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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
Covid Couldn’t Stop Worker Owned Co-ops
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 29, 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
RDD: Habitat for Humanity
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet the Executive Director of Maumee Valley's Habitat for Humanity, Michael McIntyre.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
Brief: Michael Honey on Love, Solidarity, and the Black Freedom Song
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Michael Honey discusses non-violent theorist and organizer James Lawson, and John Handcox, the Great Depression-era tenant farmer and union advocate.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 25:20
  • Purchases: 1
Joshua Salazar, Bus Driver
From: Bending Borders
Series: 24 Hours: A Day in the Working Life
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In car-choked LA, riding the bus is a sign that you can’t afford your own wheels. But Joshua Salazar's overnight routes are often full of people be...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:58
The Working Poor I: Natasha and Robin
From: WCPN
Series: The Working Poor
Caption: Natasha Wynn high-fives her daughter, Robin., Credit: Brian Bull, WCPN.
A single mom working a fast-food job aims high.

Bought by KUER, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 4
WIN Labor Report: December 11, 2013
From: Workers Independent News
Caption: The Voice for Working People
Reactions to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
Modern-Day Slavery (Half-Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WJCT, Troy Public Radio, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Modern-Day Slavery (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Most of us learned in history class that slavery in the U.S. ended with the Thirteenth Amendment. But the trade in human beings—for sex and labor—i...

Bought by WCNY, KWIT, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 3
Laid Off and Looking for Answers: An East Kentucky Coal Miner Speaks
From: WMMT
Series: Making Connections
Caption: Gary Bentley with his daughter Lily
Since January, thousands of coal miners have been laid off in Central Appalachia. We’ve heard a lot of opinions about the causes of this decline a...

Bought by WRNC-LP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 11:31
  • Purchases: 1
"We need a penny!" Farmworkers Fight For Justice
From: On Blast
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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers organized a rally in front of a center city Trader Joes and the Philly Student Union was there to help support.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:04
The Wisconsin Workers Uprising (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Was the occupation of the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin a resurgence of organized labor in the United States, or the last gasp for unionized ...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Doing Justice
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
United Auto Workers President Bob King has some important insights into the current attacks on working people and their unions.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:14
Active Voice Radio - Steve Early: Embedded With Organized Labor
From: Chris Goldstein
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Longtime journalist and union specialist Steve Early looks to the present and future of American unions

Bought by KSFR and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 08, 2009
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Job Discrimination
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: Mary Van Pelt
Psychiatric Survivor and Human Rights Activist, Mary Van Pelt, speaks about job discrimination, holes in the Americans with Disabilities Act, and t...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
Working-Class Voters Demand a Fair Deal
From: Dick Meister
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Working-class voters are demanding a lot from political candidates.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2008
  • Length: 03:34
To Dream an Anarchist's Dream...
From: Mary Rose Madden
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Anarchists in Baltimore try to open and run a totally free store

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 2
Seven O'Clock in the Morning
From: Jefferey Sweeton
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Jose Luiz speaks from a dirty and weed filled lot, begging the City of Chicago to let him keep the broken and abandoned land...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2006
  • Length: 12:09