Can toxic workplace culture contribute to deadly mass shootings? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we’ll discuss this year’s deadliest workplace shooting and what unions can do to stop them. Then, when coal miners, factory workers, teachers and nurses all flex their muscles, you get Striketober. Are these strikes...
There’s a new gang of labor reporters online. They want more justice, more accountability, more power for the people. They’re called More Perfect Union, and this week they’ll be on the Heartland Labor Forum. Also, we’ll ask: after 20 years of the Afghan war, what have we learned? Author, labor...
Among our new-to-us finds this week, we bring you Irish music direct from Moscow from Polca in Ri's 2021 release From Sliabh Mosco to Cathair Pheadair. We'll also bring you 2021 releases from Banter featuring Phil Beer (English); Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (Italian); Cara (German/Irish); Suthering (English); Grosse Isle (Quebecois); Mette...
How safe is your vote? This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, we talk to Sara Zorich of the Jackson County Election Board about your ballot’s journey from the voting booth to the counting room, rule changes for absentee voting, and other issues. Then, we’ll talk to Adrienne Pine about...
Galicia is an autonomous community of Spain located in the northwest Iberian Peninsula. The area takes its name from the Gallaeci, the Celtic people living north of the Douro River during the last millennium BC. There are two languages officially and widely used today in Galicia: the native Galician, a...
Long ago Mark and Val found their way into folk music via the 1960s folk revival and into British & Celtic trad from English folk-rock. They love to hear how other folks (particularly younger folks) found their way into folk music and what they're currently listening to and so are...
The KC Irish Fest is coming up Labor Day weekend, so it's time for our annual Irish Fest Preview show. Thinking of going? We bring you a selection of who you're going to hear! We kick off the show with Tullamore, playing 4:30 on Sat at the Magner's Park Stage....
New (to us) music keeps coming in thick and fast. Today we bring you music that's mostly from the British Isles. You will hear (and maybe be introduced to): Ross and Ryan Cooper; Christina Alden & Alex Patterson; Anna Tam; Niamh ni Charra; Declan O'Rourke; Brian O hEadhra & Fionnag...
