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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 03:54
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
In this second part of a two-part series, The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a forum presented by the Baruch History Department at their Perfo...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 59:59
George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 16:09
- Purchases: 4
Steve Downing reflects on the highly positive nature of the existence and effects of Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 2
Steve Downing recently attended the inaugural reading and crowning of Deborah Cooper as Duluth's fourth Poet Laureate. Steve recounts a brief histo...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 04:22
- Purchases: 1
Repealing the union-crippling Taft-Hartley Act should have been a prime issue throughout the election campaign.
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 03:13
Director of the Minnesota History Center Museum Dan Spock details the 1862 war between the U.S. government and the Dakota Indians.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KSRQ
- Added: Jul 12, 2012
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 3
Anton Treuer recently spoke at the Bemidji Public Library about subjects addressed in his book "Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Wer...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 10, 2012
- Length: 40:35
- Purchases: 1
Author Glenn Greenwald talks about his book, ‘With Liberty and Justice for Some.’ Americans claim to live under the rule of law; that no one is abo...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Before the coming of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, there was the IWW - the Industrial Workers of the World - to lead a major and fiercely fought...
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 05:10
Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 04:56
Jim Jones, Cultural Resources Director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council talks with Scott Hall about the closing of the Pamida store in Bemid...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Jan 27, 2012
- Length: 11:55
- Purchases: 2
Labor leader Gene Debs died 85 years ago this month, but remains an important inspiration for those struggling against powerful anti-labor forces.
- Added: Oct 13, 2011
- Length: 05:27
David Brooks excels when his vast analytic abilities are brought to his fondness for Republicans. In the New York Times, he ventured into an are...
- Added: Oct 08, 2011
- Length: 04:53
Former National Security Advisor James Jones speaks to the Press Club about challenges facing the United States and the recent military mission tha...
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 53:59
Joe Carraro describes how even from the start, the Department of Homeland Security was created with the intention of grabbing more power for the go...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 04:08
An exclusive interview with economist Richard Wolff, who explains how failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Today on Don't Cha Know we discuss a topic that is very much at the forefront these days. Funding for the arts in Minnesota. It's a panel discussio...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 01:07:25
In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.
- Added: Jan 14, 2011
- Length: 06:02
State Representative Larry Haws from St. Cloud has worked in public service for over 40 years. His list of accomplishments and awards include an A...
- Added: Dec 28, 2010
- Length: 29:58
Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...
- Added: Nov 12, 2010
- Length: 03:53
It's the 50th anniversary of one of the most dramatic and influential death penalty cases ever, the Caryl Chessman case that drew worldwide attent...
- Added: May 30, 2010
- Length: 05:01
Dave Zirin and Elizabeth Terzakis take a look back at the history of discrimination against women in sports, and we’ll hear where the long battle f...
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- Added: Sep 04, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 6
- Added: Jul 14, 2009
- Length: 29:49
- Purchases: 1
It's the 90th anniversary this month of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
