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- 0:02it started raining when he came in and, uh, he said, it's raining and I
- 0:05don't if there's anything in the, in the rain because the rain was black.
- 0:09This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Wednesday, April 22nd.
- 0:15So we went out by this time, it's a good, good steady rain, and it
- 0:20literally, we have a, um, side by side, a player ranger, and it literally
- 0:25looked like oil dripping from the bike.
- 0:28That's from The Working People Podcast on the Labor Radio podcast
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- 0:52In today's labor history on this date in 1526, enslaved Africans in a
- 0:58short-lived Spanish colony in what is now South Carolina rebelled burning
- 1:04parts of the settlement and escaping likely joining indigenous communities.
- 1:09The colonies soon collapsed, marking the earliest recorded resistance to slavery
- 1:15in what would become the United States.
- 1:18Today's labor quote is by Mary Harris, mother Jones, who said there are no
- 1:23limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
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- 1:45This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.