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INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

47. Bama Athreya host of The Gig Podcast: Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 18:40:13 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Member Spotlight Series pays homage to radio and podcast producers who are focusing on working class issues.

Bama Athreya is host of The Gig Podcast, which is about the women and men who work in the so-called 'gig economy' worldwide. They find work through online platforms, and will tell us why we all need to be concerned about the real future of work.

My takeaway

I first met Bama during my midwest labor documentary road trip in February 2020. She was giving a lecture at the University of Michigan on Integrating and Enforcing Labor Rights in Trade. We were introduced through a mutual friend in international development and afterwards, Bama was kind enough to connect me to Chris Garlock and the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Six weeks later, I participated in listening sessions as Bama and producer John Ross shared drafts of The Gig Podcast episodes showcasing beautifully produced soundscapes narrated by Bama who interviews inspiring Uber drivers and activists leaders from around the world. I was sold on the quality and importance of the content while listening on that first day.

For this interview, I was very excited to speak with my friend Bama, which led me to being a little too verbose on my end at times. Apologies dear audience.

Yet the conversation flows as we discuss how Uber subverts labor rights throughout the world, what it means that the U.S. is a “submerging” economy, why there is a growing global resistance to the concentration of capital, and the interview concludes on the question of how can workers seize the means of production in an economy where data is the new oil.

I hope you enjoy.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

48. Rick Smith host of The Rick Smith - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:36:36 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Member Spotlight Series pays homage to radio and podcast producers who are focusing on working class issues.

The Rick Smith Show is by working people, for working people. It’s a place that serves up a heaping portion of democracy with a side of fairness, the grit of a Teamster, and no apologies. Where facts are the center, where science is real, and where everyone gets a seat at the table.

From the working-class neighborhoods of Cleveland, where folks didn’t have much and still don’t, Rick went from delivering papers as a boy to a career driving 18 wheelers as a proud union member.

Today, in a world of right-wing radio-vangelists with fancy suits and empty souls, Rick has carved out a place for us, a place where real people can come together and hit back against the forces trying to turn the American Dream into a punchline.

Rick took his straight shooting no nonsense Teamster outlook to the air and started mixing it up with conservatives from one of the reddest areas north of the Mason Dixon line. His show grew steadily, attracting listeners starved for a voice that spoke to working stiffs who felt the economic floor crumbling beneath them.

The Rick Smith Show is a labor radio program from Central Pennsylvania. The show covers state and local politics and national issues.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

WEBSITE: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

49. Policy Dialogues Ep.9 w/ Anora Wang - Discussing Antitrust Law and Public Policy

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 00:27:05 -0500

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 9 focuses on Antitrust Law and Public Policy with UMD SPP alumni Anora Wang. Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Anora Wang is an associate attorney of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and she represents clients in complex antitrust litigation. While pursuing her law degree, Anora worked as a research assistant for the Global Antitrust Institute at George Mason University.

Prior to attending law school, she worked at a biopharmaceutical company, where she gained experience with intellectual property issues related to patenting and licensing technologies in the United States and China.

Anora is an appointed Leadership Member of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Antitrust Law Section, and she regularly hosts the podcast Our Curious Amalgam, speaking with global experts on antitrust/competition, consumer protection, data, and privacy.

The episode of Our Curious Amalgam discussed in the interview can be found here: https://podcast.ourcuriousamalgam.com/episode/28-why-all-is-not-fair-ftc-fair-advertising-principles/

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

50. Tony Reardon, President, National Treasury Employees Union

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 01:37:10 -0500

Tony Reardon, President, National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 150,000 federal employees in 33 departments and agencies, including the IRS and CFPB and many others.

Topics: Executive Order on Creating Schedule F in The Excepted Service: What does Schedule F mean for the future of the civil service? NTEU’s lawsuit to stop Schedule F. What are specific agencies doing to implement it? How is this affecting the morale of federal employees?

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

On December 2nd, hosts Chris Garlock of Union City Radio and Mimi Rosenberg of Building Bridges interviewed National Nurses United Co-President Deborah Burger and National Treasury Employees Union President Tony Reardon.

Video and audio was edited and produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

51. Deborah Burger, Co-President, National Nurses United

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 01:45:03 -0500

Deborah Burger, Co-President, National Nurses United, the largest organization of registered nurses in the United States, with close to 185,000 members across the country.

Topics discussed: Defense Production Act to finance and distribute safe protective devices to protect workers; The HEROES Act; Medicare for All; Organizing in Asheville; Biden and labor (OSHA responsive to inspect and punish COVID employers etc.; the NLRB etc.)

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Video and audio was edited and produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

52. Judy Ancel host of Heartland Labor Forum - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 00:34:05 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Member Spotlight Series pays homage to radio and podcast producers who are focusing on working class issues.

Judy Ancel is the host of the Heartland Labor Forum, which is Kansas City’s only program about the workplace. It’s radio that talks back to the boss! Whether you’re a union member or your workplace isn’t organized, Heartland Labor Forum (HLF) has stories for you, guaranteed to inspire, educate, or enrage you.

HLF is produced by a diverse group of working people and coordinated by The UMKC’s Labor Studies Program. We have been agitating for the rights of working people on the KKFI airwaves since 1989.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

WEBSITE: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

53. Jeremy Waugh of Break Time Breakdown - Sheet Metal Workers SMART Local 110 - Louisville, KY

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:47:20 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Member Spotlight Series pays homage to radio and podcast producers who are focusing on working class issues.

Jeremy Waugh of the Break Time Breakdown podcast discusses important subjects related to Union Sheet Metal Workers mixed in with light conversations that show the “other side” of SMART Local 110‘s community in Louisville, KY (http://www.smw110.com/).

My Takeaway

Jeremy discussed his path from artist, to car salesman, to sheet metal worker, podcaster, and trade union activist. And he walked me through the financial benefits of being in the union while making an indisputable business case that a worker without union representation is a worker ripe for predatory behavior from the boss. He also discussed how the Break Time Breakdown podcast has increased communication, engagement, and solidarity amongst SMART Local 110 members. Jeremy also talks about why more women should look for work in the skilled building trades. And if a politician is looking for his vote, supporting organized labor better be one of the top three priorities. I hope you benefit from the conversation as much as I did.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

54. Belief Street - Fratelli Tutti - Introduction and Chapter 1

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 18:35:40 -0500

Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Belief Street where we’ll be exploring religious concepts through text and scripture, interviews and profiles, and documentaries and films.

So why do I want to explore religious concepts even though I haven’t been a practicing Catholic for over two decades?

Well, first, I’m appalled at the hypocrites who have hijacked Jesus’ teachings to love our neighbor and treat people the way we want to be treated.

And as an outsider looking into the internal politics of the Catholic Church, it appears to me that there is civil war raging between a progressive Pope Francis and a very dangerous reactionary faction that sides with the hypocrites previously mentioned.

Ultimately, the outcome of this battle will determine whether it is fear or love that organizes the Holy See.

For this series of Belief Street, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, which is Pope Francis’ Encyclical subtitled "on fraternity and social friendship.”

The encyclical calls for more human fraternity and solidarity, and is a plea to reject wars.

The document was signed on October 3rd 2020, on the occasion of Pope Francis's visit to the tomb of his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi, and was published the following day, on the saint's feast day.

The Catholic Church I went to growing up in Muskegon, Michigan was called St. Francis De Sales and it is one of the strangest concrete structures I’ve ever seen.

The Sunday experience in that brutalist architectural design made a lasting impression on me that I plan to discuss in coming episodes.

Almost twenty years ago, I also had the pleasure of visiting the town of Assisi in Italy during a solo backpacking trip across Europe at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

So with an interest in getting back to my roots, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, introduction and chapter 1.

55. Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:50:20 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Member Spotlight Series pays homage to radio and podcast producers who are focusing on working class issues.

Work Week Radio on KPFA is a weekly labor show that covers the struggles of workers and unions in the US and the world. Steve Zeltzer is a long time labor/community activist and leader in the fight for justice. He has produced labor TV shows and labor documentaries since 1983, and also helped found LaborFest to celebrate the culture and art of working people, and LaborNet online.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

56. Policy Dialogues Ep.10 w/ Professor Julie Greene - Labor History

Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:59:48 -0500

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 10 focuses on how Labor History can help inform Public Policy with UMD Professor Julie Greene. Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Dr. Julie Greene who is a Professor of History at the University of Maryland College Park focusing on labor, immigration, and empire. She received a BA degree in history from the University of Michigan, a BA and MA degree in history from University of Cambridge, and a PhD in history from Yale University.

She is the author of numerous books including The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal. Julie is the founding co-Director of the Center for Global Migration Studies at the University of Maryland. And she is also the Past President of the Labor and Working-Class History Association.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

57. Liz Medina of En Masse - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 00:03:02 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Member Spotlight Series pays homage to radio and podcast producers who are focusing on working class issues.

In May 2020, En Masse was launched with the mission to build working-class unity in our struggles for economic and social justice by examining the dynamics of class and work using social theory, history, and personal experience.

En Masse is a storytelling podcast about working-class life by oral historian and labor activist, Liz Medina. In each episode, we hear and discuss individual testimonies to the human costs of economic processes as well as working-class resistance. Each season reveals universal aspects of class and work through the personal experiences of the workers interviewed.

Liz Medina is also the co-chair of the Goddard College Staff Union, UAW 2322, and the Acting Director of the Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. She spent her childhood around Syracuse and Binghamton, in New York’s rust belt. When she moved to Central Vermont 4 years ago, she was drawn to Barre, VT. It reminded her of home. Barre is a distinctly working-class town that underwent an economic transformation that is recognizable in deindustrialized towns all across the United States.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

58. AFL- CIO Georgia President Charlie Flemming - LRPN Weekly Livestream

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:05:03 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

On December 9th, hosts Tanya Hutchins of Activate L!VE and Jeremy Waugh of The Break Time Breakdown interviewed AFL- CIO Georgia President Charlie Flemming on the upcoming Senate runoff.

Music:

“None of Us are Free” by DC Labor Chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PymAc3fog

Credits:

Hosts Tanya Hutchins of Activate L!VE and Jeremy Waugh of The Break Time Breakdown

Executive Producer Chris Garlock of Union City Radio

Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

59. SMART Local 33 Organizing Director Eli Baccus (Ohio) - LRPN Weekly Livestream

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 12:18:40 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

On December 9th, hosts Tanya Hutchins of Activate L!VE and Jeremy Waugh of The Break Time Breakdown interviewed SMART Local 33 Organizing Director Eli Baccus (Ohio).

Music:

“None of Us are Free” by DC Labor Chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PymAc3fog

Credits:

Hosts Tanya Hutchins of Activate L!VE and Jeremy Waugh of The Break Time Breakdown

Executive Producer Chris Garlock of Union City Radio

Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

60. Policy Dialogues Ep.11 w/ Maya Rosenberg - Purple Line and Public Transportation

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:30:49 -0500

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 11 focuses on the Purple Line and transportation policy with Maya Rosenberg based on her article, “The loss of the Purple Line is a tragedy for UMD.” Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Maya Rosenberg is currently a student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she studies multi-platform journalism and public policy at the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism and the School of Public Policy.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

#PolicyMatters

#PoliticalEconomyMatters

61. Publisher Tim Sheard - Pandemic Nurse’s Diary - A Tribute to Healthcare Workers Fighting Covid-19

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:46:11 -0500

Hard Ball Press is the Premier Publisher of Working Class Life For this holiday season support independent publishers focusing on labor issues and buy a book for yourself or a loved one that will celebrate working class writers, strengthen social justice solidarity, and combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the ruling class. Hard Ball Press is dedicated to mentoring working class writers and putting their stories into print, so the world can see their faces, hear their voices, and join them in their struggles. Check out the catalogue at HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World. A Pandemic Nurse's Diary Veteran nurse and Hard Ball Press Publisher, Timothy Sheard, worked with Nurse T (alias used to protect her identity), to write an account of true stories about life and death in a New York City’s Intensive Care Unit during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020. To promote this powerful book, Empathy Media Lab and the Labor Radio Podcast Network interviewed Tim about this project and produced audio readings of essays to support emergency medical service workers who risked their lives in order to care for the frightened patients suffering from Covid-19 and their loved ones. Publisher Tim Sheard Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. After writing 7 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, he launched Hard Ball Press to help working class people write and publish their stories. Timothy believes that when workers write and tell their stories, they build rank and file solidarity and union power, as well strengthening the fight for social justice solidarity. Their stories help to combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the One Percent. Hard Ball Press is the premier publisher of working class life. About the Labor Radio Podcast Network The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/. Audio Essays of the Pandemic Nurses Diary Essay read by Kim Hoyer, Nurse Coordinator at Riverside University Health System, Los Angeles California. Produced by Evan Matthew Papp, Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab.

62. Publisher Tim Sheard (full interview) - Pandemic Nurse’s Diary - A Tribute to Healthcare Workers

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:55:37 -0500

Pandemic Nurse’s Diary - A Tribute to Healthcare Workers Fighting Covid-19

Veteran nurse and Hard Ball Press Publisher, Timothy Sheard, worked with Nurse T (alias used to protect her identity), to write an account of true stories about life and death in a New York City’s Intensive Care Unit during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020.

To promote this powerful book, Empathy Media Lab and the Labor Radio Podcast Network interviewed Tim about this project and produced audio readings of essays to support emergency medical service workers who risked their lives in order to care for the frightened patients suffering from Covid-19 and their loved ones.

Hard Ball Press is the Premier Publisher of Working Class Life

For this holiday season support independent publishers focusing on labor issues and buy a book for yourself or a loved one that will celebrate working class writers, strengthen social justice solidarity, and combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the ruling class.

Hard Ball Press is dedicated to mentoring working class writers and putting their stories into print, so the world can see their faces, hear their voices, and join them in their struggles.

Check out the catalogue at HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World.

Tim Sheard

Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. After writing 7 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, he launched Hard Ball Press to help working class people write and publish their stories. Timothy believes that when workers write and tell their stories, they build rank and file solidarity and union power, as well strengthening the fight for social justice solidarity. Their stories help to combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the One Percent. Hard Ball Press is the premier publisher of working class life.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

Audio Essays of the Pandemic Nurses Diary

Essay read by Kim Hoyer, Nurse Coordinator at Riverside University Health System, Los Angeles California. Produced by Evan Matthew Papp, Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab.

63. In the ICU - Pandemic Nurse’s Diary - A Tribute to Healthcare Workers Fighting Covid-19

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:15:54 -0500

Hard Ball Press is the Premier Publisher of Working Class Life

Hard Ball Press is dedicated to mentoring working class writers and putting their stories into print, so the world can see their faces, hear their voices, and join them in their struggles.

Check out the catalogue at HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World.

Audio Essays of the Pandemic Nurses Diary

Essay read by Kim Hoyer, Nurse Coordinator at Riverside University Health System, Los Angeles California. Produced by Evan Matthew Papp, Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab.

64. Good Friday Miracle - Audio Essay - Pandemic Nurse’s Diary - A Tribute to Healthcare Workers Fighting Covid-19

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:26:01 -0500

Audio Essays of the Pandemic Nurses Diary

Essay read by Kim Hoyer, Nurse Coordinator at Riverside University Health System, Los Angeles California. Produced by Evan Matthew Papp, Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab.

Hard Ball Press is the Premier Publisher of Working Class Life

Hard Ball Press is dedicated to mentoring working class writers and putting their stories into print, so the world can see their faces, hear their voices, and join them in their struggles.

Check out the catalogue at HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World.

65. Kayla Blado, President NPEU & Timothy Sheard, Publisher of Hard Ball Press - LRPN Weekly Livestream

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:25:00 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members. On December 16th, hosts Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab and Patrick Dixon of Labor History Today interviewed Kayla Blado, President Nonprofit Professional Employees Union & Timothy Sheard, Publisher of Hard Ball Press. Kayla Blado, President Nonprofit Professional Employees Union Kayla discussed why white collar workers need unions, unionization efforts for nonprofit workers, and how organizing/bargaining is different during the pandemic. Learn more at https://npeu.org/. Timothy Sheard, Publisher of Hard Ball Press Tim discussed a new book called A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary and why publishing labor books and supporting labor centric writers is important in building collective solidarity. Learn more at https://hardballpress.com. Additional Media: News and History: Radio Labour for Wednesday, Dec 16: Teachers are key to opening schools safely, available at radiolabour.net. Rick Smith of the Rick Smith Show reads Labor History in 2:00: Another Hard Fought Victory https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/december-14-another-hard-won-victory/ Music: “Lullaby” by the Pandemics - https://hardballpress.com/pandemic-songs.html “None of Us are Free” by DC Labor Chorus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PymAc3fog Credits: Hosts Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab and Patrick Dixon of Labor History Today Executive Producer Chris Garlock of Union City Radio Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab. About the Labor Radio Podcast Network The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Resources include a weekly podcast summarizing shows produced by network members, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows and how audiences can find them, a database for contacting expert guests, access to a private listserv for Network members, and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support amongst members. Launched in April 2020, the Labor Radio Podcast Network focuses on working class issues that are often overlooked in the corporate-controlled media. The goal of the network is to help raise the voices of working people and strengthen organized labor to demand and achieve better treatment from workplaces and elected officials. If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org. Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/ WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/ #LaborRadioPod #1U #UnionStrong

66. Timothy Sheard, Publisher of Hard Ball Press - LRPN Livestream (shortened)

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:39:33 -0500

Tim discussed a new book called A Pandemic Nurse’s Diary and why publishing labor books and supporting labor centric writers is important in building collective solidarity.

Learn more at https://hardballpress.com.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

67. Kayla Blado, President Nonprofit Professional Employees Union - LRPN Livestream (shortened)

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:49:10 -0500

Kayla discussed why white collar workers need unions, unionization efforts for nonprofit workers, and how organizing/bargaining is different during the pandemic.
Learn more at https://npeu.org/.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

Hosts Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab and Patrick Dixon of Labor History Today Executive Producer Chris Garlock of Union City Radio Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

68. A Stranger on the Road - Fratelli Tutti Chapter 2 - Belief Street

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:55:46 -0500

Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Belief Street where we’ll be exploring religious concepts through text and scripture, interviews and profiles, and documentaries and films.

So why do I want to explore religious concepts even though I haven’t been a practicing Catholic for over two decades?

Well, first, I’m appalled at the hypocrites who have hijacked Jesus’ teachings to love our neighbor and treat people the way we want to be treated.

Ultimately, the outcome of this battle will determine whether it is fear or love that organizes the Holy See.

Fratelli Tutti

For this series of Belief Street, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, which is Pope Francis’ Encyclical subtitled "on fraternity and social friendship.”

The encyclical calls for more human fraternity and solidarity, and is a plea to reject wars.

The Catholic Church I went to growing up in Muskegon, Michigan was called St. Francis De Sales and it is one of the strangest concrete structures I’ve ever seen.

The Sunday experience in that brutalist architectural design made a lasting impression on me that I plan to discuss in coming episodes.

Almost twenty years ago, I also had the pleasure of visiting the town of Assisi in Italy during a solo backpacking trip across Europe at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

So with an interest in getting back to my roots, for this installment, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, Chapter 2 - A Stranger on the Road.

69. Envisaging and Engendering an Open World - Fratelli Tutti Chapter 3 - Belief Street

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 14:38:28 -0500

"...the story of a man assaulted by thieves and lying injured on the wayside. Several persons passed him by, but failed to stop. These were people holding important social positions, yet lacking in real concern for the common good."

Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Belief Street where we’ll be exploring religious concepts through text and scripture, interviews and profiles, and documentaries and films.

So why do I want to explore religious concepts even though I haven’t been a practicing Catholic for over two decades?

Well, first, I’m appalled at the hypocrites who have hijacked Jesus’ teachings to love our neighbor and treat people the way we want to be treated.

Ultimately, the outcome of this battle will determine whether it is fear or love that organizes the Holy See.

Fratelli Tutti

For this series of Belief Street, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, which is Pope Francis’ Encyclical subtitled "on fraternity and social friendship.”

The encyclical calls for more human fraternity and solidarity, and is a plea to reject wars.

The Catholic Church I went to growing up in Muskegon, Michigan was called St. Francis De Sales and it is one of the strangest concrete structures I’ve ever seen.

The Sunday experience in that brutalist architectural design made a lasting impression on me that I plan to discuss in coming episodes.

Almost twenty years ago, I also had the pleasure of visiting the town of Assisi in Italy during a solo backpacking trip across Europe at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

So with an interest in getting back to my roots, for this installment, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, Chapter 3 Envisaging and Engendering an Open World.

70. Dan Golodner of Tales from the Reuther Library - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 21:22:13 -0500

“...the klan almost took over Detroit..not only was Detroit a mecca for industrialists who wanted to keep power to themselves and one way to keep power is to produce hate but you have so many immigrants coming in the [19] 20s and 30s that they mistrust each other and to mistrust each other you use hate against each other. And one thing to use is also terrorism…”

Tales from the Reuther Library is a production of the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Host, Dan Golodner is an Archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University.

The Reuther Library is the largest labor archives in North America and is home to the collections of numerous unions and labor-related organizations. Its collection strengths extend to the political and community life of urban and metropolitan Detroit, the civil rights movement in Michigan and nationally, and women’s struggles in the workplace.

The Reuther Library is also the home of the Wayne State University Archives, established by the Board of Governors in 1958 in recognition of the importance and permanent value of the University’s official files, records, and documents.

The Reuther Library was established as the Labor History Archives at Wayne State University in 1960, with the goal of collecting and preserving original source materials relating to the development of the American labor movement. In 1975, the Walter P. Reuther Library was constructed with funds given to Wayne State University by the United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, and through a supplementary grant from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. A later gift from the UAW funded the construction of the library’s Leonard Woodcock Wing, completed in 1991.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Launched in April 2020, the Labor Radio Podcast Network focuses on working class issues that are often overlooked in the corporate-controlled media. The goal of the network is to help raise the voices of working people and strengthen organized labor to demand and achieve better treatment from workplaces and elected officials.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

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Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

71. A Heart Open to the Whole World - Fratelli Tutti Chapter 4 - Belief Street

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:54:14 -0500

“...no one people, culture or individual can achieve everything on its own: to attain fulfillment in life we need others. An awareness of our own limitations and incompleteness, far from being a threat, becomes the key to envisaging and pursuing a common project. For man is a limited being who is himself limitless.”

Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Belief Street where we’ll be exploring religious concepts through text and scripture, interviews and profiles, and documentaries and films.

So why do I want to explore religious concepts even though I haven’t been a practicing Catholic for over two decades?

Well, first, I’m appalled at the hypocrites who have hijacked Jesus’ teachings to love our neighbor and treat people the way we want to be treated.

Ultimately, the outcome of this battle will determine whether it is fear or love that organizes the Holy See.

Fratelli Tutti

For this series of Belief Street, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, which is Pope Francis’ Encyclical subtitled "on fraternity and social friendship.”

The encyclical calls for more human fraternity and solidarity, and is a plea to reject wars.

The Catholic Church I went to growing up in Muskegon, Michigan was called St. Francis De Sales and it is one of the strangest concrete structures I’ve ever seen.

The Sunday experience in that brutalist architectural design made a lasting impression on me that I plan to discuss in coming episodes.

Almost twenty years ago, I also had the pleasure of visiting the town of Assisi in Italy during a solo backpacking trip across Europe at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

So with an interest in getting back to my roots, for this installment, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, Chapter 4 A Heart Open to the Whole World

72. John Andrechak of Laborlines - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 21:10:37 -0500

John William Andrechak hosts Laborlines that focuses on news, music, interviews, commentary regarding today's Labor fronts; episodes are both stand-alone interviews and full-length shows which air every Tuesday night, 7:30-9:30 Pacific on krfp.org/

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

73. Marc Bélanger of RadioLabour - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:01:32 -0500

Marc Bélanger is the producer and host of RadioLabour with the goal of promoting global communication between labour organizations. The news service is especially focussed on building North-South dialogue by audiocasting reports from and about developing countries, but it also reports on events in developed countries.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

74. A Better Kind of Politics - Fratelli Tutti Chapter 5 - Belief Street

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:45:16 -0500

Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Belief Street where we’ll be exploring religious concepts through text and scripture, interviews and profiles, and documentaries and films.

So why do I want to explore religious concepts even though I haven’t been a practicing Catholic for over two decades?

Well, first, I’m appalled at the hypocrites who have hijacked Jesus’ teachings to love our neighbor and treat people the way we want to be treated.

Ultimately, the outcome of this battle will determine whether it is fear or love that organizes the Holy See.

Fratelli Tutti

For this series of Belief Street, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, which is Pope Francis’ Encyclical subtitled "on fraternity and social friendship.”

The encyclical calls for more human fraternity and solidarity, and is a plea to reject wars.

The Catholic Church I went to growing up in Muskegon, Michigan was called St. Francis De Sales and it is one of the strangest concrete structures I’ve ever seen.

The Sunday experience in that brutalist architectural design made a lasting impression on me that I plan to discuss in coming episodes.

Almost twenty years ago, I also had the pleasure of visiting the town of Assisi in Italy during a solo backpacking trip across Europe at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

So with an interest in getting back to my roots, for this installment, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, Chapter 5 A Better Kind of Politics.

75. Gene Lantz of Workers Beat - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Tue, 29 Dec 2020 14:14:31 -0500

Gene Lantz hosts Workers Beat radio on 89.3fm in Dallas, Texas. Almost everything you see and hear comes from the bosses, or was approved by them. Employees don’t control the movies, the book publishers, TV, or the radio stations. Bosses do. The outlook and opinions of the bosses are expressed, everywhere and all the time. The outlook and opinions of workers get almost no expression. KNON “Workers Beat” talk show is the exception.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

76. Jacob Morrison of The Valley Labor Report - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 18:00:56 -0500

The Valley Labor Report, Alabama's ONLY union talk radio show, is a weekly talk radio show airing Saturdays from 9:30AM – 11AM Eastern on WVNN 92.5 FM in Huntsville, Alabama and from 8:00AM – 9:30AM Eastern Sundays on WGOL 920 AM in Russellville, Alabama.

Hosts Jacob Morrison and David Story cover local, state, and national news for workers, by workers. The hosts hope to educate the audience about the power they have through organizing and solidarity.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

77. Simon Sapper of the Union Dues - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 15:18:15 -0500

Launched in April 2020, the UnionDues podcast is the UK’s only all-things-union podcast, aimed at not only union reps and activists, but anyone for whom unions are a big part of their lives or the just plain interested.

Host Simon Sapper has extensive industrial relations and employee relations experience as a senior national trade union official for 30 years, with a portfolio of other roles.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

78. Power Struggle - Episode 4 - New Years Eve Special & 2020 Recap

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:16:10 -0500

Welcome to the Power Struggle Podcast where we will be discussing questions around power: Who has it? Who doesn’t? And how we can collectively organize to get it?

Hosted by Jerry Lightfoot and Evan Papp, Episode 4 was recorded on December 31st, 2020 as a New Years Eve Special & 2020 Recap discussing numerous topics including the Nashville Bomber, Runoff in Georgia Election, the Electoral College, the rescue package, presidential pardons, and the 2021 look ahead.

If you like what you hear hit the like button, leave a review, and subscribe to hear future episodes. You can follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #PowerStrugglePodcast and you can find us on all the podcast and social media platforms at empathy media lab.

And we would love to hear from you, whether you agree or disagree, or if we missed something, or suggestions for futures topics of discussion.

79. Patrick Dixon Co-Producer of Labor History Today - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Sun, 03 Jan 2021 22:42:06 -0500

Patrick Dixon is a co-producer of Labor History Today with Chris Garlock. Labor History Today is supported by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.

Patrick graduated from Georgetown University with a doctoral degree in History in 2015. His areas of specialization and research interests include the food and restaurant industries, agribusiness, and the nature of work in rural communities. He has also carried out research on public and private sector unionism, the tech industry, and workplace safety, and is presently focused upon new models of university procurement.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

80. Chris Bangert-Drowns reporter with 89.3 WPFW - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:58:11 -0500

Chris Bangert-Drowns discusses his work with the Labor Radio Podcast Network and reporting for WPFW 89.3. WPFW is a talk and jazz music community radio station serving the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. It is owned by the Pacifica Foundation.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

81. Alan Wierdak contributor to Labor History Today - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 12:13:43 -0500

Alan Wierdak produces Cool Things in the Meany Archive as a contributor to Labor History Today. Alan is also an Archivist Specialist at University of Maryland George Meany Memorial AFL-CIO Archive consisting of approximately 40 million documents and other archival material that help researchers better understand pivotal social movements in this country, including those to gain rights for women, children and minorities.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

82. Dialogue and Friendship in Society - Fratelli Tutti Chapter 6 - Belief Street

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:21:30 -0500

Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Belief Street where we’ll be exploring religious concepts through text and scripture, interviews and profiles, and documentaries and films.

For this series of Belief Street, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, which is Pope Francis’ Encyclical subtitled "on fraternity and social friendship.”

The encyclical calls for more human fraternity and solidarity, and is a plea to reject wars.

So with an interest in getting back to my roots, for this installment, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, Chapter 6 Dialogue and Friendship in Society.

#FratelliTutti

83. LRPN Livestream - Kim Kelly (Teen Vogue Labor Columnist), Damon Silvers (AFL-CIO Policy Director), George Mann (Labor Folksinger & Songwriter)

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:00:27 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for January 6, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Kim Kelly (Teen Vogue Labor Columnist), Damon Silvers (AFL-CIO Policy Director), and George Mann (Labor Folksinger & Songwriter). Hosts included Jeremy Waugh of the Breaktime Breakdown Podcast and Chris Garlock of Your Rights at Work.

Kim Kelly is a freelance journalist and organizer based in Philadelphia. Her work on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in the New Republic, the Washington Post, the Baffler, and Esquire, among other publications, and she is the author of FIGHT LIKE HELL, a forthcoming book of intersectional labor history. Follow her on Twitter @grimkim.

Damon A. Silvers is the director of policy and special counsel for the AFL-CIO. He joined the AFL-CIO as associate general counsel in 1997. Silvers serves on a pro bono basis as a special assistant attorney general for the state of New York. Silvers is also a member of the Investor Advisory Committee of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Treasury Department’s Financial Research Advisory Committee, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Standing Advisory Group and its Investor Advisory Group. Follow him on Twitter @DamonSilvers.

George Mann is a former union organizer and activist based in Ithaca, New York, Mann sings songs from the last century of the labor and social justice movements, and his own songs are powerful and funny takes on the state of the nation. His concerts are part sing-along, part history lesson, and he can make you shout for joy, send chills down your spine or bring tears to your eyes in the same set. He also specializes in historical and educational workshops/theme concerts and presentations on folk music, labor and social history, and some of our most beloved folksingers. His music can be found at https://georgemann.org.

Additional Media:

History:

Rick Smith of the Rick Smith Show reads Labor History in 2:00: January 6 - Remembering Ida Tarbell - https://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/

Music:

Coronavirus Sessions by George Mann: https://georgemann.org/the-coronavirus-sessions/.

Credits:

Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

https://www.laborradionetwork.org/

84. Paths of Renewed Encounter - Fratelli Tutti Chapter 7 - Belief Street

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:45:53 -0500

Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Belief Street where we’ll be exploring religious concepts through text and scripture, interviews and profiles, and documentaries and films.

So why do I want to explore religious concepts even though I haven’t been a practicing Catholic for over two decades?

Well, first, I’m appalled at the hypocrites who have hijacked Jesus’ teachings to love our neighbor and treat people the way we want to be treated.

Ultimately, the outcome of this battle will determine whether it is fear or love that organizes the Holy See.

Fratelli Tutti

For this series of Belief Street, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, which is Pope Francis’ Encyclical subtitled "on fraternity and social friendship.”

The encyclical calls for more human fraternity and solidarity, and is a plea to reject wars.

The Catholic Church I went to growing up in Muskegon, Michigan was called St. Francis De Sales and it is one of the strangest concrete structures I’ve ever seen.

The Sunday experience in that brutalist architectural design made a lasting impression on me that I plan to discuss in coming episodes.

Almost twenty years ago, I also had the pleasure of visiting the town of Assisi in Italy during a solo backpacking trip across Europe at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

So with an interest in getting back to my roots, for this installment, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, Chapter 7 Paths of Renewed Encounter.

85. Harold Meyerson (American Prospect), John Russo (Kalmanovitz Initiative at Georgetown University), Kayla Blado (President NPEU), Nicholas Juravich (UMassBoston)

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:08:26 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for January 13, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Harold Meyerson (American Prospect), John Russo (Kalmanovitz Initiative at Georgetown University), Kayla Blado (President NPEU), Nicholas Juravich (UMassBoston).

LRPN Hosts: Chris Garlock (Union City Radio) & Patrick Dixon (Labor History Today). Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

Additional Guests Info:

HAROLD MEYERSON, American Prospect Editor At Large

86. FDR's 1941 State of the Union (Four Freedoms speech)

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:41:23 -0500

The Four Freedoms were goals articulated by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Monday, January 6, 1941. In an address known as the Four Freedoms speech (technically the 1941 State of the Union address), he proposed four fundamental freedoms that people "everywhere in the world" ought to enjoy:

87. FDR's Second Bill of Rights - State of the Union - January 11, 1944

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 01:27:19 -0500

The Second Bill of Rights was proposed by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 11, 1944.[1] In his address, Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognise and should now implement, a second "bill of rights". Roosevelt argued that the "political rights" guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had "proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness". His remedy was to declare an "economic bill of rights" to guarantee these specific rights:

Employment (right to work [notes 1]), food, clothing and leisure with enough income to support them
Farmers' rights to a fair income
Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
Housing
Medical care
Social security
Education

These rights have come to be known as economic rights, although not to be enshrined within the constitution, the hope of advocating the policy was that it would be 'encoded and guaranteed by federal law'.[2] Roosevelt stated that having such rights would guarantee American security and that the United States' place in the world depended upon how far the rights had been carried into practice.

88. Labor, FDR, The New Deal, & The Fight for The Four Freedoms with Professor Harvey J. Kaye

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 14:09:15 -0500

Welcome to the Harmony of Interest series, where we will explore ideas that positively shape our world.

Harvey J. Kaye, is a Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and he is an award-winning author, and has published sixteen books on history, politics, and revolutionary ideas.

We discuss his background in organized labor with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), FDR, and Harvey’s Book The Fight for The Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and THE Greatest Generation Truly Great.

You can follow Dr. Kaye on Twitter at https://twitter.com/harveyjkaye and you can support his work at https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/FDR-on-Democracy/Harvey-J-Kaye/9781510752160.

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#UnionStrong

89. LRPN Live - Joe McCartin, Mark McDermott, Marc Dann, Kurt Stand, Danny Schur

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:40:49 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for January 20, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Joe McCartin (Kalmanovitz Initiative at Georgetown University), Mark McDermott (Labor Activist), Marc Dann (Former Attorney General Ohio), Kurt Stand (Portside), Danny Schur (Composer/Producer)

LRPN Hosts: Chris Garlock (Union City Radio in Washington, DC); Kris LaGrange, (UCOMM Live); Joe Cadwell, (GRIT podcast); Patrick Dixon, (Labor History Today podcast), Alan Wierdak (Labor History Today podcast), Sound engineer, broadcast producer, and editing by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

Additional Guest information:

JOE MCCARTIN, on the firing of Peter Robb from the National Labor Relations Board. Joe is author of Collision Course, Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_A._McCartin

MARK MCDERMOTT, a longtime economic justice and labor educator; he served as Regional Representative for the Pacific NW and northern plains states under U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. http://www.markmmcdermott.com/

MARC DANN, served as Attorney General of the State of Ohio and now leads DannLaw, which specializes in protecting consumers from various forms of predatory financing. Recent column in Working-Class Perspectives: Time to Deliver: How Biden Should Respond to the Insurrection. https://workingclassstudies.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/time-to-deliver-how-biden-should-respond-to-the-insurrection/

KURT STAND, contributor to Portside, which is celebrating 20 years: Multiracial Democracy or Fascist-Like Autocracy? https://portside.org/2021-01-18/multiracial-democracy-or-fascist-autocracy

DANNY SCHUR, composer/producer of Stand! (both the 2005 hit musical and the new movie), now available for streaming. https://internationalmusician.org/danny-schur-and-stand/

Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock; Executive Producer and engineer and editor is Evan Matthew Papp from Empathy Media Lab.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

90. Religions at the Service of Fraternity in our World - Fratelli Tutti Chapter 8 - Belief Street

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:25:24 -0500

Welcome to Empathy Media Lab’s Belief Street where we’ll be exploring religious concepts through text and scripture, interviews and profiles, and documentaries and films.

So why do I want to explore religious concepts even though I haven’t been a practicing Catholic for over two decades?

Well, first, I’m appalled at the hypocrites who have hijacked Jesus’ teachings to love our neighbor and treat people the way we want to be treated.

Ultimately, the outcome of this battle will determine whether it is fear or love that organizes the Holy See.

Fratelli Tutti

For this series of Belief Street, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, which is Pope Francis’ Encyclical subtitled "on fraternity and social friendship.”

The encyclical calls for more human fraternity and solidarity, and is a plea to reject wars.

The Catholic Church I went to growing up in Muskegon, Michigan was called St. Francis De Sales and it is one of the strangest concrete structures I’ve ever seen.

The Sunday experience in that brutalist architectural design made a lasting impression on me that I plan to discuss in coming episodes.

Almost twenty years ago, I also had the pleasure of visiting the town of Assisi in Italy during a solo backpacking trip across Europe at the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

After a day of exploration, I found a modest campsite at Fontemaggio Assisi not far from the town center, ate a delicious pasta meal with some local red wine, and I still remember that night sleeping on the side a mountain on a clear evening, looking up at the sky and thinking about the deeper questions of our life.So with an interest in getting back to my roots, for this installment, I’ll be reading Fratelli Tutti, Chapter 8 Religions at the Service of Fraternity in our World.

91. What is a progressive, pro-labor migration policy? w/ JJ Rosenbaum, Neha Misra, & Shannon Lederer

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:15:18 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for January 27, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included JJ Rosenbaum (Global Labor Justice/International Labor Rights Forum), Neha Misra (Solidarity Center), and

Shannon Lederer (AFL-CIO).

LRPN Hosts: Bama Athreya (The Gig Podcast) and Evan Papp (Empathy Media Lab)

Additional Guest information:

Neha Misra is the Senior Specialist for Migration and Human Trafficking at the Solidarity Center. Neha serves on the executive board of the International Labor Recruitment Working Group and represents the Solidarity Center in the Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST). Before joining the Solidarity Center, she worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina on postwar elections and democracy, and in the United States as a senior attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.

JJ Rosenbaum is the Executive Director - Global Labor Justice / International Labor Rights Forum. JJ is an attorney, organizer, and human rights strategist advocating for human rights, decent work for all, and fair migration. For over two decades, JJ has used legal, policy, and advocacy strategies to win access to rights and collective power for low-wage workers and advised workers’ centers on transnational grassroots collaborations.

Shannon Lederer is the Director of Immigration Policy at AFL-CIO. As director of immigration policy for the AFL-CIO, Shannon Lederer works with union affiliates and allies in all sectors of the labor movement to develop and advance policies that promote workers' rights and shared prosperity. In her 17 years in the labor movement, Lederer has focused extensively on efforts to reform our abusive guest-worker programs and regulate the international labor recruitment industry. She also has worked closely with global unions to develop cross-border strategies to more effectively represent and defend workers in a migratory labor context.

Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Executive Producer and engineer and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

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WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

92. LRPN Live (Shortened) - What is a progressive, internationalist, pro-labor migration policy? w/ JJ Rosenbaum, Neha Misra, & Shannon Lederer

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:31:18 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for January 27, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included JJ Rosenbaum (Global Labor Justice/International Labor Rights Forum), Neha Misra (Solidarity Center), and

Shannon Lederer (AFL-CIO).

LRPN Hosts: Bama Athreya (The Gig Podcast) and Evan Papp (Empathy Media Lab)

Additional Guest information:

Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Executive Producer and engineer and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

93. Policy Dialogues Ep.12 Do Good Institute Equipping the next generation of social change leaders

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:18:34 -0500

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 12 focuses on the The Do Good Institute, which serves as the catalyst to transform the University of Maryland into the nation’s first Do Good Campus, where students are inspired to take action and spur innovations and solutions that tackle today’s social issues.

Do Good Institute Participants included Megan Masterson (Program and Communications Coordinator, Do Good Institute), Cali Moore (Program Coordinator, Do Good Institute), and Nathan Dietz (Associate Research Scholar; Senior Researcher, Do Good Institute).

University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Hosts included Seanniece Bamiro (UMD SPP ‘15) and Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Follow the conversation at:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SPPAlumniBoard

Anchor.fm - https://anchor.fm/umd-spp-alumni-board

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

#PolicyMatters

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94. Energy, Opera Singing, & Our Nuclear Future with Generation Atomic Executive Director Eric Meyer

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 15:01:15 -0500

Welcome to the Harmony of Interest series where we will explore ideas that positively shape our world.

Eric Meyer is the founder and executive director of Generation Atomic with a mission to energize and empower today’s generation to advocate for a nuclear future.

We discussed Eric's background growing up in Minnesota, training as a classical singer, founding Generation Atomic, and what we need to do to expand the use of the cleanest, most energy dense fuel human history has ever successfully deployed.

You can follow Eric’s work on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/EricGMeyer.

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95. Deborah Hall host of Labor Radio on KBOO FM Labor - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 17:04:49 -0500

Deborah Hall is a host of Labor Radio on KBOO FM in Portland, Oregon is a show “of the working class, by the working class and for the working class.” Deborah is a Labor Leader and Community Organizer and member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. KBOO is an independent, member-supported, non-commercial, volunteer-powered community radio station that embodies equitable social change, shares knowledge, and fosters creativity by delivering locally rooted and diverse music, culture, news, and opinions, with a commitment to the voices of oppressed and underserved communities.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

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TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

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Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab

96. Peter Rachleff Author of Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia 1865-1890 and Co-Executive Director of East Side Freedom Library

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 16:46:35 -0500

Peter Rachleff Author of Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia 1865-1890 and Co-Executive Director of East Side Freedom Library

Welcome to the Harmony of Interest series where we explore ideas that positively shape our world.

Professor Peter Rachleff is a retired Professor of History at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota specializing in United States labor, immigration, and African American history.

He is the author of BLACK LABOR IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, 1865-1890, and HARD-PRESSED IN THE HEARTLAND: THE HORMEL STRIKE AND THE FUTURE OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT.

Peter is Co-Executive Director at East Side Freedom Library, which has become a pillar of organizing and culture in the Twin Cities with a Mission: "To inspire solidarity, advocate for justice, and work towards equity for all."

You can follow Peter’s work at the East Side Freedom Library on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ESFLibrary.

Empathy Media Lab is a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.

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97. Joe Cadwell host of Grit Northwest - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:06:08 -0500

Joe Cadwell, President of the Northwest Carpenters Union, hosts Grit Northwest podcast where self-motivated people, just like you, come to learn from construction industry professionals about the issues that affect their lives and careers on a daily basis. Grit NW is built to engage and energize it’s members to take pride in their union. From workers rights to politics, apprenticeships, leadership development and more, the show will dive deep into topics relevant to you.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

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TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

98. The Rise of Fascism and Independent Politics and Labor Working Class Response to Attacks - LRPN Live

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 09:54:57 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for February 3rd, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included David Van Deusen (President, Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO), Trent Willis, (ILWU Local 10), Carol Lang (CUNY Professor), Chris Silvera (President, IBT 808 President)

Mehmet Bayram, Pacifica Media Workers Guild in SF.

LRPN Hosts: Steve Zeltzer (Work Week Radio) and Chris Garlock (Union City Radio)

Additional Guest information:

David Van Deusen, President, Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Dave was elected President of the Vermont AFL-CIO on September 15th, 2019. He is a union rep for Vermont AFSCME members, previously a VSEA Union Rep, and still a Writer, and Harley Rider.

Trent Willis, President, Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10. Learn more at https://www.ilwu.org/.

Carol Lang, CUNY Adjunct Professor, Learn more about her work here.

Mehmet Bayram, Pacifica Media Workers Guild in San Francisco. Learn more about his work here.

Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Executive Producer and engineer and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/what-i-saw-in-richmond-martin-luther-king-day-january-2020t

99. Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal with Madison Czerwinski

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:41:48 -0500

Welcome to the Harmony of Interest series where we explore ideas that positively shape our world.

Madison Czerwinski is the Executive Director at Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal. She wrote a compelling essay titled Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal: Forging a New America.

During this conversation, we discuss the political economy of nuclear energy in regards to jobs, manufacturing, and low electricity costs, how organized labor can engage in this space, and the foreign policy implications of U.S. nuclear policy.

You can follow her work on twitter at @Madi_Czerwinski.

Empathy Media Lab is a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class. #HarmonyOfInterest

#PoliticalEconomyMatters

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100 - What I saw in Richmond MLK Day 2020 - Audio Essay - Evan Matthew Papp

Sat, 06 Feb 2021 22:47:44 -0500

I wrote this essay after witnessing the protest in front of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Virginia on January 20th, 2020. A year later, as I read it out loud, I am more convinced than ever about the concepts outlined and the conclusion reached.

I would love to hear your thoughts.

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The ghosts of the American Civil War continue to haunt us today.

The Civil War officially ended with the surrender of the secessionist leadership of the Confederate Army on April 9, 1865.

Six days later, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by Confederate assassins.

The death of President Lincoln was also the death knell of his peace plan — to reconstruct and industrialize the south, integrate the U.S. economy through rail and internal improvements, reform land rights and redistribute power away from the Southern Aristocracy to landless white peasants and former black slaves.

Yet since the end of the civil war, the failed promise of uprooting the cancerous seeds of poverty, racism and exploitation means they have only grown and strengthened throughout the land.

Without hyper attention to organize a collective solution, we may see this wonderful and messy project called Democracy come to an indefinite pause in the near future.

As 2020 unfolds, I sometimes feel like the ideology that drove the mind of the Southern Confederate traitors, who ultimately surrendered after losing the battle they started, are now finally, many generations later, on the verge of winning their war.

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Read the full essay at:

101. UPDATE - SB 0581/HB 0039 Change Waiver of Publication Bill - TransMaryland w/ Lee Blinder

Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:18:20 -0500

UPDATE

The house bill passed. Now is the time to support senate bill # SB0581 by Senator Hettleman. It comes before the Senate’s JPR this Friday, February 26th at 10am.

Folks can call and ask their state Senator to sign on as a co-sponsor to this bill, and also call the senators on the judicial proceedings committee to ask for them to support this bill and provide a favorable report.

For More info:

https://transmaryland.org/updates/2021/2/24/action-alert

https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/SB0581

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The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 13 talks with Lee Blinder who is the Executive Director of Trans Maryland, which is an organization that aims to promote trans wellness throughout Maryland by increasing access to affirming services and resources, while nurturing young trans leadership.

Lee discusses HB 427 Change Waiver of Publication Bill - Maryland House Committee Hearing. What Does This Bill Do? Under current law, when filing for a legal name change in Maryland, an individual is required to pay to publish a notice of name change in their local newspaper. A petition can be filed to waive the publication requirement, and could be granted by a judge. Publication adds weeks, sometimes months, to the process and can cost up to an additional $250. Publication is also a violation of a person's privacy. The publication can linger on the Internet indefinitely and have adverse results. Some have resulted in workplace discrimination and even violence, in the cases of trans people and survivors of stalking or domestic violence. The process of petitioning to waive the the publication requirement still is not granted in most areas of the state. A judge may deny any petition and require publication.

HB 427, however, would require courts to waive the publication requirement, thereby protecting the privacy of those changing their names. As a result, this will make the name change process quicker and more affordable. This will reduce one of the barriers transgender people and others face while trying to live their most authentic life.

Learn more at: https://transmaryland.org/updates/2020/2/3/action-alert-name-change-waiver-of-publication-bill-maryland-house-committee-hearing-on-tuesday-february-5.

University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Hosts included Seanniece Bamiro (UMD SPP ‘15), Delisha Thompson (UMD SPP ‘18), and Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Follow the conversation at:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SPPAlumniBoard

Anchor.fm - https://anchor.fm/umd-spp-alumni-board

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

#PolicyMatters

#PoliticalEconomyMatters

102. LRPN Livestream (2/3): Labor’s response to the rise of fascism (shortened)

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:41:43 -0500

The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream features interviews with labor leaders, rank-and-filers and experts about current labor issues. Network members take turns co-hosting the show, which airs Wednesdays at 7p EST and is available on Facebook and YouTube.

Guests for the February 3rd, 2021 edition of the LRPN Livestream included David Van Deusen (President, Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO), Trent Willis, (ILWU Local 10), Carol Lang (CUNY Professor), Mehmet Bayram (Pacifica Media Workers Guild in SF).

LRPN Hosts: Steve Zeltzer (Work Week Radio) and Chris Garlock (Union City Radio).

This is an excerpt of the full show, which is available here. The LRPN Livestream pod extra is produced and edited by Evan Matthew Papp and Chris Garlock.

#LaborRadioPod

103. 9to5:The Story of a Movement - Post-film Q&A

Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:24:54 -0500

Post-film Q&A with 9to5 co-founder Debbie Schneider and Angel Darcourt, Associate National Field Director for Working America. Moderated by Elise Bryant, President of the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

9to5: The Story of a Movement captures the real-life fight that inspired a hit and changed the American workplace.

When Dolly Parton sang “9 to 5,” she was doing more than just shining a light on the fate of American working women. Parton was singing the true story of a movement that started with 9to5, a group of Boston secretaries in the early 1970s. Their goals were simple—better pay, more advancement opportunities, and an end to sexual harassment—but their unconventional approach attracted the press and shamed their bosses into change. Featuring interviews with 9to5’s founders, as well as actor and activist Jane Fonda, 9to5: The Story of a Movement is the previously untold story of the fight that inspired a hit and changed the American workplace.

Presented by the DC Labor FilmFest; Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW); Labor Heritage Foundation, Rochester Labor Film Series.

The DC Labor FilmFest is sponsored by American Income Life.

Produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

104. NAFTA 2.0 – Is it better for workers than NAFTA? - LRPN Livestream (full)

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:55:27 -0500

NAFTA 2.0 – Is it better for workers than NAFTA? - LRPN Livestream

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for February 10th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Lori Wallach (Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch), Eric Gottwald (AFL-CIO Trade Specialist), Alejandro Villamar (Mexican Action Network Against Free Trade), and Rick Arnold (Canada’s Common Frontiers).

LRPN Hosts: Jacob Morrison (The Valley Labor Report) and Judy Ancel (The Heartland Labor Forum).

Topics Discussed:

Will the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement fix NAFTA?
Will it stop the drain of jobs from the US and Canada to Mexico?
Will Mexican workers finally get the same crummy labor rights as we have in the U.S?
What are the prospects for real North American labor solidarity to counter the corporate giants who move our jobs around like peas in a shell game?

Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

105. NAFTA 2.0 – Is it better for workers than NAFTA? - ABRIDGED - LRPN Livestream

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 23:10:20 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

LRPN Hosts: Jacob Morrison (The Valley Labor Report) and Judy Ancel (The Heartland Labor Forum).

Topics Discussed:

Will the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement fix NAFTA?
Will it stop the drain of jobs from the US and Canada to Mexico?
Will Mexican workers finally get the same crummy labor rights as we have in the U.S?
What are the prospects for real North American labor solidarity to counter the corporate giants who move our jobs around like peas in a shell game?

Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

106. Pass the PRO Act and Support Your Rights At Work w/ UCOMM Live

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 15:15:12 -0500

On Thursday, February 11th, 2020, I called into UCOMM Live to support the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act that was recently re-introduce in the 117th Congress.

While the economy is working very well for the wealthy, the well-connected, and massive corporations—it’s stagnating for everyone else. From 1980 to 2014, wages for the bottom half of income earners grew by one percent, while wages for the top one percent of earners grew by 205 percent.

This inequality, stagnation, and instability for so many is not a natural product of a functioning economy, it is the result of policy choices that have stripped workers of the power to stand together and bargain for fairer wages, benefits, and working conditions.

The Protecting the Right to Organize Act is a historic proposal that restores fairness to the economy by strengthening the federal laws that protect workers’ right to organize a union and bargain for higher wages and better benefits.

Learn more with this factsheet

You can support UCOMM’s efforts here.

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107. Tanya Hutchins host of Activate L!VE - International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:08:27 -0500

“We're a very diverse union...so I feel very thankful to live in this country and very thankful to have this opportunity to try to help give a voice to the voiceless so that we can all thrive.”

Tanya Hutchins hosts Activate L!VE, which is the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ show about organized labor and working people on podcast platforms and YouTube. Tanya Hutchins' work has appeared on The Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, local TV stations and TheOnion.com. She also has experience as an actor and a model. You can follow her work on Twitter and Instagram.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has nearly 600,000 active and retired members and is one of the largest and most diverse labor unions in North America. From Boeing and Lockheed Martin to United Airlines and Harley-Davidson, you will find members across all walks of life. IAM members demand respect and dignity in the workplace. Together, they have been able to bargain for increased job security, higher wages and improved benefits.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

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TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

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WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

108. Sarah Jaffe, Author of Work Won’t Love You Back & Co-Host of Belabored Podcast - LRPN Spotlight

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:58:31 -0500

Sarah Jaffe is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone, which Jane McAlevey called “a multiplex in still life; a stunning critique of capitalism, a collective conversation on the meaning of life and work, and a definite contribution to the we-won’t-settle-for-less demands of the future society everyone deserves,” and of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, both from Bold Type Books.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She is the co-host, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast, as well as a columnist at The Progressive and New Labor Forum.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet

INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/

WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/

#LaborRadioPod

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Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

109. Land and Natural Resource Policy in Tanzania w/ Emmanuel Sulle - Policy Dialogues Ep.14

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:50:34 -0500

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 14 focuses on Land and Natural Resource Policy in Tanzania with Emmanuel Sulle (UMD SPP ‘12). Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11). We discuss the importance of land policy in Africa, challenges women face in obtaining land rights, and the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania.

Emmanuel has over 15 years of research experience in natural resource governance, large-scale land acquisitions, wildlife management, and rural livelihoods. His work has been published in the journals of Sustainable Tourism, Peasant Studies, Development and Environment, and in several book chapters on tourism and agricultural commercialization in Africa.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

110. Rights and Duties of Capital - Rerum Novarum - Faith and Labor (Episode 1 Pilot)

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:42:49 -0500

Faith and Labor is a podcast video series exploring the history of Catholic Social Teachings and how it can be used to bridge divisions and guide humanity to solve the great challenges facing the working class.

Hosted by John Andrechak of Laborlines and Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab, they discuss history, scripture, encyclicals, current events, and how faith and love is needed to strengthen solidarity and heal a world in disarray.

The Episode 1 Pilot focuses on the 1891 Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII titled Rerum novarum ("of revolutionary change"), or Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor, that addresses the condition of the working classes.

They also discussed the controversy caused by the president of the U.S. bishops’ conference issuing a rogue statement critical of President Biden on the day of his inauguration that was publicly condemned by the Vatican.

We would love to hear your feedback, show ideas, and suggested guests for future shows, as we seek to promote what Pope Francis described in Fratelli Tutti as a more just and fraternal world where “Love shatters the chains that keep us isolated and separate; in their place, it builds bridges.”

111. Organizing Amazon in Alabama and the Role of the UAW and Unions - LRPN Livestream

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:05:41 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members. Guests for February 17th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Josh Brewer (Lead organizer for RWDSU, BAmazonUnion) and Wayne Blanchard (UAW 2B Ohio and Indiana Regional Director). LRPN Co-Hosts: Mark Gevaart (My Labor Radio) and David Story (Valley Labor Report) Topics Discussed:

Organizing Amazon in Alabama
The size of the UAW in the US & Region 2B
The diversity of UAW represented workers
Why are politics so important for Union members to be involved in?
Why do we give back to our communities, donating time serving, mentoring, fundraising?

Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab). Additional Link: Labor History in 2 - February 17, 1936 Rubber workers sat down in Akron, Ohio About the Labor Radio Podcast Network The Labor Radio Podcast Network is both a one-stop shop for audiences looking for labor content and a resource for labor broadcasters and podcasters. Resources include a weekly podcast summarizing shows produced by network members, marketing on social media, a website listing network shows and how audiences can find them, a database for contacting expert guests, access to a private listserv for Network members, and a weekly video call to increase solidarity and support amongst members. Launched in April 2020, the Labor Radio Podcast Network focuses on working class issues that are often overlooked in the corporate-controlled media. The goal of the network is to help raise the voices of working people and strengthen organized labor to demand and achieve better treatment from workplaces and elected officials. If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org. Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/. FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/LaborRadioNet/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/laborradionet INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/laborradionet/ WEEKLY PODCAST NETWORK SUMMARY: https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/ #LaborRadioPod #1U #UnionStrong

112. EXCERPT - Organizing Amazon in Alabama and the Role of the UAW and Unions - LRPN Livestream

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:24:22 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for February 17th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Josh Brewer (Lead organizer for RWDSU, BAmazonUnion) and Wayne Blanchard (UAW 2B Ohio and Indiana Regional Director).

LRPN Co-Hosts: Mark Gevaart (My Labor Radio) and David Story (Valley Labor Report)

Topics Discussed:

Organizing Amazon in Alabama
The size of the UAW in the US & Region 2B
The diversity of UAW represented workers
Why are politics so important for Union members to be involved in?
Why do we give back to our communities, donating time serving, mentoring, fundraising?

Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

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Labor History in 2 - February 17, 1936 Rubber workers sat down in Akron, Ohio

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113. Maryland Delegate Jazz Lewis discusses the Internet Tax, Relief Act, and the Juvenile Restoration Act - Policy Dialogues Ep.15

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 19:09:33 -0500

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens. Episode 15 focuses on Maryland politics with Delegate Jazz Lewis (UMD SPP ‘14). Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11). We discussed his background and why he became interested in public policy and why he wanted to become a State Delegate and what was his experience running for elected office. We also discuss policies in Annapolis as a State Delegate and House Dem Caucus Chair, including:

Maryland “Internet Tax” on online ads;
Juvenile Restoration Act;
Relief Act of 202; and
#HB32 applicable to a certain civil offense of use or possession of cannabis.

Delegate Jazz Lewis is Maryland’s 24th Legislative District and is the Chair of the Maryland House Democratic Caucus. Jazz is also the Senior Policy Advisor for Majority Leader Congressman Steny Hoyer, previously serving as Executive Director of Hoyer’s Maryland political organization Jazz’s core philosophy is that organized and active communities produce better outcomes for their children’s education, their local economies, and their public safety. Jazz represents Maryland’s 24th Legislative District, currently serves on the House Judiciary Committee as Chair of the Family Law Subcommittee, and is the Chair of the Maryland House Democratic Caucus. The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

114. Steven Pitts host of Black Work Talk - LRPN Spotlight Series

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:55:47 -0500

Black Work Talk is an Organizing Upgrade podcast created by host Steven Pitts where he focuses on building the collective power of Black workers. Across his platform, he features conversations with union and worker center leaders, organizers, rank-and-file worker activists, and advocates about their fight against the intertwined evils of racism and capitalism.

Steven Pitts retired from the UC Berkeley Labor Center in 2020 where he focused on leadership development and Black worker issues. While there, he produced several reports on Black workers and job quality; launched a Black union leadership school; and co-founded the National Black Worker Center – a network of Black worker centers around the country.

Steven Pitts came to the Labor Center in August of 2001 from Houston, Texas. Steven received his Ph.D. in economics with an emphasis on urban economics from the University of Houston in 1994. His master’s degree is also from the University of Houston and he holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

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Video and audio was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

115. Mark Gevaart host of My Labor Radio - Labor Radio Podcast Member Spotlight Series

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:50:27 -0500

My Labor Radio is hosted by Mark Gevaart, and is broadcast on WELT 95.7 FM in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Labor Radio interviews working people and reviews data and information essential to working families. In the words of Labor Leader Walter Reuther “There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.”

Mark joined the United Auto Workers (UAW) early in his working life. He has spent the last 30 plus years as an advocate for working Americans in and outside of his own local. He understands the importance of having a voice in a workplace and the support of a labor agreement. Mark finds the idea of doing a Community Access Radio program about labor a rewarding experience. Involved in many organizing campaigns, contract negotiations, arbitration, the writing of contract language, and being on the picket line, Mark has a strong history of support for the American worker.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

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Video and audio was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

Music by DC Labor Chorus Song “None of Us Are Free" written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, and Brenda Russell. Album Hail to the Thieves, Volume III: Songs to Take Our Country Back! Learn more at Labor Heritage Festival.

116. Labor goes to the Movies - Stand! with Danny Schur

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:25:28 -0500

If you like movies and are interested in the labor movement, hang out with Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Elise Bryant and DC Labor FilmFest Director Chris Garlock as they kick back and talk about their favorite films and chat with guests about work and workers on the silver screen.

On this first episode, Elise remembers that her neighborhood in Southeast Detroit didn’t have a movie theater so she’d walk to one in nearby River Rouge, where the films were big and in color, in contrast to the little black-and-white television set at home.

Then Danny Schur – composer and producer of Stand! the musical about the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike – drops by to share his own childhood memories of going to the movies at a huge theater in his tiny hometown of Ethelbert, 200 miles north of Winnipeg, Canada. “There were only maybe 1,000 people in town and half of them could fit into the theater.” Danny also discusses music, theater, why the actor’s clothes in Stand! are so clean and why every local union should buy the Black Magic 6.

Includes Stand, sung by Lisa Bell. Click here to see the movie!

Labor Goes to the Movies is produced by Chris Garlock.

#LaborMovies

You can listen to the podcast here: https://anchor.fm/labor-goes-to-the-movies

117. David Story co-hosts The Valley Labor Report out of Huntsville, Alabama - LRPN Spotlight Series

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 15:36:06 -0500

David Story co-hosts The Valley Labor Report with Jacob Morrison airing on WVNN 92.5 FM in Huntsville Alabama and Russellville, Alabama, where they cover local, state, and national news for workers, by workers. The hosts hope specifically to educate the audience about the power they have through organizing and solidarity.

David comes from a multi-generational Alabama union family and he is President and organizer of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local Lodge 44 based in Decatur, AL. The Iamaw44 are the world’s most experienced rocket builders with more than 120 consecutive launches and a 100% mission success rate. Their workers bring the utmost precision, passion and purpose to one of the most technically complex, critical American needs: affordable, reliable access to space.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

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Video and audio was produced by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

118. Ly Nguyen discusses policies in Vietnam - Policy Dialogues Ep.16

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 11:39:03 -0500

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 16 focuses on policies in Vietnam with Ly Nguyen (UMD SPP ‘12). Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Ly Nguyen is a Senior Associate at Asia Group Advisors and is based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Asia Group Advisors, or AGA, is a strategic advisory firm specializing in market entry, government affairs and public policy in Southeast Asia and Ly graduated from the University Of Maryland School of Public Policy Class of 2012.

We discussed:

Her work for Asia Group Advisors, including an article she co-authored titled: Vietnam’s new leadership picks: compromise and concessions between factions bode well for national stability;
Her thoughts about relations between Vietnam and the U.S. and the possibility of the U.S. getting back into a trade alliance with Asian nations that also ensures the protections for labor rights and environmental rights; and
Where she sees opportunity and hope in Vietnam.

119. Michael Blain co-host of Talking SMART - Machinists and Aerospace Workers - LRPN Spotlight Series

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 20:43:49 -0500

Michael Blain co-hosts Talking SMART a podcast of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers, a diverse union of more than 200,000 members.

Michael is also the co-director and co-producer of Dear Walmart, which is an independent documentary that tells the story of how a movement of Walmart workers began, forging a new model for building power for workers in the retail sector. Standing up and standing together transformed the characters in this film.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

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#1U

#UnionStrong

Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

120. Saba Waheed & Veena Hampapur hosts of Re:Work Radio - LRPN Spotlight

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:15:05 -0500

Re:Work Radio is a women-led radio show and podcast that spotlights the voices of workers, immigrants, and people of color. Brought to you by the UCLA Labor Center. Re:Work also trains community producers and students in multimedia story production. The project includes curriculum and educational tools that use stories to learn about work.

SABA WAHEED - Co-Founder & Producer

Saba is the research director at the UCLA Labor Center and has a decade of experience conducting research in low wage sectors such as taxi, restaurant, nail salon, domestic work, etc. that have led to campaign and policy victories. Since 2009, she has co-produced, engineered and hosted the weekly radio show “Flip the Script” on KPFK. She strongly believes that research and media are powerful tools for community storytelling. For the past decade, she co-edited the national online magazine SAMAR. As a performer, she has worked with Teada Theater and East West Players and her writing has appeared in Hyphen Magazine. She received an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University.

VEENA HAMPAPUR - Producer

Veena is the ReWork communications specialist at the UCLA Labor Center. Dedicated to storytelling for social change, she discovered her passion for communications while working at various nonprofits including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in California and Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM) in New York, where she focused on issues related to homelessness, immigration, policing, and youth. Veena earned her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from UCLA in 2016. Her research focused on working class South Asian immigrants and their children, and examined how race, immigration, education, and surveillance shape one another in post-9/11 America. Veena is a filmmaker and 2012 Visual Communications Armed with a Camera Fellow; her films include advocacy and education films for community organizations as well as documentaries that have been showcased in film festivals, classrooms, and by the Smithsonian.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

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Video and audio was produced by Evan Matthew Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

121. Subsidiarity and the State - Quadragesimo Anno - Faith and Labor Ep.2

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:45:38 -0500

Episode 2 focuses on Quadragesimo Anno, which means "In the 40th Year" and is an encyclical issued by Pope Pius XI in 1931, 40 years after Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum novarum, further developing Catholic social teaching. Rerurm Novarum was also the focus of Episode 1 of Faith and Labor.

We also discuss the Catholic Concept of Subsidiarity. And we discuss current headlines related to the Poor People’s Campaign and the Catholic Season of Lent.

We would love to hear your feedback, ideas, and suggested guests for future shows, as we seek to promote what Pope Francis described in Fratelli Tutti as a more just and fraternal world where “Love shatters the chains that keep us isolated and separate; in their place, it builds bridges.”

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1366191901196644354

122. Not Just Viruses: Epidemic Cinema and Working-Class Vulnerability - Labor Goes to the Movies

Sun, 07 Mar 2021 21:14:25 -0500

Elise and Chris talk pandemics, movies and class with Tom Zaniello, a film and media scholar who has written several books on films about work and class, including Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff, The Cinema of Globalization, and The Cinema of the Precariat. He recently posted Not Just Viruses: What Epidemic Cinema Teaches Us about Working-Class Vulnerability on the Working Class Perspectives blog. Includes clips from District 9, Brother From Another Planet and Contagion. Outro clip from Brother From Another Planet. Labor Goes to the Movies is produced by Chris Garlock and the video is edited by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab. Listen on Anchor at: https://anchor.fm/labor-goes-to-the-movies/episodes/Not-Just-Viruses-Epidemic-Cinema-and-Working-Class-Vulnerability-er669a Contagion - "Don't Touch Anyone" Scene https://youtu.be/AAgfn4CUn18 District 9 - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLUwOcR5pk The Brother From Another Planet - Wanna See A Card Trick? https://youtu.be/lYs46BxweEU

123. Union Rights, President Biden, & Pete Seeger's Solidarity Forever

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 12:03:59 -0500

“Make your voice heard,” Biden tells workers. President Biden calls on working people across the country to exercise their right to form unions.

You can watch the video here:https://youtu.be/F2tkSCqvV2g

The audio was edited by Chris Garlock of Union City Radio and the video was edited by Evan Papp of Empathy Media lab.

Pete Seeger’s song Solidarity Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCnEAH5wCzo

President Biden’s pro-union statement:

Images used from the following slide shows:

https://youtu.be/4OcQ4Ndgom4

https://youtu.be/b1gX0SxtidI

https://youtu.be/0VtAhrq9S0w

#1u #unions #LaborRadioPod

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124. Development Ethics with Dr. Stacy Kosko - Policy Dialogues Ep.17

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 13:00:10 -0500

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 17 focuses on Development Ethics with Professor Stacy Kosko who is Associate Director of the Minor in International Development and Conflict Management; and Assistant Research Professor in the Center for International Development and Conflict Management in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.

Her research focuses on development ethics, human rights, and severely marginalized populations. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy with a concentration in international development.

We discussed:

How she first became interested in international development ethics and human rights and how they are connected to public policy;
The Human Development and Capability Approach;
Her work as a Fulbright Scholar in Moldova exploring minority youth participation in social and political change;
Her new book, Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics;
The Global Development and Design project that aims to create an online, open-access development project design toolkit; and
Teaching during the pandemic and how to make labor relations in the university system more equitable.

The interview was produced by Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11). The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

125. Author Eric Lotke discusses his book Union Made Published by Hard Ball Press - Buy Your Copy Today

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 22:08:59 -0500

Union Made captures the blood, sweat, tears, courage, love, and solidarity that animates a union organizing drive. This book provides a window into the challenges faced by workers who are fighting for dignity and a more humane workplace.

Buy this book to better understand why every working person has a right to form a union without harassment from the boss.

Union Made was written by Eric Lotke who is an author, lawyer, criminal justice and union activist.

Overview of Union Made

Catherine Campbell is a union organizer. Nate is an accountant working for a company that's planning a hostile takeover of Pac-Shoppe, the company Catherine is organizing.

It's a love story.

Union Made is a fast-paced romance with a strong female lead and a gripping labor campaign that explores union organizing from the inside. It reveals the tactics, strains and risks of mobilizing a diverse group of workers to stand together against a giant corporation.

As Catherine’s campaign falters in the face of Pac-Shoppe’s illegal hardball tactics, Nate’s sympathy for the workers and fascination with Catherine grow. Can the lonely accountant interest her by sharing evidence of Pac-Shoppe’s dirty tricks? How much trouble will he be in if he reveals corporate secrets to the union?

Release date March 15, 2021.

Union Made is published by Hard Ball Press

Tim Sheard is the Executive Editor of Hard Ball Press.

You can watch EML’s interview with Tim Sheard here: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/pandemic-nurse-s-diary-a-tribute-to-healthcare-workers-fighting-covid-19

126. Labor Union Women Prez, Labor Artist, Teacher: Elise Bryant - Harmony of Interests

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 12:40:53 -0500

Elise Bryant is Executive Director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and President of the Coalition of Labor Union Women.

Elise Bryant launched her labor arts career as the artistic director of the University of Michigan’s labor theater project, Workers’ Lives/Workers’ Stories in 1982. She joined the National Writers Union and began her screenwriting career with a script for the documentary, Porgy and Bess: an American Voice which aired on PBS. In 1998 Elise made her Washington, DC stage debut in Theater J’s production of Goodnight Irene and founded the DC Labor Chorus.

She directed two productions of the labor jazz opera, Forgotten: the Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant, in Detroit and in the Washington, DC area. Most recently she directed the labor jazz opera Love Songs From the Liberation Wars: the 1940s Tobacco Workers Struggle.

After working 35 years as a labor educator, Elise retired from her professorship at the National Labor College to start her own consulting service, the E.L.I.S.E. Consortium.

Elise is a lifetime member of the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World), a member of the AFM Local 1000 as well as CWA/Newspaper Guild Local 32035. In 2012 she was given the Lifetime Achievement award from the international organization, United Association of Labor Educators. In 2017 she was elected President of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW).

We discuss:

Growing up in Detroit and using theater arts for activism;
Directing labor jazz operas;
Labor education and the National Labor College;
The role of art in labor movements;
The Coalition of Labor Union Women;
The Labor Heritage Foundation; and the
Future of organizing.

Empathy Media Lab is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.

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127. EXCERPT Uber vs. Aslam, CA’s Prop 22, & Fighting for the Global Rights of Gig Workers - LRPN Livestream

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:24:38 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for March 10th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Yaseen Aslam (Uber BV v Aslam and President of the App Drivers & Couriers Union), Willy Solis (Gig Worker Collective), and Maria C. Figueroa (Cornell University-School of Industrial and Labor Relations).

LRPN Co-Hosts: Bama Athreya (The Gig Podcast) and Maximilian Alvarez (Working People Podcast and The Real News Network).

Topics Discussed:

The UK Uber vs. Aslam;
Organizing against Prop 22; and
How to build solidarity in the fight for Global Rights of Gig Workers

Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

Additional Links

Episode 3 of The Gig Podcast to learn more about Uber vs. Alsam in Judgement Day Overview: James Farrar and Yaseen Aslam decided to challenge the premise that they were not Uber’s workers. In the UK we follow their precedent-setting lawsuit as it rises to the UK Supreme Court. In the US we talk to drivers and organizers on the eve of their historic victory in California, the passage of Assembly Bill 5 that set a standard for all gig workers to be classified as workers.

Labor History in 2 by the Rick Smith Show: March 10, 1925 The Radium Girls

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128. Uber vs. Aslam, California’s Prop 22, & Fighting for the Global Rights of Gig Workers - LRPN Livestream

Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:33:10 -0500

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Weekly Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

LRPN Co-Hosts: Bama Athreya (The Gig Podcast) and Maximilian Alvarez (Working People Podcast and The Real News Network).

Topics Discussed:

The UK Uber vs. Aslam;
Organizing against Prop 22; and
How to build solidarity in the fight for Global Rights of Gig Workers

Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

Additional Links

Labor History in 2 by the Rick Smith Show: March 10, 1925 The Radium Girls

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

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129. Jordie Abela Co-Host of Solidarity Breakfast out of Melbourne, Australia - LRPN Spotlight

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 13:50:01 -0500

“I see a lot of hope in struggle and people willing to be empathetic...it comes back to that ideal of humanity and care. And when we start caring about other people and because we want them to be as happy as we are, that's something I'm seeing more of in Australia. There's hope there.”

Jordie Abela is co-host of Solidarity Breakfast out of Melbourne, Australia. Solidarity Breakfast is a Rank and File Worker and Trade Union Show, covering current affairs, progressive issues and news and events from the labour movement.

About the Labor Radio Podcast Network

If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

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130. Legislating Policy with Matt Verghese - Policy Dialogues Ep.18

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 09:46:35 -0400

“The American people want a government that works, they want a government that is responsive to their needs and is responsive to how they are suffering right now.”

Matt Verghese is the chief of staff for U.S. Congressman Anthony Brown who represents Maryland's 4th congressional district. Matt has also served as a senior advisor on the Van Hollen for Senate campaign as well as Political and Communications Director for the Maryland Democratic Party, and as Senior Legislative Aide in the Montgomery County Government.

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 18 focuses on Legislating Policy with Matt Verghese (UMD SPP ‘10). Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

We discussed:

Why he first got interested in public policy;
The connection between public policy and politics;
The January 6th political violence on Capitol Hill to prevent the certifying of the electoral college;
The media’s relentless emphasis on bipartisanship; and
Where he sees opportunity and hope.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

131. Daniel K of PsyOp Debut Album Howl from the Void - EML’s Artist Profiles

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:36:49 -0400

The debut EP of DC-based PsyOp brings you into the fractured mind of one Daniel K, a twisted prophet of rage who speaks of shifting dreamscapes and the unnameable terrors of the night.

Howl from the Void fuses nihilist anthems of decadence and decay ('Bang My Head Against the Wall,' 'The World Owes Me Something'), hardcore bruisers ('Before the Gates'), and jagged postpunk ('Copy and Paste') to create a breathless display of alienation, paranoia, and outrage towards the dystopian techno-horror that is our world today.

Henry and John of grind powerhouse No Mas, along with co-writer Seth Abelson and producer Dag'Nabbit, conjure a vivid backdrop to K's scouring vocals and piercing lyrics. PsyOp draws from the righteous fury of classic hardcore and the nihilism of 70's punk to create something fiercely its own.

Download the album: https://psyopdc.bandcamp.com

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EML’s Artist Profiles

Empathy Media Lab’s Artist Profile series focuses on the role of artists in society. Inspired by James Baldwin’s numerous essays and interviews like James Baldwin on the Creative Process and the Artist’s Responsibility to Society and The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, this series will profile artists, highlight their work, and explore the creative process and the role of the artist in today's society.

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132. A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem - Labor Goes to the Movies

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:00:57 -0400

Elise and Chris discuss “The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem” with director Yu Gu and mark the anniversary of “Salt of the Earth,” the classic labor film that opened on March 14, 1954 and was banned soon after.

Includes trailer for A Woman’s Work and Salt of the Earth.

Produced by Chris Garlock. Video edited by Evan Papp.

About Labor goes to the Movies

133. Bang My Head Against The Wall - Daniel K - PsyOp - EXCERPT

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:49:11 -0400

This excerpt is from an interview with Daniel K of PsyOp.

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Lyrics - Bang My Head Against the Wall

Got the vision but can't shake the coil

Film the revolt but air the rerun

Cauterize the burn but leave the tumor

Growing and growing and growing

Bang my head against the wall

It's all I can do

Bang my head against the wall

It's all I can do

The rush of blood is like a shot in the arm

A catalyst for excision of pain

After a while it all goes numb and you're

Bleeding and bleeding and bleeding

(Chorus)

Piece together the shattered mirror

The shards of glass won't fit together

So realize with a sinking feeling

You'll never see your reflection

Again

134. Ethics and Public Policy with Dr. Chloe Schwenke - Policy Dialogues Ep.19

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:17:40 -0400

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 19 focuses on ethics and public policy with Dr. Chloe Schwenke. Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Dr. Chloe Schwenke is an international development ethicist, practitioner, human rights activist, researcher and educator. Her career has focused on gender equality and social inclusion, LGBTQ+, governance, peacebuilding, and human rights.

Chloe is President of The Center for Values in International Development, which is a new non-profit organization comprised of both practitioners and ethicists, working together to make secular, universal moral values explicit, informative, persuasive, and influential in international relief and development policy, programming, advocacy, monitoring, evaluation, and learning. She served as a political appointee at USAID under the Obama Administration, as Senior Advisor on democracy, human rights, and governance in sub-Saharan Africa, and on LGBTQ+ issues. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park.

We discussed:

Her international development experiences in post apartheid South Africa;
The interaction between ethics and public policy;
Working for the Obama administration as one of the first transgender political appointees in the federal bureaucracy;
Her co-authored an article with the Center For American Progress titled: Transforming U.S. Foreign Policy To Ensure Dignity and Rights for LGBTI People;
The mission of the Center for Values in International Development; and
The tension in being a foreign policy practitioner advocating for policies that have yet to be fully embraced in the U.S.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

135. Chandra Thomas Whitfield Host of In The Gap - LRPN Spotlight

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 14:05:09 -0400

Chandra Whitfield is host and producer of In The Gap podcast with episodes featuring everyday Black women and experts sharing their personal experiences on how the gender pay gap, pay discrimination and systemic inequality affects the lives and livelihoods of Black women in the American workforce.

In 2020, Black women still only make 62 cents on the dollar compared to white, non-Hispanic men. In recognition of these ongoing disparities, In These Times presents In The Gap, a 12-episode podcast series. Episodes feature everyday Black women and experts alike sharing their personal experiences and insights on how the gender pay gap, pay discrimination and systemic inequality affects the lives and livelihoods of Black women in the American workforce.

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If you are a journalist interested in learning more or if you’re a labor radio or podcast producer and want to join the network, contact us at info@laborradionetwork.org.

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136. The World Owes Me Something - Daniel K - PsyOp - EXCERPT TWO

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:31:58 -0400

This excerpt is from an interview with Daniel K of PsyOp.

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Lyrics - The World Owes Me Something

All our yesterdays like ashes

All our dreams in water washes

Away into the winding stream

Weaving winding byzantine

Straight to the sea of desire

Where dreams plot and where they conspire

Kill the living steal their flesh

To the land of nod and of death

The world owes me something x 4

But I don't know what it is x2

One day one day we all will die

We had a fountain but they stripped it dry

And I feel a ripple in time itself

Stop the travesty of souls to sell

Debt collectors armed to the teeth

Serve the papers and they kill the thief

Anthill skyline blocks the sun

Like a growing carcinogen

(Chorus)

They won't rest until everything is commodified

Cheapened deadened surveilled and privatized

Prisoners of automated paralysis

Humanity consumed by the sheer force of our artifice

There's nowhere to hide in the desert of the real

We must tear down the walls of the city on the hill

The system zeroes in with it's omniscient eye

A hunter honing in on it's kill

At least the hippies had a reprieve from the churning gears

At least they could (indistinct) greed and fear

Now we are pawns of the atrociously wealthy

Our only reprieve xanax blackouts and fentanyl ODs

137. Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium Et Spes - Pope Francis in Iraq - Faith and Labor (Ep.3)

Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:28:05 -0400

Episode 3 focuses on Gaudium Et Spes, which means “Joy and hope” and and was published after the Second Vatican Council.

We will also discuss current headlines related to Pope Francis visit to Iraq, the Vatican stance against same-sex unions, and the Catholic Labor Network’s support for the Pro Act.

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138. Women's History Month, Machinists Union, and Long Island Migrant Labor Camps - LRPN Livestream

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:46:29 -0400

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for March 24th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Dora Cervantes (General Secretary Treasurer of the Machinists Union) and Mark Torres (Author, Teamster, and labor lawyer).

LRPN Co-Hosts: Tanya Hutchins (Activate L!VE and Machinists Union) and Andrea Arenas (El Desvio and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement - LCLAA).

Topics:

Women’s History Month
Machinists Union
History of Long Island Migrant Labor Camps

Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

Labor History in 2 by the Rick Smith Show.

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139. EXCERPT - Women's History Month, Machinists Union, and Long Island Migrant Labor Camps - LRPN Live

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:51:27 -0400

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Wednesday Livestream interviews labor leaders about current labor issues with rotating hosts made up of network members.

Guests for March 24th, 2021 of LRPN Livestream included Dora Cervantes (General Secretary Treasurer of the Machinists Union) and Mark Torres (Author, Teamster, and labor lawyer).

LRPN Co-Hosts: Tanya Hutchins (Activate L!VE and Machinists Union) and Andrea Arenas (El Desvio and Labor Council for Latin American Advancement - LCLAA).

Topics:

Women’s History Month
Machinists Union
History of Long Island Migrant Labor Camps

Additional Credits: Produced by Chris Garlock (Union City Radio); Producer, engineer, and editor is Evan Matthew Papp (Empathy Media Lab).

Follow the conversation on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram using the hashtag #LaborRadioPod or visit the website at: https://www.laborradionetwork.org/.

140. Identifying Features & Lapsis with Sarah Jaffe & Andrea Arenas - Labor Goes to the Movies

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:32:39 -0400

Elise and Chris discuss films from the DC Labor Filmfest Spring Screening Series with Andrea Arenas, Communications & Policy Coordinator for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, and co-host of the El Desvio podcast (She’ll be doing the Q&A for IDENTIFYING FEATURES [SIN SEÑAS PARTICULARES] on Wednesday, March 31). We’re also joined by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone. Sarah also cohosts the terrific Belabored podcast (she’s doing the Q&A for LAPSIS Wed, April 7; 7:00 p.m. ET).

We talk about our first movies, about the things we’re missing from being stuck watching movies at home during the pandemic, and we even have some tips on how to watch scary movies. Grab your popcorn, sit back and relax, and enjoy the show!

Includes clips from Chaplin’s Modern Times, King Kong (1933), and trailers for Identifying Features and Lapsis. The DC Labor Filmfest Spring Screening Series is co-presented by the AFI Silver Theatre and the DC Labor FilmFest.

Produced by Chris Garlock. Video edited by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

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141. New Deal Descendant Dr. June Hopkins talks about Harry Hopkins, FDR, the WPA, & the Need for a Job Guarantee

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 23:42:03 -0400

Welcome to the Harmony of Interest series where we explore ideas that positively shape our world. Dr. June Hopkins is author of Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer and received her PhD in American History from Georgetown University and is Professor Emerita at Georgia Southern University. She is also the granddaughter of one of my heroes, Harry Hopkins, who was an architect of the New Deal, and Administrator of the Works Progress Administration that created millions of government jobs during the last great depression while building the nation’s infrastructure through public works. In World War II, Harry Hopkins was Roosevelt's chief diplomatic advisor and liaison with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. He supervised the $50 billion Lend-Lease program of military aid to the Allies. In this conversation, we discuss:

Dr. June Hopkins background;
Harry Hopkins early years growing up in Iowa and as a social worker in New York City;
Hopkins working with FDR and Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins on the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA);
Hopkins time as Administrator for the Works Progress Administration (WPA);
World War II and being FDR’s main advisor; and
The Descendants of the New Deal’s call for to President Biden for a Government Guarantee Job’s Program

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142. The buddhist forklift driver, the searching mother and the UN translator - Labor Goes To the Movies

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:26:33 -0400

Elise and Chris discuss My Darling Supermarket, Identifying Features, Quo Vadis, Aida and Collective with retired SEIU staffer (and now buddhist monk) Peter Pocock and Empathy Media Lab’s Evan Matthew Papp. Everyday lives, the human face of migration, and a different point of view from women directors.

NOTE: these films are all available online in AFI Silver’s Virtual Screening Room, along with two upcoming films in the DC Labor FilmFest Spring Mini-Series:

LAPSIS (April 7, 7p ET) CLICK HERE for tickets; Post-screening Q&A moderated by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe, with Katie Parker, Administrative Organizer for NPEU, the Non Profit Employees Union and EPI Policy Analyst Margaret Poydock.

MARTIN EDEN (April 14, 7p ET); CLICK HERE for tickets; Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker and novelist John Sayles.

Produced by Chris Garlock. Video edited by Chris Garlock and Evan Papp.

143. Public Policy with Kelly Veney Darnell of the Bipartisan Policy Center - Policy Dialogues Ep.20

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 11:10:35 -0400

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 20 focuses on public policy with Kelly Veney Darnell. Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Kelly Veney Darnell is the Chief Operating Officer for the Bipartisan Policy Center, which is a Washington, DC-based think tank to promote health, security, and opportunity for all Americans.

Kelly has held political positions as the Federal Affairs Director for the City of Atlanta and as a Legislative Assistant for Congressman John Lewis in the U.S. House of Representatives.

She received her B.A. in Economics from Spelman College and a Master’s of Public Management from the University of Maryland. She received her law degree from the American University, Washington College of Law.

We discussed:

Why she first got interested in public policy;
What it was like working for Representative John Lewis;
The interaction between a Chief Operating Officer and public policy;
The work of the Bipartisan Policy Center; and
What it means to follow your north star.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

Ep.144 - Private Equity is Destroying Healthcare and How To Fight Back w/ Private Equity Stakeholder Project

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:02:45 -0400

“The private equity model is inherently at odds with providing good quality patient care and providing good jobs.”

Welcome to the Harmony of Interest series where we explore ideas that positively shape our world.

For this recording, we are focusing on Private Equity’s role in the U.S. healthcare system. Joining me from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project is Virginia Rodino, who is the Director Of Communications, and Eileen O'Grady, Director of Healthcare Research.

The mission of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project is to identify, engage, and connect stakeholders affected by private equity with the goal of engaging investors and empowering communities, working families, and others impacted by private equity investments.

In this conversation, we discuss:

What is Private Equity and how is it differentiated from other forms of investment;
How Private Equity negatively impacts healthcare;
What is the Private Equity Stakeholder Project; and
Policy solutions that involve organized labor, Congress, and investors.

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145. Education and Public Policy with Diva Shrestha - Policy Dialogues Ep.21

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 11:13:03 -0400

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 21 focuses on public policy with Diva Shrestha. Participants also included Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Diva has over 10 years of experience in the education sector in the U.S. and Nepal and is currently a Strategy Consultant for the Ullens Education Foundation based in Nepal. Previously she was the Director of the Nepal Leadership Academy.

We discussed:

How she first got interested in public policy;
Her work in the education sector in Nepal;
How we as a society can better support leadership development in young adults; and
Where she sees opportunity and hope.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

146. Mark Street’s Film Work Songs - Labor Goes To the Movies

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:36:28 -0400

Elise and Chris talk with director Mark Street, whose latest film is Work Songs, which travels across the country talking with ordinary working folks; cab drivers, a farmer, longshore-women, a barista. Inspired by the work of the great Studs Terkel, Work Songs is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States at work as we face threats from automation, the gig economy and the decline of unions.

Celebrate May Day by watching Work Songs! Get your tickets here.

147. Book Review: Why The New Deal Matters with author Dr. Eric Rauchway

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:06:38 -0400

Dr. Eric Rauchway is author of Why The New Deal Matters, which provides a look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today.

Dr. Rauchway is a distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and has written six books of U.S. history and a novel. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Time, and other publications. He holds a PhD from Stanford, an MA from Oxford, and a bachelor's degree from Cornell.

In this conversation, we discuss:

Why he wanted to write this book;
What the world looked like as President Franklin Roosevelt came into office in 1933;
What was the New Deal; and
Why so many Americans are unaware of the successes of the New Deal.

Buy Why The New Deal Matters at: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300252002/why-new-deal-matters

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148. Raymond Nevo Candidate for Prince George’s County Council District 2 - Policy Dialogues Ep.22

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:22:57 -0400

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 22 focuses on alum Raymond Nevo’s campaign for Maryland’s Prince George’s County Council District 2. Participants also included Campaign Manager Hugo Cantu and host Evan Papp.

Raymond is an advocate who uses his lived experience and policy expertise to enact equitable and just policies for residents in Maryland and Pennsylvania.

We discussed:

Raymond’s background and why he wants to run for county council;
Raymond’s policy platform and key issues he would like to address and solve;
Key operational and logistical issues needed to organize and successfully manage a campaign; and
How people can get involved with his campaign.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

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149. John Sayles on Martin Eden - Labor Goes To the Movies

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 20:32:46 -0400

Chris Garlock talks with director (Matewan, 8 Men Out) and novelist (Union Dues, Yellow Earth) John Sayles, about Martin Eden, Pietro Marcello’s adaptation of Jack London’s autobiographical novel.

“The part both in the book and the movie that always meant the most to me is the part where he's whacking away at that typewriter,” says Sayles. “I actually had an electric typewriter; it was the first thing I ever bought with my own money from shoveling driveways in the winter and mowing lawns and things like that. I had a whole wall papered with rejection slips.”

Sayles has a lot of insight into the film, not only as a director and writer, but from the perspective of a politically engaged artist.

Celebrate May Day by watching Work Songs! Get your tickets here. And stay tuned for updates on the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest line-up.

Produced by Chris Garlock. Video edited by Chris Garlock and Evan Papp.

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150. Author Alejandra Domenzain discusses her new children’s book Para Todos For All published by Hard Ball Press - Buy Your Copy Today

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 22:52:18 -0400

“This is a beautiful, powerful book… This story is a great tool for educators and will inspire children to share their stories… This book should be in every library, school, and home.” Julie Su, California Secretary of Labor, President Biden’s nominee for U.S.Deputy Secretary of Labor “As an immigrant myself, the book brought tears of joy thinking of the thousands of young Flors who will see themselves in this book and realize they too can make a difference.” Julieta Garibay, Co-founder of United We Dream “Alejandra gives us a gift of courage and endurance… A magnificent book and model for all ages, schools and communities.” – Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the USA, Emeritus Buy your copy: http://hardballpress.com/little-heroes.html Overview of Para Todos For All PFlor and her father leave their beloved country for the promise of a land called For All. Dad works long hours for little pay, while Flor struggles to find her place in school. In time, Flor realizes that not having the proper immigration papers means her father must work in unfair & unsafe conditions, and that doors of opportunity will be closed to her. Flor picks up her green pen and writes from the heart about immigrants excluded from "justice for all." She inspires others to take action in the hope their new country will live up to its ideals. A timely, bilingual story written in musical rhyme, beautifully illustrated, calling children to compassion and courage. About the Author (via Children’s Book Review) - Alejandra Domenzain is the daughter of Mexican immigrants. She was born in the United States, and her family moved back to Mexico and then returned to stay when she was six years old. Alejandra was always passionate about advocating for social justice, and has worked in the field of immigrant labor rights for over 20 years. This has included doing outreach and education, organizing, policy work, and research with organizations ranging from national civil rights organizations to worker centers. Most of her work has focused on expanding labor rights for immigrant workers and giving them the tools they need to improve their working conditions. Alejandra lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California with her Brazilian husband and two school-aged children. For All/ Para Todos is her first children’s book, but she hopes to publish many more! For more information, visit forall-paratodos.net. About the Illustrator - Katherine Loh is an artist, illustrator, and muralist who believes that art can be not only visually arresting, but also a powerful tool for social dialogue and political change. Guided by the belief that each of us counts and that we deserve to be treated fairly and with dignity, Katherine uses her art to document and celebrate the stories of people and communities. Currently based in Switzerland, Katherine is working to introduce art as a tool for social impact and community empowerment there. Having worked and lived across the United States and many parts of the world, her love for diversity and multiculturalism informs her work every day. Published by Hard Ball Press - Tim Sheard is the Executive Editor of Hard Ball Press Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. After writing 7 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, he launched Hard Ball Press to help working class people write and publish their stories. Timothy believes that when workers write and tell their stories, they build rank and file solidarity and union power, as well strengthening the fight for social justice solidarity. Their stories help to combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the One Percent. Hard Ball Press is the premier publisher of working class life. You can watch EML’s interview with Tim Sheard here: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/pandemic-nurse-s-diary-a-tribute-to-healthcare-workers-fighting-covid-19 About Empathy Media Lab - The Harmony of Interest series explores ideas that positively shape our world. Empathy Media Lab is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class. All Links - https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab

151. Maryland State Senator Paul Pinksy - Policy Dialogues Ep.23

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:43:54 -0400

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 23 interviews Maryland State Senator Paul Pinksy representing District 22. The talk is hosted by Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Senator Pinsky became a member of the Maryland Senate in 1994 after serving two terms in the House of Delegates. He serves as Chair of the Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee where he is a champion of progressive causes, especially in relation to education, healthcare, and the environment.

Senator Pinsky has also led efforts to reform Maryland’s tax structure by closing corporate tax loopholes and creating a progressive tax structure as well as providing health care for all Maryland residents.

Previously, Senator Pinsky taught high school history for twenty years.

We discussed:

Senator Pinsky’s background and why he first wanted to run for elected office;
How his teaching experience influenced his policy and political interests;
Chairing the Senate Education, Health & Environmental Affairs (EHEA) Committee;
The legislation he is most proud of supporting;
Why he opposes the Maglev Rail project;
The role of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant and other state energy projects in reducing CO2 emissions; and
His thoughts on Public Private Partnerships (PPP) that include the Purple Line and the new PG County PPP to build schools.

You can follow Senator Pinsky’s work at: https://senatorpinsky.org/.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

152. Constructing a New Social Compact Event w/ Dr. James C. Benton - Race & Economic Empowerment Project

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 21:38:22 -0400

Dr. James C. Benton is the Director of the Race and Economic Empowerment Project at the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.

We will be discussing a multi-day virtual conference open to the public scheduled for this Wednesday, April 28 to Saturday, May 1st called Constructing a New Social Compact: A Public Forum on Empowering the Post-Pandemic Working Class.

James is a U.S. historian who studies labor history and the ways in which organized labor has been affected by trade policy, economic change, and industrial decline from the New Deal to the present. He earned a Ph.D. in United States history and a masters’ degrees in history and liberal studies from Georgetown University, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In this conversation, we discuss:

The Kalmanovitz Initiative at Georgetown and the Race and Economic Empowerment Project;
The Constructing a New Social Compact Event why people should tune into the conference and what he hopes to achieve following the conference;
His forthcoming book published by Illinois Press called Fraying Fabric; and
Where James sees opportunity and hope in 2021 and beyond.

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153. HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle - Labor Goes To The Movies

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:41:02 -0400

Chris and Elise talk with director Adrian Prawica about his new film Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle, which is being screened free online this coming week by the Global Labor Film Festival Network, which will also include two online discussions with Adrian on May Day, Saturday, May 1, one at 8p Eastern time with labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steve Brier (CUNY School of Labor), the other at 8p Pacific time with Labor Studies Professor Dana Frank (UC Santa Cruz).

Adrian is an award-winning cinematographer, director, video producer, and content creator. Based in Chicago, his work in journalism, documentary and advertising has been seen on major television networks in the United States and abroad by millions of viewers. He’s done everything from Super Bowl commercials to award-winning documentary films; he’s a certified Phantom Flex high speed camera operator and tech, and he works with both the Arri Alexa, and RED cameras, and we talk about how technology has democratized filmmaking. Adrian was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States at the age of ten, and we also explore how that background has informed his filmmaking.

You can also celebrate May Day by watching Work Songs (we interviewed director Mark Street on our April 9 show); get your tickets here. And stay tuned for updates very soon on the upcoming 2021 DC Labor FilmFest line-up!

Produced by Chris Garlock. Video edited by Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab.

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154. American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner on Biden’s 100 Day Speech, Industrial Policy, and the Fed Reserve

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:31:22 -0400

Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School.

He is an author of twelve books and his latest book is called The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy. He was a founder of the Economic Policy Institute and serves on its Board and Executive Committee.

His previous positions have included national staff writer and columnist on The Washington Post, chief investigator of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, executive director of President Carter’s National Commission on Neighborhoods, and economics editor of The New Republic.

In this conversation, we discuss:

President Biden’s 100 day speech to Congress;
His article Making Industrial Policy Work;
How FDR used the Federal Reserve in the original New Deal based on Robert’s keynote event with the Living New Deal titled From the Original New Deal to the Green New Deal; and
The need to democratize the Federal Reserve Regional Banks and rein in Wall Street.

You can support Robert’s work by buying one of his books at www.Robertkuttner.com and by signing up for The American Prospect’s free newsletter at www.prospect.org.

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155. Author Nicole McCandless's new children’s book Down on James Street - Published by Hard Ball Press

Tue, 04 May 2021 12:56:20 -0400

Overview of Down on James Street

James Street is alive with the sound of jazz! In 1930‘s Pittsburgh, Dorothy wants to dance the Lindy Hop. She finds the perfect partner in a young boy named George. They are having the time of their life…until the police storm the dance hall and shut it down for interracial dancing...with their bully clubs.

Dorothy has faced racial prejudice all her life, and she’s not giving up on the dance, while George comes face to face with his own white privilege. He must choose between going home or joining Dorothy in the fight to keep the dance alive.

Buy your copy: http://hardballpress.com/little-heroes.html

About the Author Nicole McCandless

I was raised by a few hard-working, fiery women. They passed down a love of reading

and gave me the confidence to put words on the page. I’ve had many different jobs, including grocery store clerk, hostess, retail cashier, waitress, and labor organizer. I recently dove into a life of writing and raising up two humans. I love reading by myself in bed and with my kids on the floor. Other things I love include Ben, our sisters, being outside, dancing, singing, snacks, the changing of seasons, and sending people I love things in the mail. For more information, visit https://www.nicolemccandless.com/.

About the Illustrator Byron Gramby

Art school dropout to graduating magna cum laude from Point Park with a Bachelors in Psychology. Not content to leave his stories in the trash, Byron has self-published four other children’s stories over the years, along with two graphic novels. When he’s not creating children’s books, he’s taking a departure from children’s books to write dark, ambient synth tracks or equally grim comics. For more information, visit https://byrongramby.wordpress.com/.

Down on James Street is published by Hard Ball Press - Tim Sheard is the Executive Editor of Hard Ball Press

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156. Behind the velvet curtains with AFI’s Todd Hitchcock - Labor Goes To The Movies

Tue, 04 May 2021 22:39:36 -0400

Chris talks with Todd Hitchcock, Director of Programming at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. In Part 1 of our chat with Todd, he talks about how AFI has kept the movies coming during the pandemic, and we get a peek behind the glitz and glamour of attending star-studded film festivals at Cannes, Berlin and Toronto, as Todd reveals some of the workaday details of being a film programmer at one of the nation’s premier movie art houses. Today’s show also includes the trailer for Work Songs, which opens the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest this week. The new film Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle is being screened free online now by the Global Labor Film Festival Network, and includes two online discussions with director Adrian Prawica on May Day, Saturday, May 1, one at 8p Eastern time with labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steve Brier(CUNY School of Labor), the other at 8p Pacific time with Labor Studies Professor Dana Frank (UC Santa Cruz). Produced by Chris Garlock. Video edited by Evan Papp. @AFISilver @dclabor @LaborHeritage1 @GeorgetownKILWP @JosephMcCartin @stevebrier @DCLaborFilmFest @LaborRadioNet #LaborRadioPod #AdrianPrawica

157. Homeless Advocate Brian Carome CEO Street Sense Media - End Homelessness in Washington, D.C.

Wed, 05 May 2021 14:27:27 -0400

Brian Carome is Chief Executive Officer of Street Sense Media. Street Sense produces journalism, film, theater, photography, audio, illustration, and more, all for the purpose of providing economic opportunity for and elevating the voices of people experiencing homelessness.

The mission of Street Sense is to end homelessness in the Washington, D.C. area by empowering people in need with the skills, tools, and confidence to succeed, using a range of media platforms to raise awareness and spotlight solutions to homelessness.

Brian joined the staff of Street Sense in November 2011. He has over 20 years of experience at non-profit homeless service and child welfare agencies in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

In this conversation, we discuss:

Brian’s background and how he got involved with homelessness issues;
What is Street Sense Media for those who have never heard of it;
How the pandemic has impacted the vendors and the organization;
What it means to criminalize homelessness;
President Biden’s efforts to fund more housing initiatives through Housing and Urban Development led by Secretary Marcia Fudge;
What are the most important considerations for people who are passing a homeless person in need; and
How can people support Street Sense Media at www.StreetSenseMedia.org.

Follow Street Sense on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/streetsensedc) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/streetsensedc).

On a side note, one of my first videos over a decade ago during OccupyDC at Freedom Plaza was with Street Sense Vendor L Morrow reading a poem he wrote and published in Street Sense.

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158. African Perspectives: Ako Essan Emile Shares his Experience Growing up in Cote d’Ivoire

Thu, 06 May 2021 23:40:12 -0400

Ako Essan Emile is from Cote d’Ivoire and is currently based in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a Senior Project Manager for Search For Common Ground. Ako was a 2019 Obama Foundation Leader for Africa. He was also a 2019 Institute for Economics and Peace Ambassador, and a 2015 Young African Leaders Initiative Washington Fellow.

I met Ako around the 2015 elections in Cote d’Ivoire to document Ako’s work around a community radio station promoting peaceful messages ahead of the country’s presidential election. That experience taught me a lot about the history of Cote d’Ivoire and I’m lucky to have become friends with Ako Essan Emile. You can see a video of his work here.

In this conversation, we discuss:

Growing up in Cote d’Ivoire and the influences that led him to peacebuilding;
His experience during the violence following the 2010 election and his work peacebuilding around the 2015 elections;
Policies that can improve the economic prosperity for the people of Cote d’Ivoire;
His essay titled, What if Houphouët-Boigny was not the man of peace we were made to believe?; and
What Americans should know about Africa.

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159. Robert Sandoli Senior Advisor on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the Department of Energy

Mon, 10 May 2021 13:41:07 -0400

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 24 interviews Robert Sandoli of the Department of Energy. The talk is hosted by Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Robert Sandoli is the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) at the Department of Energy. He previously served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary where he led a diverse energy efficiency program and R&D portfolio that included advanced manufacturing, federal energy management, low-income weatherization, and intergovernmental partnerships.

Robert has also held high level positions at the U.S. Department of State, the White House Office of Management and Budget and as a Professional Staff Member in the U.S. House of Representatives.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology from Rutgers University, a Master of Science in Microbiology from Cornell University, and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland.

We discussed:

Robert’s background and how he first got interested in science and public policy;
The importance of the Department of Energy’s mission and how it advances scientific research and development and commercialization of U.S. technology; and
His role at OMB where he oversaw clean energy programs and government wide implementation of sustainability executive orders.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

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160. Grassroots Comedy DC with Chris Blackwood - EMLab Artist Profiles

Wed, 12 May 2021 17:40:13 -0400

Chris Blackwood is co-founder of Grassroots Comedy DC (GCDC), which sits at the crossroads of comedy and advocacy, to make humans laugh while improving humanity, with the ultimate goal to use comedy to support local nonprofits in their mission to make DC (and the world) a better place for all.

We discuss:

How Chris first got interested in stand-up and sketch comedy and his biggest comedic influences;
What is Grassroots Comedy DC;
The role of a comedian in society; and
Grassroots Comedy DC plans for 2021.

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161. Robert C. Orr Dean of University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy - Policy Dialogues Ep.25

Mon, 17 May 2021 13:12:46 -0400

The University of Maryland School of Public Policy Alumni Board's video and podcast series called Policy Dialogues discusses current events through a policy lens.

Episode 25 interviews Robert C. Orr who serves as Dean of University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. The discussion is hosted by Evan Papp (UMD SPP ‘11).

Dean Orr also serves as United Nations under secretary-general, and special advisor to the UN secretary-general on climate change. Dean Orr joined the United Nations from Harvard University where he served as the executive director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. Prior to this, he served as director of the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC.

He has also served as United States ambassador to the United Nations and director of global affairs at the National Security Council, where he was responsible for peacekeeping and humanitarian affairs.

In this conversation, we discussed:

His background and how he first got interested in public policy;
The role of the United Nations;
His recent testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment.
The role of nuclear power in the future of clean energy; and
The future of the School of Public Policy.

You can follow Dean Orr’s work at: https://spp.umd.edu/.

The views expressed do not represent official positions of the school or alumni network.

162. The Case For A New Deal 3.0 - David Riemer Author of Putting Government In Its Place

Wed, 19 May 2021 14:02:59 -0400

David Riemer is author of Putting Government In Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0. He is also the author of The Prisoners of Welfare: Liberating America's Poor from Unemployment and Low Wages. David is a Senior Fellow at the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute and Senior Advisor for Social Security Works. David’s service during the past four decades has ranged from preparing city and state budgets to advancing major reform in state and national employment, income, health, and education policy.

In this conversation, we discuss:

David’s background and why he first got interested in policy, politics, and governance;
His excellent website that guides the reader through a detailed plan and policy process that is also laid out in his book Putting Government In Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0; and
Where David sees opportunity and hope in 2021 and beyond.

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163. Labor for Palestine with Suzanne Adely and Michael Letwin

Fri, 21 May 2021 14:54:19 -0400

Labor for Palestine was launched in April 2004 by New York City Labor Against the War and Al-Awda NY: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition to reclaim the legacy of working class solidarity with Palestine in the United States, as reflected in groundbreaking statements by the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in 1969, and wildcat strikes against the United Auto Workers (UAW) leadership’s support for Israel in 1973.

In this episode, we spoke with Labor For Palestine organizers Suzanne Adely who is the Co-Director for the Food Chain Workers Alliance and President-Elect of the National Lawyers Guild, and Michael Letwin who is a public defender in New York City and former President of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys/UAW 2325.

In this conversation, we discuss:

The recent general strike in Palestine and about work conditions for Palestinians;
What is Labor for Palestine and why is it misleading to frame the violence as between two conflicting parties;
What led to the recent violence; and
Why organized labor should get involved in this struggle.

You can follow Labor for Palestine work through the following links:

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164. Former Amazon Warehouse Worker and Progressive Activist Jake Burdett

Tue, 25 May 2021 11:07:29 -0400

Jake Burdett is a progressive activist and is the former Columbia Democratic Club President in Maryland. He is also a former Amazon warehouse worker.

In this conversation, we discuss:

How he made headlines as a student at Salisbury University, when U.S. House of Representative Andy Harris supported jailing Jake for up to 10 years for live-streaming a protest at Harris’ office;
His time working in an Amazon warehouse outside Baltimore; and
How he became politically active in Maryland politics.

You can follow Jake Burdett’s work on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jake_burdett and at Progressive Democrats of Howard County https://twitter.com/ProgressHoCo.

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165. Mother Jones - Labor Leader Diaries

Tue, 25 May 2021 15:45:17 -0400

Mother Jones, a north star for us all. Mary G. Harris was born August 1st, 1837 in Cork, Ireland. In 1847, the Irish faced starvation from a potato blight caused by a British feudal economic policy of monocropping. Her family immigrated to North America as part of one of the greatest mass exoduses from a single island in history.

Upon arriving in Toronto, the Harris family faced discrimination due to their immigrant status as well as their Catholic faith and Irish heritage.

At age 23 she found a teaching position at a convent in Monroe, Michigan.

Dissatisfied with the work conditions, she moved to Chicago then to Memphis, where in 1861 she married George E. Jones, a member and organizer of the National Union of Iron Moulders.

In 1867, a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis killed her husband and their four children in the matter of two months. She was 30 years old. After that tragedy, she returned to Chicago to begin a dressmaking business catering to the upper class.

But four years later, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed her home, shop, and possessions.

The 1877 railroad strike further radicalized her and she joined the Knights of Labor where she helped organize workers in an era where protests and strikes could end with police shooting and killing of workers.

The violence directed at workers helped grow the Knights to become the largest labor organization in the country with over a million members.

As May 1st, 1886 approached, the Knights of Labor prepared for a general strike demanding an 8 hour work day. The Chicago Haymarket bombings created a reactionary tsunami leading to the demise of the Knights of Labor.

As the Knights crumbled into oblivion, Mary Jones became an educator and organizer with the United Mine Workers, traveling throughout the United States.

By age 60, she had assumed the persona of "Mother Jones" by claiming to be older than she was, wearing outdated black dresses and referring to the male workers that she helped as "her boys". The first reference to her in print as Mother Jones was in 1897.

In 1902, she was put on trial in West Virginia for ignoring an injunction banning meetings by striking miners. The district attorney called her "the most dangerous woman in America.”

In 1903, Jones sought to organize children who were working in mills and mines in Pennsylvania. Many of the children at union headquarters were missing fingers and limbs, and she attempted to get newspaper publicity for the bad labor conditions experienced by children. However, the mill owners held stock in most newspapers and would not publish the facts about child labor.

So she organized a march from Philadelphia to Oyster Bay, New York, the hometown of President Theodore Roosevelt, demanding children to go to school and not the mines. Though the president refused to meet with the marchers, the incident brought the issue of child labor to the forefront of the public agenda.

During the Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912 in West Virginia, a shooting war broke out between United Mine Workers members and the private army of the mine owners.

Mary Jones defied Martial law in the area to continue public speaking and organizing and she was arrested and sentenced to twenty years in the state penitentiary. After 85 days of confinement, her release coincided with Indiana Senator John W. Kern's initiation of a Senate investigation into the conditions in the local coal mines.

Jones remained a union organizer for the UMW into the 1920s and continued to speak on union affairs. Mary Harris Jones died in Adelphi, Maryland just outside Washington, D.C. She is buried in the Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois.

Mother Jones: “And I long to see the day when Labor will have the destinies of the nation in her own hands and she will stand a united force and show the world what the workers can do.”

Research was based on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones.

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166. Movie Club Discussion: The New Deal For Artists - LGTTM

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 11:36:09 -0400

Lincoln Cushing and Harvey Smith discuss The New Deal For Artists, now showing in the DC Labor FilmFest. Narrated by Orson Welles, this remastered classic features interviews and commentary by John Houseman, Studs Terkel, Howard Da Silva, Arthur Rothstein, Joseph Losey, Norman Lloyd and more.

Archivist and historian Lincoln Cushing is the author of All Of Us Or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area and Agitate! Educate! Organize! - American Labor Posters; Harvey Smith is the author of Berkeley and the New Deal. Find out more on The Living New Deal website.

We have a bonus guest this week, as longtime union organizer Carl Goldman drops by to tell us about the brand-new film We Made Matzah Balls For The Revolution.

All the DC Labor FilmFest films are still available in the AFI Silver’s DC Labor FilmFest Virtual Screening Room.

PLUS: Register now for the 2021 Great Labor Arts Exchange, coming up – online – June 17-20.

Produced by Chris Garlock and Evan Papp.

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167. Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals with Emmet Penney

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 13:49:57 -0400

Emmet Penney is a writer, editor, and educator and is co-host of Ex.haust Podcast that plumbs the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore.

We center the conversation around Emmet’s article Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals, which was recently published in the American Conservative.

In this conversation, we discuss:

Emmet’s path to embracing nuclear energy;
His article Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals;
The left’s fixation on renewables as a symptom of its presentism;
The premature closing of Indian Point along with 1,000 high-paying union jobs; and
Where Emmet sees opportunity and hope.

You can follow Emmet’s work and Ex.haust through the following links:

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168. Dylan James Brock Author of Roosevelt, Michigan - EMLab Artist Profiles

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:21:51 -0400

About Roosevelt, Michigan - A Musical Novel

Buddy Henshaw is a folk musician and teenage orphan who lit out on a cross-country filmmaking project. After nearly killing his first love and collaborator Lily by falling asleep at the wheel, he flees her angry family for New York City, leaving her convinced he is dead. When he returns home to Michigan a decade later and founds an artists’ colony in a desolate downtown, he hopes to recapture Lily but ends up partying his way into a series of murders instead. Ultimately, casualties mount from battles between his artistic and romantic ambitions, and Buddy’s friends are left to deal with the wreckage that remains.

Echoing the language of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Roosevelt, Michigan is a love letter to house parties and the extraordinary relationships that support folk and roots music. From a touching affair to a mentorship that goes violently wrong, Brock takes readers to the kind of unforgettable party where no one is sure what's in the punch, but everyone is enjoying the journey - until people start to die.

You can get your copy of Roosevelt, Michigan at: https://www.rooseveltmichigan.com/fiction

About the Author

Dylan James Brock is an author and musician and his second novel titled Roosevelt, Michigan - A Musical Novel, will be released on June 18th, 2021. His first novel, Dry World, was released in 2016 and is accompanied by a 25-song album.

At age sixteen, Dylan enrolled at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and in 2006 he received a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing at Hunter College in New York City. This year, he founded Verisimi Lit, an independent publisher of newsletters and novels that can be found on Substack.

In this interview, we discuss:

How Dylan first got interested in creative writing and who are his biggest artistic influences;
Why he wanted to write Roosevelt, Michigan - A Musical Novel and what it is about;
His unique writing process; and
The role of the writer and artist in society.

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169. Labor Radio Podcast Network Weekly Roundup - July 10, 2021

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:09:06 -0400

The Teamsters Podcast; Belabored; The Voice of Oregon’s Workers; CTU Speaks; Solidarity Breakfast; Trailblazers, Inc.; 3rd and Fairfax: The WGAW Podcast; Tales of the Resistance; LRPN Profiles Joe Biden talks about building for the future on the Teamsters podcast; what rising U.S.-China tensions mean for workers and the labor movement in both countries, from the Belabored podcast; On The Voice of Oregon's Workers, a look at Oregon's growing union movement; CTU Speaks talks with longtime educator and activist Tara Stamps; the Solidarity Breakfast podcast reports on the lockout at the Collingwood Community Gardens; on Trailblazers, Inc. Kayla Vander Moler shares her experiences as a boilermaker; writer, actor, producer, and stand-up comic Iliza Schlesinger talks about the hard work of comedy with 3rd and Fairfax, the podcast from the Writers Guild of America West; from the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s new radio drama, we get a taste of Episode 1 of Tales of the Resistance. This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Network profile from Empathy Media Lab is a visit with Maximillian Alvarez, host of the Working People podcast. Bonus track: Organizing During Wartime on today’s Labor History in 2:00. Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO @WorkingPod @Teamsters @DissentMag @CtuSpeaks @3CRsolidarity @empathymedialab @WGAWest @ILLaborHistory Edited by Patrick Dixon and Melanie Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru: Harold Phillips.

170. Excerpt - Member Spotlight: Maximillian Alvarez host of Working People

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:41:15 -0400

Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Member Spotlight Series pays homage to radio and podcast producers who are focusing on working class issues.

Mr. Alvarez is also the Editor in Chief of The Real News network and received his PhD from the University of Michigan.

Full interview here: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/member-spotlight-maximilian-alvarez-host-of-working-people

171. Laborem Exercens (Through Work) - Faith and Labor Episode 4

Sun, 15 Aug 2021 19:05:23 -0400

In Episode 4, we discuss Laborem Exercens, which means Through Work and is an encyclical written by Pope John Paul II in 1981, on human work. It is part of the larger body of Catholic social teaching, which traces its origin to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum.

172. Richard Trumka Tribute - American System TV

Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:35:23 -0400

“...of the leaders of the AFL-CIO since the second world war, Trumka has been one of the very best and that doesn't translate automatically into success or organizing or even winning huge strikes partly because the Carter spirit has been powerful in the democratic party and there's a lack of understanding why you need organized labor.”

Richard Louis Trumka was President of the AFL–CIO from 2009 until his death on August 5, 2021. He served as president of the United Mine Workers from 1982 to 1995, and then was secretary-general of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009.

The American System network gave a tribute to Trumka on their August 5th program while highlighting the failure of the Democratic Party to sufficiently support organized labor. This segment was produced by Empathy Media Lab.

Empathy Media Lab’s website is https://www.empathymedialab.com.

All EMLab links can be found at: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab.

173. The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:45:46 -0400

Dr. Charles Keeney is the author of The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal, which was published in January 2021 of West Virginia University Press and he is founding member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum.

We center the conversation around Dr. Keeney’s book and the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial Commemoration over Labor Day Weekend 2021.

In this conversation, we discuss:

Dr. Keeney’s family history steeped in labor struggles going back to his great grandfather Frank Keeney;
What was the Battle of Blair Mountain and why it is relevant;
His book The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal;
The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum;
Politics in West Virginia; and
The role of teaching labor history as central to human progress.

Follow the relevant links to Dr. Keeney’s work and labor struggles in West Virginia:

Keeney’s book - The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum - https://wvminewars.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cbelmontkeeney
Frank Keeney - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Keeney
Matewan directed by John Sayles

Follow the events around the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial Commemoration over Labor Day Weekend 2021 https://www.blair100.com/. Empathy Media Lab will be in Charleston, West Virginia over the weekend filming and interviewing labor activists. If you have content ideas or want to meet up, please reach out!

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174. My Father, John Gregory Papp's Birthday, August 26, 1945

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 14:00:53 -0400

"To his dying day, he never relented fighting his disease because he was a fighter and one of the strongest people I have ever met. He lives on in my brother and I." This eulogy from my brother and I was delivered in April 2018, shortly after his passing. Without him, I am nothing. With his love, I am everything. Thus I celebrate his birth on this day, August 26th. Full essay and photos can be found on Medium.

175. Remembering 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain - David Rovics Audio Essay

Thu, 02 Sep 2021 16:45:19 -0400

“There is another America. Remember it. Those miners died for you. You should at least know who they were. And then let's all follow in their footsteps. Long live the multiracial uprising in the hills of Appalachia in 1921. Long live the Battle of Blair Mountain.” David Rovics

U.S. Labor Day weekend 2021 marks the 100 year anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain, which was part of the West Virginia Mine Wars.

The battle was the largest armed insurrection in the U.S. since the Civil War. The sacrifices of those miners and their families who fought on Blair Mountain laid down a foundation to fight for every worker’s labor rights and protection and courageously stand up and face tyrannical men of murderous intent.

Empathy Media Lab will be in West Virginia documenting the Battle of Blair Mountain Centennial Commemoration, including the United Mine Workers of America’s reenactment of the famous march that ended in the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain.

This short film is based on an audio essay by David Rovics and the song Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis.

The following links providing more information about this labor struggle through:

Dr. Charles B. Keeney’s book The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum
Matewan directed by John Sayles
David Rovics website and twitter

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176. Voices from the Centennial March to Blair Mountain - Organized by the United Mine Workers of America

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 18:53:18 -0400

“So why did we want to recreate this March? Because we are bound and determined that the history of our forefathers will not be taken away from us by any rich person or any government.”

Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)

One hundred years ago, in a rural mountainous stretch in middle America, a violent labor uprising took place, a battle of good versus evil, rebellion against wage slavery, a fight for freedom against tyranny -- yet this historical memory lies dormant in most minds today.

U.S. Labor Day weekend 2021 marked the 100 year anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain, which was part of the West Virginia Mine Wars. The battle was the largest armed insurrection in the U.S. since the Civil War. The sacrifices of those miners and their families provides an important history of courageously standing up and facing tyrannical men of murderous intent.

When I learned about the centennial gathering in remembrance of the great battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia over Labor Day 2021, I knew I had to go; not just to document the event and raise awareness through the Labor Radio Podcast Network, but I needed to go for myself, as a labor pilgrimage to march alongside the United Mine Workers of America, upon the hallowed ground where miners fought for their rights and a better future for every worker.

During the United Mine Workers of America’s reenactment of the famous march that ended in Sharples, West Virginia near Blair Mountain, I was able to interview fellow marchers and capture a rousing speech by Cecil Roberts, President of the United Mine Workers of America.

Solidarity forever.

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177. Mother Jones in West Virginia Coal Fields Making Speeches to Excite Miners

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 23:09:54 -0400

On June 20, 1920, Mother Jones spoke on the steps of the Williamson County Courthouse in West Virginia as a grand jury deliberated on the shooting between mine of Matewan, West Virginia and the Baldwin-Felts detectives who were terrorizing the people in the service of the Stone Mountain Coal Company to increase the profits of plutocrats like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, and Mellon, and against the United Mine Workers of America driving unionization throughout the land.

The Associated Press wrote the next day “Mother Jones” in West Virginia Coal Fields Making Speeches to Excite Miners.

EMLab filmed a reenactment of Mother Jones famous speech in Matewan, West Virginia during U.S. Labor Day weekend 2021, which marked the 100 year anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain, which was part of the West Virginia Mine Wars. The battle was the largest armed insurrection in the U.S. since the Civil War. The sacrifices of those miners and their families provides an important history of courageously standing up and facing tyrannical men of murderous intent.

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178. Economic Justice For All - Faith and Labor (Episode 5)

Fri, 22 Oct 2021 14:42:57 -0400

In Episode 5, we discuss Economic Justice for All, which is the pastoral letter promulgated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1986. The letter addresses the precarity of Americans living within the U.S. economy and is framed by the values of Catholic social teaching and thus condemning the neoliberal policies under President Ronald Reagan.

We also discuss America Magazine’s article titled America’s child care crisis and Catholic social teaching by Kate Ward.

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The Labor Link - Sawit Kaewwan, the secretary general of the State Enterprises Workers’ Relations Confederation (SERC) in Thailand

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 17:21:23 -0500

“There will be no way for us to be able to solve every single problem of migrant workers here in Thailand. The only way we can do it, we need to have them to speak up about the problem. We need to have them form their own organization, representing themselves.”

Sawit Kaewwan

About Sawit Kaewwan

Sawit Kaewwan, the secretary general of the State Enterprises Workers’ Relations Confederation (SERC) in Thailand, has mobilized the Thai trade union movement to support migrant workers, especially those at risk for human trafficking.

The unions have offered repeatedly to collaborate with industry and government. Instead, the government is pursuing criminal charges against Sawit and 12 of his colleagues for organizing a national railway safety campaign they launched back in 2009. The charges appear politically motivated because they were filed in 2019 just before the statute of limitations expired. Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission has condemned the actions against the trade unionists.

Learn more about Sawit’s work:

Judy Gearhart’s Essay on Thompson Reuters Foundation News - https://news.trust.org/item/20211105170721-mjdr1
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/sep/21/top-thai-union-leader-targeted-with-jail-for-rail-safety-campaign
https://laborrights.org/publications/time-sea-change-why-union-rights-migrant-workers-are-needed-prevent-forced-labor-thai

About The Labor Link Podcast

The Labor Link Podcast supports workers' rights in global supply chains by sharing personal stories and perspectives of the men and women organizing the workers who make our stuff. The Labor Link Podcast is hosted by Judy Gearhart of American University’s Accountability Research Center and produced by Empathy Media Lab of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Contact Judy Gearhart for media inquiries at gearhart@american.edu.

About the Host of The Labor Link Podcast

Judy Gearhart is a senior researcher at the Accountability Research Center and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. Previously she served as the executive director at the International Labor Rights Forum and programs director at Social Accountability International. She also worked in Mexico and Honduras on trade, labor rights, and democratic participation.

About the Accountability Research Center

The Accountability Research Center (ARC) is based in American University’s School of International Service. ARC bridges research and frontline perspectives to learn from ideas, institutions, and actors that advance strategies to improve public accountability.

Through extensive dialogue with partners and collaborators, ARC co-designs exploratory research that is relevant for their strategies and can contribute to international thinking about how change happens.

Radio Labour Covers Sawit Kaewwan Labor Link Interview

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 12:21:36 -0500

We are excited to share Radio Labour’s excerpt, “Fighting for Thailand's Migrant Workers,” that covered The Labor Link’s podcast interview with Sawit Kaewwan.

Summary:

Millions of migrant workers in Thailand need help. The Thai labour movement is fighting for their rights. An interview with Sawit Kaewwan, the secretary general of the State Enterprises Workers’ Relations Confederation (SERC) conducted by Judy Gearhart of American University’s Accountability Research Center.

The RadioLabour team consists of labour educators, negotiators, research representatives, union members and others connected to the labour movement. Most of us work, or have worked, for a union, a labour studies centre, or a global union. The team is led by Marc Bélanger, an international labour educator, based in Canada.

To learn more about Radio Labour, visit: https://www.radiolabour.net/.

The Labor Link - Tola Moeun, Executive Director of the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights in Cambodia

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 23:46:39 -0500

The Labor Link - Tola Moeun, Executive Director of the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights in Cambodia

“Talking about the human rights situation in Cambodia, we believe that the democratic shrinking space is the main root cause that is undermining labor rights and human rights.”

Tola Moeun

About

Tola Moeun is a human rights defender and the Executive Director of the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL), an NGO which supports Cambodian labourers by providing them with legal aid, and other appropriate means, to demand transparent and accountable governance on labour and human rights issues.

The Cambodian authorities often use legislation and the judicial system to restrict free speech, jail government critics, and disperse workers, trade union representatives and farmers when engaging in peaceful assembly. The 2015 Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations imposes a range of restrictions on both domestic and foreign NGOs. Despite the danger, Tola continues to fight for labor rights.

Learn more about Tola’s work:

About The Labor Link Podcast

About the Host of The Labor Link Podcast

About the Accountability Research Center

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Radio Labour Covers Tola Moeun‘s Labor Link Interview

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 14:52:37 -0500

We are excited to share Radio Labour’s December 15, 2021 excerpt, “Cambodia's garment workers need help,” that covered The Labor Link’s podcast interview with Tola Moeun.

Summary:

Tola Moeun is a human rights defender and the Executive Director of the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL), an NGO which supports Cambodian labourers by providing them with legal aid, and other appropriate means, to demand transparent and accountable governance on labour and human rights issues..

The Radio Labour team consists of labour educators, negotiators, research representatives, union members and others connected to the labour movement. Most of us work, or have worked, for a union, a labour studies centre, or a global union. The team is led by Marc Bélanger, an international labour educator, based in Canada.

To learn more about Radio Labour, visit: https://www.radiolabour.net/.

The Labor Link - Kalpona Akter, Director of the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity

Sun, 09 Jan 2022 15:01:58 -0500

“I believe once you start work for worker rights, you cannot stop. You just can't stop yourself. I need to protest. I need to have these worker's back.”

Kalpona Akter is a former child worker and labor activist from Bangladesh. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity and was awarded Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges award for Extraordinary Activism.

Learn more about Kalpona’s work:

About The Labor Link Podcast

About the Host of The Labor Link Podcast

About the Accountability Research Center

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The World’s Oldest Profession - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 1

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 20:24:39 -0500

In this episode, we learn more about what domestic and care work is, and its roots in exploitation and slavery. We meet organizers in South Africa and Hong Kong and speak with an expert on modern day slavery to understand the power dynamics underlying care.

About

The Gig is about the women and men who work in the so-called 'gig economy' worldwide. They find work through online platforms, and will tell us why we all need to be concerned about the real future of work.

Following The Gig Podcast’s successful launch of Season 1, host and executive producer Bama Athreya is back with Season 2 focusing on gig workers in the care economy.

For Season 2, The Gig Podcast is partnering with fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab to support the production of the new series.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/thegigpodcast

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Servants to Technology - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 2

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:12:54 -0500

We fast forward from past to future, speaking with two technologists, one based in New York and the other in Barcelona, Spain about how new technologies are affecting the future of work in the care sector.

About

Following The Gig Podcast’s successful launch of Season 1, host and executive producer Bama Athreya is back with Season 2 focusing on gig workers in the care economy.

For Season 2, The Gig Podcast is partnering with fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab to support the production of the new series.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/thegigpodcast

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Permanent Wave - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 3

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:04:27 -0500

We go to India and Thailand to talk about intimate personal care services that take place in people's homes. Advocates and researchers explain how technology is affecting personal care workers who are already low wage, precarious and exploited. Clients expect 'emotional labor' from these women but there are big risks of gender-based violence that platforms may exacerbate.

Guests: Kriangsak Teerawitkajorn, Just Economy and Labour Institute (JELI); Khawla Zainab, IT for Change

About

Following The Gig Podcast’s successful launch of Season 1, host and executive producer Bama Athreya is back with Season 2 focusing on gig workers in the care economy.

For Season 2, The Gig Podcast is partnering with fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab to support the production of the new series.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/thegigpodcast

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The Company You Keep - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 4

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:25:52 -0500

An ethical businessperson helps us understand alternatives to the exploitative gig model. We ask: if we keep humans in the loop, can tech in the domestic and care sector be an opportunity rather than a curse?

Guests: Aaron Seyedian, Well-Paid Maids; Sayem, domestic worker

About

Following The Gig Podcast’s successful launch of Season 1, host and executive producer Bama Athreya is back with Season 2 focusing on gig workers in the care economy.

For Season 2, The Gig Podcast is partnering with fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab to support the production of the new series.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/thegigpodcast

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Turning the Tables - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 5

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:43:34 -0500

We continue to explore ways in which if advocates and workers themselves are part of the design and control of platforms, big data may open up new opportunities for vulnerable workers who have long been isolated and exploited.

Guests: Palak Shah, NDWA Labs; Fairuz Mullagee, University of Western Cape/Social Law Project; Abigail Hunt, Overseas Development Institute

About

Following The Gig Podcast’s successful launch of Season 1, host and executive producer Bama Athreya is back with Season 2 focusing on gig workers in the care economy.

For Season 2, The Gig Podcast is partnering with fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab to support the production of the new series.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/thegigpodcast

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Garment workers in Bangladesh need a living wage - Radio Labour Feature Kalpona Akter‘s Labor Link Interview

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 18:22:28 -0500

We are excited to share Radio Labour’s January 25, 2022 excerpt, “Garment workers in Bangladesh need a living wage,” that covered The Labor Link’s podcast interview with Kalpona Akter.

Summary:

The Radio Labour team consists of labour educators, negotiators, research representatives, union members and others connected to the labour movement. Most of us work, or have worked, for a union, a labour studies centre, or a global union. The team is led by Marc Bélanger, an international labour educator, based in Canada.

To learn more about Radio Labour, visit: https://www.radiolabour.net/.

Montgomery College Professional Development Series with Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 21:22:18 -0500

I am humbled to have been asked to speak about my experience to students at Montgomery College. This is from November 2021. My presentation was a little windy and moves around quite a bit but I think it captures an origin story of a sort.

Overview
Evan Papp explains the connections between labor, politics, art, and culture and how these formed the foundation of the Empathy Media Lab.

Evan Papp is the founder of Empathy Media Lab, a full-service production house for civil society organizations, NGOs, and universities. He brings to this work over a decade of experience consulting, developing, and managing communications for the U.S. government, private industry, and non-profits. During his time with the U.S. Agency for International Development, he advanced the strategic communications of high-profile initiatives, including a Presidential energy initiative with commitments from more than 150 global partners across 12 U.S. government agencies. Evan’s private sector experience includes several start-ups including a permaculture farm and an international labor radio and podcast network. Prior to this work, Evan spent five years with the Peace Corps working on emergency health, rural education, and public outreach activities in Zambia, Jamaica and Washington, D.C. Evan has a master's degree in public policy specializing in international security and economic policy and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and political science.

You can watch the orginal video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjL6H9TPCO0

Check out our Montgomery College's website for more information:
http://mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/southern-management-leadership-program/

The Blair Mountain Battle with American System TV

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 17:47:19 -0500

Evan Papp discusses the largest armed insurrection in the U.S. since the Civil War with the American System Network. This was recorded in September 2021, shortly after Evan produced a series on the Battle of Blair Mountain for the 100 year anniversary.

You can hear the original recording at American System here. Union Solidarity Forever!

Additional Content About the Battle of Blair Mountain

Voices from the Centennial March to Blair Mountain - Organized by the United Mine Workers of America

Remembering 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain - David Rovics Audio Essay

Mother Jones in West Virginia Coal Fields Making Speeches to Excite Miners

The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

Matewan directed by John Sayles

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum

Dr. Charles B. Keeney’s book The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

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Introduction to Development Ethics with Jay Drydyk and Nungari Mwangi

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 22:36:05 -0500

Overview

Given that the essence of moral thought is to address and ameliorate human suffering, and to expand human freedoms, how can we afford not to attend to moral clarity when it comes to international relief and development?

The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice.

We begin the series of conversations introducing ethics in development that will start to build an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. Other topics in this series will explore Climate Justice, Inclusive Development, Empowerment, and Democratic Values.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.internati...

Panelist Biographies

Nungari Mwangi received her PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and currently leads the Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture, which is part of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Jay Drydyk is a Professor of International Development Ethics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and he is the past President of the International Development Ethics Association and current President of the Human Development Capability Association.

Inclusive Development with Dr. Ravi Verma and Dr. Serene Khader

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:09:06 -0500

Overview

We continue the dialogue with our second of five conversations with today’s focus on Inclusive Development, as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. Other topics in this series explore Climate Justice, Empowerment, Democratic Values, and an Introduction to Development Ethics.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international/

Panelist Biographies

Dr. Serene Khader holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and is a Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her most recent book, Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic asks what values should guide transnational feminist solidarity. And she is currently writing a book entitled The Freedom Myth about why we need to stop thinking feminism's core value is freedom and start thinking it's equality.

Dr. Ravi Verma is the Asia Director of the International Center for Research on Women and leads local and regional efforts on an array of issues, including reproductive health, family planning, preventing domestic violence, child marriage, engaging men and boys to empower women, HIV/AIDS and economic development.

The Center for Values panel on Empowerment with Dr. Christine Koggel & Saji Prelis

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:27:12 -0500

Overview

We continue the dialogue with our third of five conversations with today’s focus on Empowerment as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international

Panelist Biographies

Saji Prelis is Co-Chair of the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security and Director of Children & Youth Programs for Search for Common Ground. Saji has over twenty years’ experience working with youth movements and youth focused organizations in conflict and transition environments in over 35 countries throughout the world. In 2010 he co-founded and has been co-chairing the first UN-Civil Society-Donor working group (Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security) that helped successfully advocate for the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2250 (in 2015) on Youth, Peace and Security. As a result of the Global Coalition’s advocacy, two additional Security Council Resolutions, Resolution 2419 in June 2018 and Resolution 2535 in July 2020, were unanimously adopted.

Christine Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her main research and teaching interests are in the broad areas of moral theory, practical ethics, feminism, social and political theory and development ethics. She is the author of Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory (1998), a book that brings together her interests in moral, political, and feminist theory. She has published 45 journal articles and chapters in edited collections, the most recent of which explore topics in development ethics (capabilities approach, agency, empowerment, work/labour), feminist theory (gender, oppression, care ethics, feminist relational theory), settler-colonialism; Indigenous issues; and their intersections. She is the former President of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Board member of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) and is a Lead Co- Editor for the Journal of Global Ethics.

Democratic Values with Dr. David Crocker & Paulina Ibarra - The Center for Values in International Development

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 00:53:40 -0500

We continue the dialogue with our fourth of five conversations with today’s focus on Democratic Values, as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international

Panelist Biographies

Paulina Ibarra is the Executive Director of the Fundacion Multitudes in Chile and the first elected Chair of the Civil Society Pillar of the Community of Democracies. She has global experience in the areas of transparency, citizen participation and accountability and has worked in government, private sector and international organizations. In Washington, D.C., Paulina worked with the Open Government Partnership during the administration of President Obama and advised the World Bank on issues of education and digital activism.

Dr. David Crocker is a Development Ethics Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He specializes in socio-political philosophy, international development ethics, transitional justice, democracy and democratization, and the ethics of consumption. He is also the founder of the International Development Ethics Association.

Climate Justice with Dr. Gael Giraud and Belynda Petrie

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 01:10:53 -0500

We finish this series with our fifth of five conversations with today’s focus on Climate Justice, as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. Previous topics focused on Inclusive Development, Empowerment, Democratic Values and an Introduction to Development Ethics.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international/

Guest Biographies

Dr. Gael Giraud is the founding director of Georgetown University’s Environmental Justice Program. He received his PhD in applied mathematics at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France. He also holds a PhD in theology and has been appointed as research professor at Georgetown University. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Chief economist and executive director of the French Development Agency (AFD). In 2009, he was nominated best young French economist (by Le Monde). And in 2013 he was ordained as a priest.

Belynda Petrie is an environmentalist from Cape Town, South Africa and founder and director of ONE World Sustainable Investments, which is an African-based sustainable development consulting organization focused on adaptive development within the context of changing climate and resource constraints. Belynda was a contributing author to the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (the IPCC), specifically on the Governance chapter. She was also a PhD Candidate at the University of Cape Town with a focus on Cooperative Governance for Water Security in Africa.

Political Economy Project - FDR Short

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:33:22 -0500

...Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment…This is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own incompetence…The unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion. They only know the rules of a generation of self seekers. They have no vision and when there is no vision the people perish.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address - 1933

Overview

The Political Economy of Labor, Capital, and Oligarchy with Evan Matthew Papp is an Inquiry into how Philosophy, History and Culture shape our world and how dialogue and reason will lead us to a new renaissance based on humanism, art, science, beloved optimism, and a harmony of interests.

Learn More at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/politicaleconomy

The Philosophy of Political Economy Project - An Introduction

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 23:27:50 -0500

First Principle

Water, food, and energy are the three necessary components sustaining civilization and are thus a universal value of every human.

This fundamental truth is the first principle of human development.

And if the production, distribution, and consumption of any three is disrupted, social unrest follows.

War and peace are inherently tied to abundance or scarcity of these key elements.

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Political Economy

Political economy is the study of production and trade and their relationship with government, law, national security, and the investment and distribution of national income and wealth.

Politics and economics are fundamentally inseparable.

Unfortunately, political economy was overshadowed by the myopic term “economics,” around 100 years ago, obscuring how power and politics ultimately determine the organization of our economy as the real invisible hand guiding the so-called free marketplace.

Despite this obscurantism, the fact remains that powerful political factions continue to shape the economic policies of the government and set the parameters of currencies, markets, trade, and contracts.

And the organization of our political economy will also determine production, logistics, infrastructure, science, research and development, communications, education, healthcare, and most importantly, whether we have secured our water, food, and energy.

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Labor, Capital, Oligarchy

One goal of the political economy project is to reconnect the causal relationships inherent in economics and politics so we can better understand the dynamics shaping our world and organize around policies that will lead to broad-based human flourishing.

Another distorting relic of the 20th century is a misplaced tension between labor and capital, when both are necessary for civilization. For when the political economy effectively organizes labor and capital, real surplus value is created that can be used to promote human prosperity and peace.

To move beyond the entrenched binary that pits capitalism versus socialism, the political economy project will spotlight the oligarchical structures of entrenched wealth and power expressed in cartels, monopolies, oligopolies, monopsonies, and influence operations that asset strip labor, capital, and surplus value for the malignant gain of a few to the detriment of human freedom and civilization.

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Principle Above Politics

In this darkening age of growing division and impending tragedy, I humbly seek those of good will and magnanimous spirit who are willing to set aside petty squabbles and factional differences and unify our fight for a future where no human goes without water, food, energy, housing, education, healthcare, communication, transportation, and social security, while producing broad based prosperity for today and future generations.

And with this guiding vision, let us begin developing the political economy blueprint that will unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance of the human spirit.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/politicaleconomy

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The Labor Link - Aung Kyaw, Co-Founder of Thailand’s Migrant Worker Rights Network

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:28:43 -0500

"When I arrived in Thailand, I was an illegal migrant worker. But even though I work in a factory, I read the news every day. I read about the minimum wage. I read about eight hour working hours and how much workers should get paid for overtime."

Aung Kyaw is one of the founders and longtime lead organizers of the Migrant Worker Rights Network, a membership-based organization for migrant workers from Myanmar residing and working mainly in Thailand. Having fled Myanmar in 1988 after the military coup, Aung Kyaw worked in shrimp peeling sheds, studied the Thai labor law, and soon began organizing fellow migrant workers to demand better treatment.

Founded in 2009, MWRN has pioneered a power-building approach to combatting human trafficking and forced labor, working closely with the Thai trade union movement to advocate for better legal protections for worker organizing and collective bargaining rights in Thailand. Thai labor law does not allow migrant workers to form and lead their own trade unions, but MWRN has persisted by engaging seafood processing companies to gain access to migrant workers, establish welfare committees, and negotiate agreements.

Follow MWRN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mwrnorg/

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Who’s the Fairest? - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 6

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:56:46 -0500

The surprise ending to this season was a wave of protests by India’s beauty care platform workers. How did they find each other? Why did they organize? And can they hold up in the face of the company’s intimidation tactics? The season concludes with a look at what we all can do to create a fair care economy.

Guests: Soumyarendra Barik, Indian journalist; Palak Shah, NDWA Labs

About

Following The Gig Podcast’s successful launch of Season 1, host and executive producer Bama Athreya is back with Season 2 focusing on gig workers in the care economy.

For Season 2, The Gig Podcast is partnering with fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab to support the production of the new series.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/thegigpodcast

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Lincoln on Liberty - The Story of the Shepherd and the Wolf - PolEconProject

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 23:52:18 -0500

“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty…”

President Abraham Lincoln, April 18, 1864

Learn more about the Political Economy Project at:

https://www.empathymedialab.com/politicaleconomy

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Who’s the Fairest - The Gig Podcast - Season 2 Episode 6

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:20:06 -0500

Guests: Soumyarendra Barik, Indian journalist; Palak Shah, NDWA Labs

About

Following The Gig Podcast’s successful launch of Season 1, host and executive producer Bama Athreya is back with Season 2 focusing on gig workers in the care economy.

For Season 2, The Gig Podcast is partnering with fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab to support the production of the new series.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/thegigpodcast

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Introduction to Podcasting Workshop - Johns Hopkins University School of Education

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 12:15:49 -0500

Overview

Podcasts are effective tools for marketing ideas and content because they amplify individual voices and brands to engage niche audiences and build communities of interest. Podcasts also create value for listeners when they are informative, educational, and entertaining.

As part of Johns Hopkins University School of Education faculty development, the goal of the workshop is to provide resources to launch a podcast.

About Empathy Media Lab

Empathy Media Lab is an established podcast and video production company with a publishing arm focusing on labor, political economy, art, and culture. EMLab Strategies is part of Empathy Media Lab and offers a suite of communication, education, and media services for government, nonprofits, and businesses. Empathy Media Lab was founded by Evan Matthew Papp who has over a decade of executive level experience consulting, developing, and managing strategic communications for the U.S. government, private industry, multilateral organizations, and nonprofits.

Standing Up: Tales of Struggle with Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller - Published by Hard Ball Press

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 14:36:06 -0400

As they stand up, slow down, form unions, leave an abusive relationship or just stir up good trouble, the characters in this multi-generation novel entertain and enlighten, make us laugh and rage, and encourage us to love deeply, that we may continue the fight for justice.

Praise for Standing Up: Tales of Struggle by Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller:

A love story, a tale of parenting, friendship, and solidarity — and a wonderful depiction of stepping into power.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, chair, Congressional Progressive Caucus

I felt as if Norma Rae or Studs Turkel had written a novel.

Steven Greenhouse, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor

Wonderful story of class, class struggle and regular people, about change and also joy.

Bill Fletcher, Jr., author of The Man Who Fell Out of the Sky and Solidarity Divided

These powerful tales of struggle will enrich our real and daily lives.

Gloria Steinem, activist and author

An essential novel for any union organizer or labor movement enthusiast.

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler

Great storytelling about standing up to injustice, filled with hope, powered by love and interdependence.

Ai-jen Poo, director of National Domestic Workers Association

Buy your copy: http://hardballpress.com/fiction--poetry.html

About the Authors

Ellen Bravo is a lifelong activist, she is the former director of 9to5 (the group that inspired the movie,) and co-founder of Family Values @ Work, a network of state coalitions working for family-friendly policies. Ellen is the award-winning writer of three non-fiction books, including Taking on the Big Boys, or Why Feminism is Good for Families, Business and the Nation. Her first novel, Again and Again, won praise for being a “riveting page-turner that tackles some of the most important issues of our day — campus sexual violence, male privilege, and beltway politics.” Among her commendations is a Ford Foundation Visionary award.

For more information, visit https://ellenbravo.com/.

Larry Miller has lived in a number of cities as a union and community activist. Over the years he has been a member of 8 different union locals, including AFSCME, Machinists, Steelworkers, Teamsters, Transportation Workers Union and the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association. After being laid off in his late 30s, Larry got a college degree and then taught high school for Milwaukee Public Schools for 17 years. He loved learning from his students and delighted to see many of them fight for social justice. He also became an editor at Rethinking Schools.

Standing Up: Tales of Struggle is published by Hard Ball Press

Tim Sheard is the Executive Editor of Hard Ball Press

You can watch EML’s interview with Tim Sheard here: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/pandemic-nurse-s-diary-a-tribute-to-healthcare-workers-fighting-covid-19

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The Activist Spirit - Toward a Radical Solidarity with Victor Narro Published by Hard Ball Press

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:53:18 -0400

Labor and immigrant rights activist Victor Narro believes there is a spiritual core within social justice activism from which we can deepen our solidarity with each other. The work for justice is filled with the values attributed to spirituality – love, compassion, empathy for those in need, and a lifetime commitment to bring justice into their lives.

His book calls us to integrate that inner spiritual core into our work to make the struggle for justice more compassionate, caring, and sustainable. To be an activist for justice is to love humanity and all of creation.

Buy your copy: http://hardballpress.com/fiction--poetry.html

About the Author

Victor Narro is a nationally known expert on immigrant rights and low-wage workers, Victor Narro has been involved with immigrant rights and labor issues for over 35 years. Currently Project Director for the UCLA Labor Center, Victor’s focus is to provide leadership programs for Los Angeles’ immigrant workers, policy, legal and organizing campaign planning for unions and worker centers, and internship opportunities for UCLA students.

Victor is Core Faculty for the Labor Studies Program at UCLA and Core Faculty for the Public Interest Law Program and Lecturer in Law for the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA Law School. Victor was formerly the Co-Executive Director of Sweatshop Watch. Prior to that, he was the Workers’ Rights Project Director for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA). Before his tenure at CHIRLA, Victor worked in the Los Angeles Regional Office of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF).

For more information, visit https://www.labor.ucla.edu/victor-narro/.

The Activist Spirit - Toward a Radical Solidarity is published by Hard Ball Press

Tim Sheard is the Executive Editor of Hard Ball Press and is a veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981. After writing 7 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, he launched Hard Ball Press to help working class people write and publish their stories. Timothy believes that when workers write and tell their stories, they build rank and file solidarity and union power, as well strengthening the fight for social justice solidarity. Their stories help to combat the anti-labor and anti-working class assaults by the One Percent. Hard Ball Press is the premier publisher of working class life.

You can watch EML’s interview with Tim Sheard here: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/pandemic-nurse-s-diary-a-tribute-to-healthcare-workers-fighting-covid-19

About Empathy Media Lab

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The Future We Need by Erica Smiley & Sarita Gupta - Harmony of Interest Book Talks

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 15:09:51 -0400

In The Future We Need, Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta bring a novel perspective to building worker power and what labor organizing could look like in the future, suggesting ways to evolve collective bargaining to match the needs of modern people—not only changing their wages and working conditions, but being able to govern over more aspects of their lives.

Weaving together stories of real working people, Smiley and Gupta position the struggle to build collective bargaining power as a central element in the effort to build a healthy democracy and explore both existing levers of power and new ones we must build for workers to have the ability to negotiate in today and tomorrow's contexts. The Future We Need illustrates the necessity of centralizing the fight against white supremacy and gender discrimination, while offering paths forward to harness the power of collective bargaining in every area for a new era.

Buy your copy: https://www.thefutureweneed.com/#buy

About the Authors

Erica Smiley is the executive director of Jobs With Justice. A long-time organizer and movement leader, Smiley has been spearheading strategic organizing and policy interventions for Jobs With Justice for nearly 15 years.

For more information, visit https://www.jwj.org/staff-members/erica-smiley.

Sarita Gupta is director of the Ford Foundation's Future of Work(ers) program, with more than two decades of experience building coalitions and policies that protect, and advance the rights of workers.

For more information, visit https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/people/sarita-gupta/.

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Organize the Churches and Rejoice with Matt Bernico - Belief Street Faith and Labor

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 01:37:18 -0400

"You can rally around those people and say, “No more killing of people through the slow crucifixions of low wage work, union busting, and lack of healthcare.”

Matt Bernico recently published an article in Sojourners Magazine titled RECENT UNION WINS MEAN IT’S TIME FOR MORE ORGANIZED RELIGION. On this Easter Weekend, I needed to learn more.

We discuss how

Jesus belongs to a particular class of people in history called the crucified people;
The powers and principalities using church language;
White nationalist Christianity; and
How to organize the church.

Matt is an independent researcher and journalist and he has a Ph.D. from the European Graduate School in Media Communication. His research and writing tends to focus on the intersections of media, politics and religion. He also has a podcast called The Magnificast (https://themagnificast.com) exploring Christianity and the political left.

Find solidarity in Matthew’s work:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/matt_bernico

Website - Mattbernico.com

Sojourners - https://sojo.net/articles/recent-union-wins-mean-it-s-time-more-organized-religion

Christian Socialism - https://christiansocialism.com/christianity-religious-left-capitalism-labor-strike-episcopal-church/

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How To Write Forceful Prose with Author Timothy Sheard - Book Talks with Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:32:34 -0400

“A distillation of my 30 years mentoring and editing authors of all kinds, this little book will show you how to tell your story in tight, addictive prose.”

Veteran nurse Timothy Sheard is a writer, publisher, mentor to writers and union organizer with the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1-9-8-1.

Timothy has written 9 mystery novels featuring hospital custodian-shop steward Lenny Moss, 2 stand alone crime novels, and he is the founder of Hard Ball Press to help working class people write and publish their stories, publishing over 200 authors.

We discuss his new book, How to Write Forceful Prose.

Excerpts

When you are thinking about how you are going to craft a scene, hold your hands up and make a square with your thumb and fingers, as if you are framing a shot for a film you are directing.

What do you see in the scene?

More importantly, what do you hear? Taste? Smell? Feel? Sense? The writer is directing a film that we, the reader run in our minds: give the reader lots of things to see and hear and sense, they anchor the scene…

I wrote a short crime story set in a New York City subway. As the main character stands on the cement platform, he feels a vibration in his feet as the approaching train shakes the surface, then he sees the lights and hears the wheels on the tracks.

Check out the catalogue at HARD BALL & LITTLE HEROES PRESS - Stories To Change the World (https://hardballpress.com/index.html) and support writers creating working class stories.

Resources for Writers

National Writers Union (www.NWU.org) represents all freelance writers in all genres and all platforms (including those who write computer code, advertising copy ─ all writing. They advocate for and defend the rights of writers to negotiate and enforce a fair contract, provide free contract advice to members and demand payments from recalcitrant publishers, at times taking them to court.

The Authors Guild (www.AUTHORSGUILD.org) provides a rich trove of workshops, forums and panels related to all aspects of writing, from the creative elements to marketing and promotion. The Authors Guild supports free speech, fair contracts, and copyright. They create community and fight for a living wage.

The Independent Book Publishers Association (www.IBPA.org) provides a treasure of resources for small, independent publishers and self-published authors. Book design, marketing advice, discounts for various publishing and distributing resources ─ joining the IBPA is one of the best investments a writer can make, whether you self-publish or sign with a traditional publisher.

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Speculation is Evil

Tue, 03 May 2022 12:05:19 -0400

Excerpt from Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

You're all pretty much fucked.

They got all these fancy names for trillions of dollars of credit: CMO, CDOs,

SIVs, ABS…

So Mr. Banker starts leveraging his interest 50 to 1, with your money because he could.

40% of all American corporate profits came from financial services, not production, not anything remotely to do with the needs of the American public.

The mother of all evil is speculation, leveraged debt, borrowing to the hilt, it’s a bankrupt business model, won’t work.

It’s systemic, malignant and is global like cancer.

It's a disease and we got to fight back.

How are we going to do that?

How are we gonna leverage that disease back in our favor?

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Jay Naidoo - First General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions - Labor Solidarity Podcast

Wed, 04 May 2022 15:28:37 -0400

“Apartheid used racial discrimination as an instrument to maintain the cheap labor system. So the core of apartheid was a cheap labor system, based on black exploitation.”

Jay Naidoo is a South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and author. Jay served as the first general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions from 1985 to 1993. Following South Africa's transition to democracy in the early 1990s, Jay served as a cabinet minister under the late President Nelson Mandela, from 1994 to 1999. Following his tenure in public office, Jay also served as chairperson of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Jay is a respected elder who continues to mentor young leaders in South Africa and the rest of the African continent.

Since leaving government, Jay has worked in various capacities for the United Nations and other international organizations. He currently is a member of the board of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which works to improve good governance and leadership in Africa. He also serves as a trustee of the Earthrise Trust, dedicated to rural development Naidoo’s autobiography, Fighting for Justice: A Lifetime of Political and Social Activism, was published in 2010.

You can learn more about Jay’s thinking by reading his book, Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today

About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. The Labor Podcast is hosted by Elise Bryant and Evan Papp.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

The Labor Solidarity Podcast is an Empathy Media Lab production and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. Learn more: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab

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Christian Smalls, Amazon Labor Union, Senate hearing Taxes Going to Companies Violating Labor Laws.

Fri, 06 May 2022 12:27:45 -0400

Christian Smalls, Amazon Labor Union President, delivers his opening statement before the Senate Budget Committee, hearing on “Taxpayer Money to Companies Violating Labor Laws.”

The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing to examine taxpayer dollars to companies that violate labor laws. Amazon’s labor practices was a focus. Christian Smalls, Amazon’s labor union president testified and said “it’s not a left or right thing. It’s not a Democrat or Republican thing. It’s a worker’s thing. It’s a worker’s issue.” Others testifying included labor leaders, organizers, and policy professionals. Topics discussed included the right to unionize, labor law violations, and worker protections.

Full hearing:

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FDR Reorganizes Banks After Collapse - March 1933

Wed, 18 May 2022 23:17:03 -0400

The Emergency Banking Act (EBA), was an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system.

On March 12, the evening before banks began to reopen, FDR gave his first fireside chat, a national radio address explaining the alterations made by the federal government on the banking industry. Due to confidence in FDR and the proposed alterations, Americans returned $1 billion to bank vaults in the following week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Banking_Act

Quarantine with Rilke with Poet and Author Asnia Asim - Artist Spotlight Series

Sat, 21 May 2022 12:12:14 -0400

“Quarantine with Rilke was my attempt to claim the universal part of being human.”

Asnia Asim is a poet and writer and her new book of poems, Quarantine with Rilke, shares with the reader an intimacy with the Self, a quiet relationship between the divine and the everyday.

Asnia is the recipient of the University of Chicago’s Humanities Fellowship and Brandeis University’s Allan Slifka Award. Her poems have received multiple nominations for the Pushcart prize and Best of the Net Anthology and have appeared (are forthcoming) in Typehouse, Michigan Quarterly, Cream City, The Rupture, Salamander, River Styx, Nimrod, Image, Juked, and BOOTH, among others.

You can follow Asnia’s work at:

https://asniaasim.com/

https://twitter.com/AsniaAsim

And you can get your copy of Quarantine with Rilke at Finishing Line Press or anywhere you get your books. https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/quarantine-with-rilke-by-asnia-asim/

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Bill Fletcher Jr.’s novel The Man Who Fell From the Sky - Book Talks with Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab

Wed, 25 May 2022 15:57:35 -0400

“...one of the characters in my book is grappling with the issue of revenge and the question of how far he should go is what I wanted to leave the readers thinking about.” ~Bill Fletcher Jr.

Overview

In 1970, a sniper’s bullet shocks the sleepy Cape Cod village of Osterville. David Gomes, a young reporter for the Cape & Islands Gazette covers the story, thinking his reporting might lead to a job with a major metropolitan newspaper. With protests against the Viet Nam war and the rise of the Black Panthers roiling the public, the murder investigation becomes deeply personal when Gomes, a Cape Verdean American, encounters the smoldering racial antagonism between the descendants of Cape Verde and African-Americans, as well as the deep-seated hatred toward all people of color among some members of the white community.

http://www.hardballpress.com/fiction--poetry.html

Reviews

“Bill Fletcher pulls together history and mystery to create an exciting and compelling story of race and revenge. It is truly an unexpected page turner.” ~Danny Glover

"Set amidst the rich cultural mix of Cape Verdean and Portuguese fishermen who came to the country as free men and consequentially fought being seen as the descendants of slaves, Fletcher lets a son of those men tell the story, a journalist. Bent on relieving the suffering of one family, he ends up finding the truth is more complicated, the villain a victim too of a bigger cruelty and devastation that stretched through the generations.” ~Walter Mosley

About Bill Fletcher Jr.

Bill Fletcher Jr has been an activist since his teen years. Upon graduating from college he went to work as a welder in a shipyard, thereby entering the labor movement. Over the years he has been active in workplace and community struggles as well as electoral campaigns. He has worked for several labor unions in addition to serving as a senior staff person in the national AFL-CIO.

Fletcher is the former president of TransAfrica Forum; a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; and in the leadership of several other projects. Fletcher is the co-author (with Peter Agard) of “The Indispensable Ally: Black Workers and the Formation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1934-1941”; the co-author (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of “Solidarity Divided: The crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice“; and the author of “‘They’re Bankrupting Us’ – And Twenty other myths about unions.” Fletcher is a syndicated columnist and a regular media commentator on television, radio and the Web.

Follow his work:

Website: https://billfletcherjr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillFletcherJr
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bill.fletcherjr

BUY THE MAN WHO FELL FROM THE SKY

http://www.hardballpress.com/fiction--poetry.html

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The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed

The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed - Book Talks

Mon, 30 May 2022 11:56:30 -0400

“Water is an issue that can unite people. Water is life. Their slogans were always very powerfully pro water, less anti mining. And through that and their boldness and reaching out to unlikely allies, they were able to gather quite a force.”

Overview

Water is life. Countless communities across the world, from Flint, Michigan to the Standing Rock Reservation to the Gualcarque River in Honduras, have used this phrase as a rallying cry against powerful corporations that value profits over the environment and the health of local communities. In 2002, a small group of citizens in El Salvador joined this global community of water defenders when representatives from multinational mining company Pac Rim appeared in their home province of Cabañas. This ignited a people’s fight against corporate power that would last for over a decade. In The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of El Salvador’s fight – and historic victory – to save their water, and their communities, from Big Gold.

Based on over a decade of research and their own role as international allies of the community groups in El Salvador, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh unspool this untold story, replete with corporate greed; a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal in Washington, DC; violent threats; murders; and, surprisingly, victory. The husband-and-wife duo immerses the reader in the lives of the Salvadoran villagers, the journeys of the local activists who sought the truth about the effects of gold mining on the environment, and the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of the corporate mining executives. The Water Defenders demands that we examine our assumptions about progress and prosperity, while providing valuable lessons for other communities and allies fighting against destructive corporations in the United States and across the world.

Reviews

“Broad and Cavanagh offer a practical David-versus-Goliath playbook for those who would mobilize both domestic and international forces to halt corporate abuses and to place the long-term welfare of communities above short-term financial gain.”

— Foreign Affairs

“The book is an environmentalist playbook, a how-to guide for activists seeking to defeat a power structure that is rigged in favor of their opponents.”

— The American Prospect

“Challenges conventional wisdom about activism, ‘the poor,’ and where real power really lies.”

—Guernica

“Part history, part environmental organizing case study, the book chronicles the community’s struggle against the mine from the early 2000s to the campaign’s unlikely conclusion in 2017, when El Salvador became the first country in Latin America to completely ban metal mining.”

—National Catholic Reporter

“It is rare, in the world of corporate power, to have a story where David beats Goliath. And rarer still to have one that reads like a fast-paced thriller.”

—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost and Rebel Cinderella

“Bravo to the courageous Salvadorans—and their likely and unlikely allies—who prove that victories against overwhelming odds are possible. . . . The water defenders of El Salvador and their international partners provide a powerful guidebook, poignantly retold by Broad and Cavanagh, of how the struggles for justice in the United States can link with allies abroad to build power and win.”

—Opal Tometi, cofounder of Black Lives Matter

“Broad and Cavanagh are masterful storytellers. The words, deeds, and stories of people in El Salvador come alive so vividly in these pages to reinforce what we in the Poor People’s Campaign in the United States know well: the most powerful defenders of water, of the environment—of justice across the board—are poor people.”

—Rev. Dr. William Barber II, national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign author of The Third Reconstruction

About the Authors

Robin Broad is an expert in international development and was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim fellowship for her work surrounding mining in El Salvador, as well as two previous MacArthur fellowships. A professor at American University, she served as an international economist in the US Treasury Department, in the US Congress, and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Broad and her husband, John Cavanagh, have been involved in the Salvadoran gold mining saga since 2009. They helped build the network of international allies that spearheaded the global fight against mining in El Salvador. They have co-authored several previous books together.

John Cavanagh is director of the Washington, DC-based Institute for Policy Studies, an organization that collaborates with the Poor People’s Campaign and other dynamic social movements to turn ideas into action for peace, justice, and the environment. Previously, he worked with the United Nations to research corporate power. Cavanagh and his wife, Robin Broad, have been involved in the Salvadoran gold mining saga since 2009. They helped build the network of international allies that spearheaded the global fight against mining in El Salvador. They have coauthored several previous books together.

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You can undermine any barrier that separates one man from the other - Howard Thurman

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 10:32:46 -0400

“The experiences of unity among people are more important and crucial than all the concepts, prejudices, ideologies, and faiths that may divide.”

Howard Thurman

Thurman's theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr.

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvJVxsezAwc

Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurman

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James Baldwin on how Suffering is a Bridge

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 09:12:37 -0400

“Your suffering does not isolate you. That your suffering is your bridge. That many people have suffered before you, many people are suffering around. And always will.”

James Baldwin

In 1971 James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni taped a two-hour “dialogue” for a public TV show called Soul! At forty-seven years old, Baldwin was a legend speaking with Giovanni, then twenty-eight, who had published the 1968 poetry collection Black Feeling, Black Talk. All rights to Soul! and ShoutFactoryTV.com.

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jc54RvDUZU&t=5294s

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Richard DeShay Elliott - Candidate District 24 Maryland House of Delegates

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:46:02 -0400

Richard DeShay Elliott is running for District 24 Maryland House of Delegates representing parts of Prince George’s County. The Maryland primary election is on July 19, 2022.

Richard is a member of the Maryland NAACP, Our Revolution Maryland, Progressive Maryland, Prince George’s County Young Democrats, and the Democratic Socialists of America. He has worked on and supported numerous political campaigns across Maryland, including the Steering Committee of Maryland for Bernie Sanders, Jill P. Carter for Congress, and Mayor of Bowie Tim Adams. He has also written numerous policies for the local, state, and federal level, including legislation to expand Black history education, the renaming of racist schools in Prince George’s County Public Schools, and COVID-19 response legislation for the City of Annapolis. Richard received his Master’s Degree in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University.

To learn more about his campaign visit www.richformaryland.com.

About Maryland Subsidiarity

Maryland Subsidiarity discusses local and state ideas that will improve our communities and shape our world. Subsidiarity is the principle that the smaller social or political entity or institution ought to be given priority to make decisions on issues that affect them, rather than leaving those decisions to be made by the whole group. In other words, whenever possible, the individual should come before the community, the community before the state, the state before the federation, and so on. In this context, the responsibility of the bigger institution is to enable the smaller one to perform its tasks and to provide it with any necessary support.

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LIVE from the AFL-CIO convention!

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 10:29:32 -0400

Welcome to the Labor Radio Podcast Daily, a special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly. Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement.

We’re here in Philadelphia at the AFL-CIO Convention, where thousands of union leaders and members have gathered to celebrate the strength of the federation’s 56 affiliated unions and 12.5 million members, honor the souls lost and renew the movement’s commitment to build back better with unions.

Hosted by American Income Life, the Labor Radio Podcast Network will be interviewing convention attendees about the opportunities and challenges ahead for the American labor movement.

Saturday’s show, highlights a moving tribute to Richard Trumka, the fiery Mine Workers president who led his union to victory in the 1989 Pittston strike, and went on to lead the AFL-CIO, serving as president from 2009 until his untimely death on August 5, 2021.

PLUS: interviews with Brian Griffin, executive secretary treasurer for the Cincinnati AFL CIO labor council, Leonard Aguilar, secretary treasurer of the Texas AFL CIO, and Alicia Page, business development officer for the Bank of Labor.

Edited by Patrick Dixon, Evan Papp and Mel Smith; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Learn more about Labor Radio Podcast Network at laborradionetwork.org.

And follow the AFL-CIO convention at aflcioconvention.org

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Spiritual and Global Solidarity

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:20:54 -0400

The Labor Radio Podcast Daily is coming to you from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement.

Hundreds gathered for an interfaith breakfast Sunday morning before the convention officially opened at noon, so our show begins with Father Clete Kiley and Clayton Sinyai; Father Kiley is chaplain to the Chicago Federation of Labor and senior adviser to Unite Here, while Clayton Sinyai is the Executive Director of the Catholic Labor Network.

Our other guests today hail from across the country and around the world, from April Lott, president of the Charleston South Carolina Labor Council, to Kooper Caraway, president of the South Dakota AFL-CIO. Fathimath Zimna (photo) is General Secretary of the Maldives Health Professionals Union and we wrap up today’s show with Laxman Basnet, General Secretary of the South Asian Regional Trade Union Council.

We’ve got a lot more already lined up for tomorrow’s show, including an exclusive sit down with Liz Shuler and Fred Redmond, who talked with the Labor Radio Podcast Network just hours after being elected President and Secretary Treasurer of the AFL-CIO. Also, Karen Nussbaum interviewed a number of international trade unionists which we’ll be featuring in tomorrow’s report.

Interviews and editing by Patrick Dixon, Evan Papp and Chris Garlock; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

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Rockin’ the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 00:10:11 -0400

Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement. On today’s show Patrick Dixon talks with WILL EMPOWER's Sherri Davis-Faulkner and Lane Windham about the AFL-CIO convention’s diversity, as well as how it has addressed many women's issues.

Longtime labor talk show host Rick Smith dropped by the Labor Radio Podcast Network studio yesterday and we prevailed on him to interview the president of the AFL-CIO's Metal Trades Department, who talked about change and his views on President Biden.

Next, Chris Garlock talks with Erica Stewart about her courageous struggle and triumph as a young Black woman in the Boilermakers union who was the first female African American international rep in the union's history.

Chris also talks with American Income Life's Susan Fuldauer about AIL's pro-labor policies and the history of the company's working class consciousness.

We wrap up today’s show with an audio postcard from Tuesday afternoon’s rally by hundreds of AFL-CIO convention delegates supporting the fight for a contract by the Philadelphia Museum of Art Union, led by AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler, Secretary Treasurer Fred Redmond and AFSCME president Lee Saunders.

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @PMA_Union @PHLafscmeDC47 #FairContractNow @philamuseum @LizShuler

Editing by Mel Smith, Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Network takes a road trip!

Sat, 18 Jun 2022 12:14:03 -0400

Patrick, Chris and Evan hit the road for Chicago and the Labor Notes conference. On the way, they share impressions of the just-concluded AFL-CIO convention and break some exciting news about next steps for the Labor Radio Podcast Network!

#LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @labornotes

Recording/editing by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

Voices from Labor Notes Conference 2022 - Labor Radio Podcast Daily

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:14:48 -0400

There are over 4,000 folks at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago and the Labor Radio Podcast Network team talked to almost all of them today…Liz Medina, Will Westlake, Michael Brennan, Robert Ovetz, Jeff Eagan, Noah Strang, John Courtney, Jordan Fisher, Mitchell Jones, Howard Stewart, Sam Sprole, Lynn Fields, Lakeisha Lloyd, Dan Kask and Bobby Lynn Negron. OK, maybe not all 4,000, but a terrific cross-section of the activists and self-proclaimed “troublemakers” gathered here in Chicago. The music you’ll hear is from the Great Labor Arts Exchange.

Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia to the Labor Notes conference in Chicago.

Follow the Labor Radio Podcast Network (https://www.laborradionetwork.org/) and listen to the podcast (https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/).

#LaborRadioPod #Chicago @LaborNotes #LaborNotes2022 #LaborNotes #canlab #1u

Editing by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith.

“Billionaires have got to go! F—k Jeff Bezos!”

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:34:46 -0400

“When you come to the fight with organized labor, if you are corporate America, and you want to take us on, or you are a crooked corruptible politician, put your helmets on, buckle your chin strap. It's a full contact sport!”

Teamster President Sean O’Brien

Friday night’s all-star program at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago featured Chris Smalls from the Amazon Labor Union, Bernie Sanders and Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, who fired up an already-fired-up crowd. We’ve got highlights from the program on today’s show, including music from Dilson Hernandez, along with more voices from the folks who stopped by the Labor Radio Podcast Network booth here at the conference: Carmen Velasquez, Naomi Martinez, Arsal Asif, Anecia Ventura, Eris Derrickson, Jackie Serrato, Martin Unzueta, Jose Carlos, Janette Corcelius, Robert Hughes, Michael Harrington, Jamie Simpson, Zach Young, Jessica Buttermore, Jessica Thornton, Nate Wendt, Nicole McCormick, Joe Jencks, Ben Grosscup and Maggie Hansford.

NOTE: Here's a video of the complete Friday night Labor Notes program.

Empathy Media Lab partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia to the Labor Notes conference in Chicago.

Follow the Labor Radio Podcast Network (https://www.laborradionetwork.org/) and listen to the podcast (https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/).

Editing by Patrick Dixon and Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith.

#LaborRadioPod #Chicago @LaborNotes #LaborNotes2022 #LaborNotes #canlab #1u @amazonlabor @SBWorkersUnited @Shut_downAmazon #Troublemakers #LosDeliveristasUnidos #starbucksunion @Teamsters

Labor On The Airwaves at Labor Notes

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 11:42:22 -0400

“If you're thinking about trying to start a podcast or a radio show, don't think about doing it all yourself, This is a collective thing.”

Judy Ancel - Heartland Labor Forum

The Labor On The Airwaves panel attracted an overflow audience at this year's Labor Notes conference. A show of hands revealed that about a third of those in attendance already had shows while another third was interested in finding out how to start their own shows, many of whom stopped by the Network's booth after the panel. Working People's Maximillian Alvarez hosted a panel that included BeLabored hosts Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen, Heartland Labor Forum's Judy Ancel (thanks for the Network shoutout!) and Jamie Partridge from Labor Radio on KBOO FM. Here are highlights from their discussion.

photo (l-r): Jamie, Max, Judy, Sarah and Michelle.

Produced/edited by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips and Mel Smith, audio gram edited by Evan Papp.

Empathy Media Lab partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia to the Labor Notes conference in Chicago.

Follow the Labor Radio Podcast Network (https://www.laborradionetwork.org/) and listen to the podcast (https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/). NOTE: For those interested in joining the Labor Radio Podcast Network (or finding out more about us), please contact us here.

#LaborRadioPod #Chicago @LaborNotes #LaborNotes2022 #LaborNotes #canlab #1u @amazonlabor @SBWorkersUnited @Shut_downAmazon #Troublemakers #LosDeliveristasUnidos #starbucksunion @Teamsters @DissentMag @WorkingPod @Heartland_Labor @kboo

The Coalition of Labor Union Women Response to the Supreme Court Decision on Roe v. Wade.

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:40:13 -0400

This is Elise Bryant, president of the coalition of labor union women.

The coalition of labor union women was founded in 1974, the year after Roe V. Wade confirmed a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. The CLUW founding mothers believe in a woman's right to a safe termination of her pregnancy. And we still believe everyone has that right.

The U.S. Supreme court today overturned Roe V. Wade and Planned Parenthood versus Casey and declared that the U.S. constitution no longer protects the right to abortion. This decision marks the end of a constitutional right to abortion for people across the country.

And now today, the court sets the stage for increased criminalization and policing of people for basic healthcare decisions.

We have to use our power to fix this.

It won't be quick or easy, but those of us, the majority in this country who support freedoms to control our body’s lives and futures will succeed in reversing this.

We will march. We will protest. And most importantly, we will vote.

We will mobilize millions of women across the country to exercise their right to vote out any elected official who stands in the way of our freedom to choose what happens in our bodies.

There was an old saying that goes, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

We say, hell hath no fury like pro-choice women at the ballot box.

Get ready because we are coming for every anti-choice candidate and we will vote you out. So consider yourself warned.

No justice, no peace, no justice, no peace.

Learn more at http://www.cluw.org/.

CEOs Screwing Workers with Sarah Anderson of the Global Economy Project at IPS and Co-Editor of Inequality.org

Sat, 25 Jun 2022 15:18:45 -0400

“At Amazon, the CEO got $213 million last year, and that was 6,474 times as much as median worker pay at the company, which was about $32,800.”

Sarah Anderson Director of the Global Economy Project at IPS and Co-Editor of Inequality.org

Executive Excess 2022

The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs.

Sarah Anderson and her co-authors at the Institute for Policy Studies found that more than half of our nation’s 100 largest low-wage employers changed their own rules to ensure huge payouts for CEOs in 2020 — while workers lost wages, jobs, and even their lives. On average, the CEOs at these rule-rigging firms pocketed 29 percent raises while their median worker pay fell by 2 percent. Learn more at: https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2022

About Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and is a co-editor of the IPS web site Inequality.org. Sarah’s research covers a wide range of international and domestic economic issues, including inequality, Wall Street reform, CEO pay, taxes, labor, and international trade and investment. Sarah is a well-known expert on executive compensation, as the lead author of more than 20 annual “Executive Excess” reports that have received extensive media coverage.

During the Obama administration, she served on the Investment Subcommittee of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP). In 2009, this subcommittee carried out a review of the U.S. model bilateral investment treaty. In 2000, she served on the staff of the bipartisan International Financial Institutions Advisory Commission (“Meltzer Commission”), commissioned by the U.S. Congress to evaluate the World Bank and IMF. Sarah is a co-author of the books Field Guide to the Global Economy (New Press, 2nd edition, 2005) and Alternatives to Economic Globalization (Berrett-Koehler, 2nd edition, 2004).

Prior to coming to IPS in 1992, Sarah was a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development and an editor for the Deutsche Presse-Agentur. She holds a Masters in International Affairs from The American University and a BA in Journalism from Northwestern University.

Overview on Executive Excess Reports

Over two decades, Institute for Policy Studies researchers have examined how extremely high levels of compensation affect executive behavior. Such massive jackpots, we’ve found, give executives incentives to behave in ways that may boost short-term profits and expand their own paychecks at the expense of our nation’s long-term economic health. Tax dodging, mass layoffs, reckless financial deals, offshoring jobs, “creative accounting” — all of these appear to boost CEO pay. But they have dealt one body blow after another to the American middle class, leaving a deeply skewed distribution of income and wealth. See past reports at: https://ips-dc.org/global-economy/executive-excess/

About The Political Economy Project

The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint that will unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of interests of the human spirit.

The Political Economy Project is an EMLab brand produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.

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Why Love? A message from Belief Street Faith and Labor.

Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:39:30 -0400

WHY LOVE?

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.

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And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.

But the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

empathymedialab.com/beliefstreet

Driving home with the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:02:47 -0400

“There's a lot of solidarity, a lot of love and in both Philadelphia and Chicago, and it's been a great road trip with the Labor Radio Podcast Network.”

Empathy Media Lab partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia to the Labor Notes conference in Chicago.

Evan Papp, Chris Garlock, and Patrick Dixon reflect on these conferences on their drive back to Washington, D.C.

Follow the Labor Radio Podcast Network (https://www.laborradionetwork.org/) and listen to the podcast (https://laborradiopodcastweekly.podbean.com/).

#LaborRadioPod #Chicago @LaborNotes #LaborNotes2022 #LaborNotes #1U

My soul has grown deep like the rivers - Langston Hughes

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:34:44 -0400

“I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.”

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes was first published n the June 1921 issue of The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The poem is found in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 1994 the Estate of Langston Hughes.

Poem: The Negro Speaks of Rivers

I’ve known rivers:

I’ve known rivers ancient

as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I’ve known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

About The Artist Spotlight Series

The Artist Spotlight Series explores art, artists, and the ideas behind the art illuminating and shaping our world.

The Artist Spotlight Series is an EMLab brand produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.

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Chisenga - Global Hip Hop Artist, Producer, and Sound Engineer

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 23:41:31 -0400

“Sometimes I'll be feeling all alone…like, am I the only person that believes it? But I believe in it enough to know that where there's a will, there's a way.”

Chisenga - Hip Hop Artist Extraordinaire

Chisenga is a Grammy-recognised Hip-Hop artist born in Zambia and now based in Perth, Australia. His latest album is Rhythm and Poetry

Born in Lusaka, Zambia, his interest in performing began at the early age of 10. With time spent at home with his mother listening to country music and later, his step-dad grooving to classic soul music, he developed an appreciation and understanding for music that would later inspire the sound he would craft in years to come.

From the time he was recognised for releasing the first locally produced Hip-Hop album in his birth country Zambia, Officer in Charge was and still stands as one of the most successful Hip-Hop albums from that country. He was further introduced to Africa and the rest of the world through MTV Base and Channel-O, the two major African music channels that broadcast across Africa.

His song The Fire Inside once took a No. 1 spot across Africa on both MTV Base and Channel-O charts, which earned him a Channel-O Video Music Award for Best Music Video, Southern Africa.

Music Featured during Interview:

Play On - By Crisis Mr. Swagger (aka Chisenga)
PK Chishala - Na Musonda
CHISENGA - Energy (Official Music Video) ft. Kuda Mic and Qzee
Album Rhythm and Poetry

You can follow Chisenga’s work at:

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EMLab is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, and laborers who are fighting for a brighter day for everyone, everywhere. Union solidarity forever.

No Time - A beautiful sad soul blues folk tune by Ronald Charles McKernan

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:07:23 -0400

I heard this song over a decade ago on some b-side of a forgotten bootleg. The melancholy soul expressed in the singing and lyrics will forever resonate and I can’t help but sing along.

Since I couldn’t find this song to stream or find the lyrics to sing after many searches, I decided to make a video with lyrics to pay homage to this beautiful soul blues folk tune.

This was the last known recording of the artist in 1973–No Time. Rest in peace Ronald Charles McKernan, September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973, Founding member of the Grateful Dead.

Video: https://youtu.be/E7Sq-dnFP6o

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Jazz Lewis - Delegate Representing District 24 - Maryland House of Delegates

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 13:44:21 -0400

“In my legislative district, between the Northern tip of [Maryland] to the Southern tip, I represent 135,000 people…there's a 20 year life expectancy gap, 20 years. 20 minutes apart. It's insane.”

Jazz Lewis is running for re-election for District 24 Maryland House of Delegates representing parts of Prince George’s County. The Maryland primary election is on July 19, 2022. Jazz began his career as a community and labor organizer in Baltimore. Through organizing, he learned the power of collective action. Jazz Lewis represents Maryland's 24th district and currently serves on the House Appropriations Committee and is the chair of the Maryland House Democratic Caucus.

To learn more about his campaign visit www.jazzlewis.com.

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Robert Frost Reads His Poem The Road Not Taken

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:51:11 -0400

“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back..”

Poem’s Meaning according to Ben Kageyama:

“Robert Frost spent some time in Great Britain during the early 20th century. In his time there, he made friends with a fellow poet named Edward Thomas. For inspiration and leisure, the duo would often go for walks around the English countryside.

“Thomas had an odd habit of regretting whichever path he took during his strolls with Frost. He’d often state that if they had gone another way, then Frost would’ve been able to see some other interesting part of England.

“Frost found this amusing because any path they decided on would certainly have the same result. Any choice would have to give up one for the other. Fussing over this inevitability, at least for Frost, was silly.

“When Frost went back to America around the beginning of World War I, he wrote an early version of “The Road Not Taken” as a way to make fun of his frantic friend.

“Frost wrote the poem to demonstrate the folly of regretting what could have been. A closer reading of the text in its entirety shows that the persona actually thinks both roads weren’t so different from each other.”

Read Ben’s full essay here.

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Poem: The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

What Is Your Life’s Blueprint? Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Excerpt - October 26, 1967

Sat, 09 Jul 2022 16:25:53 -0400

Rarely seen footage of Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking to students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967, where he delivered his speech "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?" Full speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmtOGXreTOU

MLK’s Edited Speech

What is in your life's blueprint?

And I want to suggest number one in your life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody.

Always feel that you count, always feel that you have worth and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.

In your life's blueprint, you must have as a basic principle, the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor, What you will do in life, what your life's work will be.

And when you discover what you are going to be in life, set out to do it as if God almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it.

Finally, in your last blueprint must be a commitment to the eternal principles. Of beauty, love and justice.

Don't allow anybody to pull you so low as to make you hate them.

Don't allow anybody to cause you to lose your self respect to the point, that you do not struggle for justice.

However young you are, you have a responsibility to seek to make your nation a better nation in which to live.

You have a responsibility to seek to make life better for everybody. And so you must be involved in the struggle for freedom and justice.

Now in this struggle for freedom and justice, there are many constructive things that we all can do and that we all must do. And we must not give ourselves to those things, which will not solve our problems.

I believe that we can transform dark yesterday's of injustice into bright tomorrows of justice and humanity.

Let us keep going toward the goal of selfhood, toward the realization of the dream of brotherhood and toward the realization of the dream of understanding goodwill, let nobody stop us.

We must keep moving. We must keep going.

If you can't fly, run, if you can't run, walk, if you can't walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.

#MLK

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Killing People with a Bad Electrical Grid - Meredith Angwin: Author of Shorting the Grid

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:02:36 -0400

“People die when you can't get the grid operating.”

Meredith Angwin, Author, Shorting the Grid

Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the United States electric grid. The grid in these areas is managed by a regional transmission organization (RTO). Within these organizations, no group is responsible or accountable for grid reliability. The RTO areas have higher retail electricity prices, no way for ordinary citizens to influence decisions, and a more fragile grid. Using the rules and history of the New England grid as an example, the book shows how RTO areas are moving steadily to a future of “rolling blackouts” where the grid operator deliberately cuts power to one section of the grid after another. To by the book, visit www.meredithangwin.com

Book Reviews

“An eye-opening exposé of our grid’s vulnerabilities. The “deregulated” grid is highly political, secretive, overly complex, and unable to meet public needs like reliability, affordability, and low pollution. If you take for granted that the lights go on when you flip a switch, this book may blow your mind. ”

— Joshua S. Goldstein, author of A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

“Reading Angwin’s book is like chatting with an expert who helps you understand the underlying engineering, finances, and policies creating the risks. Her narrative moves back and forth between insightful overviews and specific examples. The book covers many grid attributes, suggesting realistic conclusions without ideological advocacy.”

— Dr. Robert Hargraves, Author of Thorium, Energy Cheaper than Coal and co-founder of ThorCon Power

About Meredith Angwin

As a working chemist, Meredith Angwin headed projects that lowered pollution and increased reliability on the electric grid. Her work included pollution control for nitrogen oxides in gas-fired combustion turbines and corrosion control in geothermal and nuclear systems. She was one of the first women to be a project manager at the Electric Power Research Institute where she led projects in renewable and nuclear energy.

In the past ten years, she began to study and take part in grid oversight and governance. For four years, she served on the Coordinating Committee for the Consumer Liaison Group associated with ISO-NE, her local grid operator. She teaches courses and presents workshops on the electric grid.

She is also an advocate for nuclear energy. Her previous major book was Campaigning for Clean Air: Strategies for Pro-Nuclear Advocacy. Meredith has been a featured speaker at several nuclear events, including being keynote for the worldwide Nuclear Science Week in 2018.

Additional Information

During the interview, the following platforms were mentioned that will help better inform the public. Sign up for free information to increase your awareness about energy, power, and the grid.

Grid Brief - www.gridbrief.com
Utility Dive - www.utilitydive.com
DeCouple Media - www.decouplemedia.org

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JFK Alliance for Progress first Anniversary speech - March 13, 1962

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:01:04 -0400

March 13, 1962

Mr. Vice President, Ambassadors from our sister Republics, members of the OAS, the nine wise men upon whom so much depends, Members of the Congress, whom I am very glad to see here today--on whom we depend so much in guiding and supporting and stimulating and directing our policies in this Hemisphere--Ambassador Moscoso, the Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, gentlemen:

One year ago, on a similar occasion, I proposed the Alliance for Progress. That was the conception, but the birth did not take place until some months later, at Punta del Este. That was a suggestion for a continent-wide cooperative effort to satisfy the basic needs of the American people for homes, work, land, health and schools, for political liberty and the dignity of the spirit.

Our mission, I said, was "to complete the revolution of the Americas--to build a Hemisphere where all men can hope for a suitable standard of living--and all can live out their lives in dignity and freedom."

I then requested a meeting of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council to consider the proposal. And, seven months ago, at Punta del Este, that Council met and adopted the Charter which established the Alianza para el Progreso and declared, and I quote, "We, the American Republics, hereby proclaim our decision to unite in a common effort to bring our people accelerated economic progress and broader social justice within the framework of personal dignity and individual liberty."

Together, the free nations of the Hemisphere pledged their resources and their energies to the Alliance for Progress. Together they pledged to accelerate economic and social development and to make the basic reforms that are necessary to ensure that all would participate in the fruits of this development. Together they pledged to modernize tax structures and land tenure-to wipe out illiteracy and ignorance-to promote health and provide decent housing-to solve the problems of commodity stabilization--to maintain sound fiscal and monetary policies--to secure the contributions of private enterprise to development-to speed the economic integration of Latin America. And together they established the basic institutional framework for this immense, decade-long development.

This historic Charter marks a new step forward in the history of our Hemisphere. It is a reaffirmation of the continued vitality of our Inter-American system, a renewed proof of our ability to meet the challenges and perils of our time, as our predecessors met these challenges in their own days.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century we struggled to provide political independence in this Hemisphere.

In the early twentieth century we worked to bring about a fundamental equality between all the nations of this Hemisphere one with another--to strengthen the machinery of regional cooperation within a framework of mutual respect, and under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt and the Good Neighbor Policy that goal was achieved a generation ago.

Today we seek to move beyond the accomplishments of the past--to establish the principle that all the people of this Hemisphere are entitled to a decent way of life-- and to transform that principle into the reality of economic advance and social justice on which political equality must be based.

This is the most demanding goal of all. For we seek not merely the welfare and equality of nations one with another--but the welfare and the equality of the people within our nations. In so doing we are fulfilling the most ancient dreams of the founders of this Hemisphere, Washington, Jefferson, Bolivar, Marti, San Martin, and all the rest.

And I believe that the first seven months of this Alliance have strengthened our confidence that this goal is within our grasp.

Perhaps our most impressive accomplishment in working together has been the dramatic shift in the thinking and the attitudes which has occurred in our Hemisphere in these seven months. The Charter of Punta del Este posed the challenge of development in a manner that could not be ignored. It redefined the historic relationships between the American nations in terms of the fundamental needs and hopes of the twentieth century. It set forth the conditions and the attitudes on which development depends. It initiated the process of education without which development is impossible. It laid down a new principle of our relationship--the principle of collective responsibility for the welfare of the people of the Americas.

Already elections are being fought in terms of the Alliance for Progress. Already governments are pledging themselves to carry out the Charter of Punta del Este. Already people throughout the Hemisphere--in schools and in trade unions, in chambers of commerce, in military establishments, in government, on the farms-have accepted the goals of the Charter as their own personal and political commitments.

For the first time in the history of Inter-American relations our energies are concentrated on the central task of democratic development.

This dramatic change in thought is essential to the realization of our goals. For only by placing the task of development in the arena of daily thought and action among all the people can we hope to summon up the will and the courage which that task demands. This first accomplishment, therefore, is essential to all the others.

Our second achievement has been the establishment of the institutional framework within which our decade of development will take place. We honor here today the OAS Panel of Experts--a new adventure in Inter-American cooperation--drawn from all parts of the continent--charged with the high responsibility--almost unprecedented in any international cooperative effort--of evaluating long-range development plans, reviewing the progress of these plans, and helping to obtain the financing necessary to carry them out. This group has already begun its work. And here, today, I reaffirm our government's commitment to look to this Panel for advice and guidance in the conduct of our joint effort.

In addition, the OAS, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Inter-American Bank have offered planning assistance to Latin American nations--the OAS has begun a series of studies in critical development fields--and a new ECLA Planning Institute is being established to train the young men who will lead the future development of their countries. And we have completely reorganized in our own country our assistance program, with central responsibility now placed in the hands of a single coordinator.

Thus, within seven months, we have built the essential structure of the institutions, thought and policy on which our long-term effort will rest. But we have not waited for this structure to be completed in order to begin our work.

Last year I said that the United States would commit one billion dollars to the first year of that Alliance. That pledge has now been fulfilled. The Alliance for Progress has already meant better food for the children of Puno in Peru, new schools for people in Colombia, new homes for campesinos in Venezuela--which I saw myself during my recent visit. And in the year to come millions more will take new hope from the Alliance for Progress as it touches their daily life--as it must.

In the vital field of commodity stabilization I pledged the efforts of this country to try to work with you to end the frequent, violent price changes which damage the economies of so many Latin American countries. Immediately after that pledge was made, we began work on the task of formulating stabilization agreements. In December 1961 a new coffee agreement, drafted by a committee under a United States chairman, was completed. Today that agreement is in process of negotiation. I can think of no single measure which can make a greater contribution to the cause of development than effective stabilization of the price of coffee. In addition the United States has participated in the drafting of a cocoa agreement; and we have held discussion about the terms of possible accession to the tin agreement.

We have also been working with our. European allies--and I regard this as most important--in a determined effort to ensure that Latin American products will have equal access to the Common Market. Much of the economic future of this Hemisphere depends upon ready availability of the markets of the Atlantic Community, and we will continue these efforts to keep these markets open in the months ahead.

The countries of Latin America have also been working to fulfill the commitments of the Charter. The report of the Inter-American Bank contains an impressive list of measures being taken in each of the eighteen countries--measures ranging from the mobilization of domestic resources to new education and housing programs--measures within the context of the Act of Bogota, passed under the administration of my predecessor, President Eisenhower, and the Alliance for Progress Charter.

Nearly all the governments of the Hemisphere have begun to organize national development programs--and in some cases completed plans have been presented for review. Tax and land reform laws are on the books, and the national legislature of nearly every country is considering new measures in these critical fields. New programs of development, of housing, of agriculture and power are underway.

These are all heartening accomplishments-the fruits of the first seven months of work in a program which is designed to span a decade. But all who know the magnitude and urgency of the problems realize that we have just begun--that we must act much more rapidly and on a much larger scale if we are to meet our development goals in the months and years to come.

I pledge this country's effort to such an intensified effort. And I am confident that having emerged from the shaping period of our Alliance, all the nations of this Hemisphere will accelerate their own work.

For we all know that no matter what contribution the United States may make, the ultimate responsibility for success lies within the developing nation itself. For only you can mobilize the resources, make the reforms, set the goals and provide the energies which will transform our external assistance into an effective contribution to the progress of our continent. Only you can create the economic confidence which will encourage the free flow of capital, both domestic and foreign--the capital which, under conditions of responsible investment and together with public funds, will produce permanent economic advance. Only you can eliminate the evils of destructive inflation, chronic trade imbalances and widespread unemployment. Without determined efforts on your part to establish these conditions for reform and development, no amount of outside help can do the job.

I know the difficulties of such a task. It is unprecedented. Our own history shows how fierce the resistance can be to changes which later generations regard as part of the normal framework of life. And the course of rational social change is even more hazardous for those progressive governments who often face entrenched privilege of the right and subversive conspiracies on the left.

For too long my country, the wealthiest nation in a continent which is not wealthy, failed to carry out its full responsibilities to its sister Republics. We have now accepted that responsibility. In the same way those who possess wealth and power in poor nations must accept their own responsibilities. They must lead the fight for those basic reforms which alone can preserve the fabric of their societies. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

These social reforms are at the heart of the Alliance for Progress. They are the precondition to economic modernization. And they are the instrument by which we assure the poor and hungry--the worker and the campesino--his full participation in the benefits of our development and in the human dignity which is the purpose of all free societies. At the same time we sympathize with the difficulties of remaking deeply rooted and traditional social structures. We ask that substantial and steady progress toward reform accompany the effort to develop the economies of the American nations.

A year ago I also expressed our special friendship to the people of Cuba and the Dominican Republic and the hope that they would soon rejoin the society of free men, uniting with us in this common effort. Today I am glad to welcome among us the representatives of a free Dominican Republic; and to reaffirm the hope that, in the not too distant future, our society of free nations will once again be complete.

But we must not forget that our Alliance for Progress is more than a doctrine of development--a blueprint of economic advance. Rather it is an expression of the noblest goals of our society. It says that want and despair need not be the lot of free men. And those who may occasionally get discouraged with the magnitude of the task, have only to look to Europe fifteen years ago, and today, and realize the great potential which is in every free society when the people join and work together. It says in our Hemisphere that no society is free until all its people have an equal opportunity to share the fruits of their own land and their own labor. And it says that material progress is meaningless without individual freedom and political liberty. It is a doctrine of the freedom of man in the most spacious sense of that freedom.

Nearly a century ago Jose Hernandez, the Argentine poet, wrote, "America has a great destiny to achieve in the fate of mankind ... One day . . . the American Alliance will undoubtedly be achieved, and the American Alliance will bring world peace... America must be the cradle of the great principles which are to bring a complete change in the political and social organization of other nations."

We have made a good start on our journey; but we have still a long way to go. The conquest of poverty is as difficult if not more difficult than the conquest of outer space. And we can expect moments of frustration and disappointment in the months and years to come. But we have no doubt about the outcome. For all history shows that the effort to win progress within freedom represents the most determined and steadfast aspiration of man.

We are joined together in this Alliance as nations united by a common history and common values. And I look forward--as do all the people of this country--to the day when the people of Latin America will take their rightful place beside the United States and Western Europe as citizens of industrialized and growing and increasingly abundant societies. The United States-Europe--and Latin America--almost a billion people--a bulwark of freedom and the values of Western civilization--invulnerable to the forces of despotism--lighting the path to liberty for all the peoples of the world. This is our vision--and, with faith and courage, we will realize that vision in our own time.

Thank you.

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Note: The President spoke in the State Dining Room at the White House at a reception for the diplomatic corps of the Latin American Republics. In his opening remarks he referred to Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; to the "nine wise men" (the original members of the Committee of Nine of the Alliance for Progress): Hernando Agudelo Villa, Colombia, Ernesto Malaccorto, Argentina, Manuel Noriega Morales, Guatemala, Phillipe Pasos, Cuba, Harvey Perloft, United States, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, United Kingdom, Paul Saez, Chile, Ary Torres, Brazil, Gonzalo Robles, Mexico; and to Ambassador Teodoro Moscoso, Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress.

John F. Kennedy, Address on the first Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/236988

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JFK On Revolution - March 13, 1962

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:08:47 -0400

For too long, my country, the wealthiest nation, failed to carry out its full responsibilities to its sister republics.

Those who possess wealth and power must accept their own responsibilities.

They must lead the fight for those basic reforms, which alone can preserve the fabric of their societies.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

President John F. Kennedy at the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress - March 13, 1962

Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Warner Bros

Full speech: https://EmpathyMediaLab.podbean.com/e/jfk-alliance-for-progress-first-anniversary-speech-march-13-1962/

Ain’t I A Woman? Reverend Addie Wyatt on Sojourner Truth

Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:56:03 -0400

“I born 13 children and seen almost all sold off into slavery.”

Addie L. Wyatt (March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United States Labor movement, and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Learn more about Addie here.

This speech was given at Harvard’s Divinity School on November 2, 2002. Watch the full speech here.

Sojourner Truth (1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Learn more about Sojourner here.

Excerpt of Speech Text:

Look at my arms.

I have plowed.

I have planted and I have gathered into barn and no man could head me.

And ain't I a woman?

I could work as much and eat as much as any man, when I get it.

And bear the lash as well, and ain't I a woman?

I born 13 children and seen almost all sold off into slavery.

And when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me.

And ain't I a woman?

I want to dedicate that famous, powerful poem from that great woman preacher Sojourner Truth.

God knows she has inspired my little life and have given me much courage in the time of distress, in the time, often, of great pain.

When I expect so much to happen, but I have to say to myself, ain't I a woman?

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Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:24:33 -0400

“In spite of all of the horrible things that are happening in the world today, I think that on the labor front, both in the United States and Mexico, these are really exciting times.”

Robin Alexander, Retired UE Director of International Affairs

This new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the Mexican Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT), a story that is a testimony to the power of rank-and-file solidarity.

Download the book at: https://www.internationalsolidarityinaction.org/

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Energy 101 with Isaac Orr on The Power Hungry Podcast - Excerpt

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 15:57:59 -0400

“They've had the electricity come on every time they've hit the switch for the last 40 years. So why would they worry about tomorrow the light not coming on?”

Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment

You can watch the full interview here:

The Power Hungry podcast spotlights energy, power, innovation, and politics. Author and journalist Robert Bryce talks with top thinkers, writers, and influencers — as well as regular citizens. Subscribe at https://robertbryce.com/power-hungry-podcast/ and follow Robert’s work https://twitter.com/pwrhungry.

Isaac Orr is a policy fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, where he writes about environmental issues, mining, and electricity. In his second appearance on the podcast (his first was on August 10, 2021), Orr talks about the importance of the Supreme Court’s West Virginia v. EPA ruling, why utilities are keeping their coal plants open this summer, how renewables are undermining the integrity of the electric grid, and the looming shortfalls of generation capacity in the Midwest. You can follow Issac’s work at: https://twitter.com/TheFrackingGuy.

Transcript

Energy 101 definition of energy is energy is the ability to do work.

And when you make energy more difficult to get or make it more expensive, you're making it more difficult to do work or more expensive to do work, whether that's heating your house, plowing a field, growing your food.

So when we enact all these energy policies that intentionally make energy more scarce or more expensive, it ripples through every aspect of the economy.

In some ways you can write it off as rational ignorance.

They've had the electricity come on every time they've hit the switch for the last 40 years. So why would they worry about tomorrow the light not coming on?

It's the milk comes from the store philosophy, right?

I think it boils down to some sort of afluenza.

I really like the concept of thinking about energy, food, production, mining in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

You've got your basic needs, which is food, water, then you want security and safety and then you've got your self actualization triangle at the top.

We've had the bottom rungs of our needs satisfied for so long that we can only focus on the self-actualization tip of the triangle.

And we've been undermining the base of the pyramid, in order to attain these tertiary goals.

And that's exactly what's happening with the grid.

For energy, you need a secure supply. Russia showed us that that needs to be the base of the pyramid.

Then you need reliability, then you need affordability.

And then at the very tip, you can have carbon free.

You need to find a way to satisfy security, reliability, affordability, and being carbon free. That's gotta be the fourth and final consideration on your energy hierarchy of needs, because if you try to invert that pyramid like Germany did, we're seeing that it has really disastrous consequences.

An Artist’s Duty - Nina Simone

Thu, 21 Jul 2022 23:39:38 -0400

"We will shape and mold this country or it will not be shaped and molded at all any more."

Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist, and a revolutionary artist. I love her work. Rest in peace, dear Nina.

Transcript:

An artist's duty as far as I'm concerned is to reflect the times.

I think that is true of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians.

As far as I'm concerned it's their choice.

But I choose to reflect the times and situations in which I find myself.

That to me is my duty.

And at this crucial time in our lives when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved.

Young people, black and white, know this.

We will shape and mold this country or it will not be shaped and molded at all any more.

So I don't think you have a choice.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

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Nuclear Surplus Energy: China vs. United States

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:58:41 -0400

“China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.”

Energy is Everything. It sustains all life.

Without securing reliable and affordable energy, a nation will perish.

A political economy oriented to promote universal prosperity and defend the general welfare for a more perfect union, must orient policy goals to produce surplus food, water and energy.

Dear friends, the question of our values is at hand. Show me your budget and how you allocate resources, and we’ll see what your values are in practice.

In the face of a global shortage of energy, China’s leadership understands this, as reflected in their policies increasing energy generation, transmission, and distribution.

Nuclear energy is a key pillar for China’s national security.

China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years. China is currently building 19 reactors, with 43 reactors in the permitting stage, and an additional 166 reactors in planning.

The combined capacity of these 228 reactors will produce over 245 gigawatts, which is more than the entire electricity generation capacity of Germany and is close to the 289 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity the rest of the world is planning to build.

Although nuclear power is the future of Chinese energy, coal remains the most important energy source for China today.

In 2020, China built over three times as much new coal power capacity as all other countries in the world combined – the equivalent of more than one large coal plant per week.

So what are we doing in the United States to secure reliable and affordable clean energy?

Over the past two generations, the US has canceled over 163 nuclear power plants.

The United States nuclear electricity generation capacity peaked in 2012 around 102 gigawatts when there were 104 operating nuclear reactors.

This once leading nuclear energy nation has prematurely shut down 12 nuclear power generators in the past decade alone, before their licenses expired, including the early shutdown of Michigan’s Palisades nuclear power plant in May 2022 that had a license to operate until 2031.

Ironically, on the same day as this 811-megawatt nuclear plant was shut down, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation issued a report saying the United States electric grid doesn’t have enough generation capacity and that blackouts are almost certain to occur across the country this summer.

Why are our policies increasing scarcity and austerity for our people? Where are the leaders to be found?

Our current trajectory guarantees failure for us while condemning future generations to energy insecurity and immiseration. Our collective security, prosperity, and peace is more threatened than ever before.

It is time to produce more energy, America.

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End Eco-Colonialism and Free Africa’s Nuclear Energy with Princy Mthombeni

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:23:34 -0400

“I'm a humanitarian at heart. So I see nuclear as a vehicle that will deliver prosperity to the African continent.”

Princy Mthombeni

Princy Mthombeni is an award winning communications specialist, nuclear energy advocate, entrepreneur, philanthropist and thought leader.

As a former Board Member of Women in Nuclear South Africa, an African Young Generation in Nuclear Communication Head, Editor-In-Chief of Nuclear Energy Workers Newsletter and a Stand Up For Nuclear South Africa Coordinator, she focuses on addressing the socio-economic issues of the African continent through promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.

Princy also founded a Nuclear Energy Youtube Series named “Africa4Nuclear,” which Princy hosts covering the socio-economic benefits and technical aspects of nuclear science and technology for education and information.

Follower Princy’s work

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Prayer of the 54th Regiment Before the Battle of Fort Wagner - Morgan Freeman

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:41:48 -0400

“We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!”

Morgan Freeman delivers a powerful prayer during one of my favorite scenes in the movie Glory, when the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment gather for prayer on the eve of the tragic Battle of Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863 during the U.S. Civil War.

Transcript

Tomorrow we have to meet the judgment day.

Heavenly father, we want you to let our folks know that we died facing the enemy.

We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!

Amongst those that are fighting against our oppression.

We want 'em to know heavenly father that we died for freedom.

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Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe - Artist Works

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:48:08 -0400

“Being an artist is a constant chase. But most importantly, never sell out. Because once you sell your soul, you can never get it back.”

Michael Gene Sullivan is an actor, writer, director, blogger, and teacher committed to developing theater of social and economic justice, of political self-determination, and, of course, musical comedy. Michael is also a Collective Member and Resident Director of the Tony and OBIE award-winning, always revolutionary, and never, ever silent San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he has written, acted in, and/or directed over thirty plays.

Playwright's Foundation, and was awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Djerassi Arts Center, and in 2022 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

About the San Francisco Mime Troupe

The mission of the San Francisco Mime Troupe is to create and produce theater that presents a working-class analysis of the events that shape our society, that exposes social and economic injustice, that demands revolutionary change on behalf of working people, and to present this analysis before the broadest possible audience with artistry and humor.

The collective of the San Francisco Mime Troupe exists not only to create this activist art but also to embody our ideals of combating the fragmentation of the working class: we are a democratically run, multi-ethnic, multi-generational, multi-cultural, gender-balanced theater of social justice that by its very existence sustains a vision of community governance of, by, and for the people.

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Learn more about Michael’s work at:

Website - www.michaelgenesullivan.com

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Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:14:37 -0400

“These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits. And a lot of people put their kids through college, bought a home, paid it off and during the sixties, through the eighties, it was one of highest paying jobs in the regions where these [nuclear] plants are located.”

Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council

Jim Key is the President of the United Steel Workers (USW) Atomic Energy Workers Council (AEWC) and former Vice President At Large of USW Local 8-550, which represents the highly skilled, well trained workers at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Paducah Federal Enclave Site Reservation in Kentucky.

The United Steelworkers Atomic Energy Workers Council consists of presidents and vice presidents from all United Steel Workers local unions that have contracts with DOE across the nation.

Learn more at: https://www.usw.org/union/mission/industries/atomic.

During this conversation we discuss:

The United Steelworkers Atomic Energy Workers Council;
How the nuclear energy economy supports high skilled, high wage union jobs;
The 2019 conference in Turkey that brought together nuclear workers building union power;
The need to reindustrialize our nuclear energy sector and restart nuclear processing and recycling; and
The future of union led nuclear energy in America.

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Lynne Hancock - Nuclear Times Newsletter of the United Steel Workers

Wed, 03 Aug 2022 12:43:09 -0400

“We needed something for our nuclear workers because we have so many sectors at the United Steel Workers…So I decided to start this newsletter [Nuclear Times] because our Atomic Energy Workers Council is incredible. Those folks know more about their plants than a lot of the contractor management does because they've been there for years.”

Lynn Hancock is part of the United Steel Workers (USW) Communications Department and helped found the Nuclear Times newsletter and administers the USW Atomic Workers Facebook page.

The USW Atomic Energy Workers Council consists of presidents and vice presidents from all USW local unions that have contracts with the Department Of Energy across the nation.

Learn more at: https://www.usw.org/union/mission/industries/atomic.

Also, I want to note a correction around six minutes and thirty seconds in which I misstated that the amount of energy in one uranium fuel pellet is equal to two tons of coal and 200 hundred gallons of oil. The correct equivalent of one uranium fuel pellet is one ton of coal, 149 gallons of oil, or 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas.

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”We choose to go to the Moon” - JFK on Space Exploration

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:29:31 -0400

“That goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.”

"We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a September 12, 1962, speech by United States President John F. Kennedy to further inform the public about his plan to land a man on the Moon before 1970. Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas. (wikipedia)

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West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Barbara Ellen Smith

Fri, 12 Aug 2022 13:30:38 -0400

“One coal operator quite explicitly said that you need a judicious mixture of white mountaineers, black workers from the Jim Crow south, and immigrant workers in order to maintain division. So the effort was very intentional to divide workers along the lines of immigration status, language, and race..”

Barbara Ellen Smith, Professor Emerita of Virginia Tech

Board member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum

The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is at the site of a historic battle which erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events that led to the largest armed uprising in the United States since the civil war, and offers the largest exhibition of Mine Wars history anywhere in the United States.

It is a people's history museum based in Matewan, WV, where they tell the story of the deadly, decades-long labor struggle between coal miners seeking unionization and the powerful industrialists who opposed them in the early 20th century.

The museum seeks to ensure this history doesn’t miss another generation, but will instead inspire new ones. You can stay connected and keep up-to-date on Museum happenings on their social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) or their e-newsletter (sign up for updates here).

Learn more about the museum, become a member, and plan a visit: https://wvminewars.org

Barbara Ellen Smith is an American author, activist, and educator. In 2017 she was named professor emerita of Virginia Tech. Barbara is known for her involvement and writing about social justice in Appalachia, particularly the black lung movement and advocacy for coal miners. Barbara is also a board member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum and Chair of the Museum Fundraising Committee.

About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders, organizers, and labor journalists while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

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Luke Rockhold on Healthcare and UFC Fighter Pay

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 16:24:52 -0400

"And if you let these motherf*****s think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding their worth."

Luke Rockhold is an American professional mixed martial artist (MMA). Rockhold is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he competes in the Light Heavyweight division. Rockhold is a former UFC Middleweight Champion.

The UFC is notorious for being anti-union. Based on records made available through an ongoing class action lawsuit from numerous ex-UFC fighters, the promotion has approximately paid out 16 to 20 percent of the revenue to the athletes. Most other major sports leagues — including the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball — pay out around 50 percent of the revenue to the athletes. (source)

Nearly 80 percent of MMA athletes said they would be in favor of organizing a union (source).

Kobe Bryant even suggested the UFC should have a union. In May of 2017 Bryant was invited to speak to UFC fighters at an athlete’s retreat and was asked by labor organizer and featherweight contender Leslie Smith about the importance of collective bargaining and labor unions to NBA athletes like him.

Kobe answered as follows:

“Even us as players, where we have our union meetings and things of that nature, we’re normally at each other’s throats competing against each other. But we understand completely that a rising tide raises all boats,” Bryant continued. “When you guys have this unity and you guys are operating together on the same page together, it does nothing but simply fortify the sport, make the sport better. Not just for the present, but also for future generations that are coming. So, it’s extremely important.” (source).

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Edited Transcript of Luke Rockhold’s Press Conference for UFC 278 on August 17, 2022.

(Full video here)

(Question)

Over the past few weeks you've been very vocal about fighter to pay. Do you worry that maybe the promotion will sort of be rooting against you if you continue to talk out about that subject?

Root against me for what? What are they gonna do?

I mean, root against me, go for it, do your thing, dude, I'm here to fight.

I'm not saying anything that's not real.

Everything I'm saying is justified and truthful.

Just because like, I should be in a position of power before I say this shit? Fuck off, I got nothing to lose. I don't need this business.

I love the fighting and I'm here to fight the best motherfuckers and this happens to be the place where it's done, you know?

They need to grow this whole fucking thing needs to grow together.

Our lives are on the fucking line.

Healthcare needs to be taken care of, our fucking health needs to be taken care of.

Mine has not been taken care of, you know what I mean?

Like, yeah, this is business, every business is like this, it's about leverage, it's a game of leverage and life.

And it's about fucking, always keeping the upper hand.

It's it's not just here, it's everywhere.

And if you let these motherfuckers think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding their worth.

(Question)

And when you say your health hasn't been taken care of, can you elaborate on that?

I don't, I don't need to, I mean, it's just, it. things should be easier. You know what I mean?

Insurance should be fucking year round.

The giant is growing and it's like, there's one thing that should be fucking paramount is these fighters health, you know?

It's fucking our lives and our bodies are on the line every fucking time I step into that cage, and if we're not fucking protected, it's like, fuck, come on, wake up.

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Fighting for a Better Future with Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan - Labor Solidarity Podcast

Tue, 23 Aug 2022 22:00:32 -0400

“Thousands of journalists across the country have been through their own union drives in the past five years or so. And it changes people…I mean, it obviously educates people and opens their eyes to how important labor is. And also you have people who are going through their own union busting campaigns. They're going through having to negotiate contracts with their own boss. And so it really has elevated the profile of unions in the news.”

Hamilton Nolan

American Labor Journalist

Hamilton Nolan is an American journalist who writes on labor and politics in The Guardian (@Guardian), In These Times (@InTheseTimesMag), and the Columbia Journalism Review (@CJR). He previously wrote for Gawker and was part of the organizing efforts to win unionization. He is also writing his first book titled, Year of the Hammer that will be published in early 2024 by Hachette Books (hachettebooks.com).

We discuss:

How Hamilton got interested in organized labor;

Organizing the newsroom at Gawker before Peter Thiel sued it into bankruptcy;
The 2022 AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia where he wrote an article titled: The AFL-CIO's Official New Goal: Continued Decline;

His recent article in the Guardian titled: “If Democrats want votes, they should rain fury on union-busting corporations; and
What Hamilton sees as the strategy for organizing labor today.

You can follow his work on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hamiltonnolan.

Union Solidarity Forever.

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THANK A UNION - Cecil Roberts President United Mine Workers of America - Battle of Blair Mountain

Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:55:03 -0400

"When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union!" Cecil Roberts is a miner and president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). This was recorded in Sharples, West Virginia during Labor Day 2021 in celebration of the 100 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain. The full audio documentary can be found here: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/voices-from-the-centennial-march-to-blair-mountain-organized-by-the-united-mine-workers-of-america Speech (edited) This is a significant place in the history of the United Mine Workers. Why did you never hear about this march? Because working class history is just never taught to the degree it should be. We are bound and determined that the history of our forefathers will not be taken away from us by any rich person, any government, whether it be state or federal. Those marchers created the working class, they created the middle class, giving people a voice at what? An ability to stand up and fight back. That's why people, whenever they take labor day off, tell em' thank a union. When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union. If you've got a Medicare card in your pocket, you should what? If indeed you get a pension and I don't care where you work, you should do what? If you've got a safe place to work, you should? If you've got a job that allows you to live in a middle class, you should? If you've got equal rights as a woman, you should? If you've got equal rights because you belong to a union and a person of color, you know where that came around you should? If you got anything good in your life and you work for a living, you should? It's all of you working together, standing together. Thank you. And God bless you. About the Labor Solidarity Podcast The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. The Labor Podcast is hosted by Elise Bryant and Evan Papp. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity The Labor Solidarity Podcast is an EML Publishing production and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. Learn more: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab #1U #UnionStrong #Blair100 #LaborDay #labordayweekend #WestVirginia #MineWars

Creative Recycling with Zsameria of SwapDC

Sat, 10 Sep 2022 11:48:56 -0400

“Our world is really all we got. This planet, at least right now, this planet Earth. So I'm like, I'm just trying to have the power within my community, build, breathe and do more with our imagination to create, you know, to be intentional with that, and Swap DC is a part of that.”

Zsameria, Founder of SwapDC

Last month, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Zsameria to discuss SwapDC, which is a creative recycling event in Washington, DC that fosters a fun and diverse community around swapping for residents who want to reduce, reuse and live a more sustainable lifestyle.

SwapDC aims to bring awareness to the consequences of consumerism on our environment and our culture. Since its debut in 2015, SwapDC has successfully recycled over 5 tons of clothing and donated even more to local shelters, that’s over 10,000 lbs.

Taking the “POP UP” approach, SwapDC has been cited all over the DC area hosting collaborations with local businesses such as Marvin’s, Black Cat and Pen Arts Building. This also includes, yet is not limited to, various nonprofit and national organizations such as Martha’s Table, DPR, The DC Sustainable Fashion Collective and DC’s Art All Night.

Learn more at https://swapdc.com.

And follow SwapDC’s social media:

And you can follow Zsameria’s work on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/zsameria.

About EML Studio

EML Studio is based in Riverdale, Maryland just outside Washington, D.C. We are a podcast space, music recording studio, and we host live stream events. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/emlstudio.

EML Studio is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, and laborers who are fighting for a brighter day for everyone, everywhere. Union solidarity forever.

America’s Fight for Universal Progress from Franklin to Kennedy with Author and Historian Anton Chaitkin

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:55:28 -0400

“Power is a good thing for people to have. It can be misused by ugly cliques who take over governments or who exercise some coercion on people or make people degrade themselves and help them to do that. But power in history is what we're aiming for, the power of human beings to do good.”

Anton Chaitkin

Historian and Author of Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s

Anton Chaitkin is a historian and author and we discuss his newest book Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s, which provides a new understanding of the industrial revolution and the strategic context for America’s founding.

Anton Chaitkin has been an activist since his childhood in the 1950s. In the early 1930s, his father, Jacob Chaitkin, a pro-Franklin Roosevelt lawyer, had blocked some of the Wall Street financial arrangements with Hitler, and was legal counsel for the American Jewish Congress boycott against Germany. Anton grew up committed to justice, with a strong sense of the realities of power politics.

Chaitkin has provided original historical analysis of American history, in hundreds of articles and in two books, Treason in America, from Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman -- a 600-page unveiling of the Eastern Establishment as the tory-British-racist-imperialist faction -- and George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography

Learn more at: https://www.antonchaitkin.com.

About Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s

A half century ago, the Anglo-American Establishment reversed the policies that made America rich, powerful, and humane. They erased our former way of thinking from public memory. They took away from us our original national mission: gaining scientific control over nature to uplift mankind. They falsely inserted their own goal – power for the few over the many – into our history, so that no remedy from our real heritage seemed possible.

This explosive book by the masterful investigative historian, Anton Chaitkin, restores that stolen American legacy. The secret to modern history is that all the great breakthroughs in technology were deliberate projects for the improvement of humanity. Chaitkin takes you behind the scenes, to see the two sides struggling to control American policy: nationalist statesmen and industrial innovators, versus the British empire, Wall Street and the southern slave owners.

Book content include:

Benjamin Franklin guides his friends in England who develop the steam engine, canals and steelmaking -- and discover bio-chemical laws of nature.
Lord Shelburne’s British Intelligence system acts to prevent other countries from acquiring the new technical powers, by fake insurrections and the “free trade” dogma.
Franklin and his close allies guide America’s revolt against the empire, write the Constitution, and strategize for a strong industrial nation-state.
Thomas Jefferson betrays his ideals, joins the enemy Shelburne apparatus, defends southern slavery and British interests, and sabotages Alexander Hamilton’s founding development program.
The British turn the French Revolution to anarchy and mass bloodshed -- the first documented account of that regime-change intervention.
America’s founding program is blocked, until a new generation of nationalist leaders fight the British again and start industrialization.
Acting as a team in government and the military, an idealistic core group builds U.S. canals, coal and iron industries, and railroads . They bring on modern times, and actively aid other countries’ industrial progress -- all this against the violent opposition of the Anglo-American imperial interest.

Volume 1 takes us to the Civil War. Volume 2 (planned for 2022-3) carries the story of progress, versus empire, from Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy.

You can buy Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s on Amazon.

About The Political Economy Project

The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint seeking to unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of interests of the human spirit.

The Political Economy Project is an EML Publishing brand produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.

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Unionizing Apple Stores with Billy Jarboe AppleCore Union Member and Organizer

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:40:03 -0400

“Depoliticize it, cuz it's not about that. If there is a chance to utilize these rights to create better conditions and don't worry about the dues part of it because you'll get to see the contract and do the math. If the dues are worth it, sign the contract, right? If they aren't, you don't have to sign for it. As long as the workers are on the same page.”

Billy Jarboe, AppleCore Member and Organizer

In June 2022, more than 100 Apple store employees in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore, voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Their union is called the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (or AppleCORE) and they have joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). AppleCORE and IAM sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook in May 2022 informing him of the decision to organize their union, listing “access to rights we do not currently have” as a driving reason for the move, which has strong support from a majority of the workers.

According to Apple CORE’s statement, “Apple workers across the country are joining together to help the company live up to its values…Our commitment remains enriching lives by providing customers the best service possible. It’s time Apple and our managers acknowledge that commitment by respecting our rights and sitting down with us to negotiate over the issues that matter to us – scheduling, professional development and more. Joining together in union will provide us more power to make Apple better!”

EML Publishing had the opportunity to interview Billy Jarboe who is a member of AppleCORE and a key organizer at the Apple store in Towson where he has worked over a decade.

During this interview, we discussed:

Why employees wanted to organize a union at the Apple store;
How organizing began and why people should care, especially those who have never been in a union;
Where AppleCore is at in organizing for a contract;
Labor restlessness in other Apple stores;
Thoughts and lessons learned for others who may want to unionize their workplace; and
How people can support the AppleCore efforts.

You can learn more about AppleCore at their website (https://acoreunion.org/ and follow them on Twitter (https://twitter.com/acoreunion) and instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acoreunion/).

And you can follow Billy’s band Samskara on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/samskaraband/.

Union Solidarity Forever.

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Body.Electric. Is a Science Fiction Anthology Series by Patrick Hale - Artist Works

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 12:40:55 -0400

“You could basically do anything. And so I took that one step further and I was like, okay, let me make a movie on my own or at least get it as far as I can get it, without a huge production crew. And so, that's been a labor of love.”

Patrick Hale, Author, Director, and Producer of Body.Electric.

Body. Electric. is a genre-spanning anthology series that examines humanity's best and worst instincts as we explore the universe and discover, and create, new forms of intelligence.

Set in the distant future, Body. Electric. depicts the multi-generational fallout following the creation of the worldʻs first space elevator, an industrial supply pipeline, created by United Adams Corporation, to support exploration and mining off-world.

A world-weary detective ordered to retrieve an escaped synthetic humanoid must unravel a web of lies, and learn what it really means to be human, before it is too late.

Learn more at https://www.bodyelectricseries.com/about.

About Patrick Hale

Patrick Hale is an award-winning commercial and short film director based in Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC. He brings his love of world-building and innovative production design to help clients tell cinematic stories that connect with diverse audiences and move people to action.

Patrick is the lead filmmaker and producer behind Rooks Productions. Previously, he built and ran the in-house studio for American Councils for International Education, and held a number of roles at Discovery, Inc. and Discovery Studios.

Learn More about Body.Electric.

Website - https://www.bodyelectricseries.com/
Gaming - https://www.indiedb.com/games/bodyelectric

Learn more about Patrick’s work at:

Website - https://www.rooksproductions.com
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rookspro/
Children’s Book: OH! So Many MEs! - https://www.rooksproductions.com/product-page/oh-so-many-mes
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/Patrickhale84

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Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder with author Christian Parenti

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 16:26:21 -0400

“Workers increase their standard of living and increase their wages through the class struggle, but there's limits to what that can bear if the economy in which that class struggle is happening isn't growing and isn't producing surplus.”

Christian Parenti

Professor of Political Economy and Author of Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder

Christian Parenti is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, CUNY (City University of New York). His books include “Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder" (Verso 2020), "Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence" (2011); "The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq" (2004); "The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror" (2002); and "Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis" (2000/second edition 2008). As a journalist he reported extensively from Afghanistan, Iraq, and various parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America for The Nation, Fortune, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, and other publications.

Learn more at: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/christian-parenti.

A dramatic re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism--In retelling the story of the radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history of early America and the global economy. For much of the twentieth century, Hamilton—sometimes seen as the bad boy of the founding fathers or portrayed as the patron saint of bankers—was out of fashion. In contrast his rival Thomas Jefferson, the patrician democrat and slave owner who feared government overreach, was claimed by all. But more recently, Hamilton has become a subject of serious interest again.

He was a contradictory mix: a tough soldier, austere workaholic, exacting bureaucrat, sexual libertine, glory-obsessed romantic with suicidal tendencies—and pioneer of industrialisation. As Parenti argues, we have yet to fully appreciate Hamilton as the primary architect of American capitalism and the developmental state. In exploring his life and work, Parenti rediscovers this gadfly as a pathbreaking political thinker and institution builder. In this vivid portrait, Hamilton emerges as a singularly important historical figure: a thinker and politico who laid the foundation for America’s ascent to global supremacy and mass industrialization—for better or worse.

You can buy Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder from your favorite bookseller.

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261. Life with Energy Scarcity 101 with Irina Slav - Political Economy Project

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 13:41:35 -0400

“There's still people on social media who say, ‘You know, we should just shut up and suck it up. We can get through the winter, even if it's a bit colder.’ But it won't be a bit colder. It might end up being a lot colder and there might be energy rationing, which is the worst case scenario. I think it will be a brutal wake up call for those people.”

Irina Slav, Energy Journalist

Irina Slav is an energy journalist who writes about energy, mining, and geopolitics for Oilprice.com with occasional gigs for Seeking Alpha and other news outlets. She also has one of the best Substack columns writing on energy. During this interview, we discussed her essay titled, Life with Energy Scarcity 101 (https://irinaslav.substack.com/p/life-with-energy-scarcity-101).

Follow Irina’s work on Substack (https://irinaslav.substack.com) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/SlavEnergy).

About The Political Economy Project

The Political Economy Project is seeking to create a blueprint to unify our fellow humans on a common purpose to work together based on a harmony of interests of the human spirit leading to a new cultural and economic renaissance.

Follow our work on Substack at: https://politicaleconomyproject.substack.com or on Twitter at https://twitter.com/PolEconProject.

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Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber - Author and Professor of Geography

Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:10:20 -0400

“If you do look at the renewable industry today, it's very hostile to unions. They're very hard jobs to organize. They're spread out, they're dispersed, very transient workplaces and so they're very low density unions. And also, renewable energy projects because of the tax credit system in our country, are owned by Wall Street. Some of the wealthiest people in the whole economy are the ones that have financing and stakes in these renewable energy projects. So, renewable energy right now is a very anti-labor, pro-Wall Street kind of regime.”

Matt Huber, Author and Professor of Geography

During this interview, we discuss Matt’s new book, Climate Change as Class War - The climate crisis will take a class struggle to solve. In this book, Matthew T. Huber argues that the carbon-intensive capitalist class must be confronted with its disproportionate effect on the climate. Yet, at present the climate movement is unpopular and rooted in the professional class, where it remains incapable of meeting this dizzying challenge. As an alternative, Huber proposes a climate politics to appeal to the majority—the working class—and he evaluates the Green New Deal as a first attempt to channel working-class material and ecological interests. He advocates building union power in the very energy system that must be transformed. In the end, winning the climate struggle will require an internationalist approach based on planetary working-class solidarity.

You can buy Climate Change as Class War - The climate crisis will take a class struggle to solve from Verso Books.

About Matt T. Huber

Matthew T. Huber is Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is also the author of Lifeblood Lifeblood (2013) that uses oil to retell twentieth-century American political history and finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture.

You can follow him on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Matthuber78.

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About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity/

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Policies for Universal Prosperity with Daniel Burke - Political Economy Project

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 16:24:14 -0400

“Look at economics from the standpoint of the ability to increase the potential relative population density the number of people that you can potentially support in a given square kilometer.

“And that's what economics really is about. It's about increasing the power of labor, the power of an individual to do productive work. The way you increase that is through machine tools, through technologies, and you increase it through fundamental breakthroughs in energy.

“You want to go to more intense, higher qualities of fire if you think about it from that perspective. If we go from wood to coal, to oil to fission, which is where we should be, we should be in a fission economy right now, which would be many times more productive than our present economy is. And then fusion, that's where we should be headed. Because at every leap you fundamentally, qualitatively change the power that mankind has over the universe.”

Daniel Burke, Schiller Institute

Daniel Burke ran for U.S. Senate in New Jersey and is with the Schiller Institute, which is organizing to establish a just global economic order ensuring populations are no longer subjected to the horrors of imperialism and geopolitics premised on the anti-entropic development of all nations, and a classical cultural renaissance supporting the creative spirit and potential of all people on this planet, through a dialogue of civilizations that brings forth the best traditions of each culture.

Follow Daniel’s work on Twitter https://twitter.com/Burke4Senate.

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Bwando Farms Growing Good Food in Zambia with Conrad Bwalya

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:28:52 -0400

“We tend to be so lucky in Zambia and Africa because much of the land that we own, most people just inherit it. You don't buy it. And and yet you're sitting on this inherited land and not making it productive.You can’t send your kids to school, you can't have decent housing, you can't actually sustainably feed yourself and yet you're sitting on this resource, So my focus was how do we turn this resource that we sit on, which we don't even value into something that we can actually get jobs out of,”

Conrad Bwalya, Bwando Farms

Conrad Bwalya is the co-founder of Bwando farms with his wife Linda. Based in Zambia, Bwando Farms was started in 2015 as a small farm that has been transformed into a successful integrated farming business, while also creating financial opportunities for rural Zambians by training local farmers. The goal of Bwando Farms is to be one among the best protein food suppliers that feeds a growing population while continually raising expectations for what good food can do.

Learn about Bwando Farms and support their mission by visiting: https://bwandofarms.com.

About EML Publishing

EML Publishing is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, journalists, and laborers who are fighting for a brighter day for everyone, everywhere. Union solidarity forever.

Working 9 to 5 A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and Iconic Movie with Ellen Cassedy

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 11:39:54 -0400

“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal. We held these bad boss contests. Where, the first winner was a boss who had asked his secretary to sew up a hole in his pants while he was wearing them. So it was really dire out there. And when we started speaking up, everyone was so shocked. It was like the wallpaper had come alive.”

Ellen Cassedy, 9 to 5

About the 9 to 5 Movement

Starting out in Boston in 1973, the women of 9 to 5 built a nationwide feminist movement that united people of diverse races, classes, and ages. They took on the corporate titans. They leafleted, filed lawsuits, and started a woman-led union. They won millions of dollars in back pay and helped make sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination illegal.

“The entire time that we were working on the movie I could carry in my heart that this was married to a movement.”

— JANE FONDA

When women rose up to win rights and respect at the office, they transformed workplaces throughout America. Along the way came Dolly Parton’s toe-tapping song and the movie inspired by their work. Working 9 to 5 is a lively, informative, firsthand account packed with practical organizing lore that will embolden anyone striving for fair treatment.

Buy the book 9 to 5 at https://ellencassedy.com/#9to5

About Ellen

Ellen Cassedy was a founder and longtime leader of 9 to 5, the national association of women office workers. Working 9 to 5 is her first-person account of this exciting movement, which began in the early 1970’s, mobilizing women across the country to organize for rights and respect on the job. The movement inspired Jane Fonda’s hit movie and Dolly Parton’s enduring anthem. 9 to 5 is still active today.

Ellen appears in the documentaries “9 to 5: The Story of a Movement” and “Still Working 9 to 5.”

Ellen is the award-winning author of We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust, in which her journey to connect with her Jewish family roots expands into a wider quest. She explores how people in Lithuania are engaging with their Nazi and Soviet past in order to move toward a more tolerant future. Winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize for Nonfiction, shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Ellen is also the co-translator of Oedipus in Brooklyn and Other Stories by Blume Lempel, a collection that moves between the realistic and the fantastic, the lyrical and the philosophical. The translation received the Leviant Memorial Prize from the Modern Language Association, among other awards.

Ellen is the translator of On the Landing: Stories by Yenta Mash, which traces an arc across upheavals and regime changes, making a major contribution to the literature of immigration and resilience.

Ellen’s play, “Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn,” celebrates the spare beauty of a small but important life, with help from Walt Whitman. It was adapted into a short film starring Joanna Merlin, which qualified for an Academy Award nomination.

Ellen was a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, a speechwriter in the Clinton Administration, and author of two previous books for working women. Her articles have appeared in numerous publications. She lives in New York City.

Ellen’s Tips for Writers offer advice about writing and being a writer.

You can follow Ellen’s work at

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About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

The Labor Solidarity Podcast is a part of the EML Publishing brands and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. Learn more: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab

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MLK Tapes: What We’ve Learned About the Interests Fighting Unity and Organized Labor

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:16:59 -0500

“It's a matter of history now. With the podcast, it's not in a book somewhere that's just gonna sit in a library and nobody's gonna read it. Those voices are up in the ether, and they will remain there until the earth falls into the sun. So anybody going forward who wants to write something about the murder of Martin Luther King is going to have to deal with those people, those voices, those witnesses that we gathered there. You will not be able to go around it and not deal with it.”

Bill Klaber

Producer and Host of The MLK Tapes

Martin Luther King, Jr. was in Memphis to organize the sanitation workers heading into the summer of 1968's Poor People's Campaign to march on Washington, D.C., demanding an Economic Bill of Rights.

King was uniting the trifecta of labor, civil rights, and anti-war factions. As I listened to The MLK Tapes, I was blown away by the obliteration of the official narrative while getting a glimpse of the ghastly forces aligned against everything King was trying to do.

Explore The True Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King’s Assassination, Complete with Rare Eye Witness Testimonies, in “The MLK Tapes,” From Tenderfoot TV and iHeartMedia

“The MLK Tapes,” is a true crime podcast exploring never-before-heard details about what happened to King on the day of his death, with rare recordings of eye-witness testimonies and new interviews with people who were there to reveal the true story of the plot to kill Dr. King.

According to the official story, on April 4th, 1968, a lone gunman assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. That man, James Earl Ray, pled guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison and for most people, the case was closed.

However, there is more to the story, including a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the King Family that concluded Martin Luther King’s death was the result of a conspiracy involving multiple groups, including government agencies.

The series is be hosted by William (Bill) Klaber, an author and co-host of the podcast “The RFK Tapes”, who has been investigating the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy since 1989. While working on “The RFK Tapes,” Klaber interviewed a man named Bill Pepper, who spent forty years investigating the assassination of his friend, Dr. King.

Pepper’s decades-long investigation included recording witnesses on tape. They revealed what they saw, and in some cases, what they had done. When Klaber heard this audio it opened up another opportunity to expose the lies in a 50-year-old murder mystery using secrets that had been hidden on tapes.

Listen to the MLK Tapes at: https://themlktapes.com

You can follow Bill Klaber and Tender Foot Media’s work at:

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About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

The Labor Solidarity Podcast is a part of the EML Publishing brands and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. Learn more: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab

Union Solidarity Forever.

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African Artist’s Intellectual Property with Foza Fawehinmi - Artist Works

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:44:36 -0500

“You are also competing with the guy that goes on TikTok and eats 10,000 pieces of meat and is a superstar. Right? So Superstardom is no longer exclusive to artists or filmmakers or actors. I really feel for the artists.”

Foza Fawehinmi, President, Digital Music Commerce and Exchange Limited

Foza Fawehinmi is an award-winning lawyer and the President of Digital Music Commerce and Exchange Limited, an intellectual property valuation, management and administration company serving sub-Saharan Africa. Over the last 9 years, she has served as a legal advisory and business consultant for some of Africa’s most reputable entertainment companies and artists including, Chocolate City Music, Premier Records, Boomplay Music, Infinix Nigeria, K1 De Ultimate, Teni, Adekunle Gold, The Sarz Academy, Sarz and more

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About EMLab’s Artist Works

Artist Works is an EMLab brand that explores the labor, concepts, and inspiration behind the artists illuminating and shaping our world.