Labor Heritage Power Hour

Workers react to the insurrection

Broadcast on January 7, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: John Boardman (UNITE HERE 25), Jaime Contreras (SEIU 32BJ) and Mark Federici (UFCW 400) on how DC-area workers were affected by Wednesday's insurrection and how they're surviving the pandemic. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which is demanding an investigation into the federal and local police planning and response to yesterday's events and Harold Meyerson, American Prospect editor, take a deeper dive in Wednesday's events, including the difference in how authorities handled peaceful BLM protests and the violent right-wing mob as well as the short- and long-term political implications.
Plus: George Mann’s “Donnie Took A Dump All Over Twitter”
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella.
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Gonna Vote Your Asses Out!

Broadcast on December 31, 2020
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: Chris and Ed say goodbye to 2020 with a dozen work-themed songs, including Gonna Vote Your Asses Out! (Emma's Revolution), A Matter of Time (Los Lobos), Factory (Bruce Springsteen), Welcome to the Working Week (Elvis Costello), Working Man's Blues (Merle Haggard), Big In The Body/All You Fascists Bound To Lose (The Selecter), Together (For King and Country), Working-Class Hero (John Lennon), Wake up Everybody (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes), Inner City Blues (Marvin Gaye), Living for the City (Stevie Wonder) and Work Song (Nina Simone).
This show is dedicated to Andrew Washington (AFSCME Council 20) and all the working men and women taken from us this year by the COVID pandemic. Rest in Power, brothers and sisters!
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia.
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SF Mime Troupe’s ”A Red Carol”

Broadcast on December 24, 2020
Chris Garlock and Ed Smith are off for the holiday; they'll be back next week with a New Year's Eve all-labor music call-in show.
This week's show: "People always think this story is about you,” Bob Crachit tells Scrooge in this original radio drama based on the Charles Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol."
“But it ain’t about you, it’s about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, its you steppin’ over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, it’s us lettin’ you turn our government into a casino, listenin’ while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standin’ up and shouting "NO!"'
“It ain’t about you," Cratchit says. "It’s about us.”
​A Red Carol is leavened with labor songs, and features a 10 person cast that includes present and veteran SF Mime Troupers. As with all Mime Troupe projects they're supported directly by you! If you can, please make a donation by Clicking Here. (suggested $20 donation)
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A Red Carol; Workers in holiday movies

Broadcast on December 17, 2020
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: A Red Carol; Daniel Savio, Music Producer and member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe Collective, talks about the Mime Troupe's first-ever radio play A Red Carol, which airs next week on Christmas Eve at 1pm on Your Rights At Work. Workers in holiday movies: Kathy Newman, Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses the workers who make your favorite holiday movies possible. Read her essay “Christmas (and Class) Behind the Scenes” on the Working-Class Perspectives blog. Plus: There is Power In A Union, sung by the SFMT Red Carol cast. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Shepsu.
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Best labor books of the year

Broadcast on December 10, 2020
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: The best labor books of 2020, with TIM SHEARD, Hardball Press publisher and author of the Lenny Moss mysteries, and PATRICK DIXON, Managing Editor at LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History. YEMISRACH WOLDE, Ethiopian Community Center on the upcoming DC Pay Stub Clinic.
Plus: Fallen Heroes: Songs for Essential Workers by The Pandemics.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nasella.
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“Right to Return to Work”; the urgent need for economic relief

Broadcast on December 3, 2020
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show:Sam Epps, Unite Here Local 25 Political Director, on the “Displaced Workers Right to Reinstatement and Retention Amendment Act” or “Right to Return to Work” for DC workers.Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, on the crisis facing American workers and the urgent need for economic relief.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Ciera Shine.
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Workers fight for safe DC schools; ”Tales of the Resistance” wraps

Broadcast on November 19, 2020
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show:
Metro Washington Council president Dyana Forester reports on the latest on efforts by DC school unions to keep students safe; plus why postal workers took to the streets across the country this week.Tales of the Resistance; the final episode! Will the Resistance become a Revolution, or will the fascist corporate overlords maintain their control over the workers? Find out in the last installment of this gripping radio drama from the San Francisco Mime Troupe!
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Michael Nasella.
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Everything you need to know about DC unemployment insurance

Broadcast on November 12, 2020
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show:
DC City Councilmember Elissa Silverman discusses extended UI benefits, troubleshooting the latest issues, and the upcoming oversight hearing on outstanding Department of Employment Services issues. PLUS: latest labor news headlines and callers weigh in with their questions.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kaliah.
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Election zombies?

Broadcast on November 5, 2020
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: Bill Fletcher, Jr. explains how the 2020 election proves the existence of zombies (and reveals his simple 3-step Zombie Test). Callers weigh in on this and much much more.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella.
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The End of the Beginning!!!

Broadcast on October 29, 2020
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith
This week's show: The cliff-hanger Episode 9 of the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Tales of the Resistance radio drama. Will the Resistance become a Revolution? Or will the fascist corporate overlords maintain their control over the workers?
Plus: Metro Washington Council Political Director David Stephen on labor-endorsed DC-area candidates and why Montgomery County voters should vote against Question B.Labor headlines: Kroger workers demonstrate for contract; ‘Stunning’ Executive Order Would Politicize Civil Service; Gig Worker Groups Release Solidarity Letter Opposing Proposition 22
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Myke “The Man” Nasella.
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