​Union City Radio for Thursday, April 19

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." 
 
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