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Decent Work and Economic Growth: UN Sustainable Goal #8
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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Welcome to melodically challenged. Today, we continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number ...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Introduction to the Podcast
From: Adam Morse
Series: There Is A Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
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Welcome to the show! This four minute introductory episode informs folks of what topics, ideas and objectives this podcast will have.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 04:02
267: Community Wealth Building: Democratizing the Economy, 2/21/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
In this special episode of the Bioneers, guest host Laura Flanders explores “Community Wealth Building,” a model that democratizes the economy, cre...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
247: Democracy vs. Plutocracy Part One: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime, 1/31/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Thom Hartmann
In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy. In today’s new G...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Let Them Eat Undelivered Pizza
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Minimum wages went up in a number of states on January 1. Pizza Hut is crying foul and punishing delivery drivers for the hike by firing them all. ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
The Rise of the New Labor Movement
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Brunswick cafe, Little Dog, where workers organized a union., Credit: Alex Spear, Bowdoin Orient
On the forefront of the next labor revolution, we visit a coffee shop in Maine called Little Dog whose workers start to organize a union and we tal...

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


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for December 20, 2023
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: Biden Has The Power to Stop Israel’s Carnage in Gaza; COP28, Showcase for ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Debt, Democracy & Disarray: Astra Taylor on “The Age of Insecurity” (Release Date- December 20, 2023)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The average household holds over $100 thousand in debt. The climate crisis, threats to democracy, and global wars add more worry to our already str...

Bought by KMUN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KDNK, WNYE, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Civics 101: The History of Labor Policy
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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The modern day workplace is the product of a centuries-long battle for fair wages, reasonable hours and safe conditions. Civics 101 tells the story...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 5
NL 23-43: Jazz Women Of The 1980s, 10/16/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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In the 1980s a new generation of women jazz musicians emerged who expanded their predecessors' push against the patriarchal boundaries of the jazz ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
827: Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love? / 828: Our Time Of Mourning, 9/9/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
821: Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time / 822: Everything Is Exhausting, 8/19/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: How Earth Keeps Time" - No one understands time like a geologist. And with the climate convulsing and the future breathing do...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:59
EE 23-28: From restaurant to research, 7/7/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with geographer Jen Watkins on her experience as a server and her research on the industry.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
High Country Celtic Radio 266 - May Day
From: High Country Celtic Radio
Series: High Country Celtic Radio
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This week, Katie Marie and Joe put together an hour of music celebrating May Day, recognized around the world as a day to celebrate the struggles o...

Bought by WDSE, WFHB, Radio Kansas, KAAD-LP, WVTF and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Gaping Inequality, The American Nightmare for Workers: Abigail Disney
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s flagship theme park, she disc...

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
EE 23-06: Rethinking the restaurant industry, 2/3/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with geographer Jen Watkins on her experience as a server and her research on the industry.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for January 18, 2023
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: GOP Extremists are Burning Down the House; Republican House Vote to Repeal...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Jan 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disney’s f...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Upstream: Worker Cooperatives
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Artwork by Phil Wrigglesworth
On today's show we learn about worker cooperatives: what are they and can they offer an alternative to the dominant capitalist mindset? Our partner...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KUT


  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Garment Worker Victory
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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California garment workers organize and win passage of a state law that holds fashion brands responsible for unpaid wages.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KZYX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
743: Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love? / 744: Everything Is Exhausting, 11/19/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Can Work Be Love?" - In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, t...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
Going For Broke, Part Three: Can Work Be Love?
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In this final part of our series, we’re talking about work — about the right to meaningful work, the search for jobs that pay enough to live, and w...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KZYX, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Joshua Sbicca, Ph.D., Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab at Colorado State University
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Did you know that over 600 U.S. prisons include agricultural activities of some kind? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and registered dietitian, Melinda...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
EE 22-34: Making the invisible visible: our food system’s dependence on the labor of forced migrants, 8/19/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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A conversation with Elizebeth Cullen Dunn on the elements of our food system that most of us prefer to keep hidden from view.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 54:00