Labor Heritage Power Hour

The lost labor artist

This week's show: Kathy M. Newman talks with art historian Patricia Hills and Brooklyn College professor Joseph Entin about Philip Tipperman’s labor paintings, archaeologist Dean Anderson on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Rick Smith remembers Karen Silkwood. NOTES: Philip Tipperman’s paintings will be installed at Brooklyn College at 2p on November 22; the event is open to the public and includes a reception; details here. The Dean Anderson segment is from Michigan State University’s Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives brown bag series; 2024-25 schedule here. Triangle is by the R.J. Phillips Band; check them out here.Broadcast on November 14, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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We Can Move Mountains

This week's show: Singer/songwriter Bev Grant on the story behind her song We Can Move Mountains; Lisa Raye Garlock talks with Tabitha Arnold, a “Southern socialist making textile art about unions”. Broadcast on November 7, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@Tabithaarnold @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

A Wild Woman Sings the Blues

This week's show: “The life and music of Barbara Dane,” from The Harry Bridges Project. The story of America told through its social upheaval, its achievements and, above all, its music. Broadcast on October 31, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant (Peter Pocock co-hosted the live edition); produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Still Lives of Workers in Motion

This week's show: photographers Leslie Grant and Jeffrey Skemp discuss their photo exhibit in St Paul, Minnesota, which explores labor through a visual focus on members of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 1005 and Metro Transit employees; plus, William Trent Pancoast’s “Road to Matewan” and Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts shares his favorite labor song.Broadcast on October 24, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@ESFLibrary @MineWorkers @CecilRoberts @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Union: The film, the campaign

This week's show: we talk with Brett Story and Stephen Maing, the directors of the new film Union, which follows the Amazon Labor Union's historic journey to victory, as, up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.PLUS: A visit with a labor lawyer who’s teaching a class in labor movies, and, on Labor History in 2:00, Labor’s “Magna Carta.”  Broadcast on October 17 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@unionthefilm @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Working Theater/Workers Unite! Film Festival

This week's show:  ”Something is fundamentally broken when you can only go see a Broadway show if your family takes in $300K a year…These are symptoms of an American theater which is not working,” says COLM SUMMERS, Artistic Director at Working Theater in New York City, one of the only theater companies in the country that’s dedicated to creating theater specifically for, about and with working people.“So you can make film on your phone now…and what that ends up doing is sometimes we don't have the most polished end product, but we have an end product that has lots of power and emotion in it. It's right from the heart. It's the truth of what actually is happening on the ground, which is even more important,” says ANDREW TILSON, Director of the Workers Unite! Film Festival, which is launching its’ 13th season next week.Broadcast on October 10, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@WorkersUniteFF @WrkingTheater @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Rocking the Cradle, Lessons from the Depression

This week's show: Why live theater still matters: we talk with Shanara Gabrielle, who’s directing the Theatre Alliance production of The Cradle Will Rock; labor historian Dana Frank takes a new look at working-class activism during the 1930s from the perspective of our own time, in What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times. She’ll talk with Bill Fletcher Jr. on Oct. 8 at the K Street Busboys and Poets.Broadcast on October 3, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

“Labor Day” with Si Kahn & George Mann

George Mann and Si Kahn’s new Labor Day CD features 21 songs by Si, a legendary songwriter who celebrated his 80th birthday this year. A tribute to workers and their unions, the CD showcases performances by both Kahn and Mann, as well as contributions from renowned folk artists such as Peggy Seeger, Billy Bragg, John McCutcheon and Tom Chapin. Today’s interview with Si and George originally appeared on the Heartland Labor Forum -- which airs weekly on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio – and includes songs from the new CD. PLUS: Hali Hammer’s favorite labor song and, on Labor History in 2:00, the 1961 murder of a Black cotton worker. Broadcast on September 26, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Shift Happens

This week's show: Children’s book author J. Albert Mann, author of “Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States”; “Clean Up on Aisle 4” host Jamie Mack, with They/Them; “Therapy” from poet Chris Butters; the R.J. Phillips Band celebrates immigrant workers with “Piece of the Pie”: Chris says Netflix hit “The Union” is a miss; Booker T. Washington and the “Atlanta Compromise Speech” on Labor History in 2:00; plus the DC Labor Chorus live from the Takoma Park Folk Fest!Broadcast on September 19, 2014 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@JAlbertMann @FoundationWals @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

The power of our stories

This week's show: Family Values @ Work’s Jennifer Morales on Caring Out Loud, storytelling that illuminates the often-overlooked work of caregiving; Lorna Gonsalves on Little Meena and the Big Swim, which teaches children that when many little people stand together, they can move mountains. Broadcast on September 12, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@FmlyValuesWork @hardballpress @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod