LABOR MOVEMENT

  • A Crime To Fit The Punishment: an interview with the filmmakers

    Mimi Rosenberg speaks with Barbara A. Moss and Stephen Mack on their new film, “A Crime to Fit the Punishment” (1982), a documentary about the making of the 1954 controversial labor film “Salt of the Earth” during the height of the Hollywood blacklist.

  • History of women workers and women in the labor movement

    Historian Dr. Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews historian Dr. Alice Kessler Harris about women and work and women in the labor movement. Harris talks about challenging the notion of work as being “work for pay” and talks about both women’s household labor and women as wage workers, both historically and in contemporary times. Harris’ books includes…

  • Democracy Now! September 2, 2002

    LABOR DAY SPECIAL: as dockworker s negotiations break down and a work slow-down looms, Bush threatens to bring in troops; LABOR DAY SPECIAL, part 2, immigrant workers: 100 airport workers are arrested in Los Angeles; hundreds of thousands flee Malaysian crackdown; LABOR DAY SPECIAL, part 3, Unjust Rewards : Washington rewards workplace safety violators with…

  • Martha Ojeda

    Martha Ojeda, Directora Ejectutiva De La Coalition Pro Justicia en Las Maquiladores. Recorded by John Martinez.

  • Democracy Now! May 1, 2002

    May Day, International Workers Day demonstrations: in.Paris, against Jean Marie Le Pen; and London and New York :African National Congress activist Father Michael Lapsley ; Part 2 MAUDE BARLOW interview, author of Blue Gold: The Fight To Stop The Corporate Theft of The Worlds Water. |9:01-9:06 Headlines: 9:06-9:07 One Minute Music Break 9:07-9:20 TODAY IS…

  • Democracy Now! March 12, 2002

    ARGENTINA PROTESTS : Israeli army raids Palestinian refugee camps in Occupied Territories : Muslim cleric and former BLACK PANTHER Jamil Al-Amin [H.Rap Brown] is convicted of killing one sheriff’s deputy and wounding another. Prosecutors are urging jurors to sentence the Muslim spiritual leader to death : report from his brother from inside the courtroom. |9:01-9:06…

  • MORNING SHOW MARCH 20, 2002 : HOST SONALI KOLHATKAR’S INTERVIEW WITH MANUEL CRIOLLO, BUS RIDERS UNION.

    MORNING SHOW MARCH 20, 2002 : HOST SONALI KOLHATKAR’S INTERVIEW WITH MANUEL CRIOLLO, BUS RIDERS UNION. Contact Ph. for Manuel Criollo is 213 387-2800.

  • Harry Bridges Project : Produced By Ian Ruskin

    Harry Bridges Project : Produced By Ian Ruskin – An in-depth look at the life of Harry Bridges [1901-1990] and the impact he had on the American Labor Movement. Contents: the one man play “From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks: the life and times of Harry Bridges” with Ian Ruskin. Presented by PRI,…

  • Explorations With Dr. Michio Kaku – July 24, 2001

    Explorations with Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, science program. GUESTS: Dr. Michio Kaku invites FRANKLIN POTTER, retired Professor of Physics at the University of California at Irvine to discuss the myriad topics covered in his book “Mad about Physics: Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities.”[Potter is co-author,main author,…

  • May Day And The American Labor Movement With Sabina Virgo.

    May Day And The American Labor Movement With Sabina Virgo. Vietnamese workers call for the end to the war in Saigon, 1966; Ex-Congresswoman Bella Abzug rocks the No Nukes Rally in 1979; and a 1971 May Day rally in support of the Black Panther Nine. The American labor movement is explored through clips from a…