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2024-02-16 Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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As fossil fuels are phased out, shuttered coal plants, contaminated landfills, and abandoned mine lands across the U.S. are finding new life as ren...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KALW, KSQD Santa Cruz, WGCU and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
240216: Let’s Talk Dirty to Clean Energy, 2/16/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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As fossil fuels are phased out, shuttered coal plants, contaminated landfills, and abandoned mine lands across the U.S. are finding new life as ren...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
BIPOC Media on the Fight for Fair Wages — & Anti-racist Unions
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Over 450,000 workers have gone on strike in 2023. Many are celebrating this revival of labor power, but what does it mean for workers of color — of...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, WNYE and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Catastrophic Capitalism in 2023: The Invisible Causes of Economic Inequality
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, we explore the consequences of “capital bias”, or prioritizing wealth and the wea...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 6, 2023
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: ‘Best States to Work’ Report Highlights Government Policies Helping and Hu...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Sep 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for January 18, 2023
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: GOP Extremists are Burning Down the House; Republican House Vote to Repeal...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Upstream: Worker Cooperatives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Artwork by Phil Wrigglesworth
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Community Wealth Building: An Economic Reset
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Low wages, precarious jobs, shuttered Main Streets and bleak futures — do towns have a way out of poverty that doesn't involve begging and bribing ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Beating Poverty by Investing in Teachers: A Labor Story for May Day
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US — a place that emb...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
EE 22-11: Emily Broad Leib has an expansive view of food safety, 3/11/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic argues that narrowly focused food safety regulations in the US are failing to address th...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
Films That Keep People Out of Prison: Complete Picture (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/22/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What if judges could know a person more completely before sentencing them to prison? An organization called Complete Picture uses the power of film...

Bought by KWMR, WNYE, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
EE 21-41: ‘Food Safety’ Could Include Long-term Health and Environmental Concerns , 10/8/2021
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Emily Broad Leib of the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic argues that narrowly focused food safety regulations in the US are failing to address th...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
Fire and Water: From California to Iran
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we take a look at farming communities on opposite sides of the world: both struggling to adapt to climate change, and to better manage o...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Guaranteed Income Initiatives Combatting Structural Inequality (Re-Air)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Thousands of Americans recently received direct payments from their government as part of the Biden Administrations American Rescue Plan to address...

Bought by KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Heather McGhee: Racism Costs Everyone
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 10, 2021
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: Passage of H.R. 1, ‘For The People Act,’ Urgently Needed to Repair America...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
You Can't Deal With Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy: Vijay Prashad
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require a pro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tia Koonse, Legal and Policy Research Manager for UCLA Labor Center, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Ken Winkes: Tia discusses wage thief and how it affects local economies.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for December 30, 2020
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: Inadequate COVID Relief Bill Pressure on Biden to Target Aid to Most Vul...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tia Koonse, Legal and Policy Research Manager for UCLA Labor Center, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Tia Koonse
Interview by Ken Winkes: Tia explains the reports on low-wages, the people who receive them, and the industries that pay them.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Kent Stanford, President of the Washington Public Employees Association, UFCW 365
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Ken Stanford
Interview by Lori Province: Kent discusses what public employee do, their qualifications, dedication, and the quality of their work.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Gordon Zurn, Financial Secretary for USW Local 12-591, & Les Leopold, Director of The Labor Institute and author of Runaway Inequality, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gordon Zurn & Les Leopold
Interview by Ken Winkes: Gordon and Les discuss how to fix inequality.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nobody Left out, Creating the New Normal: SEIU President Mary Kay Henry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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While the election results are still undecided well hear from Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, abou...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Herb Krohn, State Legislative Director of the Transportation Division of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Union
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Herb Krohn
Interview by Lori Province: Herb discusses the dynamics of railroads, safety, and cargo.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00