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How We Survive: Sprouting Up in Empty Breadbaskets

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also explore a project bringing healthy food to low income neighborhoods in Oakland, California.

How We Survive: Predatory ‘Mending’

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Activists have been setting up community-run check-cashing and community loan funds as an alternative to predatory lending practices which led to our current foreclosure crisis.l

How We Survive: Renters, Rights, and Resistance

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

On this edition, we continue our series “How We Survive” and hear from renters and renters’ advocates about the invisible victims of the mortgage meltdown.

How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis (encore)

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

We visit with a family who lost their home and now lives inside their cramped trailer in a city parking lot. And we’ll hear how two different communities are dealing with the economic crisis by taking matters into their own hands.

How We Survive: Resisting Foreclosures

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

A look into how communities and everyday people around the U.S. are resisting foreclosure of their homes. We take a stab at the question: are rescue programs actually working?

How We Survive: The Deepening Homeless Crisis

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

We visit with a family who lost their home and now lives inside their cramped trailer in a city parking lot. And, how two different communities are dealing with the economic crisis by taking matters into their own hands.

Who Would Jesus Tax? (encore edition)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

We talk with a single mom and a tax fairness advocate to debunk some myths about how wealth is created and what people can do to change tax policy and at how an under-reported union between political conservatives and the Christian right preserves the gap between the haves and have-nots.

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