News: Labor music, movies and posters will be on sale today at rock-bottom prices at the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Inventory Blowout Sale, which runs from 11a to 2:30p in the lobby at the AFL-CIO, at 16th and I streets. “You need the culture, we need the space!” says Fran Owens.
And tomorrow night you can join the DC Labor Chorus for “songs that speak to your heart, head and feet!” at the “Favorite & Sacred Songs Holiday Concert” Saturday, December 13, starting at 7:30pm in The Chapel at the new ATU Training and Education Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Admission is free; go to dclabor.org and click on calendar for full details. Here’s today’s labor history: On this date in 2006, a U.S. immigration sweep of half a dozen Swift meat plants resulted in arrests of nearly thirteen hundred undocumented workers. Today’s labor quote is by economist Henry George: “There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth – by work, by gift and by theft. And clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.” Henry George was a 19th Century American writer, politician and political economist. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty, published in 1879, sold millions of copies worldwide. It is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy.
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