Edgar explain the H2A program.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:25
  • Purchases: 1
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 3.
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey
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
Conor Casey, Labor Archivist at the Labor Archives of Washington, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Conor Casey
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Conor describes Anna Louise Strong, a 20th-century American journalist, activist, and supporter of the labor movement. ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 2
Gillian Locascio, Executive Director of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Alma Vargas, Fellowship from UCLA Labor Center, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: WA Fair Trade Coalition
Gillian Locascio, Executive Director of the Washington Fair Trade Coalition & Alma Vargas, Fellowship from UCLA Labor Center, Part 2. Interview b...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:22
  • Purchases: 1
DOLORES -- Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Peter Bratt & Dolores Huerta, San Francisco, CA 9/4/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt talk common denominators, the war for truth, and controlling the narrative.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:42
  • Purchases: 1
Shaping the Future of Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Kochan
America’s workforce and the economy are rapidly changing. As is the type of work we do. Flip that coin over and you’ll see that institutions and po...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Toxic Inequality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas M. Shapiro
Income and wealth inequality is now a regular topic of conversation. The standard of living for most Americans’ since the Great Recession is either...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Strange Life of Work: Kathi Weeks
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In The Problem with Work, Kathi Weeks challenges the presupposition that work, or waged labor, is inherently a social and political good. Or in oth...

Bought by XRAY.fm and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
179: Locked Up / 180: Being Broke and White, 6/24/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending May 19, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: French Election Highlights the Failure to Address Unemployment and Inequal...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 82: Hidden Tax Benefits
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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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
The Working Tapes: Union Rep
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
Caption: Gary Bryner, Credit: Detroit Free Press
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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending May 12, 2017
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, in-depth, progressive analysis since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Women Activists Call on Trump to Initiate Regional Peace Talks with North ...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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