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Archived Shows 2010
Feb. 4
Feminists Take Flight, the Story of IFFA - the Independent Federation of
Flight Attendants with Mary Ellen Miller
Jan. 28
Financial Re-regulation: Is the Fix In? and Credit Unions: Are They
Better?
United Labor Credit Union;
UMKC Econ Blog;
New Deal2.0;
Firedog Lake;
Naked
Capitalism
Jan 21
Duke and Pat – The New Leadership of the Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO and
Planting Seeds - Profiles of Organizers featuring Aretta Shannon
See
KC Tribune article about Duke and Pat
Jan. 14 American Socialism?
Coops Past and Future
United
Steelworkers and
Mondragon
Jan. 7 At the Altar of the
Bottom Line new book and music CD by Tom Juravich and
The Greensboro Massacre - ever heard of it?
Alter CD
Greensboro Film
Archived
shows 2009
Dec. 31 Green Training in KC
Dec. 24 Peace on Earth: Stop the Wars
Dec. 17 Should CEO Pay Be Capped?
(summary) and Revisiting the
Greensboro
Massacre: Could It Happen Again?
Dec. 10 Michael Moore Shows Capitalism’s Evils: What Is it and Are
There Alternatives?
Alperowitz's
Commuity Wealth
Website
Richard
Wolff's Website
Dec. 3 The 2009 Jobs with Justice Scrooge Award Nominees and
Assessing the WTO 10 Years after Seattle
KC
Jobs with Justice and
Public Citizen
Global Tradewatch
Nov. 26 Thanks for the Music – a sampler of justice music
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
Nov. 5 Nineteen
Thirty-seven – A Play about Kansas City Labor History and A New New Deal
–with author and labor leader Amy Dean
1937
One Helluva Year tickets; Amy Dean's
new book
Oct.
29 Concessions and Clunkers: Now What for the Autoworkers?
and Steve Early: Embedded
Embedded with Organized Labor
Oct. 22
Will the Climate Crisis Undo Globalization? and
International Day of Climate Action
Oct. 15
AmeriCorps: Career Opportunities or Cheap Labor Supply? and
Stories from Quindaro
Oct. 8 The Costs of War for the Working Class
Oct. 1
Visible Work, Invisible Workers: Phone Techs and
New Voice for Union Retirees
The
Alliance for a Retired Americans
Sept. 24 Health Care
or Health Insurance
Reform? What’s really in
the proposals?
Sept. 17
Honduras: Labor Leads Resistance to the Coup and David Bacon Why
Criminalizing Immigrants is Bad for Working People
David
Bacon
Up-to-date
information on Honduras
Sept.10 Schlitterbahn Washes Out Local Workers
and Planting Seeds: Stories of Organizers
Support
Local Workers
Sept. 3 Labor Day with MO-KAN Labor Secretaries Jim Garner and Larry Redmon
Missouri
Department of Labor & Industrial Relations --
Kansas Department of Labor
-- Labor Day
Parade
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?
Study
of Mexican
Immigrants in the Midwest
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
Why
Unions Matter - the book and UMKC
Economics Blog
7/2
Voices
of the People's History of the
United States (and Kansas City)
to
Voices of the People's History web
page
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
Kansas
City Worker Justice Center 913-232-2235
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!
No
bailout website
4/30
Will Honeywell
Workers Be the Next Superfund Site?
Building
Trades National Medical Screening Program 1-800-866-9663
4/23
Planting
Seeds: Profiles of Organizers
4/16
Broken
promises: The Sad State of Workers Compensation and Illegal People
by David Bacon
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
The
Employee Free Choice Act
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
Wal-Mart
Subsidy Watch at Good Jobs First
3/5
Starbucks:
A progressive on cappuccino capitalism and Will
the Missouri Leg tip the scales against servers?
Save
our Tips
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
Diane
Stafford's blog, Bricklayers
Local 15
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
American
Rights@Work to see videos on 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
MOWIT
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
Unjust
Deserts and Nat'l
Institute for Retirement Security
11/13
Cartoons on the
Radio with Mark Hurwitt and The Politics of Immigration
with author Jane Guskin
Mark Hurwitt and
The Politics of Immigration
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11/6
Obama's First 100
Days: with Bill Fletcher and Ross Eisenbrey
Fletcher's
100
Day Agenda and Economic Policy Institute Plan
to Revive the American Economy
(including John McCain)
and Calculating the Cost of War
8/28 Labor Day: Bill Fletcher on Labor's Future and
Nurses United Bargains with Centerpoint (show unavailable)
another
Fletcher
speech and Nurses
United
Anne
Feeney website and George
Mann website
US
Department of Labor Wage
& Hour Division 913-551-
5721
8/7
Richer Rich
and Poorer Poor: The Inequlity of Wealth
Inst.
for Policy Studies and The
Nation
New
Orleans Workers Center Indian Guestworker page
7/17 Furious
Improvisation and Missouri's Green Jobs Potential
Report
on Shrimp Workers
7/3
Is the School District Pulling
the Rug Out from Under Kansas City Teachers? and Are Kids Picking
Your Food
AFOP
Children in the Fields site and order DVD, Kansas
City Federation of
Teachers
6/ 26 Visible
Work; Invisible Worker: Electricians and EBSA: Employee Benefits
Security Administration
EBSA
866-444-EBSA (3272), (local) 816-285-1800,
askebsa@dol.gov
6/19 Getting
Out the Vote with Working America and A Tribute to Utah Phillips
Kansas
Department of Labor
6/5
When
the Prisoners Ran Walpole and The Noland Road Bridge
5/29
A Chinese View of
Trade and King Burger's Slaves
Coalition
of Imokalee Workers (CIW)
Up
to Our Eyeballs; Dollars
& Sense: Why Banks Go Bad
5/15 UAW
On Strike at GM and American Axle
on
GM strike: UAW Local 31; on
American Axle strike
5/8 In
COAL Blood: The Kansas Coal Fire Debate
Blue
Green Alliance; Sierra
Club - Kansas; Alliance
for Sound Energy
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/ 3 Top
Presidential Candidates: Who's Better for Working People? Call-in
Show
Off
Our Rockers. . .The Raging Grannies
3/20 What
Happened to Saturn? The Movie & Third Parties: Spoilers or Saviors?
Merrimack
Films ---
Ballot Access News
3/13 Jobs
with Justice Comes to KC & Affirmative Deception:Assault on
Civil Rights
St.
Louis Jobs with Justice
3/6
ShameOnElaine.org
& KC's Day Labor Center
Shame
on Elaine web site
2/28 The Debt
Economy with Ron Blackwell and Labor's Seeds of Renewal in New Orleans
Gulf
Coast Career Center
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
:
Zines by Moe and Fisher-poets
gathering
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
Excerpt
from The Demigod along with FDR's 1932 "Nothing
to Fear" Inaugural Address
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
New
Orleans Labor Media
AFL-CIO
Housing Investment Trust
And
Injustice for All: Workers Lives in the Reconstruction of New Orleans
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
11/15
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
11/01
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
 Amnesty-KC,
Amnesty International, Colombia
Support Network, Firestone
Campaign
9/6
America Starts
Here: Artist Mel Ziegler on Public Art
to
exhibit at Kansas City Art Institute Artspace
8/30
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
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
See cartoons
by Matt Wuerker
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
5/10 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
4/12
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
See
Results of Heartland Labor Forum Questionaires to Mayoral
Candidates and Council
Candidates
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
2/8
Monitoring Minorities
in KC Construction
2/1
KC-TIF: Uneven
Patchwork
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
11/16
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/ 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?
Resource
maps for show: NASCO
map; and Richard
Vogel's map
based on DOT maps
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
2005
December 15 The
Fox in the Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy with
Community Activist, Author and Musician Si Kahn and co-author Elizabeth
Minnich
November 24
Heartland Labor Forum News
and Music Follies
November 17
Holiday
Books: Selling Women Short and Let's Stop
Beating Around the Bush
November 3 Whispers
from the Streets – a radio play by Full Circle
Theatre
Solidarity
Campaign with Australian Workers
Heartland
Labor Forum Wins 2005 ILCA Media Contest for Radio!!!
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to the Show:
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