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Community and the Whole Worker · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  this is a thing I'd, I'd like to see more of, certainly in Cincinnati labor, is a, a
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  sort of organic- mm-hmm connection between workers' communities and workers' jobs.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Friday, May 22nd.
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  you know, often presently those two spheres of life are
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  treated as separate things.
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  It is important to the work of, of organizing folks that you bring in the
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  wh- whole worker- Yes ... rather than just the- the guy who shows up for eight
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  hours, but not his church or- his bowling
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  league.
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  That's from the Boiling Point podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On the weekend Labor Arts Calendar, the DC Labor Film Fest is screening Man of Marble
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  tomorrow, and Man of Iron on Sunday, along with Everybody to Kenmure Street.
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  On Monday, there's a special 70th birthday celebration for artist and
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  organizer Ricardo Levins Morales.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org,
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1895, Gene Debs was sent to prison for his
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  leading role in the great Pullman Strike.
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  Today's labor quote is by Gene Debs who said, "I would not be a
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  capitalist. I would be a man. You cannot be both at the same time."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast daily comes from the Union
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  Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.