Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:00 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Monday, December 8th, 2025. In today’s newscast, WFHB News speaks with Starbucks employee and union organizer Sophie Lee out at the picket today about employees’ demands. That’s coming up in a feature interview at the bottom half of tonight’s show. You’ll also …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:02 — 13.8MB)Subscribe: RSSStarbucks workers on Indiana Avenue joined a nationwide strike today, protesting what they call unfair labor practices amid contract negotiations. Union lead Sophie Lee says baristas make roughly fourteen to fifteen dollars an hour, far below the wage Starbucks advertises. Lee says that workers are asking the community to …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 30:18 — 41.7MB)Subscribe: RSSThis is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, April 30th, 2024. Later in the program, demonstrators gathered at Dunn Meadow to protest Indiana University’s financial relationship with Israel amid its war on Palestine. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, Lil Bub’s Lil …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:59 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreHere are the opening paragraphs of an article in the Guardian from March 30 of this year: Thousands of graduate student workers around the US at private and public universities have gone on strike over the past few years, from Ivy League institutions like Harvard University and …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:38 — 67.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreDuring its meeting last night, the Bloomington Common Council declined to approve $18.5 million in bond funding to rebuild the Fourth Street Garage; The Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals meets tonight, to decide whether to grant a for-profit addiction treatment company their request to proceed with a …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 2:45 — 6.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe City of Bloomington and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees approved a four-year contract, earlier this month. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME for short, and the city of Bloomington agreed to the terms a contract for municipal …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of the Bicentennial Journal, Donn Hall tells about the Underground Railroad in Monroe County. Local families who helped – and handed over – runaway slaves, in this week’s edition of The Bicentennial Journal—looking back on 200 years of history in South Central Indiana. Support …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:59 — 6.6MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn this episode of the Bicentennial Journal, John Summerlot tells about the statue on the IU campus of Union officer Richard Owen. The statue was commissioned by confederate prisoners, and created by a woman sculptor. Richard Owen was a scientist, a geologist, a professor, and an infantry …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:11 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhile citizens are encouraged to fear and blame so called outside agitators the real menace lies within…A business community committed to the rancor of class and racial divisions with the intent to keeping labor powerless and in the chains of wage slavery. In our two previous programs …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:00 — 40.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWe open with music composed by Sol Kaplan for the film Salt of the Earth. Kaplan was blacklisted in the 1950s for being “uncooperative” to HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee. The rest of our music will feature the work of other blacklisted artists and performers; Hazel …
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