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Les Leopold, WALL STREET’S WAR ON WORKERS
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Les Leopold of the Labor Institute about his groundbreaking study of the political cost of mass layoffs. His book is Wall Street’s War...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2024
  • Length: 58:55
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
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 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: UAW Strike Demands Fairness for Workers, as US Automakers Spend Billions ...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Sep 20, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
Howard Zinn at 100: A People’s History, Urgent Lessons for the Present
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A People’s History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to ...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
721: The Year Of Return / 722: What's Wrong With Work?, 9/3/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'The Year Of Return' - 2019 marked the "year of return" to Ghana – attracting visitors from throughout the African diaspora. Now, scores...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:01
The Untrammeled Cartoonist: The Radicalism of Art Young (Repeat)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today much of the history of American radicalism, including the work of cartoonist Art Young, languishes in obscurity just when it is needed most. ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Labor Day Music Special - One Hour or Two Hours
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: MTPR Music Specials
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Two 1 hour music specials for Labor Day or Labor Day Weekend. Each hour is newscast compatible. Each hour stands alone and either hour can be chos...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, Prairie Public, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WVTF and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 25
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 ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Unions -recorded 7/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational comparison on Unions and their imporatnce.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:58
On the Waterfront
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
Caption: Jeffrey Donovan, Hector Elizondo, and Bruce Davison
Budd Schulberg's classic, re-imagined for the stage.

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFCF FM, KUOW and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 40
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
The Automation Ruse, Part One: Jason E. Smith on Economic Stagnation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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With as much as 85% of US jobs now classed in the service sector, where concepts like productivity are hard if not impossible to measure, can autom...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
How We Got Here, Part 1: The Great Risk Shift
From: Sam Harnett
Series: How We Got Here
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The first section of a 3-hour radio documentary about why Americans are so precarious and susceptible to a crisis like the current pandemic. Part 1...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
Patty Rose, Secretary-Treasurer of the Pierce County Labor Council, & Judy Sharnes, Chair of the Union Goods and Services Committee
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Judy Sharnes & Patty Rose
Interview by Lori Province: Patty and Judy inform us about union goods and services in their area and how they are getting that information out to ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for June 10, 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: Protests Build Momentum for Police Accountability, Reforms to Address U.S....

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 6, 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: Coronavirus Health and Economic Crisis Exacerbates U.S. Inequality; Seeki...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 22, 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: Trump and GOP Governors’ Move to Prematurely Reopen U.S. Economy Will Trig...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Apr 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Great Divide: Racism, Wealth Inequality, and Elections
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Ian Haney López, Credit: YouTube
On this edition of Making Contact, acclaimed author Ian Haney López talks about his new book - Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for February 26, 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: Could a Peace Deal with Taliban in Afghanistan End America’s Longest War?...

Bought by KMXT and WKPW


  • Added: Feb 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for February 12, 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: Progressives, Moderates in Presidential Primary Battle for the Soul of th...

Bought by WKPW, KMXT, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for November 13, 2019
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: Weeks of Protest Leads to Coup, Ousting Bolivia’s First Indigenous Presid...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • 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
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
From: Ian Ruskin
Caption: Harry Bridges at 1971 Press Conference
A 19-year-old Australian arrives in San Francisco and changes the American labor movement. This is the story of a visionary man who fought for demo...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 1