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“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform (Available 1/9/23).“At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the...

Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers?

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform. Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received...

Aging Isn’t A Problem, Ageism Is

Someone turns 65 every 8 seconds in this country, and as our elderly population grows, so does the need to build an economy around our future selves. In this episode, three leaders in the age justice movement share their ideas about how we can age with dignity, power, and change our society to reflect just that.

Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy?

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week's episode on your favorite podcast platform.Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New...

Farmworkers to Farm Owners

Farmworkers to Farm OwnersTo download, please subscribe. To download a single episode, click share in the podcast player below.A special thanks to our Patreon community for supporting us through this difficult time and making...

Covid Couldn’t Stop Worker-Owned Co-ops

When homecare workers at Cooperative Homecare Associates in the Bronx ran short of masks in the early days of the Covid pandemic, the worker-owners of Opportunity Threads in Morganton, North Carolina stepped up, retooling...

Can Marijuana Create a Path to Justice?

Legalizing cannabis, repairing the economy. Our guests say, reparations and restorative justice for workers in the budding cannabis industry need to be a part of the conversation. 

BIPOC Media on the Fight for Fair Wages — & Anti-Racist Unions

Prefer to Listen?Subscribe to our podcast to listen to this week’s episode on your favorite podcast platform.From auto plants to Amazon warehouses, to Hollywood studios, pharmacies and hospitals, almost half a million workers...

Beating Poverty by Investing in Teachers: A Labor Story for May Day

McDowell County, West Virginia, in the heart of what used to be coal country, is one of the most impoverished counties in the US — a place that embodies the challenges facing many American...

Excerpt: Afro-centric Education and Black Power in Bed-Stuy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOcqXyhP8ts"How do we put self-empowerment at the center of schools?" We visit Ember Charter Schools for Mindful Education, a culturally-responsive school in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant.With over 40 nations represented, Ember is an institution seeking to...

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