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Listen live on WPFW 89.3FM or online. CALL IN at 202-588-0893. Your Rights At Work is also available as a podcast! Just search for Union City Radio on iTunes, Stitcher, OverCast or wherever you get your podcasts; subscribe and you’ll get our shows right on your phone! Guests: Bob Moses, voting rights organizer, and founder of The Algebra Project , on the connection between voting rights and math. Bob will be speaking at the Washington Teachers Union’s Shared Vision Conference this Saturday, April 21, which runs 8am to 3pm and is open to the public (Kellogg Conference Hotel at Gallaudet, 800 Florida Ave. NE). Alan Hanson, UFCW 400 mobilization director, with Macy’s worker Bianca Morris on the noontime Rallies for a Fair Contract at Macy’s on Thursday, April 19 at two DC-area Macy’s stores and in Seattle, WA. PLUS: remembering Paul Booth; today’s memorial service is streaming live on Facebook: look for "Celebrating Paul Booth" Today’s music: Exponents Song (All About the Base); parody of Meghan Trainor's smash hit, "All About the Bass" Three Times Table Song (Cover of Uptown Funk by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars) by Mr. DeMaio CREDITS: Produced by Pete Pocock and Chris Bangert-Drowns; engineered by Mike “The Man” Nasella; Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus. UnionPlus is committed to improving the quality of life of working families. Find out more at unionplus.org. And we’re supported by you, our listeners.
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A new campaign making a “national call for moral revival” was given a rousing endorsement at the Metro Washington Council delegate meeting Monday night.
The Poor People’s Campaign builds on the 1968 Poor People’s March on Washington -- being organized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was assassinated in 1968 -- which sought to “dramatize the plight of America’s poor” and demand better jobs, homes, and education in addition to full civil rights. The new campaign will launch with a 40-day series of demonstrations across the country beginning on May 13, Mother’s Day, through June 21, in an effort to confront the “inseparable evils” of racism, poverty, war, and ecological disaster. The Metro Council is urging union members, leaders and allies across the metro Washington area to get involved in the campaign. On today’s Labor Calendar, catch Your Rights at Work this afternoon at our new time, 2pm here on WPFW, when our guests will include legendary voting rights organizer Robert Moses. Then at 6:30 tonight there’s a Ward 5 Town Hall on DC’s high water bills. Complete details, as always, at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1995, an American domestic terrorist’s bomb destroyed the Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people, 99 of whom were government employees. Today’s labor quote is by Jennifer Granholm, an American politician, educator, author, and political commentator. Jennifer Granholm, who said: "Those who purify your water, inspect your meat, and test your kids' toys, as well as a huge number of nurses, teachers, and our soldiers, are public employees. The firefighters who don't hesitate to rush toward danger while you run away from it - they are all public employees." Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! A Montgomery County food bank got a big helping hand last weekend when a group of members of the Laborer’s, locals 202 and 710 in DC and Baltimore helped pack food at the Manna Food Center for families in need. “Our members care about giving back to local communities, and not just through their work on safe, reliable construction projects,” reported LiUNA Mid-Atlantic.
For the latest local Labor Calendar, go to dclabor.org, and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1912, West Virginia coal miners struck, defending themselves against the National Guard. Today’s labor quote is by Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who led a four-week boycott of bus companies in New York City, which on this date in 1941 agreed to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who said: “I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! Mere months after AFSCME Maryland ratified a new contract, nearly a dozen union members from Cumberland last week stepped up to represent their workplaces and enforce their contract, becoming the newest class of shop stewards for the union. “It was such a great experience!” wrote shop steward Stacey Miller. “Thank you for taking time to help us learn to help our co-workers and to bring about some positive changes!”
On today’s Labor Calendar, Get an earlybird look at this year’s LaborFest at tonight’s DC LaborFest Sneak Preview, 6pm at the Takoma Busboys and Poets. And at 6:30 tonight, there’s a Ward 6 Town Hall on DC’s high water bills at the Payne Elementary School Gymnasium; complete details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1912, the military arrived to crush a strike by more than 6,000 gold miners – on strike over long hours, appalling working conditions, and starvation wages – along the Lena River in southeast Siberia, Russia. The entire strike committee was quickly arrested and when 2,500 workers marched to demand their release, soldiers opened fire on them, killing and wounding over 500. Anger over the mass murder fueled a subsequent wave of strikes across the country. Today’s labor quote is by Sidney Hillman, head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Sidney Hillman, who said: “What labor is demanding all over the world today is not a few material things like more dollars and fewer hours of work, but a right to a voice in the conduct of industry.” Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which provides unique products and discounts for working families. Check them out at unionplus.org! |
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