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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
Do Black Lives Matter to Big Banks?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A national uprising in the wake of the murder of George Floyd pressured corporations and big banks to acknowledge their own roles in systemic racis...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The VA is mandating vaccines for its health care employees, but enforcement may be a challenge
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Employees at the VA Medical Center in Grand Island, Nebraska take part in a December 2020 employee vaccination event. The VA now is ordering more than 100,000 of its health care workers to get vaccines by mid-September or risk losing their jobs., Credit: A Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System
The Department of Veterans Affairs said its frontline health workers must get vaccinated by mid-September or they'll lose their jobs.

Bought by WRFA-LP, KCUR, KJZZ, North Country Public Radio, Texas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 6
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...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Big Pharma vs The People: The Fight to Save America’s Largest Generic Drug Manufacturer
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This July, America’s largest remaining generic drug manufacturing plant is set to close its doors forever in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its parent ...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
Labor Looks Up After Amazon Union Vote
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“The opportunities for labor right now are virtually limitless,” says Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federat...

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  • Added: May 12, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Heather McGhee: Racism Costs Everyone
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

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  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for March 10, 2021
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Passage of H.R. 1, ‘For The People Act,’ Urgently Needed to Repair America...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
You Can't Deal With Capitalism Unless You Deal With Patriarchy: Vijay Prashad
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Achieving social justice is going to take much more than reforming our criminal justice system. Valuing all lives equally is going to require a pro...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Commentary: Impeaching Racism Needs to Happen Everywhere
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump began just as we were learning of the death, on February 7, of the bold and brilliant labor leader, K...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
At Your Service: Organizing in the Service Economy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Fran Quigley is our guest. He’s a clinical professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, and author of If We Can Win...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 58:40
  • Purchases: 1
Inauguration 2021: Democracy Demands a Democratic Economy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A new administration takes office in the midst of an ongoing public health catastrophe and an economic crisis, on the heels of one of the most pola...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Unforget, Dream, Build
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tia Koonse, Legal and Policy Research Manager for UCLA Labor Center, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Ken Winkes: Tia discusses wage thief and how it affects local economies.

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for December 30, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Inadequate COVID Relief Bill Pressure on Biden to Target Aid to Most Vul...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tia Koonse, Legal and Policy Research Manager for UCLA Labor Center, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Tia Koonse
Interview by Ken Winkes: Tia explains the reports on low-wages, the people who receive them, and the industries that pay them.

  • Added: Dec 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
The Pandemic Economy (release date December 30, 2020)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Kent Stanford, President of the Washington Public Employees Association, UFCW 365
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Ken Stanford
Interview by Lori Province: Kent discusses what public employee do, their qualifications, dedication, and the quality of their work.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
CBC S 1 E 3: Chicago: A Tribute to Essential Workers
From: WNIN
Series: COVID Between the Coasts
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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
Gordon Zurn, Financial Secretary for USW Local 12-591, & Les Leopold, Director of The Labor Institute and author of Runaway Inequality, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Gordon Zurn & Les Leopold
Interview by Ken Winkes: Gordon and Les discuss how to fix inequality.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Nobody Left out, Creating the New Normal: SEIU President Mary Kay Henry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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While the election results are still undecided well hear from Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, abou...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Herb Krohn, State Legislative Director of the Transportation Division of the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Union
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Herb Krohn
Interview by Lori Province: Herb discusses the dynamics of railroads, safety, and cargo.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Phillip Mattera, Research Director of Good Jobs First & Head of Corporate Research Project, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Lori Province: Phillip provides invaluable insights to the Corporate Research Project, which identifies information that can be used t...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Phillip Mattera, Director of the Corporate Research Project for Good Jobs First, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
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Interview by Lori Province: Phillip explains the findings of a new study called “Grand Theft Paycheck” that documents large corporations’ theft of ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00

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