How’d you like to be part of Union City Radio’s new labor history podcast? Launched in partnership with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University, Labor History Today features labor historian Joe McCartin and a great line-up of labor history experts and ordinary folks talking about the exciting history of working people’s struggles. You can be part of it, just by calling in. For details, go to dclabor.org, click on Union City Radio, choose your favorite labor history item and give us a call! Deadline is noon this Sunday, February 11.
On today's labor calendar, Your Rights At Work airs from 1 to 2p here on WPFW, then at 2p, educators, parents and public education advocates will give Education Secretary Betsy Devos an “F” after her first year on the job. Then at 6 tonight, Working America is holding a meeting to mobilize for Medicaid expansion at NoVA Labor. Complete details on our website, dclabor.org, click on calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1912, vigilantes beat IWW organizers in San Diego for exercising their free-speech rights. Today’s labor quote is by Lucy Parsons, co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World. Lucy Parsons, who said: “The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.”
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