Marcelus Turner, citing his time in prison, says “I was once just a number.” Now, Turner says, "I am a new man with new opportunities and a chance to build something with my life.” Turner was one of fourteen Building Futures students who graduated last week from a six-week intensive pre-apprenticeship program run by the Metro Washington Council's Community Services Agency. For many of the students and their families, last week's graduation was the latest stage of an emotional journey leading to fresh opportunities in the region’s construction industry. Recruitment has now begun for the summer program; applications are due July 18th and you can apply online at dclabor.org, click on Community Services Agency.
On today's labor calendar, author Daina Ramey Berry will discuss her new book ‘The Price for Their Pound of Flesh’ today at noon at the AFL-CIO. The book is a groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America. Complete details on our website at dclabor.org, click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1918, 86 passengers on a train carrying members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were killed, and another 127 injured in a wreck near Hammond, Indiana. Five days later the dead were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, in an area set aside as Showmen’s Rest, purchased only a few months earlier by the Showmen’s League of America. Today’s labor quote is by writer Karin Lowachee, who said “Society has made it so I have to get paid in order to do basic things like eat and be indoors and not be naked. Once that's happened, morality's bound to get slippery.” 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.
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