Labor Heritage Power Hour

Monopolizing inflation; David Bacon’s wall of photos

Broadcast on August 25, 2022While hosts Chris Garlock and Ed Smith are off this week, check out The Heartland Labor Forum’s show:The Federal Reserve is trying to slow inflation by raising interest rates while at the same time corporate profits are at an all-time high: is our monopolized economy really what’s driving inflation? Then, what do you know about the border wall between the US and Mexico? In his new book More Than a Wall, photojournalist David Bacon shows how the border is more than a wall that separates. It’s the people and their history of common struggles against racism, labor trafficking and a broken immigration system. Also, Safety First with Mary Erio.
“Radio That Talks Back to the Boss,” the Heartland Labor Forum has been around for more than 30 years, airing weekly on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio. HLF is one of the members of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, more than 150 labor radio shows and podcasts across the country and around the world that – like Your Rights At Work -- focus on issues affecting working people.
Produced by The Heartland Labor Forum and Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nasella.
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Labor Radio Podcast Weekly

Broadcast on August 18, 2022
While hosts Chris Garlock and Ed Smith take a break, check out these reports from the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly, which features brief excerpts from some of the more than 150 labor radio shows and podcasts around the country.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nasella.
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Labor pitches in for Kentucky flood relief

Broadcast on August 11, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Kentucky AFL-CIO President Bill Londrigan reports on labor’s efforts to provide disaster relief to those impacted by the recent floods in eastern Kentucky as well as last Fall’s tornados in the western part of the state.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Shoppers workers take it to the streets

Broadcast on August 11, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Supermarket workers at Shoppers, in the second year of a contract extension, are running out of patience; UFCW 400’s Mike Wilson reports.
Today’s music: “Don’t Play With My Money/Dignity and Respect (Put It All in My Check)” chant mash-up from the 8/9 ATU 689 MetroAccess strike rally.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Big Biz’s Big Lie about the minimum corporate tax

Broadcast on August 4, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Damon Silvers on how the GOP is ganging up with Big Tech, Big Pharma and Wall Street to fight the minimum corporate tax.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Live from the MetroAccess strike picketline

Broadcast on August 4, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
On the picketline at the Hubbard Road MetroAccess strike against Transdev by members of ATU Local 689.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Get up, stand up

Broadcast on July 28, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Jonah Furman on the DMV-area Labor Notes Meet-up (Sat, July 30, 12 noon at Denizen's Brewing Co). Fired by The Washington Post; a 50-year-old case (listener call). Plus music from Bob Marley.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella and Kahlia Chapman.
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Selma James says “Our Time Is Now”

Broadcast on July 21, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock
Writer, feminist and social activist Selma James on the International Wages for Housework Campaign at 50. Her latest book, Our Time Is Now, compiles several decades of James’s work with a focus on her more recent writings.
PLUS: An audio postcard from the July 20 Senate cafeteria worker civil disobedience action.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella.
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Free Brittney Griner!

Broadcast on July 21, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock
Sportswriter DAVE ZIRIN on the campaign to free women’s basketball star Brittney Griner, an active member of the Women's National Basketball Players Association who’s been detained in Russia for five months. Zirin also talks about plans to write a biography of historian – and onetime union organizer -- Howard Zinn.
PLUS: ANTHONY ROMERO, UFCW 400 union rep, on getting out the union vote in Tuesday’s Maryland primary.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella.
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Back To The Way Things Were

Broadcast on July 14, 2022
Hosted by Chris Garlock & Ed Smith
Velina Brown, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s new live musical, Back To The Way Things Were, playing free in San Francisco parks through Labor Day: In a country where we can finally stop wearing masks to get pizza and go to the movies, and where we again have a president who isn’t dumb as a two dollar ham, hard-working, middle-aged liberals Ralph and Alice wistfully yearn for The before Times, when things seemed normal. But for Zoe - their twenty-something daughter who grew up in a world of climate change, housing crashes, student debt, the rise of dictatorships and the fall of democracies - there is no “better” to go back to. For her the purgatory of the last two years was just a pause from life in Hell. So what’s the point? Isn’t it easier to just give up?
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nassella.
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