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Bring your noise maker · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  this is gonna be an old school rally, right?
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Wednesday, February 25th.
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  We're gonna have the megaphones out.
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  We're gonna be screaming, I want people lined up on both sides.
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  You wanna see what a union rally's about?
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  From the eighties or the seventies.
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  Bring your noise maker.
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  Bring your noise maker.
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  You know what?
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  Wanna see?
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  How about a tambourine
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  or a cowbell?
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  Whatever it takes.
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  Yeah.
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  Bring a cowbell.
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  You know what?
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  I wanna see people singing like the old days.
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  Yeah.
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  I swear to God if, if this was Detroit and I get a gospel choir
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  there, I would Because you need to get out there, make people feel good.
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  That's from the My Labor Radio Show, talking about letter carrier
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  rallies on the Labor Radio podcast network, labor radio network.org.
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  are available@laborheritage.org.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1987, labor organizer and civil rights
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  activist Edgar Daniel Nixon, died while working as a Pullman porter, Nixon
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  organized the Montgomery local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and
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  served as his president for many years.
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  He was a key organizer of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
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  Today's labor quote is by Edgar Daniel Nixon, who said Your action took
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  the fear out of the Negroes and made the white man see himself as he is.
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  The Labor Radio podcast AI is supported by our friends at Union Plus you
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  can find out more@unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.