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Sunday Jan 23, 2022
The Bread Uprising
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
Sunday Jan 23, 2022
On the 18th of January, 1977, Egypt erupted into a huge popular uprising against the government's removal of food subsidies. For two days, hundreds of thousands of people across the country were variously involved in strikes, riots, occupations, looting, and sabotage. Egyptian president Anwar Sadat described it as “the uprising of thieves”; the Egyptian people called it by a different name: The Bread Intifada. Our report on the uprising, the decade of worker-student militancy leading up to it, and its relevance today comes to us from the Working Class History podcast.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: If Poison Doesn’t Work, Try Briggs! (1933) & More Labor Than They Planned (1936).
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This week's music: Sheikh Imam’s Build Your Palaces; performed by Fadi Al Naji.
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
MLK at the AFL-CIO in 1961
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
Sunday Jan 16, 2022
On December 11, 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at the AFL-CIO’s Fourth Constitutional Convention at the Americana Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.The speech is not long, just 30 minutes, but it’s tremendously historic, both in its content and its timing. In this speech, King connected the civil rights movement and labor movement, calling them “the two most dynamic and cohesive liberal forces in the country.” King encouraged the AFL-CIO to "help erase all vestiges of racial discrimination in American life, including labor unions," as well as to provide financial support to the civil rights movement.Until recently this speech only existed on a reel of tape in the Meany Labor Archives at the University of Maryland College Park, but for this year’s AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights Conference (Jan. 16-17 online) the AFL-CIO and the Archives digitized the speech and gave us permission to bring it to you here on Labor History Today. Labor historian Joe McCartin tells us how had King come to be there, the context for his quiet but powerful challenge to the American labor movement, and what that speech says to us now, 61 years later. Our other story today is the perfect follow-up to Dr. King’s speech; it’s about the fight by DC trash collector Marvin Fleming and his union, AFSCME, against job discrimination in the 1960’s. On this week’s Labor History in Two: Give Us Our Daily Bread (1898) and Standing Against Wage Theft (1915).
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SEE ALSO: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Speech to AFL-CIOExploring Dr. King’s Radical LegacyTrumka in Memphis: We’re Reaching for that MountaintopThis week's music: Ain't gonna let nobody turn me round (The Roots); Everybody's Got A Right To Live: Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick & Jimmy Collier and The Soul Chance; Woke up this morning (The Freedom Singers).
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Who was Zelda D’Aprano?
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
Sunday Jan 09, 2022
On this week’s show, one day in 1969, a working woman by the name of Zelda D’Aprano took her lunch break, and proceeded to chain herself to the front door of a busy building in Melbourne, Australia in a protest that caused a sensation. What was Zelda protesting about? We find out from our friends Down Under at the On The Job podcast. On this week’s Labor History in Two: the 1922 Chicago building trades split; in 1939, Missouri farmers and their families begin a highway sit in; and in 2003, do national security concerns outweigh the right of workers to form a union?
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#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle #LaborHistory This week's music: Lola Wright sings the Equal Pay song; #LeaveAt343-Growing Up Gracefully.
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Women in the coal mines; Billionaires in Space
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
Sunday Jan 02, 2022
On this week’s show, Kipp Dawson, a woman coal miner active in the women miners' movement of the 1970s, '80s and '90s, on women's empowerment and recent labor history. Kim comes to us from the Willamette Wake Up Labor Report, which airs on KMUZ in Salem, Oregon.
Then, the DC Labor Chorus on Billionaires in Space and, on this week’s Labor History in Two: industrial unionists hold a secret meeting in Chicago.
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#LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle This week's music: We Were There, Billionaires in Space and Nancy on the Med-Surge floor, all from the DC Labor Chorus’ 2021 Holiday Concert.