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On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Shanara Gabrielle on The Garbologists, and Jim Walsh on The Romero Theater Troupe at 20; Charlie King on âBring Back the Eight Hour Dayâ; On Labor History in 2:00: âThe Rebel Girlâ. Broadcast on January 30, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@TheaterAlliance @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: MLK in MemphisâWe Will Not Be Turned Aroundâ, Part 3 of AFSCMEâs I AM STORY podcast about the 1968 sanitation workersâ strike; Joe Uehlein on Morning Song, his tribute to Pete Seeger. Plus, on Labor History in 2:00: The First MLK Day & The Charleston FiveBroadcast on January 23 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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What is a life worth? Kathy Newman talks class, work and horror in Squid Game, the dystopian South Korean hit TV show in which desperate players risk their lives for a chance at financial security. Interview by Lisa Raye Garlock. PLUS: TWU Local 100âs Official Union Anthem, and two helpings of Labor History in 2:00: Fighting for Opportunity & Johnny Cash Plays Folsom PrisonBroadcast on January 16, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@_kathymnewman @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: A chat with Paul McKenna, whoâs written more than 400 labor song parodies; todayâs songs include We Just Come to Work Here 2020, and My Nursing Heart (both sung by Ben Grosscup); Labor Notesâ editor Al Bradbury with Union Conga; Plus, on Labor History in 2:00, Taking Care of Our Own. Broadcast on January 9, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@SEIU @SEIULocal503 @BenGrosscup @labornotes @al_bradbury @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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On this weekâs Labor Heritage Power Hour: veteran singer/songwriter Joe Jencks tells us the story behind his song âChristmas in Mansfield,â where Armco locked out 620 steel workers on September 1, 1999. Then, in our second segment, weâll hear about Power At Workâs 2025 Labor Grammys, which youâll be able to vote on, starting January 6. In our final segment, archival audio of union and civil rights organizer Lillian Roberts, who was jailed in December 1968 for organizing an illegal strike by New York state employees.
Broadcast on January 2, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@JoeJencksMusic @PowerAtWorkBlog @AFSCME @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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On today's Labor Heritage Power Hour: SFMTâs âA Red Carolâ"People always think this story is about you,â Bob Crachit tells Scrooge in the San Francisco Mime Troupeâs âA Red Carolâ on todayâs show. âBut it ainât about you, itâs about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, itâs you steppinâ over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, itâs us lettinâ you turn our government into a casino, listeninâ while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standinâ up and shouting "NO!"'
âIt ainât about you," Cratchit says. "Itâs about us.â
Click here to support the San Francisco Mime Troupe and here to support WPFWâs jazz and justice in the New Year! Produced by the San Francisco Mime Troupe; Broadcast on December 26, 2024; WPFW broadcast engineered by Kahlia Chapman. @SFTroupers @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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On todayâs Labor Heritage Power Hour: Writer and recording artist Hilary Peach worked for twenty years as a transient welder, travelling across Canada and the United States, working in pulp mills, chemical plants, refineries, and generating stations. In 2022 she released a memoir about this time, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood; our interviewer is Susan Eisenberg, a poet, visual artist, oral historian and former electrician. On todayâs installment of our âStory Behind the Songâ series, Joe Jencks tells us how he came to write his labor classic âRise As Oneâ. Joe is a 25-year veteran of the international folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter and celebrated vocalist, and a member of A.F.M. Local 1000, the North American Traveling Musicians Union.On Labor History in 2:00: the year was 1915; on this date, the most popular labor song in the United States was completed in Chicago.Broadcast on December 19, 2024; original broadcast January 18, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @AnvilPress @JoeJencksMusic @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: A reading from Incredible Finds, Inc., a new play about an exploited factory worker who leads her colleagues in a strike against their companyâs brutal and dehumanizing practices; followed by a discussion with playwright Casey J. Adler, actors Regina Fernandez and Amir Levy, and director Dana Schwartz. Thereâs a free reading of the play at 1p on Sunday, December 15 at the Beverly Hills Library.In our second segment we tour the American Labor Museumâs Faces From An American Dream exhibit of photographs by Martin Desht with Education Director Evelyn Hershey, who reads Philip Levineâs poem What Work Is.In our final segment, singer/songwriter Si Kahn, with Were You There, the latest installment of our Story Behind the Song series. Broadcast on December 12, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: Workers have been singing while working and singing about working since antiquity; the Heartland Labor Forumâs Mark Galus plays classics from Billy Bragg, Joe Glazer and Anne Feeney as well as some more obscure folk and punk tracks. Broadcast on December 5, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; original source The Heartland Labor Forum (KKFI in Kansas City); this version produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@Heartland_Labor @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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Originally broadcast on November 30, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
On todayâs show, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler joins us to launch the âMy Favorite Labor Songâ feature, and then weâve got a preview of the DC Labor Chorusâ upcoming holiday concert (this year on November 7; get your free tix here), and in our final segment, Radical Songbook host Michael Funkeâs âMaking Cars Medleyâ of songs in honor of the UAWâs historic Stand Up Strike. Plus, Labor History in 2:00 on Louisa May Alcottâs âWork: A Story of Experienceâ. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio @LizShuler @tmorello @UAW #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: Special correspondent Joe Uehlein talks with labor historian and activist Jeremy Brecher about his new book, The Green New Deal From Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy.And in our Story Behind the Song series, Joe Uehlein tells us about You Can't Giddy Up By Sayin' Whoa.In Labor History in 2:00: The year was 1888; that was the day that William Le Grand Bundy is credited with inventing something that has become a daily part of life for millions of workers.Broadcast on November 21 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: Kathy M. Newman talks with art historian Patricia Hills and Brooklyn College professor Joseph Entin about Philip Tippermanâs labor paintings, archaeologist Dean Anderson on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Rick Smith remembers Karen Silkwood. NOTES: Philip Tippermanâs paintings will be installed at Brooklyn College at 2p on November 22; the event is open to the public and includes a reception; details here. The Dean Anderson segment is from Michigan State Universityâs Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives brown bag series; 2024-25 schedule here. Triangle is by the R.J. Phillips Band; check them out here.Broadcast on November 14, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
@BklynCollege411 @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: Singer/songwriter Bev Grant on the story behind her song We Can Move Mountains; Lisa Raye Garlock talks with Tabitha Arnold, a âSouthern socialist making textile art about unionsâ. Broadcast on November 7, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@Tabithaarnold @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: âThe life and music of Barbara Dane,â from The Harry Bridges Project. The story of America told through its social upheaval, its achievements and, above all, its music. Broadcast on October 31, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant (Peter Pocock co-hosted the live edition); produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: photographers Leslie Grant and Jeffrey Skemp discuss their photo exhibit in St Paul, Minnesota, which explores labor through a visual focus on members of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 1005 and Metro Transit employees; plus, William Trent Pancoastâs âRoad to Matewanâ and Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts shares his favorite labor song.Broadcast on October 24, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@ESFLibrary @MineWorkers @CecilRoberts @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: we talk with Brett Story and Stephen Maing, the directors of the new film Union, which follows the Amazon Labor Union's historic journey to victory, as, up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.PLUS: A visit with a labor lawyer whoâs teaching a class in labor movies, and, on Labor History in 2:00, Laborâs âMagna Carta.â Broadcast on October 17 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@unionthefilm @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: ââSomething is fundamentally broken when you can only go see a Broadway show if your family takes in $300K a yearâŠThese are symptoms of an American theater which is not working,â says COLM SUMMERS, Artistic Director at Working Theater in New York City, one of the only theater companies in the country thatâs dedicated to creating theater specifically for, about and with working people.âSo you can make film on your phone nowâŠand what that ends up doing is sometimes we don't have the most polished end product, but we have an end product that has lots of power and emotion in it. It's right from the heart. It's the truth of what actually is happening on the ground, which is even more important,â says ANDREW TILSON, Director of the Workers Unite! Film Festival, which is launching itsâ 13th season next week.Broadcast on October 10, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@WorkersUniteFF @WrkingTheater @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: Why live theater still matters: we talk with Shanara Gabrielle, whoâs directing the Theatre Alliance production of The Cradle Will Rock; labor historian Dana Frank takes a new look at working-class activism during the 1930s from the perspective of our own time, in What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times. Sheâll talk with Bill Fletcher Jr. on Oct. 8 at the K Street Busboys and Poets.Broadcast on October 3, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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George Mann and Si Kahnâs new Labor Day CD features 21 songs by Si, a legendary songwriter who celebrated his 80th birthday this year. A tribute to workers and their unions, the CD showcases performances by both Kahn and Mann, as well as contributions from renowned folk artists such as Peggy Seeger, Billy Bragg, John McCutcheon and Tom Chapin. Todayâs interview with Si and George originally appeared on the Heartland Labor Forum -- which airs weekly on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio â and includes songs from the new CD. PLUS: Hali Hammerâs favorite labor song and, on Labor History in 2:00, the 1961 murder of a Black cotton worker. Broadcast on September 26, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: Childrenâs book author J. Albert Mann, author of âShift Happens: The History of Labor in the United Statesâ; âClean Up on Aisle 4â host Jamie Mack, with They/Them; âTherapyâ from poet Chris Butters; the R.J. Phillips Band celebrates immigrant workers with âPiece of the Pieâ: Chris says Netflix hit âThe Unionâ is a miss; Booker T. Washington and the âAtlanta Compromise Speechâ on Labor History in 2:00; plus the DC Labor Chorus live from the Takoma Park Folk Fest!Broadcast on September 19, 2014 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@JAlbertMann @FoundationWals @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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