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Voting Rights and the Long Shadow of Matewan · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  at the end of the day, it is about diluting Black voting power, uh, that the
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  VRA was seeking to correct back in 1965.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Tuesday, May 19th.
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  And so we're, we're, they're trying to take us back to an era where
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  there could be, where you didn't have to have any accountability to,
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  uh, a quarter, uh, or more than a quarter of the state of Alabama.
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  That's from the Valley Labor Report on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On today's Labor Arts Calendar, Boots Riley's new film, I Love Boosters, screens
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1920, there was a shootout in
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  Matewan, West Virginia, between striking union miners led by police chief Sid
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  Hatfield and coal company agents.
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  Ten died, including seven agents.
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  Matewan director John Sayles, who said, "The people I read about in the
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  history books and the people I met in the hills of Kentucky and West Virginia
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  had important stories to tell, and I wanted to find a way to pass them on."
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.