Heartland Labor Forum

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Heartland Labor Forum episodes

August 17, 2017 Will Robots Get Your Job? And Blackballed: Race, Politics, and Football
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, comedian and social commentator Lee Camp asks not if robots will get your job but who will benefit when they do. Then, with […]
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1 hr 3 min
August 17, 2017 Will Robots Get Your Job? And Blackballed: Race, Politics, and Football
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, comedian and social commentator Lee Camp asks not if robots will get your job but who will benefit when they do. Then, with football kicking off this month, we’ll have historian Chuck Ross …
1 hr 3 min
August 10, 2017 The Politics of Immigration and Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, the topic is workers across borders and workers who cross borders. We’ll ask David Wilson, who has just updated The Politics of Immigration, […]
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58 min
August 10, 2017 The Politics of Immigration and Invisible Hands: Voices from the Global Economy
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, the topic is workers across borders and workers who cross borders. We’ll ask David Wilson, who has just updated The Politics of Immigration, “Do immigrants really take jobs from the rest of us …
58 min
August 03, 2017 Is Vo-Tech Shrinking? and Street Medical Care for All
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask, “Is vocational education disappearing or coming back?” Have we made a false choice between college and skills training? Later, we go […]
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58 min
August 03, 2017 Is Vo-Tech Shrinking? and Street Medical Care for All
This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll ask, “Is vocational education disappearing or coming back?” Have we made a false choice between college and skills training? Later, we go to the streets and find out about Street Medicine KC, …
58 min
July 27, 2017 A Plan to Put the Brakes on Runaway Inequality and Countering Hate without Feeding The Trolls
Why do we have extreme economic inequality in the richest country in the world? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Les Leopold about his new book, […]
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1 hr
July 27, 2017 A Plan to Put the Brakes on Runaway Inequality and Countering Hate without Feeding The Trolls
Why do we have extreme economic inequality in the richest country in the world? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Les Leopold about his new book, Runaway Inequality: An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice. He’ll tell …
1 hr
July 20, 2017 “Waiting for Lefty” by SAVE UMKC THEATRE Students & Faculty
Taxi Drivers on Strike! Tune to the Heartland Labor Forum for a special broadcast of Waiting for Lefty, a play by Cliff Odets performed by UMKC Theatre students and faculty. […]
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1 hr 5 min
July 20, 2017 "Waiting for Lefty" by SAVE UMKC THEATRE Students & Faculty
Taxi Drivers on Strike! Tune to the Heartland Labor Forum for a special broadcast of Waiting for Lefty, a play by Cliff Odets performed by UMKC Theatre students and faculty. And then stay for the second half for an interview …
1 hr 5 min

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Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City's only program about the workplace. It is produced by and for our working people. We have been agitating on the air since 1989. Find out who is busting unions and…