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The people in our community and the jobs they hold make up part of our diverse culture. Today on "Culture Clique" find out how a group of Winona St...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Joe Varga, professor of labor studies at Indiana University, hosted an open informational session about the mysterious Trans Pacific Partnership. T...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 56:57
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The Mondragón Corporation includes everything from banking to bike factories, nano-technology to rabbit farming. Its a corporate dream—but this cor...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 09:43
Caption: Ariizmendi Fourth Street, Credit: Andrew Stelzer
The global economic situation is causing more people to consider worker owned businesses. We go from Chicago, where workers are trying to take over...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 09:17
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Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 11:30
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Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Domestic workers in Texas., Credit: Flickr user: Nuevo Anden
With the passage of New York’s Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010, workers are now organizing in California and other states to win basic righ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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It’s not even the crime that counts sometimes. It’s that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Chec...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Labor in Indiana: The Vectren lock-out and the so called "Right to Work" bill.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:53
Caption: Deepa Vanra at Occupy Wall Street West, Credit: Lisa Rudman
Occupy Wall Street has changed the conversation about the distribution of wealth. So what now? What policy changes and initiatives should the mov...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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Last Thursday, January 19th, the activist group Occupy IU organized a teach in, titled “Why the Occupy Movement is Happening Now.” The group invite...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 01:01:30
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A look back at some of the most important issues of 2011: Attacks on organized labor, the Egyptian revolution, and the struggle to address climate ...

Bought by KHNS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Issues of race, class and labor merge once again into a classic untold story – because we do not openly discuss those discomfiting matters in this ...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 57:47
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Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship is gone, but a military council now rules Egypt, and has kept much of Mubarak’s repressive apparatus. Meanwhile extrem...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Dr. William Hanson, author of Smart Medicine: How the Changing Role of Doctors Will Revolutionize Health Care.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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On today's industrial farms, field workers harvest crops that they themselves can't afford to buy. Join us as we ask how much we're willing to pay ...

Bought by WRIR, KXOT Public Radio, and KHNS


  • Added: Jul 04, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Wisconsin Solidarity, Credit: Barb Kucera-Workday Minnesota
TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL talks with a labor scholar, reporter/analyst and those on the front lines of public employment to talk about why this has come ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 57:31
Caption: The Infernal Noise Brigade in downtown Seattle., Credit: http://www.andrewstern.net/
We look at how political marching bands are stirring up public spaces; from the streets, to supermarkets to your facebook feed.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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THE INITIATIVE OF A PRIEST TO HELP MIGRANT WORKERS FIND A WAY TO SUCCEEED IN THEIR NEW SOCIETY.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2010
  • Length: 27:59
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It’s been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tisha Davis, mother of three, Credit: ColorLines
Listen to this audio version of Link TV and Applied Research Center’s video: ‘Color Lines: Race and Economic Recovery.' Hear the untold stories of ...

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  • Length: 29:00
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The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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How should we reward experts and how much? When the experts fail, should populist outrage be directed at those individuals or the system?

  • Added: Sep 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:30