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Originally broadcast on November 30, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
On today’s show, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler joins us to launch the “My Favorite Labor Song” feature, and then we’ve got a preview of the DC Labor Chorus’ upcoming holiday concert (this year on November 7; get your free tix here), and in our final segment, Radical Songbook host Michael Funke’s “Making Cars Medley” of songs in honor of the UAW’s historic Stand Up Strike. Plus, Labor History in 2:00 on Louisa May Alcott’s “Work: A Story of Experience”. 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 Tipperman’s labor paintings, archaeologist Dean Anderson on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Rick Smith remembers Karen Silkwood. NOTES: Philip Tipperman’s 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 University’s 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 “Southern socialist making textile art about unions”. 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: “The life and music of Barbara Dane,” 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 Pancoast’s “Road to Matewan” 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 who’s teaching a class in labor movies, and, on Labor History in 2:00, Labor’s “Magna Carta.” 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: ”Something is fundamentally broken when you can only go see a Broadway show if your family takes in $300K a year…These are symptoms of an American theater which is not working,” says COLM SUMMERS, Artistic Director at Working Theater in New York City, one of the only theater companies in the country that’s dedicated to creating theater specifically for, about and with working people.“So you can make film on your phone now…and 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,” says ANDREW TILSON, Director of the Workers Unite! Film Festival, which is launching its’ 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, who’s 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. She’ll 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 Kahn’s 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. Today’s interview with Si and George originally appeared on the Heartland Labor Forum -- which airs weekly on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio – and includes songs from the new CD. PLUS: Hali Hammer’s 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: Children’s book author J. Albert Mann, author of “Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States”; “Clean Up on Aisle 4” host Jamie Mack, with They/Them; “Therapy” from poet Chris Butters; the R.J. Phillips Band celebrates immigrant workers with “Piece of the Pie”: Chris says Netflix hit “The Union” is a miss; Booker T. Washington and the “Atlanta Compromise Speech” 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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This week's show: Family Values @ Work’s Jennifer Morales on Caring Out Loud, storytelling that illuminates the often-overlooked work of caregiving; Lorna Gonsalves on Little Meena and the Big Swim, which teaches children that when many little people stand together, they can move mountains. Broadcast on September 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.@FmlyValuesWork @hardballpress @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: Chris and Elise play songs submitted in our Labor Heritage Power Hour Theme Song Contest; which will be the winner?
Broadcast on Sept. 5 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC. (Replay from 9/2 Labor Day show)
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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Labor Day Special: Longtime labor activist Kurt Stand, with an excerpt from his essay Peekskill, 1949: What Was Lost, What Remained, What It Means Today, plus music from Paul Robeson, Woody Guthrie, Sweet Honey in the Rock and more. Broadcast on Sept. 2 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: Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin on why he loves Tom Morello’s Union Town; a radio version of the new "Saga of KOIN-TV Workers vs The Empire" graphic cartoon; 9 to 5 cofounder Karen Nussbaum’s Unions Songs for Kids playlist; and CWA’s Debbie Goldman on her new book, “Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age”. NOTE: for a free hard-copy of “The Saga of KOIN-TV Workers vs The Empire" graphic cartoon, email [email protected]; tell them the Labor Heritage Power Hour sent you!Broadcast on August 2, 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.@RepRaskin @tmorello @CWAUnion @CLUWNational @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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This week's show: Blood in the Streets, photographer Chuck Avery’s illustrated history of American labor struggles, Kurt Stand shares an excerpt from his essay, Peekskill, 1949: What Was Lost, What Remained, What It Means Today, and MacGyver shares some of her favorite labor songs. Broadcast on August 15, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and MacGyver Williams; 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: Labor historian Peter Rachleff on how a Midwest strike helped shape national labor law plus a preview of his talk on the 1886 takeover of the Richmond (VA) City Council by black and white union activists. Plus labor music from The Heartland Labor Forum and, on Labor History in 2:00, the birth of the original Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Broadcast on August 8, 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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Producer MacGyver Williams’ audio postcard from The Fruit of Labor’s 40th anniversary celebration at the Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.Broadcast on August 1, 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.@FruitofLaborWCC @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod
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“I think her music or the soundtrack she provides is for every generation, every decade.” WPFW Program Director Katea Stitt on Sweet Honey in the Rock founder Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who died last week, here in Washington, DC, at the age of 81.Broadcast on July 25 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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(Originally broadcast 7/6/23) An inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change: Ken Grossinger on his 2023 book Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together. Check out the Art Works music playlist on Spotify and read Chris Garlock's July 2024 review in Portside.PLUS: Stand Up, Don’t Sit Down; An excerpt from AFSCME’s I AM STORY podcast.Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @ArtWorksbook @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @AFSCME
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