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From the Funsten Nut Strike to Starbucks organizing, this week’s show connects past and present.
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🎙️ Today on the Labor Heritage Power Hour:
Black women organize in 1933 St. Louis • Starbucks baristas fight back • Labor arts news • Labor History in Two.
🕐 1p EDT
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✊ From Denver to D.C. to ancient Rome — Casa Bonita performers, Washington Post pressmen & Roman workers all rise up for dignity, safety & respect.
🎧 Labor Heritage Power Hour • 1p on WPFW 89.3FM
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🏛️✊ This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour: ancient Roman workers show that the strike has deep roots.
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📰✊ This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour: the Washington Post pressmen’s 1975 strike gets the truth it deserves.
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From Denver to D.C. to ancient Rome, workers rise up, walk out, and win respect. Three stories of strikes and solidarity on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour. Listen at 1p on WPFW 89.3FM
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🎭✊ Three strikes across the ages! Casa Bonita performers, Washington Post pressmen & ancient Roman workers all stand up for dignity & solidarity.
🎧 Listen at 1p on WPFW 89.3FM
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🏭 Field notes from Donora: workers, weather, and who gets to tell the truth. Museum stories, oral histories, and the hard lessons still hanging in the air. Listen at 1p on @WPFWDC
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📣 Favorite Labor Song: Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey picks Billy Bragg’s “There Is Power in a Union”—the pre-show pump-up that puts the band in battle mode.
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⚖️ Labor History in Two: The 1919 Elaine Massacre—Black sharecroppers organizing for justice face deadly violence, then a landmark Supreme Court fight. Listen at 1p on @WPFWDC
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📜 Labor History in Two: The 1851 Jerry Rescue—abolitionists in Syracuse defy the Fugitive Slave Act to free William “Jerry” Henry. Solidarity with stakes. Listen at 1p on @WPFWDC
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🎶 “Which Side Are You On?” closes our Matewan segment as Lloyd Tomlinson leads a powerful sing-out. Perfect coda to Wilma Steele’s bandana history. Listen at 1p on @WPFWDC
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🧣 Wilma Steele (WV Mine Wars Museum) traces the red bandana from ancient paisley to Blair Mountain—how a scrap of cloth became a living symbol of solidarity. Listen at 1p on @WPFWDC
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🎧 On the road to Wheeling, we detoured to the Donora Smog Museum. Hear how a 6-day inversion in 1948 sickened a mill town, sparked environmental awareness, and revealed workers’ grit (“zinc shakes,” anyone?). Listen at 1p on @WPFWDC
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115 years after its first printing, the IWW Little Red Songbook still hits like a drumline. Before we sing, we hear from National Book Award winner Martín Espada—poems for this moment.
Today, 1p ET • WPFW 89.3FM
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