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2008

• 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

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

• 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

For a free issue of the Progressive Populist or call 800-205-7067and the Missouri Libertarian Party

• 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

• 12/27 HLF End of Year Wrap-up
• 12/20 Canary in the Mine: Heartland Labor Forum Goes to New Orleans

New Orleans Labor Media

AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust

And Injustice for All: Workers Lives in the Reconstruction of 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 book

• 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

New Orleans Labor Media

• 10/25 Staffing the FAA and Harvest Festival: Eat Like a Farmworker

National Farmworker Ministry, Dollars and Sense

• 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
• 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
  See cartoons by Matt   Wuerker
• 6/7   Barristas of the world unite! Starbucks organizing and Filipino Wal-Mart Workers on Strike

Starbucks Union or 

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

• 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
• 2/22 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

 Know of a job for a Goodyear Striker? Call 785-234-5688.

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

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

Solidarity Campaign with Australian Workers

Heartland Labor Forum Wins 2005 ILCA Media Contest for Radio!!!

Listen to the Show: Iraqi Workers Since "Self Rule" & Does The Trade Deficit Matter?

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