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Caption: Karl Emil Nygard
During the past year, Northern Community Radio has been running a mini-series produced by Britt Aamodt focusing on Minnesota Finns. In this segment...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2013
  • Length: 10:05
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Since the Slow Movement stared in 1986, the business environment has become even more complex and fast-paced. Has the movement failed or is the exp...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 48:03
Caption: Dairy farmer John Rosenow stands in front of a semi truck. His 550 dairy cows fill one semi every day to sell across the street to the cheese factory., Credit: Laurel Morales
Wisconsin Dairy farmer John Rosenow hires workers from Mexico. How one dairy farmer sees his workers as his assets.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:33
Caption: Dairy producers, their workers from Mexico and interpreter Shaun Duvall stand outside the Nelson Creamery in west central Wisconsin., Credit: Laurel Morales
Across the country in rural America one in two new neighbors is Latino, according to a recent study. And that's an adjustment for some communities.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chip Koser in his workshop.
Chip Koser of Mashpee is a professionally trained chef who’s worked in a number of famous restaurants. But in recent years Chip has been spending l...

  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:31
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Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act and what still needs to be done.

  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Chelsea Green jacket cover
In his new book, economist Gar Alperovitz speaks plainly about why the time is right to democratize the ownership of wealth as a way to strengthen ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Live Local. Live Small. Create big changes in your home, your finances and your community.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 06:32
Caption: Marie Jeanne, one of Congo's hundreds of thousands of women who are a victim of sexual violence.
Lawmakers in the U.S. want to leverage our consumer power to bring change to the Congo. The question is: do they stand a chance of making a differe...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 14:32
  • Purchases: 1
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2 Minute Teach-In on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, or TPP, gives facts about this massive trade and investment treaty being negotiated i...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
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
Caption: Iron Ore Car
July 1907, nearly 15,000 miners rose up to protest low pay and unfair and dangerous work conditions on the Mesabi Iron Range. The strike would go d...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 09:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Air Occupy radio show interviews Noam Chomsky about Gaza, Occupy Wall Street movement, Labor, and the media.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 44:18
Caption: Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank, Ph.D.  touring the 2013 DC Auto Show, Joan Michelson of Green Connections  holding mic, Credit: Austin Lee
Getting a Job in the "New" US Auto Industry with Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank - An Interview from the 2013 DC Auto Show

  • Added: Feb 16, 2013
  • Length: 04:54
Caption: Jacqui Dunne & Bernard Lietaer
Our worldwide monetary system is outdated. That’s the claim from international monetary expert Bernard Lietaer and award winning journalist Jacqui ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
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The rise and fall of Henry Ford's Fordlandia, a rubber plantation and American colony in the Amazon.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 1
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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...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 15:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Robert Jevne offers up his version of "Winter Projects." Jevne brings a bit of a different perspective to winter tasks with his insight into dams a...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
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The Federal Writers Project in West Virginia, and the battle to tell the TRUE story of the state's history.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:12
Caption: Robert Pollin
Achieving full employment has been at the center of the progressive project for more than a century. If work is available at decent wages for ever...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Commentary: More than 850,000 minimum wage workers in 10 states will be getting raises in the new year.

  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
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It's time for President Obama to help the country's home care workers.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:21
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:57
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Commentary: Student athletes get very little of the millions generated by college football's bowl games.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Gold from a days work by an artisanal miner in Kaniola in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Credit: By Sasha Lezhnev - Enough Project
This is the first episode in a mini-series covering the impacts corporate supply chains have on labor standards and human rights. We explore how re...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 16:00