Saying it’s time to “sign up and sign in,” 2018 Great Labor Arts Exchange organizers are urging area activists to register and submit workshops for the annual weekend of workshops, films, discussion groups, spoken word, jam sessions and open mike, set for June 21-24 at the ATU Tommy Douglas Conference Center. This year’s Exchange commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the "Little Rock Nine." “Bring your instrument, your voice, your beat box, your song, your poem, your story or just yourself!” Click here to register, and email Elise Bryant at [email protected] with workshop submissions.
photo of The Power of Song: A Choral Convergence at the 2017 Great Labor Arts Exchange “Hazel Dickens is on the left (string bass), Alice Gerard is on the right (guitar), (4/20 Today's Labor History)” writes Steve Shapiro (we had Hazel on the right). “I’ve got no business baking cookies and mending clothes. I’m a coal miner.
Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is founded through a merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada (TLC) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL), the two major union congresses in Canada at the time. The CLC represents the interests of more than three million affiliated workers - 1956 Death of Ida Mae Stull, nationally recognized as the country’s first woman coal miner - 1980 United Farm Workers of America founder Cesar Chavez dies in San Luis, Ariz., at age 66 - 1993 Compiled/edited by Union Communication Services |