Labor Heritage Power Hour

The Disney Revolt

Broadcast on July 6, 2023Hosted by Chris GarlockAs the Writers Guild strike stretches on past the 10-week mark, we turn our attention to another Hollywood strike, the 1941 walkout by hundreds of animators at Walt Disney Studios. Animation historian Jake Friedman joins us to discuss his book The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age.Then, the second season of one of our favorite shows, The Bear, recently dropped on Hulu. Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant talk with Sherry Linkon about the first season of the show, set in a Chicago sandwich shop. Sherry teaches at Georgetown and co-edits the Working-Class Perspectives blog.Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.@wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @jakesfriedman#thedisneyrevolt @WCPerspectives @TheBearFX

“Billions” walk the line

Broadcast on June 29, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock
Hollywood writer Theo Travers reports on the 9-week-old strike by 11,000 striking Writers Guild writers. PLUS: Teaser from “We Will Not Be Turned Around”, Part 2 of Episode 3 of the I AM STORY podcast, the story of a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history; the 1968 strike by Memphis sanitation workers.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio @WGAWest @AFSCME #1u #unions #laborradiopod #WGAstrong #WGAstrike

Memphis ’68 to LA ‘23

Broadcast on June 22, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock
From the I AM STORY podcast, the story of a labor struggle that rocked a city and altered our history; the 1968 strike by Memphis sanitation workers.
Plus: our audio postcard (featuring Boots Riley) from Wednesday’s rally by 5,000 striking Writers Guild writers and their supporters in Los Angeles. And, Folk Singers and the FBI; Gene Lantz reports on The Workers Beat Extra.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio @WGAWest @BootsRiley @AFSCME #1u #unions #laborradiopod #WGAstrong #WGAstrike

Joe Hill lives!

Broadcast on June 15, 2023 on WPFW 89.3 FMHosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
Elise Bryant talks with Susan Eisenberg and Dave Elsila, this year’s Joe Hill awardees at the 2023 Great Labor Art Exchange, on Your Rights At Work.PLUS: Music by Lynn Marie Smith, Joe Glazer, Joe Uehlein and Seth Newton Patel and spoken word from Professor Louie. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @joeuehlein LaborHeritage1

Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot!

Broadcast on June 8, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock and MacGyver Williams
Owen Smith, who’s directing the Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot! labor musical, which will be performed in Upstate New York on June 17, part of the festivities around the Grand Opening of the Kate Mullany National Historic Site in Troy, New York. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @nysaflcio

An artist and a poet walk into a picket line

Broadcast on June 8, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock and MacGyver Williams
Medicinal social justice movement artist, organizer and trickster Ricardo Levins Morales and poet Rocky Delaplaine; they’ll both be participating in this year’s Great Labor Arts Exchange, June 15-18 in Linthicum Heights, MD. PLUS: Latest WGA strike audio postcard, with Aiko Little and Sierra Teller Ornelas at the Native & Indigenous Writers takeover at the Writer’s Guild picket line at Disney.Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @WGAWest @rlmartstudio

Your Rights At Work: Americonned

Broadcast on June 1, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock, Ed Smith and Elise Bryant
The new documentary Americonned traces the history of the labor movement, as well as the devious political tactics of a select few who have influenced the course of history. But radical inequality leads to radicalization, and this powerful documentary depicts what happens when America hits its tipping point.Labor Goes to the Movies co-host Chris Garlock talks with director Sean Claffey about the film, which is now screening at selected locations around the country, including Tuesday, June 6 at the AFI Silver in Silver Spring, Maryland, where it’s being co-sponsored by the DC Labor FilmFest. We have a limited number of free passes available; CLICK HERE or email info@laborheritage.org.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @LaborHeritage1 @AFISilver @americonneddoc

The Great Labor Arts Exchange

Broadcast on June 1, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock, Ed Smith and Elise Bryant
Singers Colleen Kattau and Ben Grosscup and union organizer David Heller talk – and sing -- about the power of labor arts and why they’re attending the June 15-18 Great Labor Arts Exchange. Plus this week’s Writers Guild strike audio postcard.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @ColleenKattau, @ATUComm @BenGrosscup

Trumka on why art matters to labor

Broadcast on May 25, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
For 40 years, labor activists have gathered to celebrate the labor movement through the arts at the Labor Heritage Foundation’s Great Labor Arts Exchange, which takes place June 15-18 in Linthicum Heights, MD this year. On today’s show, we hear what former AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka -- who died in 2021 – had to say about the importance of the arts to the labor movement. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Contract TK

Broadcast on May 25, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
Comedy from striking Writers Guild members, plus picket line reports from the Guild strike and a Starbucks strike in Olney, MD. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod @WGAWest #WGAstrike #WGAStrong #WGA @SBWorkersUnited