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From: WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Youth Flight in Falmouth: If the next generation of teachers, nurses, and firefighters can't make the Cape their home, then who will serve and take...
- Added: Feb 16, 2007
- Length: 04:52
Activist and union organizer Wade Rathke believes listening is a useful and important skill in life.
- Added: Feb 02, 2007
- Length: 03:15
- Purchases: 4
a commentary marking the 60th anniversary of the Oakland general strike, one of the very few general strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Dec 08, 2006
- Length: 03:07
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 20, 2006
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 1
A commentary on the major role unions played in the Democratic Party's midterm sweep.
Bought by KPFT
- Added: Nov 10, 2006
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
Minute Men on Our US-Washington State & BC Border Interviews
- Added: Apr 10, 2006
- Length: 06:23
Find out " Why America's 20-30 Somethings Can't Get Ahead" with Tamara Draut author of Strapped mixed with music
- Added: Mar 29, 2006
- Length: 07:11
Although well in the minority, unionized workers do much better financially and otherwise than their non-union counterparts
- Added: Mar 15, 2006
- Length: 02:25
President Bush's appointees to the National Labor Relations Board are going all out to deny wolrkers their legal rights.
- Added: Feb 01, 2006
- Length: 03:07
Growing up in a coal community, mining is a part of your everyday life. In light of the recent SAGO mine disaster Natasha Watts reflects on what i...
Bought by WGXC, WGBH Radio Boston, WXLV-FM, The Nature Podcast, and PRX
- Added: Jan 19, 2006
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 5
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
Although the pundits say the labor movement is near death, the future of American unions actually looks promising.
- Added: Aug 31, 2005
- Length: 04:47
- Added: Aug 16, 2005
- Length: 06:31
Film Maker Naomi Klein talks with us about her film "The Take"
Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KSJD
- Added: Jun 29, 2005
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
A successful CEO looks at business ethics.
- Added: Jun 15, 2005
- Length: 01:00:00
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
A commentary marking the anniversary of one of the most significant strikes in U.S. history -- the West Coast longshoremen's strike of 1934.
- Added: May 19, 2005
- Length: 03:10
New efforts to form a Labor Party could very well revive the slump;ing labor movement.
- Added: May 05, 2005
- Length: 03:27
A commentary on the importance of May Day to working people.
Bought by KPIK-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and BSR Radio
- Added: Apr 25, 2005
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 3
The CIO's history offers important lessons for those currently trying to revitalize the labor movement .
- Added: Mar 01, 2005
- Length: 03:22
