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The United Auto Workers is in danger of losing its standing as one of the country's most important institutions.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:26
Caption: Sarah Weddington, Credit: Weddington Center
Equal Time series host Martha Burk interviews Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade case legalizing abortion in the United Stat...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT


  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 56:48
  • Purchases: 2
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So-called student athletes should be paid for their work in bringing billions of dollars to the nation's colleges and universities.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Jan 04, 2012
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Big for-profit corporations are subsidized to earn profit.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2011
  • Length: 12:09
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The minimum wage is increasing in eight states.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2011
  • Length: 06:25
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Public employees, many of them African-Americans, are being hit particularly hard by today's high levels of unemployment.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:03
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The AFL-CIO has a very promising plan to heal our very sick economy.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 03:25
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Newt Gingrich says the child labor laws are "truly stupid."

  • Added: Nov 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:27
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
How do you scale effective urban education in an age of desperate noneducational schools?

  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
A county wants to spend $100 million on economic development and everybody wants a piece of the pie

  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:31

  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Sprawl or growth? Depends on where you live, and where you play.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
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Last week's Ohio election was a major victory for workers and unions everywhere.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:28
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Here's what Occupy Wall Street movement looks like in Cleveland

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:33
Caption: www.theciviccommons
Attracting immigrants to Northeast Ohio is the goal of a new civic organization

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Northeast Ohio's religious leaders make plans to tackle social problems in a more organized and comprehensive fashion,

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Two foreign journalists and an Israeli businessman discuss how they perceive Cleveland

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Northeast Ohio has too many political subdivisions. Here's a conversation about merging four of them.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
One small business incubator in Cleveland is in the business of tossing life preservers to entrepreneurial start-up businesses

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 57:00
Caption: www.theciviccommons.com
Posts on news comment boards can be stupid and vindictive. Here's what some organization does to combat anonymity,

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:31
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A partnership of labor and Occupy Wall Street could lead to far-reaching economic and political reforms.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:04
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Carwash workers at a major firm in California have won what could be the first of many union contracts for the highly exploited workers nationwide.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2011
  • Length: 04:10
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Unions can play an important role in trying to correct the serious economic problems raised by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
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This is a documentary snapshot of the hundreds of people camped out at NYC's Zuccotti Park that attempts to go beyond simple slogans to the varying...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 32:50
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TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL queries four activists dealing in various aspects of the autism spectrum from causal inquiry through treatment and public polic...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 57:35