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Blunt reporter Zoe High takes to the streets to unravel some of the prevailing perceptions of the homeless, and spotlights one organization in Port...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMPG, and WXLV-FM
- Added: Dec 06, 2007
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 3
A commentary about the miserable pay and working and living conditions of tobacco harvesters.
- Added: Nov 01, 2007
- Length: 04:02
Is California's most controversial water proposal making a comeback?
- Added: Oct 26, 2007
- Length: 04:48
A commentary about the growing number of women going into law, medicine and other professional occupations -- and the blatant discrimination they f...
- Added: Oct 18, 2007
- Length: 03:39
This commentary is about the fierce steelworkers strike of 1919 that was one of the key events leading to the mass unionization of American industry.
- Added: Sep 13, 2007
- Length: 04:34
- Purchases: 2
This commentary outlines the extraordinary career of Fred Ross, one of the most successful community organizers ever, the man who trained Cesar Ch...
- Added: Sep 04, 2007
- Length: 04:29
Thanks to their growing poliitical strength, American iunions will be celebrating Labor Day this year with much greater expectations for success th...
- Added: Aug 25, 2007
- Length: 04:00
Woe is me. Marriage today just isn't what it used to be. Isn't that the truth? Nope! Not true! Historian Stephanie Coontz knows the facts. Marriage...
Bought by KCUR
- Added: Aug 01, 2007
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the Homestead strike, one of the most violent and most significant in labor history.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Jul 11, 2007
- Length: 03:38
- Purchases: 1
Curbing growth in Gangs in North Carolina
- Added: Jun 22, 2007
- Length: 04:40
- Added: Mar 14, 2007
- Length: 18:46
A commentary on Gene Debs, who died 80 years ago this month, but whose economic and political ideas remain vital, valid and essential.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Oct 10, 2006
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Sep 19, 2006
- Length: 04:55
- Added: Sep 18, 2006
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 1
Although most people work for a living, the mainstream media generally ignore their working lives.
- Added: Sep 15, 2006
- Length: 03:25
Unions have launched one of labor's biggest political campaigns ever in behalf of their Democratic Party allies.
- Added: Sep 08, 2006
- Length: 02:39
Cyber Crime's impact on the average computer user can be expensive
- Added: Jun 08, 2006
- Length: 04:08
A once-suppressed newsreel showing Chicago police chasing, killing and wounding strikers and their families on Memorial Day in 1937 played an impor...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KFAI Minneapolis, and KPFT
- Added: May 27, 2006
- Length: 03:02
- Purchases: 3
- Added: May 15, 2006
- Length: 08:43
- Purchases: 1
A look at the history of Seattle's pioneering public art program
- Added: May 15, 2006
- Length: 07:00
- Added: May 15, 2006
- Length: 07:00
Although increasingly used by the CIA, FBI and other agencies and private employers, so-called lie detector tests are highly unreliable and serious...
- Added: May 07, 2006
- Length: 02:57
Senior LifeStyles Update - 3 short segments
- Added: Apr 27, 2006
- Length: 07:59
Minute Men on Our US-Washington State & BC Border Interviews
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 22:27
Minute Men on Our US-Washington State & BC Border Interviews
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 06:23
