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Collective education builds worker power · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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CRU was partially founded at Labor Notes two years prior.
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and I think that that really shows the power of collective
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education within our movement.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Wednesday, July 1st.
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Wow, actually we are cool," and, "Wow, the things that we are
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doing matters to a lot of people."
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That's from Work Stoppage on
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the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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It's a quiet holiday week on the labor arts calendar, but the latest labor
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In today's labor history on this date in 1929, some eleven hundred streetcar
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workers went out on strike in New Orleans, spurring the creation of the
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Po'boy sandwich by a local sandwich shop owner and one-time streetcar man
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who fed any striker who showed up.
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Today's labor quote is by that sandwich shop owner, Benny Martin,
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who said, "Whenever we saw one of the striking men coming, one of us would
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say, 'Here comes another poor boy.'"
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Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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More information at unionplus.org.
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This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.