From #Colorado labor wars to a #union escape room 👀
Plus CLUW @ 50, @therealbettemidler.bsky.social sings Woody Guthrie & Women of Steel

Today on The Labor Heritage Power Hour - 1p ET on WPFW in #WashingtonDC or steam online at tinyurl.com/5n6vxudv

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🎨 Labor Arts News on today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour

• Salt Lake City library workers win their #union
• @wgaeast.bsky.social contract victory
• Restoration of the historic @ueunion.org Solidarity Mural

Listen live on @WPFW 89.3 in #WashingtonDC or online at wpfwfm.org

#SLC #LaborArts

Miss today's Labor Heritage Power Hour on #WPFW featuring Mindy Murray, @kimkelly.bsky.social, Carsie Blanton and more?

Find the #podcast on @laborradionet.bsky.social!

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🔥 “Music is not a commodity.”

A fearless, funny, furious moment from Carsie Blanton, calling for solidarity — and dignity — for working musicians.

📻 On NOW on WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC or wpfwfm.org/radio/

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#FolkMusic #WorkingMusicians #ArtsWorkers #Solidarity #LaborArts

🎭 LABOR ARTS NEWS / LABOR OSCARS on the Labor Heritage Power Hour

Sarah Wesker on stage — plus it’s time to vote in the annual Labor Oscars!

📻 On NOW on WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC or stream at
wpfwfm.org/radio/

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TODAY on 🎙️ The Labor Heritage Power Hour:

• Mindy Mary on “Striking at Kings”
• Kim Kelly on Fight to Win
• A fearless moment from Carsie Blanton
and more!

📻 Airs 1p WPFW 89.3 FM #WashingtonDC
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DC Labor Chorus is “Highly Visible” - Labor Heritage Foundation This excerpt features the DC Labor Chorus’ appearance in Jay Mallin’s newly-posted video “Highly Visible”. The short film shows how local groups use “visibility actions”—from sign-waving and chants to prayer and meditation—to remind the public that there is an alternative to accepting the worldview

🎶 DC Labor Chorus is “Highly Visible”
A powerful excerpt from Jay Mallin’s new video shows how visibility actions—chants, signs, prayer, and meditation—challenge the status quo.
🔗 bit.ly/4bsb8RN

#LaborArts #DCLC #Solidarity

🕐 Now:
Union wins, Labor Grammys, and museum censorship—our labor arts & history news roundup!

🎧 WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashimgtonDC or stream at wpfwfm.org

#LaborArts #LaborNews #UnionStrong #WPFW

🎙️ 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
🎧 wpfwfm.org
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Music for grief. Music for rage. Music for hope.
A growing playlist of songs in solidarity with Minneapolis.
🎧 bit.ly/4k3oupE

#SongsForMinneapolis #Solidarity #LaborArts #MusicForJustice

🎶✊ Songs for Minneapolis
Angry, mournful, and beautiful—new songs in solidarity from Bruce Springsteen and more.
Listen & share: bit.ly/4k3oupE
#SongsForMinneapolis #LaborArts #Solidarity #MusicForJustice

Register Now: Great Labor Arts Exchange at Labor Notes 2026 - Labor Heritage Foundation Registration is open for the 2026 Great Labor Arts Exchange, returning June 12–14 in Chicago as part of the Labor Notes Conference. Join thousands of union activists, organizers, and artists for a weekend of songs, stories, and solidarity—where labor culture meets movement-building

Register Now: Great Labor Arts Exchange at @labornotes.bsky.social 2026

Registration is open for the 2026 Great Labor Arts Exchange, returning June 12–14 in Chicago as part of the Labor Notes Conference.

Find out more at tinyurl.com/mr2knfjx

#LaborArts

🎧 Missed it?

Today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour on WPFW 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC tackled billionaire power, labor’s racial divide, and DC Labor Chorus concert highlights.
Look for the #podcast on @laborradionet.bsky.social !
#LaborRadio #LaborArts

🗓️🎨 Now on the Labor Heritage Power Hour on WPFW In #WashingtonDC

Registration is OPEN for @labornotes.bsky.social 2026—home of the Great Labor Arts Exchange.
Chicago | June 12–14
Details at laborheritage.org
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🎙️ TODAY 1p on WPFW 89.3 in #WashingtonDC:

The Labor Heritage Power Hour: murderous billionaires, labor’s racial divide, and DC Labor Chorus concert highlights.
Culture, history, and solidarity—one show!

Tune in or stream online at confessor.wpfwfm.org/playlist/pl_...

#LaborArts #LaborHistory

The Homestead Strike in Film and Song This week on Labor History Today, we explore how the 1892 Homestead Strike continues to live on—not just in books and archives, but in film, music, and living memory. We begin with labor scholar and cultural critic Kathleen Newman, who takes us inside Ting Tong Chang’s The Hidden Shift, a two-screen film installation at Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory. Inspired by the Homestead Strike, the piece layers a fictionalized labor drama with behind-the-scenes footage of museum workers making the work itself—blurring the lines between labor and culture, past and present. Kathleen reflects on Homestead as both a proud moment in worker history and a shameful chapter in corporate history, and connects the strike’s legacy to today’s service-sector workers—from museum staff to baristas—whose labor too often goes unseen. We close with music that has carried the story for more than a century. “Homestead Strike Song” turns the events of 1892 into a communal act of remembrance. In this 1980 recording, Pete Seeger sings the song, invites a singalong, and shares the story of how the song survived—passed down in halls and bars long after the strike itself was crushed. Together, these segments remind us that labor history isn’t just remembered—it’s made, performed, and sung. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory  

Homestead in film and song ✊🎬🎶
This week on Labor History Today: Kathleen Newman on The Hidden Shift, revisiting the 1892 Homestead Strike—and Pete Seeger’s “Homestead Strike Song,” with the story behind it and a singalong. bit.ly/4qlLjr0

#LaborHistory #LaborArts #LaborRadioPod

“There’s drama. There’s a Pinkerton.” Kathleen Newman takes us inside The Hidden Shift — a film installation inspired by the Homestead Strike — on the Labor Heritage Power Hour at 1 PM on WPFW 89.3 FM.

Listen live at tinyurl.com/5n6vxudv

#LaborArts #LaborHistory #WorkingClassStories

Pinkertons, labor drama, union wins, and working-class history — this week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour!

Tune in at 1:00 pm on @wpfwfm 89.3 FM in #WashingtonDC, or stream online at confessor.wpfwfm.org/playlist/pl_.... ✊🎙️
#LaborRadio #LaborArts #UnionStrong

🎙️ When Workers Tell Their Own Stories
This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour, we explore what happens when workers recognize their power—and use it to imagine something better.
History isn’t just remembered. It’s made. ✊🎶
📻 Listen at 1p @wpfwdc
#LaborHistory #LaborArts #UnionStrong

When Workers Tell Their Own Stories This week on Labor History Today, we move from repression to resistance—and from history to possibility. We begin with Labor History in Two and the 1917 trial of labor leader Tom Mooney, a stark reminder of how the justice system has been used to silence working-class dissent. Then we turn to the present with a report from the Working Class History podcast, bringing us to the 2025 Working Class Literature Festival at the occupied former GKN factory outside Florence, Italy—where workers are fighting not only to save their jobs, but to transform their workplace into a cooperative and tell their own stories. We close with another Labor History in Two—the 2006 Sago Mine disaster—underscoring the deadly consequences of corporate negligence and regulatory failure. History doesn’t just explain the world we’re in. It helps us imagine the one we’re trying to build. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory  

Labor, culture, and resistance
This week on Labor History Today: Tom Mooney’s trial, a working-class literature festival at an occupied factory in Florence, and the deadly cost of corporate negligence at Sago Mine.
Read more: bit.ly/4qxnkol
#LaborArts #LaborHistory

AGMA and Dance Theatre of Harlem Jointly Announce First Collective Bargaining Agreement in Decade - Labor Heritage Foundation The American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and Dance Theatre of Harlem announced the ratification of a collective bargaining agreement, marking their first union contract in many years. Ratified by the company artists of Dance Theatre of Harlem and approved by Dance Theatre o

Big win for dancers & labor arts: AGMA + Dance Theatre of Harlem ratified their first union contract in decades—avg 29% raises, stronger health/safety, better touring, and a real artist voice. bit.ly/3YKghwG

#UnionStrong #LaborArts #Dance #CollectiveBargaining

Caregivers, unions, community, dignity.
Novelist Ann Goethals brings it all to this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour — plus big labor arts wins + Labor Oscars news! Tune in 🎧
🔗 1p @wpfwdc wpfwfm.org/radio/
#UnionStrong #LaborArts #WorkingClassStories

Listeners Respond to Last Week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour on AI & Music - Labor Heritage Foundation Last week’s conversation on the Labor Heritage Power Hour with David Rovics about AI-generated music sparked one of the strongest listener responses we’ve received this year—thoughtful, passionate, and deeply rooted in labor values.Joel Cornell wrote in with a forceful critique, calling the segmen

Listeners lit up our inbox after last week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour on AI & music — raising big questions about tech, theft, and creative labor. Plus Brecht’s Song of the Machines makes an appearance.
Read the roundup: bit.ly/3Y1UUqF
#LaborRadioPod #1u #AImusic #LaborArts

WEEKEND LABOR ARTS CALENDAR: Dec 5-7, 2025 - Labor Heritage Foundation FRI: American Agitators Screening at NCSS (DC)SAT: DC Labor Chorus Winter ConcertOngoing:Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey (DC) (Ends this Sunday, Dec. 7)Don't Stand Alone: Black Labor Organizing in New Orleans (LA) (Ends Dec. 15)In Camps, Under Trees, and Evicted (C

🎨 Weekend Labor Arts Calendar
FRI: American Agitators screening (DC)
SAT: DC Labor Chorus Winter Concert
Plus exhibits in DC, LA, CA, MA & IL — some ending soon!
➡️ bit.ly/4pVFRuv

#LaborArts #1u

Register for the DC Labor Chorus Winter Concert December 6, 2025

🎶 Labor Song of the Week: We Did Not Come This Far by the DC Labor Chorus!
Catch it live at their free holiday concert this Saturday, Dec 6, 7p @ Washington Ethical Society.
RSVP free ➡️ bit.ly/44awn6b

#1u #LaborArts #UnionSongs

WEEKEND LABOR ARTS CALENDAR: Nov 20-23 - Labor Heritage Foundation THU: Labor Heritage Power Hour (radio/online)FRI: GSU Reed Fink Talk: "White-Hot to Whitewall: Steel Archives Reimagined" (Virtual)FRI: Illinois Labor History Society Union Hall of Honor 2025 (IL)ONGOING: Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey (DC) (Ends Dec. 7)Don&

WEEKEND LABOR ARTS CALENDAR: bit.ly/4oL4hGI

FRI: GSU Reed Fink Talk (Virtual) • ILHS Union Hall of Honor (IL)
ONGOING:
Power & Light (DC) • Don’t Stand Alone (LA) • In Camps, Under Trees, and Evicted (CA) • American Labor in Print (MA)

#LaborArts #LaborHistory

LABOR POEM OF THE WEEK: Craftsman - Labor Heritage Foundation CraftsmanIn spare moments,I watch you work your magic How you cut and paintEach slab of wood to perfection A picture of finalityThough you would neverCall it finished And now they sayYour work is not neededYou can get this kind of stuffOnline, a

📝 Labor Poem of the Week: Craftsman by Cathy Porter, from Blue Collar Review — a tribute to the skill, pride, and irreplaceable heartbeat of handmade work.
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#LaborArts #Poetry #WorkingClassVoices

LABOR VIDEOS OF THE WEEK: LHF @ SEIU & Cigarette Trees LIVE - Labor Heritage Foundation SEIU's DRO Vision and Strategy Conference in Chapel Hill, NC. Highlights from SEIU’s recent Dream. Rise. Organize. 2025 Vision and Strategy Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina — where SEIU staff came together to reflect, recharge, and reimagine organizing for today’s challenges. The La

🎥 Labor Videos of the Week!
Highlights from SEIU’s Dream. Rise. Organize. conference — plus a powerful live performance of “Cigarette Trees” by The Local Honeys. And don’t miss our updated playlist with 71 labor videos!
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#LaborArts #1u

Theater for the People: On Queens, The Brothers Size, and Working Theater - Labor Heritage Foundation In Colm Summers’s words, “The history of American theater is written in labor plays.”As the Artistic Director of Working Theater, a New York-based company completely committed to creating theater specifically “for, about, and with working people,” Summers would be the one to know. Founded in 198

🎭 “The history of American theater is written in labor plays.” Working Theater’s mission to create theater for and about working people shines in new revivals of The Brothers Size and Queens, pushing boundaries and centering unheard voices.
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#LaborArts #WorkingClassTheater

Preservationists Rally to Save Historic Building Filled With New Deal-Era Murals - Labor Heritage Foundation The clock is ticking for Washington, D.C.’s 85-year old Wilbur J. Cohen building, described by preservationists as the “Sistine Chapel of New Deal Art” for the impressive art collection it holds, including works by Philip Guston and Ben Shahn. Living New Deal, a California-based nonprofit t

🎨 Preservationists are rallying to save D.C.’s 85-year-old Wilbur J. Cohen building — home to New Deal–era murals by artists like Philip Guston and Ben Shahn. Once sold, demolition is likely.
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#LaborArts #NewDealArt #SaveOurHistory