Click here for the original audio and to read a book excerpt. We revisit host Deepa Fernandes' March 2023 conversation with labor organizer Saket Soni. His acclaimed book "The Great Escape: A True ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on July 4, 2024. Click here for that audio. In 2006, Saket Soni worked as a labor organizer in New Orleans. One day, he received a disturbing phone call ...

My book The Great Escape tells the story of 500 Indian laborers who were lured to the United States on promises of good work and green cards, convinced to pay $20,000 apiece to come rebuild ...

As extreme weather disasters intensify, the workers who are hired by corporations to clean up after hurricanes, floods, blizzards and wildfires are increasingly on the frontlines of the climate crisis ...

War, as they say, can be hell — but it has certainly inspired some amazing movies! For example, 1963’s The Great Escape, a film based on the true story of a mass escape by Allied prisoners from the ...