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8/18/2017

Union City Radio
Weekdays, 7:15am
WPFW-FM 89.3 or click here

Arise! Report from Charlottesville
Fri, August 18, 9am – 10am
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
Union City Radio’s Chris Garlock hosts, with Jennifer Bryant and guests James McCormack, member of the DC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and Sarah Ann Lewis, with the DC chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. PLUS: listener calls: 202-588-0893

Film: American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
Sat, August 19, 7pm – 9pm
Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington, DC, 1529 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036
Screening followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Yale Strom and writer Elizabeth Schwartz

Working people respond to domestic terror in Virginia

8/18/2017

Union leaders continued to speak out this week against the act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by white nationalists in Virginia last Saturday. National Nurses United Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro said that “There can be no doubt that the appalling display of white supremacy and hatred on display in Charlottesville was the precipitator of the violence.” AFT President Randi Weingarten spoke for all when she said “We grieve the murder of Heather Heyer and the injury of other peaceful protesters against racism and anti-Semitism.” Read more on the AFL-CIO Now blog. PLUS Richard Trumka tells "CBS This Morning" why he resigned from Trump's manufacturing council.

Solidarity Center Report: African Unions Champion Worker Rights at AGOA Forum

8/18/2017

Nearly 20 leaders from key African trade unions, all Solidarity Center partners, joined forces to advance the creation of good jobs and safe workplaces through fair trade at the AGOA forum this month in Togo.The forum “is a venue for workers to have their voices heard by officials and politicians all over the world,” says Eliamane Diouf, secretary-general of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Senegal (CSA), who attended the conference. Find out more at the Solidarity Center.

Labor Quote of the Day: Elie Wiesel

8/18/2017

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.”
From his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1986

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