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Jenny Odell on Saving Time
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Excerpt from the book cover, reading "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" superimposed on top of orange and pink geological features., Credit: Penguin Random House
We speak with Jenny Odell, author of "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock," about how the ways we think about time shapes our lives. A...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Labor Day: Some So-called Good Guy Companies are Bad Guys for Workers
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Labor Day has been a national holiday since 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a day off for...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Saket Soni: How Trafficked Workers Pulled Off “The Great Escape”
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“THE GREAT ESCAPE: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America” tells the story of one of the largest human trafficking schemes in...

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Looking at Labor Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: the International Labor Organization
From: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Series: Innovating Leadership: Co-Creating Our Future
Caption: Kevin Cassidy of the International Labour Organization sees a very different environment for the workplace post-pandemic...including the fact that CEOs are among the most vulnerable to being replaced by artificial intelligence!
How has the pandemic changed the workforce, both regionally and globally? What can be done about this drastic change in demographics? Kevin Cassi...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 53:06
Wokin' For a Living
From: Garrett Stack
Series: American Jukebox®
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Work has dignity. Work gives life meaning. Jobs in song. Work is important.

Bought by WMNR and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Whose Economy? An Equitable Economy For All
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What is a citys economy for? New York Citys economy has been very good at piling up private wealth and building tall buildings but its done less we...

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


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Facing Our Climate Future
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re launching an ongoing series about our climate future. We'll hear from activists and political leaders who discussed climate resili...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Farmworkers Risk Smoke, Heat, And COVID-19 As California Burns
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From Santa Rosa to Salinas, farmworkers are harvesting as California burns. Workers are risking heat, smoke, and COVID-19 to pick grapes and harves...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 21, 2020
  • Length: 10:51
  • Purchases: 1
F-Word: Resisting Authoritarianism One Co-Op at a Time
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"A popularly-elected Republic overturned by a reactionary armed revolt: There are myriad reasons why the painful history of the Spanish civil war ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for July 15, 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: As the Coronavirus Pandemic Explodes, Teachers’ Union Rejects Trump’s Edic...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for June 24, 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: Supreme Court’s LGBTQ+ Nondiscrimination Ruling Not a Substitute for Amend...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
COVID-19 Pandemic Capitalism and Bonds
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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By mid-April over 22 million Americans had filed for unemployment benefits. And it’s unclear whether jobs and businesses that people left behind wi...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 1, 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: Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, U.S. Economic Sanctions on Iran, Venezuela a ‘Crim...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Apr 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
How Can Municipal Government Promote Economic Democracy?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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New York, NY...its a city with close to 100 billion dollar budget every year and 1 deputy mayor with some pretty creative plans for how to spend it...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Special: Our Economy, For and By The People
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Workers, Wildcats & New Models for Labor Organizing
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Laura talks to SEIU International President, Mary Kay Henry (of the Service Employees) and labor journalist Sarah Jaffe about worker wins, challeng...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 18, 2018
  • Length: 28:35
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #91: Death on a Dairy
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Arminio Órtiz Pérez, Credit: Eilís O’Neill
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 20:18
Episode 2: Ludlow and its Legacy
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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On April 20th, 1914, just north of Trinidad, Colorado, one of the bloodiest, most overlooked events in the history of the American labor movement s...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
Minimum wage activists fast for better pay
From: George Lavender
Caption: Activists' tent outside City Hall, Credit: George Lavender
In downtown Los Angeles, activists have gone without food for two weeks. The women are campaigning for a raise in the minimum wage. Today L-A Mayor...

  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 04:56
David Rolf: Fair Wages and Sustainability
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: David Rolf
Economists these days are confirming what many already know – the gap between the haves and have-nots is widening. In the face of soaring productiv...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As Brazil prepares to host the 2014 soccer World Cup many are questioning the economic, environmental, and social cost of this sporting mega-event....

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: May 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Paying Your (Un)Fair Share on Tax Day
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on tax inequality between working people and wall streeters. Contains vocal by Merle Haggard.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Behind the Kitchen Door: Restaurant Workers' Fight for Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Saru Jayaraman
Americans eat out more than any other people. But the workers who put food on our restaurant tables are struggling to feed themselves and their fam...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:00