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Solidarity Means Showing Up · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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So when we talk about May Day, we're not talking about a celebration.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, May 13th.
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We're talking about a fight.
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That's from the Solidarity Report on the Labor Radio Podcast
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network, laborradionetwork.org.
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On today's labor arts calendar, the DC Labor Film Fest has three screenings
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today: Before You Eat at six o'clock Eastern Time, WTO '99 at 7:00, and
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Mike Judge's Idiocracy at 9:15.
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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 1909, the Canadian government established
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the Department of Labor, something it took the U.S. Another four years to do.
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President Doug Fraser, named to Chrysler's board of directors on this date in
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1980, the first union rep ever to sit on the board of a major U.S. Corporation.
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Douglas Fraser, who said, "I would rather sit with the rural poor, the desperate
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children of urban blight, the victims of racism, and working people seeking
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a better life than with those whose religion is the status quo, whose goal
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is profit, and whose hearts are cold."
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Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from 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.