Labor Heritage Power Hour Christopher Garlock

This week's show: Elise and Chris play some listener suggestions for the show’s new theme song. Plus: the Oregon AFL-CIO’s new mural, the story behind Joe Uehlein’s song “Hands”, a reading from “Presente: A Dockworker’s Story” and, on Labor History in 2:00, the UAW wins a first contract at Ford. Broadcast on June 20, 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.@ProPeterCole @OregonAFLCIO @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Union co-director Stephen Maing and cinematographer Martin DiCicco on their new film about the historic Amazon Labor Union victory (screens 6/15 in DC); labor poetry from union organizer Jessen Fox; Chris visits the Kate Mullany House; and in our latest Story Behind the Song series, Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou on her Ballad of Min Mathesun. PLUS: We launch our Labor Heritage Power Hour Theme Song Contest!Broadcast on June 13, 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

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes, which changed the course of history and the lives of tens of thousands of working people. On today’s show, an excerpt from “Labor’s Turning Point,” a documentary on the strike.
Then we tour Collective Action: Labor Activism in 21st Century Baltimore, a bold new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Industry exploring the historic and contemporary organized labor movement.
On Labor History in 2:00: Striking Toledo Auto-Lite workers OK a dealBroadcast on June 6, 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.@BMIatWork @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Chris & Elise play labor songs requested by listeners, including talkin’ bout a revolution (Tracy Chapman), Chain Gang (Sam Cooke), Union Maid (Anne Feeney) and Solidarity Forever (Billy Bragg). Broadcast on May 30, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Please support the program by pledging generously to WPFW’s spring pledge drive: call 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739 or pledge online (be sure to scroll down and select “The Labor Heritage Power Hour”).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

A mural celebrating Ben Fletcher – “The Black Wobbly” – was unveiled in Philadelphia on May 18; check out our audio postcard.On this week’s Labor History in Two: Remembering C.L.R. James
Broadcast on May 23, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Please support the program by pledging generously to WPFW’s spring pledge drive: call 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739 or pledge online (be sure to scroll down and select “The Labor Heritage Power Hour”).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.@IWW @ProfPeterCole @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

In 1938, 600 crab pickers struck for higher wages and a union in Crisfield, Maryland; on today’s show, an audio postcard from the May 10 dedication of an official state historical marker commemorating the strike. Then, we talk with historian Peter Cole, author of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, whose work inspired the new Ben Fletcher mural being dedicated on May 18 in Philadelphia. Our “Story Behind the Song” feature returns today with Emily Jo Tanzey, one of our 2023 Great Labor Arts Exchange song contest winners; today she tells us the story behind her song “Solidarity is the Only Thing We Need.”  And, on Labor History in Two: The year was 1913; that was the day Philadelphia longshoremen walked off the job.