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Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19 ENCORE
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Gig Workers, driver's for app companies such as Lyft and Uber, are struggling during COVID-19. They're considered essential workers, so they can st...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health. Self-care becomes a “selfless ac...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Tim Wheeler, Writer, Activist, Musician, and Reporter for the People’s World, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: by Tim Wheeler
Interview by Ken Winkes: Tim describes his family history, his life on the family farm, and tells some of his stories from his new book called “New...

  • Added: May 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Karen Ehrens Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that Article 14 of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights declares that “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in othe...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hannah Fishman, Organizer for SEIU 1199NW & Kim Deans, CNA/Member of Negotiating Team
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Island Hospital Workers, SEIU 1199NW
Interview by Lori Province: Hannah and Kim talk about the workplace issues at Island Hospital.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Margaret Cary & Cliff Cawthon, MLK County Working Families Party, Marco Morales, Local Leader, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Ken Winkes: Margaret and Cliff tell us all about the Working Families Party and Marco gives us his concerns and aspirations.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
How the Diversity Industry is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, me...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Ramon Torres, Edgar Franks, and Marciano Sanchez, Familias Unidas por la Justicia, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Familias Unidas por la Justicia
Interview by Gary Kanter: Ramon and Edgar share the activities of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, an independent Farm Worker Union.

Bought by KRZA and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Dec 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 2
How to Make a Democratic Economy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The U.S. economy, weak or strong, is the question at the heart of the election. But it doesn't get to the reality which is that, whatever else it m...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Elizabeth Anderson, Ethics, Social & Political Philosophy, and Author at University of Michigan
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Dr. Elizabeth Anderson
Interview by Ken Winkes: Dr. Anderson discusses her book “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don't Talk About It).”

  • Added: Oct 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Paul Galovin, Rep for the Pacific NW Regional Council of Carpenters and Nate Nehring, Snohomish County Councilman
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Regional Apprenticeship Pathways
Interview by Gary Kanter: Paul and Nate describe the Regional Apprenticeship Pathways (RAP) program.

  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Reporting on Economic Hardship
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Addressing Economic Class Conflict
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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While some organizations and individuals believe there is multidimensional inequality in the U.S., this PEACE TALKS RADIO program is only about eco...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WRIR, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
From Piers to Plantations
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: ILWU Local 142 Mural (section)
The story of Hawai’i, as told through the voices of Karl Malden, Ed Asner, Carroll O’Connor, Congressional members Patsy Mink, Neil Abercrombie and...

Bought by Interlochen Public Radio and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
Veronica Wilson, Partnerships Director for the UCLA Labor Center
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Ken Winkes: Veronica talks about one of her other interests the “Labor Network for Sustainability.”

  • Added: Sep 06, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
Liz Shuler, Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Liz Shuler, AFL-CIO
Interview by Lori Province: Liz reports on the current labor issues for Labor Day.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Peter Hart, Regional Director for the Puget Sound Region of the Inland Boatman’s Union of the Pacific
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Inlandboatman's Union
Interview by Lori Province: Peter explains the history, work, and current issues of the Inlandboatman’s Union.

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 28:02
Joe Kendo, Government Affairs Director of the WSLC, AFL-CIO
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Joe Kendo, WSLC
Interview by Lori Province: Joe gives the highlights of the 2019 Washington State legislature labor bills.

  • Added: Aug 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
Design for Justice: Disabled Hackers are Leading the Way
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can technology advance society if it doesn't include all of society? This week, we talk with three disability justice activists who have ideas abou...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KDNK


  • Added: Jul 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Moments of Betterment: The Example of Eugene V. Debs
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: “While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
Our program features an in-studio interview with Paul Buhle; Debs’ words brought to life by four local writers; and ends with Buhle talking to an a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
New Media, Old Problems: Buzzfeed, Vox, and Vice Unionize
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The media layoffs are here. It's new media’s sky-is-falling moment. Instead of the promised golden age, we're seeing rolling cutbacks and massive l...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Mike Elliott, former Burlington Northern Train Engineer
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mike Elliott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mike Elliott provides the ending to the what finally happened to him after blowing the whistle.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Diane Nelson, President of the Seattle Chapter of the National Active & Retired Federal Employees Association and Steve Roy, Legislature Chair for the Washington Federal of Chapters
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: NARFE
Interview by Gary Kanter: Diane and Steve explain what their organization is all about.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
Robert Glorioso, President of the International Association of Fire Fighters, Local 106
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Robert Glorioso, President
Interview by Lori Province: Robert discusses the 100th anniversary of International Association of Fire Fighters Local 106 and some of their curren...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
Mike Louis, President of the Missouri AFL-CIO
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mike Louis, MO AFL-CIO
Interview by Lori Province: Mike gives an account of how workers, their families, and friends beat an anti-union statewide initiative in Missouri.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2018
  • Length: 28:00