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Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 2
Congress is discussing a bill that would change the future of union organizing and protect worker's rights. Listen to learn more about Employee Fre...
- Added: Apr 23, 2009
- Length: 06:08
African-American workers have been hit especially hard by the alarming growth of unemployment.
Bought by WAMC
- Added: Apr 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
It's time for us to celebrate a national Cesar Chavez Day.
- Added: Mar 23, 2009
- Length: 04:17
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Many workers are being illegally fired for being pro-union.
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 04:20
A new alliance is seeking to unionize nurses and greatly improve the health care system.
- Added: Feb 20, 2009
- Length: 02:29
A new survey shows that unions are finally growing significantly.
- Added: Feb 12, 2009
- Length: 04:12
It's the 90th anniversary this month of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
A LOOK AT THE MOVEMENT FOR REPARATIONS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS
- Added: Feb 02, 2009
- Length: 59:11
February sixth will mark the 90th anniversary of the Seattle general strike, one of the most dramatic strikes in U.S. history.
- Added: Jan 30, 2009
- Length: 03:53
A profile of Millinocket, Maine, after the mill shut down.
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 06:50
The long struggle of working people against George Bush has finally ended.
- Added: Jan 18, 2009
- Length: 03:51
Psychiatric Survivor and Human Rights Activist, Mary Van Pelt, speaks about job discrimination, holes in the Americans with Disabilities Act, and t...
- Added: Dec 24, 2008
- Length: 02:37
Few workers are more important or more exploited than the young doctors-in-training who provide so much of our hospital care.
- Added: Dec 12, 2008
- Length: 02:43
There's good news for unions in their attempts to attract the young members they must have if they are to grow.
- Added: Nov 14, 2008
- Length: 02:42
Organized labor played a major role in Barack Obama's election and expects much in return.
- Added: Nov 06, 2008
- Length: 03:40
From: Chris Goldstein
Duke university Professor Felicia Kornbluh- discusses her book The Battle For Welfare Rights : Politics and Poverty in Modern America
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Oct 22, 2008
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
It should be obvious by now, with election day nearing, that Barack Obama should be the overwhelming choice of working people.
- Added: Oct 16, 2008
- Length: 05:14
Ralph Nader is demanding repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, the chief obstacle to a revitalized labor movement.
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 03:47
More than one million Americans are facing loss of their badly needed Unemployment Insurance benefits.
- Added: Sep 17, 2008
- Length: 02:33
This story explores what life is like in the US working without papers
- Added: Sep 14, 2008
- Length: 04:40
- Purchases: 3
Amid the speculation over Sarah Palin possibly becoming the first woman to serve as vice president, don't forget Frances Perkins, the first woman t...
- Added: Sep 05, 2008
- Length: 05:16
Thanks to their political allies, U.S. unions are celebrating Labor Day with unusually high expectations of success.
- Added: Aug 24, 2008
- Length: 04:48
Organized labor is close to winning its battle to guarantee firm union rights ti U.S. workers.
- Added: Aug 22, 2008
- Length: 04:40
