Stand! The new hit labor musical

The new film Stand! -- described as Norma Rae meets Hamilton – is set during the 1919 general strike in Winnipeg, Canada, and features an immigrant Romeo and Juliet battling for love and a better life during a time of social upheaval not unlike our own.
Producer and composer Danny Schur talks about it with the New York State AFL-CIO’s podcast Union Strong.
Catch a free screening of Stand! by the DC Labor FilmFest this Tuesday night, January 19, 7p EST, when Labor History Today host Chris Garlock will be doing a live Q&A after the film with Danny Schur, director Robert Adetuyi and actor Gregg Henry. RSVP here. 
In Part 2 of her online talk Skyscraper Labor and the Places of Labor Protest for The Skyscraper Museum last November, architectural historian Joanna Merwood-Salisbury turns to Union Square in New York City and the movement to improve working conditions for garment industry workers in New York’s commercial lofts in the early twentieth century.
And on Labor History in 2:00, Rick Smith tells us about Standing Against Wage Theft more than a century ago.
Today’s music includes the title track of the musical Stand! sung by Lisa Bell.

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