West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Barbara Ellen Smith
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events..
- Aug 4
- 2 min
"We choose to go to the Moon" - JFK on Space Exploration
“That goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.” "We...
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- Aug 3
- 2 min
Lynne Hancock - Nuclear Times Newsletter of the United Steel Workers
The nuclear energy economy provides high skilled, high paid, union jobs
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- Aug 2
- 2 min
Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers
The Future of Union led Nuclear Energy in America “These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits....
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- Jul 30
- 1 min
Curtis Mayfield - The Makings of You (1970)
“The love of all mankind should reflect some sign of these words I've tried to recite. They're close but not quite.” Curtis Lee Mayfield...
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- Jul 29
- 2 min
Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe - Artist Works
“Being an artist is a constant chase. But most importantly, never sell out. Because once you sell your soul, you can never get it back.”
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- Jul 27
- 1 min
Prayer of the 54th Regiment Before the Battle of Fort Wagner - Morgan Freeman
“We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!” Morgan Freeman delivers a powerful prayer during one of my favorite scenes in the...
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- Jul 26
- 1 min
End Eco-Colonialism and Free Africa's Nuclear Energy with Princy Mthombeni
“I'm a humanitarian at heart. So I see nuclear as a vehicle that will deliver prosperity to the African continent.”
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- Jul 25
- 3 min
Nuclear Surplus Energy: China vs. United States
“China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.” Energy is Everything. It sustains all...
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- Jul 21
- 1 min
An Artist’s Duty - Nina Simone
Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist, and a revolutionary artist. I love her work. Rest in peace,
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- Jul 20
- 2 min
Energy 101 with Isaac Orr on The Power Hungry Podcast - Excerpt
You need to find a way to satisfy security, reliability, affordability...
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- Jul 18
- 1 min
Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander
his new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electri
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- Jul 13
- 2 min
Ain’t I A Woman? Reverend Addie Wyatt on Sojourner Truth
“I born 13 children and seen almost all sold off into slavery.”
Addie L. Wyatt (March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United
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- Jul 12
- 10 min
JFK On Revolution - March 13, 1962
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
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- Jul 11
- 3 min
Killing People with a Bad Electrical Grid - Meredith Angwin: Author of Shorting the Grid
Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the U
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- Jul 9
- 2 min
What Is Your Life's Blueprint? Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Excerpt - October 26, 1967
“Your blueprint must be a commitment to the eternal principles, of beauty, love and justice.”
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- Jul 7
- 2 min
Robert Frost Reads His Poem The Road Not Taken
“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back..” Poem’s Meaning according to Ben Kageyama: “Robert Frost...
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- Jul 6
- 1 min
Jazz Lewis - Delegate Representing District 24 - Maryland House of Delegates
“In my legislative district, between the Northern tip of [Maryland] to the Southern tip, I represent 135,000 people…there's a 20 year life."
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- Jun 30
- 1 min
No Time - A beautiful sad soul blues folk tune by Ronald Charles McKernan
"My poor heart can't stand no more, so why don't you just stop talking? If you gonna walk out that door, start walking."
I heard this song o
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- Jun 29
- 2 min
Chisenga - Global Hip Hop Artist, Producer, and Sound Engineer
“Sometimes I'll be feeling all alone…like, am I the only person that believes it? But I believe in it enough to know that where there's a wi
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- Jun 28
- 1 min
My soul has grown deep like the rivers - Langston Hughes
“I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the suns
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- Jun 27
- 1 min
Driving home with the Labor Radio Podcast Network
“There's a lot of solidarity, a lot of love and in both Philadelphia and Chicago, and it's been a great road trip with the Labor Radio...
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- Jun 26
- 1 min
Why Love?
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
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- Jun 25
- 2 min
CEOs Screwing Workers with Sarah Anderson of Global Economy Project at IPS & Inequality.org
“At Amazon, the CEO got $213 million last year, and that was 6,474 times as much as median worker pay at the company, which was about...
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- Jun 24
- 2 min
The Coalition of Labor Union Women Response to the Supreme Court Decision on Roe v. Wade.
"We will mobilize millions of women across the country to exercise their right to vote out any elected official who stands in the way of...
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- Jun 22
- 1 min
Labor On The Airwaves at Labor Notes
“If you're thinking about trying to start a podcast or a radio show, don't think about doing it all yourself, This is a collective...
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- Jun 21
- 1 min
“Billionaires have got to go! F—k Jeff Bezos!”
“When you come to the fight with organized labor, if you are corporate America, and you want to take us on, or you are a crooked...
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- Jun 20
- 1 min
Voices from Labor Notes Conference 2022 - Labor Radio Podcast Daily
There are over 4,000 folks at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago and the Labor Radio Podcast Network team talked to almost all of...
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- Jun 18
- 1 min
Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Network takes a road trip to Chicago!
“I've been humbled by all the people I've met over the last few days who've done so much in organizing and improving, working people's...
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- Jun 16
- 1 min
Rockin’ the Philadelphia Museum of Art
"I deserve to eat. I deserve to get the wages I deserve this opportunity to provide for my family as well." Erica Stewart - Boilermakers...
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- Jun 14
- 1 min
Spiritual and Global Solidarity
"There's another vision of the way things could be. And I think that's where the church and labor and so many of the movements that are...
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- Jun 14
- 1 min
LIVE from the AFL-CIO convention!
Welcome to the Labor Radio Podcast Daily, a special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly. Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the...
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- Jun 9
- 1 min
Mother Jones - Labor Leader Diaries - Excerpt 3
Mother Jones is one of my heroes.
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- Jun 7
- 2 min
Richard DeShay Elliott - Candidate District 24 Maryland House of Delegates
“The amount of money they paid these anti-union lawyers...It's an insult to spend money against somebody when you could have spent less...
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- Jun 7
- 1 min
James Baldwin on how Suffering is a Bridge
James Baldwin on how Suffering is a Bridge. The one thing you had to do, is try to tell the truth.
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- Jun 6
- 1 min
You Can Undermine Any Barrier That Separates One Man From The Other - Howard Thurman
“The experiences of unity among people are more important and crucial than all the concepts, prejudices, ideologies, and faiths that may...
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- May 30
- 4 min
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed - Book Talks
“Water is an issue that can unite people. Water is life. Their slogans were always very powerfully pro water, less anti mining. And...
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- May 28
- 1 min
Political Economy Project (Excerpt)
The future depends on it... To move beyond the entrenched binary that pits capitalism versus socialism, the political economy project...
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- May 25
- 2 min
Bill Fletcher Jr.’s novel The Man Who Fell From the Sky - Book Talks
Bill Fletcher pulls together history and mystery to create an exciting and compelling story of race and revenge.
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- May 24
- 1 min
Government Jobs Programs Neutralize Extremism w/ Eric Rauchway
#NewDealNow Watch full interview: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/book-review-why-the-new-deal-matters-with-author-dr-eric-rauchway
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- May 23
- 1 min
New Deal Now!
Excerpt from My Origin Story - Cleveland’s Lakeview Terrace - New Deal Public Housing Watch the full video here:...
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- May 21
- 1 min
Quarantine with Rilke with Poet and Author Asnia Asim - Artist Spotlight Series
Asnia Asim is a poet and writer and her new book of poems, Quarantine with Rilke, shares with the reader an intimacy with the Self, a quiet
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- May 19
- 1 min
FDR Reorganizes Banks After Collapse - March 1933
The Emergency Banking Act (EBA), was an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking...
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- May 18
- 2 min
Where is Harry Hopkins today?
One of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century was a social worker named Harry Hopkins who through public service...
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- May 6
- 1 min
Christian Smalls Amazon Labor Union, Senate hearing on Taxes Going to Companies Violating Labor Laws
Christian Smalls, Amazon Labor Union President, delivers his opening statement before the Senate Budget Committee, hearing on “Taxpayer...
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- May 4
- 1 min
Jay Naidoo - General Secretary, Congress of South African Trade Unions - Labor Solidarity Podcast
“Apartheid used racial discrimination as an instrument to maintain the cheap labor system. So the core of apartheid was a cheap labor...
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- May 3
- 1 min
The Mother of all Evil is Speculation
Excerpt from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps You're all pretty much fucked. They got all these fancy names for trillions of dollars of...
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- Apr 20
- 2 min
How To Write Forceful Prose with Author Timothy Sheard - Book Talks with Evan Papp of Empathy Media
“A distillation of my 30 years mentoring and editing authors of all kinds, this little book will show you how to tell your story in...
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- Apr 15
- 1 min
Organize the Churches and Rejoice with Matt Bernico - Belief Street Faith and Labor
"You can rally around those people and say, 'No more killing of people through the slow crucifixions of low wage work, union busting, and...
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- Apr 15
- 0 min
Belief Street Faith and Labor - Good Friday to All!
Belief Street Faith and Labor - Good Friday to All!
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