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At just sixteen Victor left his home in Guadalajara and crossed the river into Texas only to be picked up by immigration agents and returned to Mex...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:06
Caption: Emma Sokoloff-Rubin & friends
This is the story of a father-daughter research team who spent 10-years studying the Brazilian Women’s Movement of the 1980s.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Traditional sacred music from 15th century Valencia and17th century Mexico, plus selections from Pablo Casals' El Pesebre (The Nativity).

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Nov 04, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alberto Ginastera
The Spanish Hour offers the fifth program in its month-long mini-series celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (September 16-October 15) with works by...

Bought by KHSU and KPVL


  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Venezuelan flutist Marco Granados
From Paraguay to Colombia to Venezuela, The Spanish Hour offers the third in its month-long mini-series celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (Septem...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
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From Guastavino to Ginastera to Piazzolla, The Spanish Hour offers the second in its month-long mini-series celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (Se...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
Caption: Alondra de la Parra, Credit: Photo: Lorena 2012
The Spanish Hour celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with a program devoted to Manuel Ponce, one of the geniuses of Mexican music.

Bought by KHSU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Local currency, bartering on the playground and other ways of looking at money through a DIY lens. ***This show aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting...

Bought by WRVO, WYSO, and WRVO


  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Havana Road
The American Dream travels a little ways down the Havana Road. When the economy tanked in 2009, Marta Quintana lost her job and her stock portfo...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2010
  • Length: 07:11

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 11:05
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Erica Fernandez, environmental activist who helped prevent a liquefied natural gas plant from being built near her hometown of Oxnard, Califonia., Credit: www.nbconference.org
We hear from 18-year-old Erica Fernandez. Winner of the 2007 Brower Youth Award, this fierce young woman took on the world’s largest mining compan...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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It's been 15 years now since the death of farm union leader Cesar Chavez -- way past time to make his birthdate of March 31 a national holiday.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2008
  • Length: 03:22
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They started out as graffiti artists and ended up at the Venice Biennial.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2008
  • Length: 05:25
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A commentary noting that few women are more deserving of special attention during Women's History Month than farm worker leader Dolores Huerta.

Bought by KBUT


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 05:15
  • Purchases: 1
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In this job, money isn't the greatest reward.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2007
  • Length: 04:07
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David Kates visits two Los Angeles-area schools to find out what's involved in educating English learners.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2007
  • Length: 04:00
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A strong movement is under way to win decent treatment for the miserably treated tomato pickers whose work is essential to the hugely profitable fa...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 03:24
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A commentary on the significance of Cesar Chavez Day,

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Mar 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Overcoming the struggles of those around him, this young writer confronts drug overdose, HIV/AIDS, teen pregnancy, gang involvement and imprisonmen...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 03:05
  • Purchases: 1
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The most dangerous city in California actually has much more to offer

  • Added: Jun 19, 2006
  • Length: 06:54
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An audio version of David Greenberger?s Duplex Planet magazine, Growing Old In East L.A., offers a look into the lives of elderly Mexican-Americans...

Bought by KGLT, KPFA, KGLT, and WCAI / WNAN


  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 53:31
  • Purchases: 4
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Ernesto Galarza, now largely forgotten, played a key role in the rise of the farm labor movement led by Cesar Chavez.

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Apr 28, 2006
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 1
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It's the 38th anniversary of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez's extraordinary 25-day fast.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 02:46
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Ex-gangsters turned actors struggle to build a business in Hollywood

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 23, 2005
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Celebrations are being held this year to mark the anniversary of the grape strike led by Cesar Chavez that won worldwide support for California's l...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2005
  • Length: 03:42