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In this episode, Laura speaks with Latinx Americans whose work flies in the face of those narratives. They are “unforgetting” histories suppressed...
Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Who are the three people memorialized on a mural to essential workers in the Latino neighborhood of Pilsen?
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 23:52
Interview by Lori Province: Edgar and Michele discuss agricultural and food workers with a focus on Sarbanand Farms in Whatcom County.
- Added: Jun 22, 2018
- Length: 28:08
Interview by Lori Province: Edgar discusses agricultural and food workers.
- Added: Jun 14, 2018
- Length: 28:02
Veronica explains more about the Labor’s Center Global Solidarity Project.
- Added: Dec 02, 2016
- Length: 27:51
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
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
Peacetalks radio takes us down ‘The Non-Violent path of Cesar Chavez’, through conversations with Chavez’ colleague and friend Delores Huerta, and ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Welcome to Culture Clique, and our series on the Winona State University Winona Works Project. With interviews conducted by students from the depar...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 04, 2013
- Length: 11:45
- Purchases: 1
California was the first state to adopt heat illness regulations for outdoor workers, but there are still violations, and there are still fatalities.
Bought by KWMR, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Aug 13, 2013
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 3
A cemetery near the California/Mexico border is the last resting place for some immigrants who die crossing the border.
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 2
Mobile home parks -- often in terrible conditions -- have become the defacto solution for a farm worker housing shortage in the Eastern Coachella V...
- Added: Jul 08, 2013
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 2
President Obama has rightly honored activist Dolores Huerta.
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 05:58
It's Hispanic Heritage Month, an excellent time to honor three of the most important Hispanic labor leaders in US history - Cesar Chavez, Dolores H...
- Added: Oct 01, 2010
- Length: 08:04
We go to Postville, Iowa and Laurel, Mississippi--two communities where the largest workplace immigration raids happened in 2008.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 20, 2010
- Length: 14:53
- Purchases: 1
Robo de Salarios en Amecia (Wage Theft in America)
- Added: May 20, 2009
- Length: 27:49
This story explores what life is like in the US working without papers
Bought by KUOW, KRUA, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 14, 2008
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
Summer's heat is posing serious dangers for the farmworkers who harvest most of our fruits and vegetables.
- Added: Jul 17, 2008
- Length: 03:19
A commentary about the miserable pay and working and living conditions of tobacco harvesters.
- Added: Nov 01, 2007
- Length: 04:02
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
Minute Men on Our US-Washington State & BC Border Interviews
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 06:23
Celebrations are being held this year to mark the anniversary of the grape strike led by Cesar Chavez that won worldwide support for California's l...
- Added: Oct 22, 2005
- Length: 03:42
A commentary on the working and living conditions of sheepherders that are right out of the 19th century.
- Added: Jun 02, 2005
- Length: 03:13
