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TUNE IN EVERY THURSDAY 6:00-7:00 PM OR FRIDAY 5:00-6:00 AM or listen to live streaming at www.kkfi.org Kansas City's only radio show about the workplace and the Labor Movement. Winner of 2005 International Labor Communcations Association Film & Broadcast Contest
LISTEN TO BACK SHOWS Just click on the show name to listen to an mp3 file (Click either here: Windows Media Player or here: Real and look for link to free RealPlayer) shows usually posted weekly by Friday afternoon return to upcoming radio schedule Archived shows 2009 Nov. 19 Wondering About the Economic Crisis? Ask an Economist
Nov. 12 Two Books on Being
Broke: Survivor’s Guide to Debt – with author Mitchell Allen and
Flat Broke in the Free Market – with author Jon Jeter
Sept.10 Schlitterbahn Washes Out Local Workers and Planting Seeds: Stories of Organizers Sept. 3 Labor Day with MO-KAN Labor Secretaries Jim Garner and Larry Redmon
Aug 27 Green Impact Zone
Aug 20
Two New Labor Books: The Canal Builders by Julie Greene and Staley: The
Fight for a New Labor Movement by Steven Ashby and CJ Hawking
Aug 13 Defending Public Education and Visible Work
Invisible Worker: Coal Miners August 6 War! What's It Good For? July 30 12,000 Missouri Home Healthcare Workers Organize and Whose Working the Tomato Production Chain? July 23 Why Don't They Just Get Legal? and Mexican Immigration: Cost or Benefit?
7/ 16 What's a Hybrid? and Warming Up to the Carbon Tax 7/9 Why Unions Matter with Michael Yates and Young Economists look at the Bailout and the Future
7/2 Voices of the People's History of the United States (and Kansas City)
6/25 What's a Good Green Job? and Defending Public Education 2 - Stopping School Closings 6/18 Are workers' rights human rights? and Kansas City worker justice center
6/ 11 Visible work; invisible worker – meat packing 6/4 Defending public education 5/28 Is American business too sick to compete? and Upheaval in the quiet zone by Leon Fink 5/21 In defense of the autoworker standard – a call in show 5/14 Rebuilding the inner city green and The 2nd time around: Will AFL-CIO and Change To Win retie the knot? 5/7 Privatizing mental health in Missouri and Carpenters tell Lee's Summit don't bailout a developer! 4/30 Will Honeywell Workers Be the Next Superfund Site?
4/23 Planting Seeds: Profiles of Organizers 4/16 Broken promises: The Sad State of Workers Compensation and Illegal People by David Bacon 4/9 You and your job: til death do you part? The state of pensions and retirement planning 4/2 Saving jobs and the environment 3/26 Posterchildren for Labor Law Reform: Centerpoint and Fox 4
3/19 Gaveling Down the Rabble: how the courts allowed corporate rule and Buy American: help or hokum? 3/12 Wal-Mart Tax Scams and Jailing Kids for Profit
3/5 Starbucks: A progressive on cappuccino capitalism and Will the Missouri Leg tip the scales against servers? 2/26 From the Bottom Up - Rebuilding Infrastructure 2/19 Foreclosing the Dream KC Style 2/12 Visible Work; Invisible Workers: Bricklayer Apprentices and State of the Workplace with the Star's Diane Stafford
2/5 The China Price II: Hidden Costs of Imports and Save Our Jobs Rally 1/29 Two Labor Victories: Sitting Down On Their Assets: Republic Windows & Doors and After a Decade Smithfield Workers Vote Union 1/22 Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War with Thomas Andrews and Author Jana Lipman: Gitmo's Invisible Workers 1/15 Will Centerpoint Hospital Nurses Become the Employee Free Choice Act's Posterchildren? 1/8 Kim Bobo on Wage Theft in America and Missouri NEA Organizes St. Joseph School Support Workers 1/1 Taking Inventory: The 2010 Census and Molly Plays Songs for the New Year
2008 12/25 Happy Holidays and Farewell To The Thief! Free At Last! 12/18 Union Free America Workers & Antiunion Culture and Why We Need EFCA
12/11 Planning Your Holiday Budget? Don't Forget The China Price - and - How a Brazilian Organization Is Freeing Slaves in the Amazon 12/4 Missouri Women in the Trades and Saving Auto Jobs 11/27 HLF's Award-Winning Show – Canary in the Mine; Heartland Labor Forum Goes to New Orleans (Rerun) 11/20 Author Lew Daly: “They Didn't Make It On Their Own” - Why We Should Tax the Rich and The Risk's On You: Why a 401K Costs More Than a Pension
11/13 Cartoons on the Radio with Mark Hurwitt and The Politics of Immigration with author Jane Guskin
< Click for more cartoons 11/6 Obama's First 100 Days: with Bill Fletcher and Ross Eisenbrey
10/23 State of Farmworker Organizing – KKFI PLEDGE DRIVE!! 10/16 Election Special: Meet More Candidates & Missouri Prop B 10/9 Election Special: Meet the Candidates 10/2 All You Need to Know to Protect Your Vote and the Kansas Economic Report with Secretary of Labor Jim Garner 9/25 Thomas Frank Comes Back to KKFI with The Wrecking Crew and Douglas Blackmon on his new book Slavery By Another Name
9/18 Fixing the Americans with Disabilities Act and The Solidarity Economy – some real alternatives
9/11 Fast and Loose with Other People's Money: The Keating 5 (including John McCain)
and Calculating the Cost of War
9/4
Live from
the Labor Day Parade with Harry Truman and Western Union Busting
8/28 Labor Day: Bill Fletcher on Labor's Future and Nurses United Bargains with Centerpoint (show unavailable)
8/21
Meet
the Union Maid and the Union Mann: Anne Feeney and George Mann
8/14
Who
Is Enforcing Minimum Wage
and Overtime Laws? And Raise the Wage Kansas
8/7
Richer Rich
and Poorer Poor: The Inequlity of Wealth
7/31 Human
Trafficking American Style and Barack Obama Talks with the AFL-CIO
7/24 Injured
on the Job? Ask a Mexican and Visible Work - Invisible Worker
7/17 Furious
Improvisation and Missouri's Green Jobs Potential
7/10
Two New Union
Leaders and The True Cost of Shrimp
7/3
Is the School District Pulling
the Rug Out from Under Kansas City Teachers? and Are Kids Picking
Your Food
6/ 26 Visible
Work; Invisible Worker: Electricians and EBSA: Employee Benefits
Security Administration
6/19 Getting
Out the Vote with Working America and A Tribute to Utah Phillips
6/5
When
the Prisoners Ran Walpole and The Noland Road Bridge
5/29
A Chinese View of
Trade and King Burger's Slaves
5/22 Bill
Black: Why Banks
Go Bad and Up to Our Eyeballs [in debt]
5/15 UAW
On Strike at GM and American Axle
5/8 In
COAL Blood: The Kansas Coal Fire Debate
May Day The Future of Labor with Steve Early and Visible
Work Invisible Workers - Butchers
4/ 24 David
Cay Johnston's Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves
at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
4/ 17 Two
Books: The Great Strikes of 1877 and On the Global Waterfront
4/10 Pledge
Drive Special
4/ 3 Top
Presidential Candidates: Who's Better for Working People? Call-in
Show
3/ 27
Meet the Raging
Grannies and Immigration Update
3/20 What
Happened to Saturn? The Movie & Third Parties: Spoilers or Saviors?
3/13 Jobs
with Justice Comes to KC & Affirmative Deception:Assault on
Civil Rights
3/6
ShameOnElaine.org
& KC's Day Labor Center
2/28 The Debt
Economy with Ron Blackwell and Labor's Seeds of Renewal in New Orleans
2/21 Trumping Racism with Solidarity: 2 Books on Black Labor: Wobblies on the Waterfront and The Black Worker: A Reader 2/14 Books
and Authors: Bob Kutner's The Squandering of America and
Moe Bowstern's Xtra Tuff
2/7 Eyewitness
in Colombia , Labor Leader Assassination Capital of the World
1/31 The
Minutemen Go Uptown and What Does Illegal Really Mean?
1/24 401Ks
for Barristas! Is This Boss for Real? and Visible Work/Invisible
Workers
1/17 Election
Year Guide to ISMs: What's In a Label? Libertarianism and Populism
1/10 Who Does Labor
Like? Candidate Endorsements: Do They Matter? and Richard Pirodsky
on his book The Demigod about Ftr Coughlin the Radio Priest
1/3 The New South: Political Change in Latin America: visiting Salvadorans and CAFTA plus Father Mike Gilgannon on Bolivia, Evo Morales and Hugo Chavez 2007 12/27
HLF End of Year Wrap-up
12/20 Canary
in the Mine: Heartland Labor Forum Goes to New Orleans
12/13 Visible Work—Invisible
Worker and US Labor Against War
12/6 Disabled
Workers Update and Springsteen: Poet Laureate of Working Class
Rock and Roll
11/29 New
Books: Chuck Collins' The Moral Measure of the Economy
and Les Leopold's The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: Tony
Mazzocchi
11/22 Your Fashions Made in
Sri Lanka ! You Mean They Have Unions in Sierra Leone ? Jordan 's
Undocumented Iraqis - A
Visit with Labor Activists from 3 Countries
11/15
What Have Missouri Public Employees Won? And Raise the Wage-Kansas
11/8
New Books: Phil
Dine's State of the Unions and David Parker's Before Their
Time; The World of Child Labor
 Child
Labor Photos
from book11/01
John Boyd on Missouri 's 2005 Work Comp Reform: Less Coverage, Shifting
Costs and Tracie Washington Civil Rights Attorney: The Truth About Katrina
10/25
Staffing the FAA
and Harvest Festival: Eat Like a Farmworker
10/18
Operator, Where
Have All the Workers Gone? and Don't Be Ladylike.
10/11
CCA Selling Back
a Prison and other Privatization Nightmares
10/4
Climate Change : Making a Just
Transition & Economic Development Policy and Jobs: What's the
Connection?
9/27
Their Soil Whose Oil? The
Iraq Oil Law & GM Contract Proposal - PLEDGE
DRIVE - Special Premiums: Phil Dine's new
book State of the Unions and Anne Feeney's CD If I Can't
Dance available for $60 pledge to KKFI
9/20
Disappearing Government:
Retreat Mining = No Regulation? and Neither Rain nor Sleet. but What
About Privatization?
9/13
International Labor
Rights and Wrongs: Prisoners of Conscience & Liberia Firestone
Workers
9/6
America Starts
Here: Artist Mel Ziegler on Public Art
to
exhibit at Kansas City Art Institute Artspace8/30
Labor Day Special:
In Union There's Harmony, Don't be Ladylike and US Since 1980
by Dean Baker
8/23 African
Americans in Labor: A Phillip Randolph Institute and
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
8/16
New Writing:
Taking on the Big Boys; or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business
& the Nation by Ellen Bravo and Tom Geoghegan, Law in Shambles
Regulation Driven by Party Politics
8/9 Our
Prison Industry Complex and Visible Work/Invisible Worker - Janitors
8/2
Project Censored:
Underreported Stories from the 2007 Edition
7/26
NAFTA Plus:
The Security & Prosperity Partnership and TILMA
7/19
No Sweat and Made
in USA ? Where's the War Economy? & Michael Yates: Cheap
Motels & A Hot Plate - An Economist's Travel Guide
7/12 SICKO
– Michael Moore's New Film from a Doc's Perspective
7/5
The
Employee Free
Choice Act and The Delphi Deal
6/28 Single
payer: the only genuine health care reform for workers
6/21
Immigrant
voices: raids and family separation. . .and. . .Guest workers: Close
to slavery
6/14
Economic
development done right,
the "Ideal Deal" for Local Governments . . and. . .Cartoons
on the radio
6/7
Barristas of the world unite! Starbucks
organizing and Filipino Wal-Mart Workers on Strike
Send a letter to Wal-Mart for Chongwon Workers 5/31 Book
show: The Cinema of Globalization by Tom Zaniello and Radical
Unionism by Rose Feurer
5/24
Missouri
legislative autopsy. . .and. . .Activist elders:
no rocking chair for union retirees
5/17
Labor-management
partnerships:
saving jobs or sleeping with the
enemy?
5/10 Missouri
Supreme Court to rule on teachers' rights
and Creating a Green Collar Workforce: The Apollo Alliance
5/3 Fleecing
the Middle Class: The Mortgage Crisis
4/26
Coal
Mine Death Surge and CIW Attacks the Killer (Mc)Tomatoes
4/19
GATS Mode 4: Portable
Workers and Communities Without Borders by David Bacon
4/12
Blue-Green
Alliance: Labor's Environmental
Future and Retiring to Garden: An Autoworker Keeps Growing
4/5
Globalization
That Works: Jeff Faux and Translating Unity: Carpenters Organize
in Alberta
3/
29 Misclassification:
The Independent Contractor Ripoff and
PLEDGE
DRIVE: Give us your money please. Pledge to KKFI
3/
22 Restoring
Medicaid to Disabled Workers and Kansas City Mayoral Election II
3/15
Bringing
Democracy to the Workplace – The Employee Free Choice Act and Derailing
Fast Track
3/8
Sweatshops
on Wheels and Other Deregulation Nightmares; Conn Selmer Blows It
-- Strikers'
Website
3/1
Restructuring
the FDA: Bad Medicine for Workers and Consumers? and Music to Spotlight
Women and Labor with Bob and Diana Suckiel
2/22
Mayoral Candidate
Positions on Labor Issues2/15 Global
Union Solidarity in Action: The World of the ITF
2/8
Monitoring Minorities
in KC Construction
2/1
KC-TIF: Uneven
Patchwork
1/25
Black Men in Unions
Conference and Medicaid: Surgery by Blunt Instrument
1/18 Books:
Lou Dobbs' War on the Middle Class and Elizabeth Fones Wolf's
Waves of Opposition 1 Populism
vs. Free Tree Trade: The New Face of Latin America
1/4 Ice
Storm: Immigration Storm troopers Raid Swift
2006 12/28
Hail
to the Thief: New Labor and Political Music
12/21
Sweatshops
Behind Bars and The Real Nelly Don
12/14
Books:
Interview with Andy Stern about his New Book, A Country That Works
and with Gerald Horne on The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John
Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten and Update on the Goodyear
Strike
11/23 Thanks
for the Music
11/16
Election Postmortem:
What's the Agenda for the Future?
11/9
The
Goodyear Strike: Saving American Jobs
Know of a job for a Goodyear Striker? Call 785-234-5688. 11/2 Missouri
Ballot Initiatives: Stem Cell & Minimum Wage
10/26 Missouri
Candidate Forum
10/ 19 KKFI
PLEDGE DRIVE . Kansas Candidate
Forum
10/12 New
Books: Dean Baker The Conservative Nanny State & Barry C. Lynn
End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation
10/5 Hidden
History: Unearthing
Quindaro & MO Campaign Finance Deform
9/28 N.L.R.B.
[No Labor Rights under Bush?]
Links mentioned: NLRB, American Rights at Work 9/21 The Spoils of War: Profiteering in Wartime and Youth Radio 9/14 Women in the Trades: Pioneers and the 2 nd Generation 9/7 Low Wage Workers Bargain: SEIU Janitors & Nursing Home Workers (coming soon) August 31 NAFTA Corridor: The New Prairie Home Companion?
Vogel's map based on DOT maps August
24 Immigration
Conflagration: Some Real Solutions
August 17 One
Party States
August 10 Greed vs. The Common Good August 3 Guzzling Ourselves to Extinction & Picture This: Cartoons on the Radio July 27 Slim Pickins: Who Will Raise the Minimum Wage? July 20 Attack on Your Right to Vote: Voter ID and Other Plots July 13 Right to Vote and the Disabled July 6 Classic Labor Songs from the Smithsonian June 29 Trail of Tiers: Two Tier Wages and Wage Clubs: More Tears June 22 Deconstructing Uncle Sam: IRS, Postal System, and Air Traffic June 15 Summer Books: Hostile Takeover and The Disposable American June 8 The Color of Wealth: No Longer Separate But Still Unequal June 1 The Captive Worker: Outsourcing to Prison May 25 Immigration II: Alternatives for Reform May 18 Youth Voices and Good Knight and Good Ridder May 11 Immigration I: The Movement and the Backlash May 4 Unsure
and Uninsured: The Healthcare Crisis and Is the Massachusetts Reform
a Model or a Scam?
April 27 Smart
Port KC: Beachhead of the Future or Job Drain?
April 20 Minorities in Construction: We'll Call You If We Need You Youth Voices April 13 Rollback Wal-Mart: The Conference + Winners of Slam Wal-Mart + News feature on Immigration Rally April 6 Pledge Drive, Interview with Evelyn Murphy on Getting Even, review of North Country March 30 2 Books – J. Rasmus's The War at Home: The Corporate Offensive from Reagan to Bush & R. Schwartz's Strikes, Picketing & Inside Campaigns March 23 Magazine: The Disabled: Largest Minority, Ruth Price on Agnes Smedley, & Enron: What's Missing Besides the Money? March 16 Blunt Clot: Stop the Trauma and Mend Medicare March 9 Lockout: Boilermakers in Meredosia IL & Girard KS Printers. Lockjaw: Shutting up Miners in Utah March 2 Two Books: Bananeras and Immigrants, Unions, & the New US Labor Movement February 23 Minorities in Construction: Building Bridges & Youth Build Feburary 16 Labor's Political Action: Does It Make a Difference? February 9 Bosses in Name Only: Missclassified Workers February 2 The Future of Auto: Dismantling Fordism January 26 Where
Have All the Pensions Gone?
January
19 Two Upcoming
Political Initiatives: TABOR and Fusion Voting
January 5 Alternatives
to the Katrina Model-Bridges out of Poverty
2005 December 22
Disaster Capitalism: The Katrina Model
December 15 The
Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy with
Community Activist, Author and Musician Si Kahn and co-author Elizabeth
Minnich
December 8
How Safe Are Missouri
and Kansas Workplaces?
November 24
Heartland Labor Forum News
and Music Follies
November 10 My
City TIF of Thee
November 3 Whispers
from the Streets – a radio play by Full Circle
Theatre
Heartland Labor Forum Wins 2005 ILCA Media Contest for Radio!!! Listen to the Show: Iraqi Workers Since "Self Rule" & Does The Trade Deficit Matter? Listen to WIN - Workers Independent News on KKFI
weekdays 5:57 & 7:57 AM and 4:57 PM
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