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Right side of history · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  I wanna demand that we are on the right side of history.
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  Yeah.
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  And at this point, either you right or you wrong.
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  Hey, this is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Thursday, March 5th.
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  And there is no gray area, I think, when it comes to the atrocities
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  that we are seeing play out on the streets of our country.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And it's not just Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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  It's not just Portland, Oregon.
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  It is the Valley in Los Angeles.
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  It's Lewiston, Maine.
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  It's Atlanta, Georgia.
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  That's SCIU President April Vert on the Labor Heritage Power Hour
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  today at one o'clock here on WPFW.
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1770, British soldiers
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  stationed in Boston and quartered in colonists' homes were competing
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  with local workers for scarce jobs.
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  Tensions boiled over when rope makers clashed with the soldiers, the
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  confrontation escalated and soldiers opened fire killing Crispus Attucks, a
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  black colonist, along with several others.
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  The.
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  Event became known as the Boston Massacre and Attics is widely considered the first
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  casualty of the American Revolution.
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  Today's labor quote is by Martin Luther King Jr. Who said, Crispus Attics
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  quote is a reminder that the African American heritage is not only African
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  but American, and it is a heritage that begins with the beginning of America.
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  The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is supported by our friends at Union Plus,
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  you can find out more@unionplus.org.
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  this has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.