Luci Murphy hosts Luis Garay’s Percussion World Ensemble is a multicultural group playing Afro-Latin rhythms in a high energy performance of original music for 20+ years in and around Washington D.C. The members of the ensemble professional percussionists who perform world rhythms, specializing in rhythms of the Americas and Africa:
Luis Garay: Drums, Marimba, Balafon, Djembe, Timbales Eddie Montalvo: Congas, Bongo, Igor Kozlov: Bass Marimba, Percussion, Joe Link: Drums
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Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1865, Helen Marot was born in Philadelphia. She grew up in an affluent family and received a Quaker education. From 1895 to 1896, Marot was the literary editor of Ladies' Home Journal but in 1897 she opened a private library specializing in works on social and economic topics. The Free Library of Economics and Political Science was dedicated to educating Philadelphians about social changes and pursuing the socialist cause for building a more just and humane society. Helen Marot went on to organize the Bookkeepers, Stenographers and Accountants Union in New York City, and organized and led the city's Shirtwaist Strike in 1909. In 1912, she was a member of a commission investigating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Today’s labor quote is by Helen Marot "The labor unions are group efforts in the direction of democracy. Like the political efforts in the same direction, they become many times stultified and lead up blind alleys. But the effort creates power. While the economic gains are themselves important and are measures of strength, the significance of the labor union is its assertion of the manhood of labor." Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which is committed to improving the quality of life for all working families; find out more at unionplus.org. Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1852, the earliest recorded strike by Chinese immigrants to the U.S. occurred when stonemasons brought to San Francisco to build the three-story Parrott granite building - made from Chinese prefabricated blocks - struck for higher pay. In 1966, some 35,000 members of the Machinists union began what was to become a 43-day strike – the largest in airline history – against five carriers. The mechanics and other ground service workers wanted to share in the airlines’ substantial profits. And in 1971, New York City drawbridge tenders, in a dispute with the state over pension issues, left a dozen bridges open, snarling traffic in what the Daily News described as "the biggest traffic snafu in the city's history." Today’s labor quote is by Cesar Chavez, who said "Ours is an economic struggle, a genuine struggle, and people don’t give up on those very easily – any more than on religion. If we had any other kind of struggle we’d be dead." Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which is committed to improving the quality of life for all working families; find out more at unionplus.org. Here’s today's labor history:
On this date in 1913, the only performance of the Pageant of the Paterson Strike took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Pageant was created and performed by a thousand mill workers from the silk industry strike in Paterson, New Jersey. The organizers structured the pageant in episodes narrating the events of the strike - first, the walkout with workers singing the Marseillaise, the violent clashes with police, the shooting of an innocent bystander, and the I.W.W.'s mass meeting. The Pageant also reenacted the May Day Parade in Paterson, with women and children dressed in red. The scene dramatized the emotional moments when the women on strike handed over their children to temporary "strike mothers" in other cities. In 1979, the United Food and Commercial Workers held its founding convention. The new union brought together the Retail Clerks and the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butchers unions. Today, the UFCW represents 1.3 million workers in groceries, retail, packing and processing, chemical plants, distilleries, and the cannabis industry. Today’s labor quote is one of the slogans the silk workers carried on banners in Paterson and shouted on the streets of New York: "Eight Hours Work, Eight Hours Rest, and Eight Hours Pleasure." Union City Radio is supported by UnionPlus, which is committed to improving the quality of life for all working families; find out more at unionplus.org. Today in Labor History is provided by Union Communication Services. Rockin’ Solidarity is performed by Joe Uehlein and the Bones of Contention. Our engineering is by Michael Nassella. Union City Radio is a partnership between the Metro Washington Council and WPFW, your station for jazz and justice. Follow us on Twitter @Dclabor This has been Chris Garlock; see you on the line! |
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