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1424 - Comparing Our Labor Law with Europe and Canada and Gerald Epstein: Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us

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1424 - Comparing Our Labor Law with Europe and Canada and Gerald Epstein: Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest of Us

Tue, 16 Apr 2024
1423 - Dystopian novelist Dave Eggers, author of the Circle and the Every, nominated for a Pulitzer

Tue, 14 Jun 2022
1422 - Thomas Frank and his new book: The People No: A History of Anti-Populism

Wed, 20 Jan 2021
1421 - Can Medicare for All Beat Union Healthcare? and Dismantling Labor Rights at the NLRB

Thu, 02 Apr 2020
1420 - Should Trump Be Impeached? – A Debate

Thu, 03 Oct 2019
1419 - United Fruit Company: Rotten Bananas and Keeping America White: US Immigration Policy

Thu, 23 May 2019
1418 - Kansas’s New Secretary of Labor, Delia Garcia and Kansas City’s Pay Gap Study

Sun, 19 May 2019
1417 - Eugene Debs: American Socialist – The Movie and Herbert March: 1930’s KC Organizer

Thu, 09 May 2019
1416 - Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work

Thu, 02 May 2019
1415 - Celebrating May Day with a book for teens about Haymarket and Centennial of The Seattle General Strike

Tue, 23 Apr 2019
1414 - Feel the Trickle: the Tax “Cuts”

Thu, 11 Apr 2019
1413 - Bruce Campbell: The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, Justice Denied and A New Labor Caucus for Missouri Democrats

Thu, 04 Apr 2019
1412 - Celebrating Heartland Labor Forum’s 30th Anniversary with our first show: The Eastern Airlines Strike and Railway Workers Speak Out on Safet

Fri, 29 Mar 2019
1411 - A Teach-In at the Border

Thu, 21 Mar 2019
1410 - Teaching the Labor Movement How to Strike

Thu, 14 Mar 2019
1409 - Mayoral Candidate Forum with Phil Glynn & the Attack on Missouri Initiatives I

Fri, 08 Mar 2019
1408 - Sorry to Bother You, Boots and Lessons of the LA Teachers Strike

Fri, 01 Mar 2019
1407 - Mayoral Candidate Interview: Henry Klein and Rebuilding Power in Open Shop America

Fri, 22 Feb 2019
1406 - Mayoral Candidate Steve Miller & Worker Co-ops

Fri, 15 Feb 2019
1405 - Medea Benjamin on Iran & Mayoral Forum III with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues

Tue, 05 Feb 2019
1404 - New Threats and Promises from Missouri and Kansas Legislatures

Fri, 01 Feb 2019
1403 - Labor in Cuba and Trump’s Screw Job on Workers

Fri, 25 Jan 2019
1402 - Mayoral Forum II with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues

Fri, 18 Jan 2019
1401 - William Kennedy’s Ink Truck and What Do LA Teachers Want?

Fri, 11 Jan 2019
1400 - Will the New NAFTA Stop Oreo–Mexico from Sickening Its Workers?

Fri, 04 Jan 2019
1399 - Dana Frank: The Long Honduran Night and Barry Eidlin, Labor and the Class Idea in the US and Canada

Fri, 28 Dec 2018
1398 - Community Schools

Fri, 21 Dec 2018
1397 - Mayoral Forum I with Candidates on Economic Justice Issues

Fri, 14 Dec 2018
1396 - Undoing Missouri’s Public Sector and Erik Loomis – A History of America in Ten Strikes

Fri, 07 Dec 2018
1395 - Venezuela: The Other Side of the Story and Tex Sample: Working Class Rage

Fri, 30 Nov 2018
1394 - Rebroadcast from Sept. 20: How We Defeated Right to Work and Now What?

Fri, 23 Nov 2018
1393 - Election Recap on Worker Issues and People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob's Red Mill

Tue, 13 Nov 2018
1392 - Election Recap on Worker Issues and People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob's Red Mill

Tue, 13 Nov 2018
1391 - Election Recap on Worker Issues and People Before Profit: The Inspiring Story of the Founder of Bob's Red Mill

Tue, 13 Nov 2018
1390 - One Job Should Be Enough: The Marriott Strike and ATT Legacy: How about One Contract?

Fri, 09 Nov 2018
1389 - Ballot Initiatives: CLEAN and Raise Up Missouri

Thu, 01 Nov 2018
1388 - Is the Economy Blowing Bubbles? and Rail Workers Uniting

Thu, 25 Oct 2018
1387 - Sweat: A Play about Rustbelt America and The Fall of Wisconsin

Thu, 18 Oct 2018
1386 - Two Books about the Decline of Work and the Middle Class: Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work and Squeezed: Why Our Families C

Thu, 11 Oct 2018
1385 - Middle School Kids Talk Labor History and Bill Fletcher has a novel: The Man That Fell from the Sky

Thu, 04 Oct 2018
1384 - Exploring the Psychology of Obedience and Wobs in KC

Thu, 27 Sep 2018
1383 - Prop A: How We Defeated Right to Work and Now What?

Thu, 20 Sep 2018
1382 - BlackKKlansman: HLF Looks Under the Hood and The Killing of DST

Thu, 13 Sep 2018
1381 - Is the Sharing Economy for the Byrds? and Street Fight Radio-WCRS

Thu, 06 Sep 2018
1380 - The Attack on Public Employee Unions and How They’re Resisting

Thu, 30 Aug 2018
1379 - Voter Suppression of Women and Bernie’s ‘Our Revolution'

Thu, 23 Aug 2018
1378 - Trump’s Federal Remix: A New Department of Child Labor and a Private Postal Service?

Thu, 16 Aug 2018
1377 - Downtown Shakedown and Bringing Football to Its Knees

Thu, 09 Aug 2018
1376 - Kicking the Koch Habit Conference Preview

Thu, 02 Aug 2018
1375 - Heartland Labor Forum

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