On this week’s show, Kipp Dawson, a woman coal miner active in the women miners' movement of the 1970s, '80s and '90s, on women's empowerment and recent labor history. Kim comes to us from the Willamette Wake Up Labor Report, which airs on KMUZ in Salem, Oregon.
Then, the DC Labor Chorus on Billionaires in Space and, on this week’s Labor History in Two: industrial unionists hold a secret meeting in Chicago.
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This week's music: We Were There, Billionaires in Space and Nancy on the Med-Surge floor, all from the DC Labor Chorus’ 2021 Holiday Concert.
Colorado’s lost strike song
Brecher’s “Strike!”
“The waterfront is my life”
Debs’ radio station
The union archive that almost didn’t make it
Coit Tower’s New Deal Murals
Who Killed Frank Little?
Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
The Port Chicago Mutiny (Encore)
The Disney Revolt
Under The Iron Heel
MoJo’s March of the Mill Children; Remembering Harry Belafonte
The 1943 RJ Reynolds Strike
Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot!
Democracy Under Siege
A white-collar strike
Detroit’s Walk to Freedom
Trumka on the power of labor arts
The Memorial Day Massacre
Mackay, Wurf, library workers, Matewan and the first baseball strike (Encore)
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