Labor Heritage Power Hour

Making room for solidarity

Last year the AFL-CIO changed the name of its main meeting room at the federation’s headquarters from the Gompers Room to the Solidarity Room; CBTU president Terry Melvin tells us why. PLUS: Part 1 of our DC Labor FilmFest preview; Terry’s favorite labor song; MLK’s “Mountaintop” speech; latest labor arts news briefs.
Broadcast on April 4, 2024 on WPFW 89.3 FM 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.@AFISilver @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Changing Lives, Changing L.A.

“Changing Lives, Changing L.A.” a play created from transcripts from the UNITE HERE Local 11 Oral History Project; four members of UNITE HERE Local 11 share their stories of becoming leaders in their union, and fighting for a better life while helping transform Los Angeles. From our colleagues at the Re:Work podcast.In her own words: Rosemarie Francis-Primo, a Home Healthcare Aide from Brooklyn and a proud member of Domestic Workers United; from the America Works podcast. Free speech for who? The ACLU defends the NRA at the Supreme Court: labor historian Joe McCartin on why this case matters to American union members. On Labor History in 2:00: the day Centralia Coal Mine #5 exploded, killing 111 miners. NEW! Get your hot-off-the-presses LHF merch here now!
Broadcast on March 28, 2024 on WPFW 89.3 FM 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.@rework_radio @librarycongress @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Our labor sheroes

Broadcast on March 21, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
This week's show: Labor leaders share their favorite sheroes, an REI worker writes a play and the Coalition of Labor Union Women celebrates 50 years. Plus music from Nina Simone, Rose City Kings and The Detroit Diva. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@LizShuler @CLUWNational @reiunionsoho @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

The Labor Oscar winners!

Broadcast on March 14, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
This week's show: Winners of the first-ever Labor Oscars, the Meany Labor Archives reviews 1955’s “For Fair Play” short film, and two versions of labor classic “Roll the Union On.” Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@BurnesCenter @MrSethHarris @sagaftra @AndreaLyman10 @haroldPDX @AWFJ @aboutdocsguide @PowerAtWorkBlog @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

We Were There

Broadcast on March 7, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
This week's show: Celebrating women’s labor herstory: Bev Grant on the origins of “We Were There”; a sample of Work Stoppage’s “Women in the US Labor Movement” series; Why AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride loves “Electric Boogie”; Les Leopold on “Wall Street's War on Workers” and, on Labor History in 2:00, Lucy Parsons and Frances Perkins. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@WorkStoppagePod @les_leopold @AFSCME @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

SAG’s laborific shows; the Black Wobbly

Broadcast on February 29, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
This week's show: Actor and fellow labor podcaster Harold Phillips joins us for his annual labor review of the Screen Actors Guild Awards; Nashville-based folk artists Michael and Nell with the story behind their song Boss Called a Meeting; from the Working Class History podcast, on this last day -- in fact this extra Leap Year day -- of Black History Month, who was Ben Fletcher and why have you never heard of him before? And, on Labor History in 2:00: The year was 1937; that was the day with whistles blowing, the call to strike could be heard through the aisles of Woolworth in downtown Detroit. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@sagaftra @SAGawards @wrkclasshistory @ProfPeterCole @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod

American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson

Broadcast on February 22, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
This week's show: Writer/director Cord Jefferson takes us behind the scenes of creating his acclaimed film American Fiction, the challenges of adaption, and creating Black-centered narratives; organizer and musician Joe Uehlein tells the story behind his song “Hands”, and, on Labor History in 2:00: the year was 1805; that was the day abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Angelina Grimke was born.NOTE: The Cord Jefferson segment is excerpted from 3rd & Fairfax, the podcast of the Writers Guild of America West.Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@WGAWest @THEULINERS @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Black, Red, White and Blue

Broadcast on February 15, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock
This week's show: Union and civil rights organizer Si Kahn on “Black, Red, White and Blue,” his song about a Black World War II veteran; "Campbell's Slave Pen," a brand-new song from the R.J. Phillips Band about the Baltimore slave trade and liberation of the captives by Union troops during the Civil War; “Detroit Diva” Lynn Marie Smith on “Union Funk,” and a special treat, a live recording of legendary folksinger Anne Feeney, who died three years ago this month, accepting the Joe Hill Award – and singing -- at the 2005 Great Labor Arts Exchange (click here for info on the 2024 GLAE at Labor Notes). Plus, the LaborForce podcast’s Michael Struchen on his favorite labor song.Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @Kahn75Si @LaborForcePod @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

JFK's Last Words to Labor

Broadcast on February 8, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
This week's show: JFK's Last Words to Labor, Saving the UE Chicago Mural, Discovering Maxo Vanka, "the Diego Rivera of Pittsburgh", plus UE president Carl Rosen’ Favorite Labor Song, Anita Mathias with The Story Behind the Song, and, on Labor History in 2:00: the Seattle General Strike
That’s all on this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour on WPFW 89.3FM, Revolutionary Radio for Revolutionary Times. Just a quick reminder; the Power Hour crew works for free but it takes cold hard cash to keep the lights on at the station and the radio tower humming, so please, take a sec right now to partner with us in this critical work of liberation by donating during our winter pledge drive at wpfwfm.org or call 800.222.9739, and ensure that WPFW will be here to chronicle the revolution!
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @steelworkers @ueunion @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Vermont’s Old Labor Hall

Broadcast on February 1, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
This week's show: Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union shares his favorite labor song; we find out how Vermont's Old Labor Hall is surviving last year’s devastating flood; and Si Kahn tellsThe Story Behind The Song: Back When Times Were Hard.Plus: Carmelita Torres and the Bath Riots, and Troubadour, a tribute to Pete Seeger, both by the RJ Phillips Band.And, on Labor History in 2:00: the year was 1865. That was the day that the US Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the constitution, abolishing slavery.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @APWUnational @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod