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Feb 28, 20221 min read

Permanent Wave - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 3

We go to India and Thailand to talk about intimate personal care services that take place in people's homes. Advocates and researchers...

Feb 16, 20221 min read

Servants to Technology - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 2

We fast forward from past to future, speaking with two technologists, one based in New York and the other in Barcelona, Spain about how new

Feb 4, 20221 min read

The Blair Mountain Battle with American System TV

Full Interview Evan Papp discusses the largest armed insurrection in the U.S. since the Civil War with the American System Network. This...

Oct 22, 20211 min read

Economic Justice For All - Faith and Labor (Episode 5)

"Full employment is the foundation of a just economy.The most urgent priority for domestic economic policy is the creation of new jobs...

Sep 9, 20212 min read

Voices from the Centennial March to Blair Mountain - Organized by the United Mine Workers of America

“So why did we want to recreate this March? Because we are bound and determined that the history of our forefathers will not be taken...

Sep 2, 20211 min read

Remembering 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain - David Rovics Audio Essay

“There is another America. Remember it. Those miners died for you. You should at least know who they were. And then let's all follow...

Aug 18, 20212 min read

The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

“So the idea was to recruit basically a third black miners, a third immigrant, and a third native white and cramp them all together and...

Jun 13, 20212 min read

Dylan James Brock Author of Roosevelt, Michigan - EMLab Artist Profiles

“The world works better when you try to understand first and then be understood. What I found throughout this book was that if I reduced...

Jun 3, 20211 min read

Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals with Emmet Penney

Emmet Penney is a writer, editor, and educator and is co-host of Ex.haust Podcast that plumbs the depths of history, culture, and...

May 25, 20213 min read

Mother Jones - Labor Leader Diaries

Mother Jones, a north star for us all. Mary G. Harris was born August 1st, 1837 in Cork, Ireland. In 1847, the Irish faced starvation...

May 25, 20211 min read

Former Amazon Warehouse Worker and Progressive Activist Jake Burdett

Jake Burdett is a progressive activist and is the former Columbia Democratic Club President in Maryland. He is also a former Amazon...

May 21, 20211 min read

Labor for Palestine with Suzanne Adely and Michael Letwin

Labor for Palestine was launched in April 2004 by New York City Labor Against the War and Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return...

May 19, 20211 min read

The Case For A New Deal 3.0 - David Riemer Author of Putting Government In Its Place

David Riemer is author of Putting Government In Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0. He is also the author of The Prisoners of...

May 12, 20211 min read

Grassroots Comedy DC with Chris Blackwood - EMLab Artist Profiles

Chris Blackwood is co-founder of Grassroots Comedy DC (GCDC), which sits at the crossroads of comedy and advocacy, to make humans laugh...

May 6, 20211 min read

African Perspectives: Ako Essan Emile Shares his Experience Growing up in Cote d’Ivoire

Ako Essan Emile is from Cote d’Ivoire and is currently based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a Senior Project Manager for...

May 5, 20212 min read

Homeless Advocate Brian Carome CEO Street Sense Media - End Homelessness in Washington, D.C.

Brian Carome is Chief Executive Officer of Street Sense Media. Street Sense produces journalism, film, theater, photography, audio,...

Apr 29, 20211 min read

American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner on Biden’s 100 Day Speech, Industrial Policy, and the Fed Reserve

Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School. He is an author...

Apr 26, 20212 min read

Constructing a New Social Compact Event w/ Dr. James C. Benton - Race & Economic Empowerment Project

Dr. James C. Benton is the Director of the Race and Economic Empowerment Project at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working...

Apr 21, 20212 min read

Author Nicole McCandless's new children’s book Down on James Street - Published by Hard Ball Press

Overview of Down on James Street James Street is alive with the sound of jazz! In 1930‘s Pittsburgh, Dorothy wants to dance the Lindy...

Apr 19, 20211 min read

John Sayles on Martin Eden - Labor Goes To the Movies

“The part both in the book and the movie that always meant the most to me is the part where he's whacking away at that typewriter,” says...