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Hope in hard times · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Folks, if you're gonna read one book this winter, lemme make it
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  quite clear, you should pick up The Radical Fund by John Witt.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Friday, February 27th.
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  So how did this book gimme some hope?
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  Well, the late 19 teens and twenties were, not a pretty place to be in America.
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  You had state sanctioned terrorism on African American population
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  through Jim Crow the imprisonment of thousands that voiced opposition to
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  World War I or supported labor unions.
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  No freedom of speech for those that questioned the press was controlled
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  by the banks and big industry.
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  Oh, and, and the country just got out of a pandemic.
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  And that is where the Radical Fund came into play.
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  That's from The Tales from the Ruther Library Podcast on the
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  Labor Radio Podcast network.
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  Labor radio network.org.
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  On today's Labor Arts calendar, the Inquisitor, a film about Texas
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  Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
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  Screens free online all weekend, a brick and a Bible.
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  A new play about the 1933 Funston Nut Strike is on stage in St.
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  Louis today, tomorrow, and Sunday.
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  Plus brotherhood in the civil rights era tomorrow in Chicago.
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  Complete details and the latest Labor Arts.
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  News and events are available@laborheritage.org
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  In today's labor history on this date, in 1875, legendary labor leader Eugene
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  v Debs became a charter member and secretary of the Vigo Lodge of the
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  brotherhood of Locomotive firemen.
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  Today's labor quote is by Jane Debs, who said, no strike has ever been lost.
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  The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is supported by our friends at Union Plus,
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  you can find out more@unionplus.org.