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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
2023-06-16 Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Recovery Possible
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Who cleans up and rebuilds our communities after floods, fires, and hurricanes? COVID redefined America's definition of “essential workers,” but ma...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Nevada Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 10
230616: Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Recovery Possible, 6/16/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Who cleans up and rebuilds our communities after floods, fires, and hurricanes? COVID redefined America's definition of “essential workers,” but ma...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
2023-02-03 Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Recovery Possible
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Who cleans up and rebuilds our communities after floods, fires, and hurricanes? COVID redefined America's definition of “essential workers,” but ma...

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


  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 8
220203: Saket Soni on the People Who Make Disaster Recovery Possible, 2/3/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Who cleans up and rebuilds our communities after floods, fires, and hurricanes? COVID redefined America's definition of “essential workers,” but ma...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s f...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
743: Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love? / 744: Everything Is Exhausting, 11/19/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Going For Broke, Part Three: Can Work Be Love?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and w...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KZYX, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caring for Aging Adults
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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More than 1 in 5 American adults is a caregiver for an elder -- usually a parent or grandparent or spouse. How to look after our surging older popu...

Bought by WUWM, WAMU, WVBI-LP, Morehead State Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 18
210514: Journey of A Former Coal Miner, 5/14/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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What motivates the activists? Grassroots activism can take many forms, from protests to letter-writing to citizen science to community organizing. ...

  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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
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
Mike Elliott, former Burlington Northern Train Engineer, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mike Elliott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mike continues his story about his concern for train safety that lead him to become a whistle blower and put his own caree...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
277: Center Of The World / 278: Hell Is Other People, 6/2/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
211: Center Of The World / 212: Hell Is Other People, 10/14/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Center Of The World" - Opiate addiction. Lost jobs. Lost hope. Producer Charles Monroe-Kane heads back to his Ohio hometown to see why p...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Gary Kanter, song writer, singer, humorist, and his Ballad of Sakuma Farms song
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gary Kanter & Mike Dumovich
Interview by Mike Dumovich: Gary gives his history with the Farm Workers in Skagit County.

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 27:38
Jerry Mead-Lucero, Chicago activist and host & producer of the Labor Express radio show
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Jerry Mead-Lucero, Labor Express Radio
Interview by Rich Austin: Jerry talks about how working class issues are not covered by our main stream media. For more information, go to https:...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 27:51
The Right to Dignity: Service Sector Workers and the Future of Unions
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs fro...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:11
New Orleans Reconstruction Workers Fight to Remain
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Immigrants and supporters march down Poydras Street in New Orleans on July 10., Credit: Jasmin Mara Lopez
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Bra...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Jen Wallis, Member of Railroad Workers United and Kim Marks, Organizer for Green Peace
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Kim Marks, Jen Wallis
Interview: Jen and Kim summarize the successful Railroad Safety Conferences, which included workers, community & environmentalists, as well as exp...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
Garrett Brown, retired Organizer and Field Compliance Officer & staff member of the California State Division of Occupational Safety & Health, Part 2 of a 2-part series called Work Should Not Hurt
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Garrett Brown, Retired CA OSHA
Interview: Garrett gives solutions to creating safer workplaces.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
Garrett Brown, retired Organizer and Field Compliance Officer & staff member of the California State Division of Occupational Safety & Health, Part 1 of a 2-part series called Work Should Not Hurt
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Garrett Brown, Retired OSHA
Interview: Garrett not only tells us that there are more resources in protecting the environment than there are workers but also that OSHA is unde...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 03, 2015
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 1