In this special interview episode, Sam and Gabe sit down to talk with two of the organizers behind Green 4 Falasteen, a coalition of AFSCME members and staffers organizing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and in solidarity with their fellow workers in Palestine.

Originally aired: April 17, 2024.

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While Campbell's Soup profits were soaring, their workers wages had shrunk during the great depression. With help from local Socialist organizations, they fought back in 1934.

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Sam and Gabe sit down with Mitch Troutman, organizer and author of The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners Who Seized an Industry, 1925–1942.

Originally aired: December 12, 2022.

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In this special Sam-researched episode, we travel back to May 18, 1912 when the Detroit Tigers walked off the field in Philadelphia to protest teammate Ty Cobb's suspension and were replaced by the most unlikely group of players in major league baseball history: North Philly locals.

Originally aired: May 6, 2022.

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Sam and Gabe sit down with Dr. Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History at Harvard University, to discuss her new book 'Freeman's Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison for Profit.'

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While news of the violence in other cities poured in, Philadelphia sat poised for a revolution in the midst of the "Great Upheaval" of 1877.

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In the midst of the Depression, tensions were rising in the American Federation of Labor, and a new wave of industrial organizing was about to sweep the nation.

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While they never went on strike, nor bargained for a contract, American Federation of Teachers Local 192 in Philadelphia fought for civil rights inside and outside of the classroom.

Originally aired: July 24, 2023.

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