Labor Heritage Power Hour

Christopher Garlock
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Labor Heritage Power Hour

A weekly radio show celebrating the cultural heritage of the American worker. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant and produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation; broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM

  1. 3 DAYS AGO

    Hilary Peach’s Thick Skin (Encore)

    On today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Writer and recording artist Hilary Peach worked for twenty years as a transient welder, travelling across Canada and the United States, working in pulp mills, chemical plants, refineries, and generating stations. In 2022 she released a memoir about this time, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood; our interviewer is Susan Eisenberg, a poet, visual artist, oral historian and former electrician. On today’s installment of our “Story Behind the Song” series, Joe Jencks tells us how he came to write his labor classic “Rise As One”. Joe is a 25-year veteran of the international folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter and celebrated vocalist, and a member of A.F.M. Local 1000, the North American Traveling Musicians Union.On Labor History in 2:00: the year was 1915; on this date, the most popular labor song in the United States was completed in Chicago.Broadcast on December 19, 2024; original broadcast January 18, 2024Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @AnvilPress @JoeJencksMusic @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

    55 min

  2. DEC 12

    Incredible Finds, Inc.

    On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: A reading from Incredible Finds, Inc., a new play about an exploited factory worker who leads her colleagues in a strike against their company’s brutal and dehumanizing practices; followed by a discussion with playwright Casey J. Adler, actors Regina Fernandez and Amir Levy, and director Dana Schwartz. There’s a free reading of the play at 1p on Sunday, December 15 at the Beverly Hills Library.In our second segment we tour the American Labor Museum’s Faces From An American Dream exhibit of photographs by Martin Desht with Education Director Evelyn Hershey, who reads Philip Levine’s poem What Work Is.In our final segment, singer/songwriter Si Kahn, with Were You There, the latest installment of our Story Behind the Song series. Broadcast on December 12, 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

    55 min

  3. DEC 5

    Work Songs

    This week's show: Workers have been singing while working and singing about working since antiquity; the Heartland Labor Forum’s Mark Galus plays classics from Billy Bragg, Joe Glazer and Anne Feeney as well as some more obscure folk and punk tracks. Broadcast on December 5, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; original source The Heartland Labor Forum (KKFI in Kansas City); this version produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.@Heartland_Labor @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

    55 min

  4. NOV 28

    Liz Shuler’s favorite labor song (Encore)

    Originally broadcast on November 30, 2023Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant On today’s show, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler joins us to launch the “My Favorite Labor Song” feature, and then we’ve got a preview of the DC Labor Chorus’ upcoming holiday concert (this year on November 7; get your free tix here), and in our final segment, Radical Songbook host Michael Funke’s “Making Cars Medley” of songs in honor of the UAW’s historic Stand Up Strike. Plus, Labor History in 2:00 on Louisa May Alcott’s “Work: A Story of Experience”. Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. @wpfwdc @aflcio @LizShuler @tmorello @UAW #1u #unions #laborradiopod

    55 min

  5. NOV 21

    The Green New Deal From Below

    This week's show: Special correspondent Joe Uehlein talks with labor historian and activist Jeremy Brecher about his new book, The Green New Deal From Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy.And in our Story Behind the Song series, Joe Uehlein tells us about You Can't Giddy Up By Sayin' Whoa.In Labor History in 2:00: The year was 1888; that was the day that William Le Grand Bundy is credited with inventing something that has become a daily part of life for millions of workers.Broadcast on November 21 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

    55 min

  6. NOV 14

    The lost labor artist

    This week's show: Kathy M. Newman talks with art historian Patricia Hills and Brooklyn College professor Joseph Entin about Philip Tipperman’s labor paintings, archaeologist Dean Anderson on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Rick Smith remembers Karen Silkwood. NOTES: Philip Tipperman’s paintings will be installed at Brooklyn College at 2p on November 22; the event is open to the public and includes a reception; details here. The Dean Anderson segment is from Michigan State University’s Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives brown bag series; 2024-25 schedule here. Triangle is by the R.J. Phillips Band; check them out here.Broadcast on November 14, 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. @BklynCollege411 @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

    55 min

  7. NOV 7

    We Can Move Mountains

    This week's show: Singer/songwriter Bev Grant on the story behind her song We Can Move Mountains; Lisa Raye Garlock talks with Tabitha Arnold, a “Southern socialist making textile art about unions”. Broadcast on November 7, 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.@Tabithaarnold @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

    55 min

  8. OCT 31

    A Wild Woman Sings the Blues

    This week's show: “The life and music of Barbara Dane,” from The Harry Bridges Project. The story of America told through its social upheaval, its achievements and, above all, its music. Broadcast on October 31, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant (Peter Pocock co-hosted the live edition); 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

    55 min
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A weekly radio show celebrating the cultural heritage of the American worker. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant and produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation; broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM

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  • Creator
    Christopher Garlock
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    Labor Heritage Power Hour

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