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Telling Our Own Stories · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  you can't really understand where you are today if you don't know how you got here,
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Thursday, May 28th.
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  we're not asking for a piece of the pie, we're asking for the pie
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  you know, the collections live in boxes, but people don't.
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  That's from today's Labor Heritage Power Hour on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  One o'clock today here on WPFW 89.3 FM.
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  On today's Labor Arts Calendar, Charlie Chaplin's classic Modern Times screens
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  at 7:00 PM at the DC Labor Film Fest.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org,
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  where you can also subscribe to the Labor Heritage Foundation's
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  free weekly newsletter.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1946, at least 30,000 workers in
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  my hometown, Rochester, New York, participated in a general strike
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  in support of municipal workers who had been fired for forming a union.
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  Discover the stories where they happened.
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  The online Labor Landmarks map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Charlie Chaplin who said, "Machine men with
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  machine minds and machine hearts.
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  You are not machines.
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  You are not cattle.
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  You are men."
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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.