In May, 1968, longtime labor organizer Richard Bensinger – just 17 at the time -- snapped a shot of two dancing figures: a young white woman and a young black man, sloshing through the Reflecting Pool amid the joyous, rebellious chaos of Martin Luther King’s Poor People’s Campaign. Bensinger and his wife, Virginia Diamond, were newly energized to unravel the mystery of who these people were after ceremonies commemorating the 50th anniversary earlier this year. “These are people who have lived a righteous, just life,” Bensinger speculates, but 50 years later, he still doesn’t know their names. We’ve got the photo and a link to the great Washington Post story about it
On today’s labor calendar, Catch the DC LaborFest’s free Labor Jazz Showcase tonight from 5–7p at the 14th Street Busboys and Poets, sponsored by the Washington DC Federation of Musicians. The first hour of the show will be broadcast here on WPFW. Then at 7 tonight, legendary farm worker leader Dolores Huerta speaks at NoVA Labor; Complete details at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history, On this date in 1941, animators working for Walt Disney began a successful five-week strike for recognition of their union, the Screen Cartoonists' Guild. Find out more about the strike and union animators on our Labor History Today podcast, available on your favorite podcast app; just search for Union City Radio. Today’s labor quote is by Dolores Huerta, who said: "Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world."
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