This is being recorded before the polls close on Election Day, so we’ll have an update on results on Thursday.
Meanwhile, in keeping with Emma Goldman’s admonition about dancing and revolutions – I’ll have the full quote in a minute – this is a good time to let you know that you can get discounted tickets to two musicals currently on-stage. “Billy Elliott” is at the Signature Theatre in Arlington and “Anything Goes” is at Arena Stage in DC. Get 20% off the December second Labor Night performance of “Billy Elliott” by using promo code “LABOR20” when you buy your tickets. And you can get a 20% discount on tickets to any performance of “Anything Goes” when you use promo code “AFLCIOGOES.” Both are terrific shows and both feature the work of workers in the arts and entertainment unions. Whatever the results in Tuesday’s elections, we can always use more singing and dancing in our lives. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1917, some 1,300 building trades workers in eastern Massachusetts participated in a general strike on all military work in the area to protest the use of open-shop builders. The strike held on for a week in the face of threats from the U.S. War Department. Today’s labor quote is by Emma Goldman, the Russian-born American writer, feminist, anarchist, and atheist, who said: “Our Cause could not expect me to behave as a nun and the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.” This was later paraphrased more succinctly as: "If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution." Union City Radio is supported by Union Plus, where union members get special savings on auto insurance. Find out more at unionplus.org.
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