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Culture is not an accessory · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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Unions and community organizations embrace art when they feel like they need to.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Thursday, June 18th.
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So we throw up a picket line, and we invite a singer-songwriter to come and
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sing songs Or we see a great film like Norma Rae or Harlan County, but what
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we don't do is invest in the long-term cultural of our unions and our members.
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That's from this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour Today at
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1:00 here on WPFW 89.3 FM.
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On today's Labor Arts calendar, Pullman on Parade celebrating America 1892 and
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250 online at 12:15 PM Central Time.
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Details at laborheritage.org, In today's labor history, on this date in 1941,
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A. Philip Randolph and others met with President Roosevelt about a proposed
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July 1st march on Washington to protest discrimination in war industries.
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A week later, Roosevelt ordered that the industries desegregate.
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Today's labor quote is by A. Philip Randolph who said, we must develop
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huge demonstrations because the world is used to big, dramatic affairs.
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They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkly of an eye.
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Nothing little counts." Support for the Labor Radio Podcast daily comes from
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Union 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.