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Working Beyond Unions [Labor Day Special Encore]

post thumbnail Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

It’s been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new labor movement that goes beyond the unions.


Venezuela: Is the Bolivarian Revolution Working?

post thumbnail Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Venezuela is undergoing a modern day revolution. Workers, small farmers and the poor consistently vote for socialist President Hugo Chavez. Economically better-off citizens denounce the president as a communist who is destroying the country, but even some on the left criticize Chavez.


Lessons from Latin America

post thumbnail Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

We hear from activists and experts who say the U.S. can learn a lot from social movements in Latin America.


Immigrant Families Behind Bars (encore)

post thumbnail Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

In a special collaboration with Feet in Two Worlds, we hear about an immigrant family torn apart after an immigration raid in Arizona. Also, grassroots efforts help change policies at a detention center in Texas.


Working Beyond Unions

post thumbnail Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

It’s been decades since the U.S. has had a powerful labor movement and recent efforts to revive it have mostly fallen flat. But there is hope for a new labor movement that goes beyond the unions.


The Road to Detroit: US Social Forum 2010

post thumbnail Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

This June, the US Social Forum will be held in Detroit, Michigan.  We look at how Domestic Workers got organized at the last US Social Forum and we ask, what can we learn from the fall and rise of one of America’s great industrial cities?


Immigration Reforms:
How a Broken System Breaks Communities

post thumbnail Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

We go to two communities sorting through the aftermath of Bush-era federal immigration raids, and to Los Angeles, where American Apparel became the first test case of the Obama administration’s new approach to workplace hiring violations.



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