2020-04
2020-04
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sacco & Vanzetti at 100; What happened to MLK’s dream?
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Michele Fazio on “The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years Later”; Michael Honey on “What Happened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream of Economic Justice?” Plus Saul Schniderman on Ida Mae Stull, the nation’s first woman coal miner. Produced by Chris Garlock; Michele Fazio recorded and mixed by Daniel Ouimet.
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Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Organizing during historic crises
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
Sunday Apr 12, 2020
On this week’s show, labor historians Dorothy Sue Cobble and Michael Merrill talk with the NoVA Coalition to Repeal Right to Work about how workers engaged in mass uprisings and organizing during previous historical crises. Plus American Prospect Editor at Large Harold Meyerson, on The Return of the Breadline and retired nurse and novelist Tim Sheard visits a New York City hospital during the pandemic.
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
Coronavirus essential workers’ rights
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
On this week’s show, organizer and union rep John Barry on “Coronavirus ‘essential workers’ have rights too;” ethnographer Candacy Taylor on "Beauty Shop Culture and the Labor of Hairdressing" and Tales from the Reuther Library podcast host Dan Goldner celebrates Frances Perkins’ birthday.