Labor Heritage Power Hour

Can the Victims of Slavery Save Democracy?

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:00:00 -0500

This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour: SEIU President April Verrett on worker power and democracy, The Pitt star Noah Wyle on unions, Kathy Newman on Pittsburgh labor history, Sean Duffy’s favorite labor song, Labor History in 2:00 on Frances Perkins, plus the latest labor arts news and events.

Broadcast on March 5, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.
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Goliath at Sunset, Comrades in Arms

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0500

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: former shipyard welder and activist Jonathan Brandow talks about his new novel Goliath at Sunset, inspired by rank-and-file organizing and multiracial solidarity in the 1970s Boston shipyards. Plus, the DC Labor Chorus is featured in Jay Mallin’s “Highly Visible” video; Set the Earth on Fire author David Correia’s favorite labor song; Labor History in 2:00 with Rick Smith; and the latest labor arts and culture news.

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Broadcast on February 26, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.

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Songs of Revolution and Protest

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0500

This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour, we bring you an all-music special from The Downbeat Music Show (Florence, Oregon), featuring powerful songs of revolution and protest. From historic anthems to contemporary voices of resistance, this hour explores how music has fueled movements, challenged injustice, and sustained working people in the fight for dignity and democracy.
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Broadcast on February 19, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.

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Striking At Kings

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0500

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, latest labor arts news, including Lottie Walker’s one-woman show about East London union leader Sarah Wesker and the return of the Labor Oscars. We hear from songwriter Mindy Murray about her powerful new song “Striking at Kings,” inspired by the 1938 King Farm strike, plus a Labor History in 2:00 look at the 1903 Oxnard Strike. Young adult author J. Albert Mann interviews labor journalist Kim Kelly about Fight to Win and teaching labor history to young people, and we close with a fearless, funny, and furious moment from Carsie Blanton, calling for solidarity and dignity for working musicians.

Broadcast on February 12, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.

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Songs for Minneapolis

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:00 -0500

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: highlights from the 2026 Labor Grammys—including the winning song—and we talk with singer David Rovics about songwriting, AI, and why stories move people more than slogans. Plus: powerful medleys from LHF’s new Songs for Minneapolis playlist, a deep-dive interview with David Correia (Set the Earth on Fire) on the 1902 anthracite strike and the roots of modern policing, and, on Labor History in 2:00, the President calls in the feds. Plus, a tribute to beloved WPFW engineer Mighty Myke Nasella.

Broadcast on February 5, 2026; Chris Garlock, host/producer; Harold Phillips, producer/announcer (labor arts news); Patrick Dixon, producer (Correia interview); David Correia interview by Sean Duffy; WPFW engineering by Kahlia Chapman.
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A Brick and a Bible

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:00:00 -0500

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour: We explore the forgotten 1933 Funsten Nut Strike in St. Louis with playwrights Kathryn Bentley and Colin McLaughlin, creators of the new play A Brick and a Bible, about Black women workers who organized thousands during the Great Depression.

Then, from the Labor Notes podcast, director Chris Sessions and Andy Myers of Working Films discuss the documentary Partners: How Starbucks Baristas Started a Labor Revolution and how screenings are being used to build real-world solidarity.

Plus: the latest labor arts and history news and Labor History in 2:00.

Broadcast on January 29, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Shannon Drake; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Murderous billionaires, labor’s racial divide, and DC Labor Chorus concert highlights

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:07:18 -0500

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, culture, history, and struggle collide.

We begin with cultural critic Kathleen Newman, who reflects on labor themes surfacing in contemporary film and television—from Netflix’s The Beast in Me to Apple TV’s Pluribus—and how stories of power, class, and exploitation continue to shape popular culture.

Next, historian Rudi Batzell takes a deep dive into the roots of division within the U.S. labor movement. Drawing from his work on race, class, and strikebreaking in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Batzell explores how racial divisions—and the legacy of slavery—shaped the limits of early union organizing. This segment comes from a labor history series produced by Patrick Dixon for America’s Work Force Radio, hosted by Ed “Flash” Ferenc.

We close with highlights from the powerful DC Labor Chorus 2025 holiday concert—songs of resistance, solidarity, and immigrant justice that remind us why music remains central to movement-building.

Plus: the latest labor arts news, including registration now open for the 2026 Labor Notes Conference and Great Labor Arts Exchange, organizing wins across the museum sector, and more.

Broadcast on January 22, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Harold Phillips; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Homestead Strike Reimagined; Made by Labour

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:20:15 -0500

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour: cultural critic Kathleen Newman takes us inside The Hidden Shift, a dramatic two-screen film installation inspired by the 1892 Homestead Strike—complete with a Pinkerton, a suspected murder, and questions of loyalty and solidarity.
Historian Martin Wright (Made by Labour) joins us for a conversation on working-class history and memory.
Plus, the latest labor arts news—including organizing wins across museums, bookstores, animation studios, and the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum—and a new Labor History in 2 on the founding of Britain’s Independent Labour Party.

Broadcast on January 15, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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When Workers Tell Their Own Stories

Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:00:00 -0500

This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour, we explore what happens when workers recognize their power—and use it to imagine something better.

We begin with a conversation about the post-pandemic union upsurge. Labor organizer and researcher Eric Dirnbach talks with Dave Kamper, author of Who’s Got the Power: Hope for Troubled Times, about graduate student organizing, teachers’ strikes, the UAW’s stand-up strike, and the return of solidarity as a force for change. Drawing on history and recent victories, Kamper reflects on why moments of crisis can also be moments of possibility.

Then we head to Italy with a report from the Working Class History podcast, taking us to the 2025 Working Class Literature Festival at the occupied former GKN factory outside Florence. There, workers are fighting not only to save their jobs, but to transform their workplace into a cooperative—while creating space for writers, artists, and organizers to tell their own stories.

PLUS: The 1916 Youngstown Massacre and Carsie Blanton’s “Little Flame”.

From union halls to occupied factories, from organizing drives to poetry and song, this episode reminds us that labor history isn’t just something we remember—it’s something we’re still making.

Broadcast on January 8, 2026; hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Labor songs for the fightback (Encore with added tracks!)

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:00:00 -0500

This week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Chris and Elise spin labor songs to boost your spirits.
Playlist: Unaccountable - Elise Bryant & Steve Jones; Who's Gonna Build Your Wall - Tom Russell; All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose - The Solidarity Singers of the New Jersey State Industrial Union Council; A Strike Song (VirginLV) – Culinary Union; The Communists Have the Music - They Might Be Giants; What We Want - Shelby Bottom Duo; Union Conga - Al Bradbury; Bread and Roses-Women of the World; People Have the Power - Patti Smith; Time For A General Strike - Mike Stout; Have You Been To Jail For Justice - Anne Feeney.
1/2/26 Newly-added bonus tracks: No Contract No Coffee; Are You a Human or a Bot; Prompt Engineers; Waiting for AGI (Ai-Tsuno/Dave Rovics)
Original show aired 2/20/25.

Broadcast on January 1, 2026 from WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and on stations across the Pacifica network.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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A Discography of Workers’ Revolt (Encore)

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 21:51:01 -0500

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Chris Garlock sits down with Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers’ Revolt authors Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block to spin and unpack strike records from the ’60s–’80s—including the rousing 1978 EP “Ford Workers on Strike.” A fast-moving tour of worker-made music and how vinyl captured picket lines, speeches, and solidarity anthems.

Broadcast on December 25, 2025 (originally released September 4, 2025) on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Labor Radio; The Dig; Power Line Podcast; The Workers' Mic; The Heartland Labor Forum

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:38:36 -0500

This week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly takes a wide-angle look at where labor power is showing up right now—on the shop floor, in politics, in culture, and across the media landscape.

We start on The Workers’ Mic, where hosts are joined by The Labor Radio Podcast Network’s Chris Garlock and Harold Phillips to talk about why independent labor media matters and how the Network connects worker struggles across industries and regions.

From there, The Dig digs into the political moment, with Eric Blanc, Leah Greenberg, and Waleed Shahid examining the liberal resistance’s sharp left turn and what it means for organizing and strategy moving forward.

On Labor Radio from WORT in Madison, it’s a packed labor news roundup—from state worker rallies and dairy workers authorizing a strike to Starbucks organizing wins and fights over school voucher transparency.

We also hear from Heartland Labor Forum, which takes on the often-overlooked issue of mental health in the labor movement, spotlighting union-led programs that support members and their families.

Our unusual pick this week comes from the Power Line Podcast, featuring a tailgate conversation with Austin Carr—known online as “America’s Favorite Lineman”—on life in the trades and how social media is reshaping work and identity.

Plus, in our Shows You Should Know speed round, we spotlight more voices across the Network, including The Wealthy Ironworker, Boiling Point, RadioLabour Canada, El Cafecito del Día, and The CWA Hour of Power, and we pause to remember Ken Nash of Building Bridges.

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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.

Produced by Chris Garlock, edited by Patrick Dixon, social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.

“A Red Carol”

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:14:10 -0500

On today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: "People always think this story is about you,” Bob Crachit tells Scrooge in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “A Red Carol” radio play. “But it ain’t about you, it’s about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, it’s you steppin’ over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, it’s us lettin’ you turn our government into a casino, listenin’ while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standin’ up and shouting "NO!"'

“It ain’t about you," Cratchit says. "It’s about us.”

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Produced by the San Francisco Mime Troupe; Broadcast on December 18, 2025; WPFW broadcast engineered by Kahlia Chapman.

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Care, Craft, and Community: Inside “The Doublewide”

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:43:45 -0500

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, novelist Ann Goethals joins us to share the stories behind The Doublewide, her powerful debut novel about caregiving, community, and the invisible labor that holds our world together. Ann reads from the opening chapter and reflects on her years as a teacher, union activist, and caregiver navigating the realities of dementia care.

We’ve also got Labor Arts News Briefs, including big wins for PAs organizing with LIUNA, a new contract at the Los Angeles Times, and a first contract victory at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Plus: exciting news about the return of the Labor Oscars and Labor Grammys under the Labor Heritage Foundation’s banner.

Then we turn to Labor History in 2:00, tracing the fall of the Knights of Labor and the rise of the American Federation of Labor — two very different visions of the labor movement.

Plus a sneak preview of next week’s show, the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s radio drama, A Red Carol.

Broadcast on December 11, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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When the Machines Start to Sing

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:00:00 -0500

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour: Singer–songwriter and longtime movement troubadour David Rovics joins us to talk about his unlikely collaboration with an AI persona he calls Ai Tsuno, which has already produced nearly 40 songs in a stunning range of styles. We dig into what it means to “vibe code” music, how expertise and craft still matter in avoiding “AI slop,” why this technology threatens the jobs of working musicians, and why Rovics believes we’ll need something like universal basic income as AI transforms whole professions. Along the way, we hear clips from new labor anthems including No Contract, No Coffee and In the Age of AI.

Then we travel back to December 3, 1946, when Oakland workers shut down their city in a historic general strike. Drawing on accounts from Stan Weir, we tell the story of how one unlikely pop hit—“Pistol Packin’ Mama,” by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters—blared from jukeboxes dragged onto the sidewalks, becoming the unofficial soundtrack of the uprising and reminding us how popular culture and class struggle collide in surprising ways.

We close with a joyful preview of the DC Labor Chorus’ annual Favorite and Sacred Songs concert (Sat., Dec. 6, free; RSVP here). We feature a powerful medley including “None of Us Are Free,” “We Did Not Come This Far” and a union-flavored holiday wish for justice and good contracts—a taste of the spirit, harmony, and solidarity waiting for audiences this weekend.

Broadcast on December 4, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and stations across the country on the Pacifica network.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; editing by Patrick Dixon, produced by Chris Garlock, engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

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Work Songs (Encore)

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:06:01 -0500

This week's show: Workers have been singing while working and singing about working since antiquity; the Heartland Labor Forum’s Mark Galus plays classics from Billy Bragg, Joe Glazer and Anne Feeney as well as some more obscure folk and punk tracks.

Broadcast on November 27, 2025 (Original broadcast December 5, 2024).
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; original source The Heartland Labor Forum (KKFI in Kansas City); this version produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0500

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour:
Historian Robert W. Snyder joins us to discuss When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers, a powerful collection of oral histories from the frontline workers who kept NYC alive during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Interviewed by Tim Sheard—veteran nurse, labor organizer, and Hard Ball Press publisher—we explore the trauma, courage, inequality, and solidarity that defined the era, and the urgent need to preserve these memories.

Then, historian Peter Cole takes us to the Philadelphia waterfront with Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly. Recorded at the 9th annual Reuther–Pollack Labor History Symposium, hosted by the WALS Foundation, Cole tells the story of one of the most important—and too often forgotten—Black labor leaders in American history, who led an interracial, militant IWW union decades before the Civil Rights Act.

Broadcast on November 20, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and stations across the country on the Pacifica network.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Bernie, Debs & the Sound of Solidarity

Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0500

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Senator Bernie Sanders accepts the Eugene V. Debs Award in Terre Haute, celebrating Debs’ legacy of solidarity and social justice — and reminding us that Debs’ vision still guides the labor movement today.
Then, from the Solidarity Works podcast, meet California musician Johnny Miller Jr., who’s keeping labor’s musical traditions alive with songs of struggle, hope, and community.
Plus music from The Local Honeys.

Broadcast on November 13, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Strikes Across Time — Casa Bonita to the Washington Post to Ancient Rome

Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:00:00 -0500

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: three stories of strikes and solidarity in the arts. Casa Bonita performers in Denver walk out for fair pay and safety; journalist Pete Tucker revisits the 1975 Washington Post pressmen’s strike; and historian Sarah Bond’s book Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire uncovers how Roman workers used collective action thousands of years ago.

Broadcast on November 6, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Honest Work and Deadly Deception

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: how labor art and history illuminate both the dignity and danger of work.

In our first segment, photojournalist and union organizer David Bacon talks with photographer Jim Brozek about his exhibit Honest Work at the Museum of Wisconsin Art. Brozek captured working life from the inside — as a crew member, ranch hand, and farm worker — documenting labor’s rhythm, camaraderie, and physical toll from 1976 to 1985.

Then, we turn to Deadly Deception: The Asbestos Tragedy in McLean County, an award-winning exhibit at the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington, Illinois. David LeGrande, former Occupational Safety and Health Director for the Communications Workers of America, interviews Mike Matejka about the hidden cost of corporate greed and the community’s ongoing fight for justice.

From ships and fields to factory floors, these are stories of workers’ courage, creativity, and solidarity.

Broadcast on October 30 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and stations across the country.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Songs that Organize, Strikes that Endure

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:20:35 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: We dig into how culture fuels courage on the shop floor and the strike line. First, legendary organizer–songwriter Si Kahn breaks down the organizer’s “secret weapon”: parody. From Joe Hill’s “new words to old tunes” to the brand-new “Solidarity at Starbucks,” we explore why familiar melodies can turn a crowd into a chorus—fast.

Then we head to Camp Solidarity in Matewan, West Virginia for “Lessons from the Massey Strike.” UMWA veterans Charles “Hawkeye” Dixon, Howard Phillips, and Eddie Burke take us inside the 1984–85 fight with Massey: the tactics, the unity, the losses, and what it took to stop production and keep a union alive.

All hour long, it’s WPFW’s Fall Fund Drive. If the music, history, and first-person voices you hear here matter to you, help keep Jazz & Justice strong and independent: wpfwfm.org or 1-800-222-9739; $12.50/month makes you a sustainer; any amount makes you family.

Broadcast on October 23, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and Pacifica stations and affiliates across America.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Laurel’s Legacy, Fannie Lou & Joe Hill’s Ashes

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: We dedicate this week's show to Laurel Blaydes (1952–2022) — singer, organizer, and former director of the Labor Heritage Foundation—on the week she would have turned 73. Co-host Elise Bryant shares reflections on Laurel’s artistry and why labor culture sustains us in hard times, before we hear Laurel’s 1981 Labor Solidarity Day performance of “Hold the Fort” with Joe Uehlein, Tommy Moran, and John Gower.
Then: the work, art, and voice of Fannie Lou Hamer—sharecropper’s daughter, timekeeper, Freedom Singer, and SNCC organizer. We spin the brand-new “Fannie Lou” from Baltimore’s R.J. Phillips Band, followed by Hamer herself singing “Pick a Bale of Cotton.”
In our second segment, the Heartland Labor Forum talks with historian Marcella Bencivenni about Arturo Giovannitti—Italian-born union leader, poet, and a key organizer of the 1912 Bread & Roses strike—whose free-speech trial helped define labor’s voice.
Our third segment is the Labor Song of the Week: Otis Gibbs’ “Joe Hill’s Ashes,” and we go out with Laurel Blaydes singing “What Will I Leave” at the 2004 Great Labor Arts Exchange.

It’s also WPFW’s Fall Fund Drive this week. If this mix of music, memory, and movement matters to you, please become a sustaining member and keep Jazz & Justice strong: wpfwfm.org or call 1-800-222-9739.

Broadcast on October 16, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and Pacifica stations across America.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Baristas vs. Billionaires; Roberts’ Fire & Gerard’s Grit

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: From a Buffalo coffee shop to a national movement, this week’s show pours a strong cup of worker power. Chris talks with Oscar-nominated director and former steelworker Mark Mori about “Baristas vs. Billionaires,” his new film on the Starbucks union drive. Then we head to Matewan for UMWA President Cecil Roberts’ barnburner on courage, history, and who this land belongs to. We close with street-level memories of former Steelworkers president Leo Gerard and his mic-grabbing solidarity. Plus Labor History in 2.00 and a brand-new version of Woody Guthrie’s classic “Deportee” from Colleen Kattau.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Donora’s Dark Air, Labor’s Bright Colors

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: A visit to the Donora Smog Museum, where a six-day inversion in 1948 trapped toxic fumes over a mill town and changed how the U.S. thinks about work, health, and accountability. Then educator and Mine Wars Museum co-founder Wilma Steele unpacks how a simple red bandana—rooted in centuries-old paisley—became a living symbol of union solidarity.
PLUS: Dropkick Murphy's frontman Ken Casey’s Favorite Labor Song, and a double helping of Labor History in 2:00, with the “Jerry Rescue” of 1851 and the 1919 Elaine Massacre.

Broadcast on October 2, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and other stations across the country.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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From New Orleans to Detroit: Stories of Solidarity and Survival

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, host Chris Garlock is joined by guest co-host Kimmon “MacGyver” Williams. In our first segment, MacGyver talks with Matt Olson from the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice about Don’t Stand Alone, a striking traveling exhibit that recovers the hidden histories of Black labor organizing in New Orleans and brings them to life through art, storytelling, and solidarity.

Then Dan Golodner, co-host of the Tales from the Reuther Library podcast, talks with Dr. Kendra Boyd, author of “Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit”, which explores the history of Detroit’s Black migration, entrepreneurship, and the struggle against so-called “Negro removal” as urban renewal projects dismantled thriving Black business districts.

Plus: the latest labor arts news, including new unions at the San Diego Zoo, Broadway contract fights, Writers Guild recognition at children’s TV producers, and a remembrance of former United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard, honored for his deep support of labor art and culture.

Broadcast on September 25, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC. and other Pacifica stations.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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High Iron and Higher Stakes — Unions, Antisemitism Myths, and a Boxcar for Labor

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: historian Joe McCartin unpacks Congress’s “Unmasking Union Antisemitism,” showing how employers have long weaponized antisemitic tropes against unions while Jewish workers helped build a pluralistic, democratic labor movement—and why the latest push is really about weakening unions and chilling speech. Then producer Patrick Dixon talks with artist-anthropologist Aubrey Edwards about High Iron, a traveling boxcar-turned-community museum honoring the immigrant and Indigenous workers who built the West’s railroads, towns, and economy. Two stories, one thread: who tells America’s story—the power brokers, or the people who built it?

Broadcast on September 18, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and other stations across America.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Big Tops & Big Struggles: Labor, Art, and the Circus World

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: former circus hand Chris Bricker talks with historian Andrea Ringer about her new book, Circus World: Roustabouts, Animals, and the Work of Putting on The Big Show—a deep dive into the hidden labor that built 14-acre tent cities, from riggers and animal trainers to strikes that shaped the spectacle. Then organizer and cultural strategist Ken Grossinger returns with updates on Art Works: How organizers and artists are creating a better world together and how artists and organizers are joining forces, why authoritarians target culture first, and what it takes to scale creative power across unions and communities.
PLUS, on Labor History in 2:00: The Lattimer Massacre and Chicago Teachers Say, Enough!

Broadcast on September 11, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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A Discography of Workers’ Revolt

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Chris Garlock sits down with Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers’ Revolt authors Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block to spin and unpack strike records from the ’60s–’80s—including the rousing 1978 EP “Ford Workers on Strike.” A fast-moving tour of worker-made music and how vinyl captured picket lines, speeches, and solidarity anthems.

Broadcast on September 4, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Strike While the Needle is Hot

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:45:38 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Shanara Gabrielle on Theater Alliance’s fire work, then Zoltoid, the Worker Safety Oracle with Jay Herzmark. Plus previews from our Labor Day Special—Strike While the Needle is Hot (Josh MacPhee/Kennedy Block’s strike-record book, featuring Ford Workers on Strike) and Labor 131 with Jessie Wilkerson on the 1929 Elizabethton rayon strike.
Labor Day Special airs Monday, Sept 1, 11am–1pm EDT on WPFW 89.3FM

Broadcast on August 28, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and Pacifica stations across the country.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Poems of Work, Songs of Struggle

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Poet Martín Espada joins Susan Eisenberg to read from Jailbreak of Sparrows—poems of work, class, and immigrant labor, including “Look at This” and “The Snake.” Then we mark the IWW’s Little Red Songbook anniversary with four classics: “Hold the Fort,” “The Internationale,” “Dump the Bosses Off Your Back,” and “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues.”

Broadcast on August 21, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC, and other stations across America on the Pacifica Network.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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How We Get Free — Naomi R Williams on Worker Solidarity in Racine

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour, scholar and creator Shana L. Redmond sits down with Naomi R Williams, Assistant Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University, to discuss Williams' new book A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin.

Williams takes us into the history of Racine, Wisconsin — a small industrial city where, in the 1970s and 80s, workers built cross-racial, cross-sector alliances that transformed their community. From “total person unionism” to coalitions linking labor, civil rights, and women’s movements, Racine’s story offers a powerful blueprint for building democracy and justice today.

This episode also features John Lewis Says Freedom, a brand-new song from musical storyteller and political satirist Charlie King.

WPFW’s Summer Fund Drive—support the station for jazz and justice here or call 202-588-9739.

Tags: labor history, worker solidarity, Racine Wisconsin, Naomi Williams, Shauna Redmond, unions, WPFW, Summer Fund Drive, civil rights, total person unionism

Broadcast on August 14, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC. and other stations across America on the Pacifica Network.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Kimmon “Macgyver” Williams; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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From Tolpuddle to Texas & Frisco: Labor’s Long Ride

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: We kick off with Billy Bragg singing Power in a Union at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival and end with his moving anthem Help Save the Youth of America. In between, we explore labor solidarity from the streets of San Francisco’s LaborFest to the windswept plains of Texas, where cowboys once went on strike. Plus: labor poetry, cooperative alternatives, and Rick Smith on Reagan vs. PATCO. Music, memory, and the power of collective action—all in one hour.

Broadcast on August 7, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and stations on the Pacifica network across the country. Support independent media during WPFW’s Summer Fund Drive—donate today at wpfwfm.org. Your gift keeps shows like this on the air.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour, we open with a tribute to the late Tom Lehrer, the sharp-witted satirist who reminded us that protest songs can be powerful and hilarious. His classic “The Folk Song Army” kicks off a show that digs deep into the contradictions of American progress.

We mark the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal with a revealing conversation between author Mark S. Ferrara and labor educator Linda Donahue, who explore the hidden histories of the immigrant diggers, displaced communities, orphan mule drivers, and working-class women who built and lived along the canal. Ferrara’s book The Raging Erie tells a vivid and unsettling story of how labor shaped — and was shaped by — one of the nation’s greatest infrastructure projects.

Then, we turn to Charlie King, who reflects on the chilling echoes of McCarthyism in the 1980s when American Express asked potential Louisville workers: “Are you now or have you ever been a member of a union?” His response: a stirring modern protest song that’s as relevant today as ever.

Plus: your weekly Labor History in 2:00 from Rick Smith.

The Labor Heritage Power Hour originates on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC. and is broadcast on stations across the Pacifica network.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Art Works (Encore)

Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: An inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change: Ken Grossinger on his 2023 book Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together. Check out the Art Works music playlist on Spotify.
PLUS: Stand Up, Don’t Sit Down; An excerpt from AFSCME’s I AM STORY podcast.
Originally broadcast 7/6/23 & 7/18/24

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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The Hard Work of Hope

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Ron Carver sits down with lifelong activist and author Michael Ansara, whose powerful new memoir The Hard Work of Hope traces his journey from a 13-year-old stepping into a Woolworth’s picket line to leading anti-war and grassroots campaigns across the country. Ansara reflects on building hope through action, the lessons of SDS, and the importance of solidarity today.

We celebrate John Lewis' birthday with Linda Allen’s “Good Trouble,” and hear fiery remarks from APWU President Mark Dimondstein, winner of the 2025 Joe Hill Award, on the power of labor history, resistance, and the role of the arts in the fight for justice.

Plus: Labor arts news, contract wins from the SNL VFX crew, video game performers, and Annapolis Symphony musicians. And we remember civil rights legend Ida B. Wells and the 1934 San Francisco General Strike in this week’s Labor History.

Check, check—1, 2, 1, 2—don’t miss this packed episode of labor voices, music, poetry, and power.

Broadcast on July 17, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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“We Are Union, Hallelujah!”: Laborpalooza and More

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, we bring you live music, radical art, and labor history from across time and place.
First, we take you to McGinty’s Public House in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, for Laborpalooza—the high-energy Saturday night concert June 21 at the 2025 Great Labor Arts Exchange. From contest-winning songs and poems to fiery hip hop, choral harmonies, and satirical anthems, this episode captures the spirit of a movement that sings, rhymes, and dances for justice.
Then, we return to part two of artist and printmaker Eric Ruin’s deep and honest conversation with Tabitha Arnold. Eric reflects on the challenges and contradictions of living as a mid-career artist—balancing ambition, solidarity work, and creative survival in a system that rarely values art for its own sake.
Finally, in Labor History in Two, we remember Ella Reeve “Mother” Bloor, the undercover labor activist and early socialist leader born on this day in 1862.

Hosted by Chris Garlock. Produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and broadcast on WPFW 89.3 FM and the Pacifica Network.

🖥️ Watch full performances from Laborpalooza on the Labor Heritage Foundation YouTube channel.

Broadcast on July 10, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and Pacifica stations across the U.S.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.
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Class, Power, and Primetime

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour, cultural critic Kathleen M. Newman joins Chris Garlock to unpack how class, power, and work are portrayed in three hit TV series: The Residence, Running Point, and Your Friends and Neighbors. From the White House to pro sports to suburban secrets, these shows pull back the curtain on the invisible labor that makes elite worlds run—and the messy lives behind the glamour. Plus, what happens when working-class characters finally get their own stories?

Broadcast on July 3, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and on the Pacifica network.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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The Screenwriter Who Fought Back

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour: We go behind the scenes of Hollywood’s Golden Age with J.E. Smyth, author of Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Screenwriter. SAG-AFTRA member Harold Phillips talks with Smyth about McCall’s groundbreaking career, her role in founding the Screen Writers Guild, and her fight for union recognition in an industry built on stars but powered by words.

Then we head to San Francisco for a preview of this year’s LaborFest, commemorating the 1934 General Strike with a month-long lineup of labor walks, films, music, and international solidarity. Organizer Steve Zeltzer shares what’s on tap this July—and why art and culture remain vital tools in the struggle for workers' rights.

Originating on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and broadcast on Pacifica Radio stations across the country.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Print. Protest. Repeat.

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Publisher Tim Sheard reflects on a life of storytelling and organizing—from the founding of Hardball Press to his latest project, Asian Workers Stories. Then, artist and printmaker Eric Ruin talks with Tabitha Arnold about class rage, punk rock, and how zine culture shaped his radical artistic journey. Plus, Rosemary Feurer shares her favorite labor song, and we’ve got your Labor History in 2:00.

Broadcast on June 19, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Songs of Solidarity and Struggle from ICE Raids to Cowboy Strikes

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:00:16 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Francisco Herrera calls on music as a tool of resistance against ICE raids and repression in California; Carsie Blanton and Colleen Kattau bring songs of truth and freedom; Will Attig shares his favorite labor anthem; Seth Newton Patel digs into the 1883 Cowboy Strike; plus a double dose of Labor History in 2:00 and Little Steven’s Bitter Fruit.

Broadcast on June 12, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Who Will Stand With Us?

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour: Two powerful stories of solidarity and creative resistance. Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey joins veteran labor organizer William Attig to talk music, organizing, and their new single Who'll Stand With Us?, ahead of Friday’s Unite for Veterans, Unite for America rally in D.C.
Then, John Beck of Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives explores Tales from the Cleaners, a new volume in the Workers Write! series from Blue Cubicle Press.
Plus, Labor History in 2:00 looks back at the history of the minimum wage.

Broadcast on June 5, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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“Trump the Uniter?” Labor Struggles and Resistance

Fri, 30 May 2025 07:15:00 -0400

On today’s Labor Radio Podcast Daily: Trump’s crackdown in Newark backfires, uniting protestors and sparking global anti-fascist solidarity. From What’s Going On Labor Mondays. On today’s labor arts calendar: the film Lilly — about equal pay trailblazer Lilly Ledbetter — screens online, and High Iron, an immersive rail labor experience, is on view in Laramie, Wyoming.
In today’s labor history: remembering the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937.

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“Set Their Hearts on Fire”

Thu, 29 May 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Art doesn’t just reflect the movement—it shapes it. Chattanooga-based artist Tabitha Arnold talks with comics artist and organizer Michael DeForge about how art fuels organizing, the tension between creativity and capitalism, and the quiet revolution of caring for one another. They explore how illustration becomes agitation, and why even a bird on the moon might carry a message of resistance.

Then in part two of our conversation with artist and movement strategist Ricardo Levins Morales, he reflects on lessons from the road, the forest, and the picket line. From hitchhiking as a radical teen to defusing activist conflict, Morales offers a deeply rooted vision for organizing that centers healing, clarity, and a commitment to winning. He unpacks the difference between messaging and truth-telling, the power of a second grader’s sense of justice, and the trickster wisdom we need to navigate today's challenges.

Plus: Labor History in 2:00 remembers a powerful day of solidarity in 1946 New York, and a brand-new song from the Dropkick Murphys.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant. Produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation, airing on WPFW 89.3 FM and the Pacifica Network. A proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Broadcast on May 29, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Voices of Labor, from the Vatican to the Big Top

Thu, 22 May 2025 18:22:14 -0400

This special edition of the Labor Heritage Power Hour features the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly with stories from across the movement: Pope Leo XIII’s legacy, FAA system failures, frontline Social Security workers, Canadian union solidarity, the 4-day workweek, circus elephants, and a tribute to Wobbly poet T-Bone Slim.

Broadcast on May 22, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and Pacifica stations across the country.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Solidarity, Song, and the Last Human Job

Thu, 15 May 2025 15:22:13 -0400

This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour, we bring you powerful voices from the frontlines of labor struggle and song. UAW President Shawn Fain accepts the 2025 Solidarity Forever Award with a stirring call to action: “Solidarity isn’t a slogan—it’s a muscle.” Plus, sociologist Allison Pugh joins us to discuss The Last Human Job, her new book on the vanishing art of connective labor—from therapists and teachers to VA counselors and hairdressers.

Also on the show: a Labor History Month crossover with the Labor History Today and Power At Work podcasts, as historians Joe McCartin and Veronica Martinez-Matsuda connect past and present struggles—from PATCO to Trump’s anti-worker agenda. And we remember radical songwriter T-Bone Slim, whose century-old labor ballads still resonate today.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Electrify, Amplify, Organize

Thu, 08 May 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week on The Labor Heritage Power Hour: Tim Lawson spotlights the IBEW’s electrifying photo contest; Tabitha Arnold talks with Australian cartoonist Sam Wallman about art, labor, and organizing; and Samantha Smith shares the forgotten story of Las Vegas showgirls fighting to unionize. Plus, music from the DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert with Joe Jencks and SongRise DC.

Broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM and stations across the Pacifica Network.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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We Remember, We Sing, We Fight: May Day Voices

Thu, 01 May 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour celebrates May Day with stories of struggle, song, and solidarity. We preview Lilly, the DC Labor FilmFest opening night film about equal pay champion Lilly Ledbetter, and go behind the scenes of Labor’s Martyr, a new musical about Joe Hill. Plus: a visit to the American Mural Project and the story behind the labor song “Dig a Hole.” All that and more, this week on the Power Hour.

Broadcast on May 1, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC. and stations across America on the Pacifica Network; we’re also a founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

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Signs, Songs & Solidarity Hunts

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour: Chicago workers turn paint into protest at an Art Build for Workers Memorial Day and May Day. We preview the 25th annual DC Labor FilmFest, join a Pokémon-style May Day Scavenger Hunt in Washington State, and reveal the winner of the 2025 General Strike Song Contest. Art, film, and music—all fueling the fight for workers’ rights. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant.

Broadcast on April 24, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC and other stations across America on the Pacifica Network.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Lights, Action, Harmony: Labor’s Creative Resistance

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Coast to coast on this week’s show as we kick things off in DC with Part 2 of our Labor FilmFest preview, then head to Washington State, where workers are fighting budget cuts with creativity. Finally, Elise Bryant talks with fellow chorus leaders from Seattle and NYC about upcoming concerts, political resistance through song, and the power of solidarity in harmony.
CLICK HERE to watch the Washington For All Anthem music video, courtesy of the Working to Live In Southwest Washington podcast.

Broadcast on April 17, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Para Power & DC Labor FilmFest preview

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: AFT president Randi Weingarten talks with Nick Juravich about class, race and education and his book Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education. PLUS: Nick’s favorite labor song, we preview the DC Labor FilmFest, and, on Labor History in 2:00, Minneapolis teachers strike.

Broadcast on April 10, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Is ‘Severance’ a show about unions?

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:00:00 -0400

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Tabitha Arnold and Rachael Mulvihill take a deep dive into the work issues raised by Apple TV’s hit show ‘Severance’; Plus, an update on the Songs and Chants for the Strike Line Contest and labor poetry from Chris Butters.
And, on Labor History in 2:00: The year was 1937; that was the day workers sat down at the Hershey chocolate plant in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Broadcast on April 3, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Hold The Line; labor art & poetry

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: Singer-songwriter Linda Allen with the story behind her song Hold The Line; artist and organizer Ricardo Levins Morales on how he uses his art as a form of political medicine, and longtime labor leader Stewart Acuff reads from his new book of poetry, Love Is Solidarity in Action.
On Labor History in 2:00: Police Attack UE Amid the ‘46 Strike Wave

Broadcast on March 27, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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American Steel, 2020 PA nurses’ strike

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Alex Lin talks about her new play, American Steel (with a little bonus for our podcast listeners) and the Labor Jawn podcast remembers The St. Mary’s Nurses’ Strike of 2020. Plus we preview “Union”, the R.J. Phillips Band marks the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march and, from Labor History in 2:00, the 85th anniversary of The Grapes of Wrath premiere. Bonus track: Bruce Springsteen’s The Ghost of Tom Joad.

Broadcast on March 20 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Stories of Belonging; Nuggets of Gold

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:00:00 -0400

This week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Stories of Belonging. A free outdoor exhibit of 6-foot-high interactive portraits exploring the history of migrant workers’ struggles to attain American citizenship is on display through the end of the week at Lamont Plaza (3210 Mt Pleasant St NW, Washington DC); Chris talks about the exhibit with its creator, Patricia Campos-Medina, Executive Director of the Worker Institute at Cornell ILR.
Then, behind the ubiquitous Chicken McNugget is a fascinating tale of technological innovation, worker exploitation, and class distinction at the drive-thru. We talk with author Patrick Dixon – a regular contributor to this show – about his new book Nuggets of Gold: Further Processed Chicken and the Making of the American Diet.
Also on today’s show: what we suspect will become a regular feature on the show: new songs of protest and resistance from the frontlines of the ongoing struggles for worker justice. From Steve Jones, inspired by something Congressman Jamie Raskin said at the Labor Heritage Foundation’s annual Gonna Take Us All Ball last month, A Rally a Day. And from Seth Newton Patel, Strike, Strike, Strike, Strike.
On Labor History in 2:00: Victory for the Bread and Roses Strike

Broadcast on March 13, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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1932 Ford Hunger March, Panama’s Box 25, Derry’s missing “Factory Girls”

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:00:00 -0500

This week's show: Dave Elsila on the 1932 Ford Hunger March commemoration in Detroit, labor historian Julie Greene talks about her new book, “Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers & The Panama Canal,” and Chris Garlock searches for Derry’s missing “Factory Girls.”
Today’s music: The Ford Hunger March from "Forgotten -- the Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant"; Panama Canal by the Panama Brass; 'Factory Girls' by ELMA ORKESTRA. Bonus track: The Picket Line by Red Dust.
PLUS: Francis Perkins Named Secretary of Labor, The Worker Uprising that Started the American Revolution and The Exodusters.

Broadcast on March 6, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Nosferatu and the Golden Arches

Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:00:00 -0500

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Alex C. Park on the global rise of the fast-food industry, and Tom McMahon takes a class-based look at Nosferatu.

In our first segment, producer Patrick Dixon talks with Alex C. Park about his experiences inside the Golden Arches, the globalization of the fast food industry and about how McDonalds became an unlikely highlight of last year’s presidential campaign.

Then, writer, cultural critic, and activist Tom McMahon suggests that the horror in Robert Eggers' 2024 film Nosferatu is really about “a vampiric aristocracy that’s siphoning the societal lifeblood of capital, their need to consume taking precedence over all other social bonds, leaving the world to bear the burden of their indifference.” Interview by Tom Zaniello.

On Labor History in 2:00: The year was 2011; that was the day that labor movement took an historic stand in Madison, Wisconsin.

Broadcast on February 27, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

Sources:
"In Fast Food, Worker Stress is the Business Model"
Robert Eggers 'Nosferatu' is a Symphony of Horror

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Labor songs for the fightback

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:32:27 -0500

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Chris and Elise spin labor songs to boost your spirits.
Playlist:
Unaccountable - Elise Bryant & Steve Jones
Who's Gonna Build Your Wall - Tom Russell
All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose - The Solidarity Singers of the New Jersey State Industrial Union Council
A Strike Song (VirginLV) – Culinary Union
The Communists Have the Music - They Might Be Giants
What We Want - Shelby Bottom Duo
Union Conga - Al Bradbury
Bread and Roses-Women of the World
People Have the Power - Patti Smith
Time For A General Strike - Mike Stout
Have You Been To Jail For Justice - Anne Feeney.

Broadcast on February 20, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives? You Betcha!

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:00:00 -0500

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: first we go to St Paul, Minnesota, where producer Lisa Raye Garlock caught up with sculptor Gita Ghei, to talk about Gita’s new show You Betcha! Farmer-Labor Solidarity Is Possible.
Then we hop over to Elise’s old stomping grounds, East Lansing, Michigan, where Chris talks with John Beck about “Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives”, an ongoing series which for more than 30 years now has focused on the artistic traditions of workers and on workplaces as contexts for the expression of workers culture.

Broadcast on February 13, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Theater for the people!

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0500

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: Shanara Gabrielle on The Garbologists, and Jim Walsh on The Romero Theater Troupe at 20; Charlie King on “Bring Back the Eight Hour Day”; On Labor History in 2:00: “The Rebel Girl”.

Broadcast on January 30, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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MLK in Memphis

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0500

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: MLK in Memphis
“We Will Not Be Turned Around”, Part 3 of AFSCME’s I AM STORY podcast about the 1968 sanitation workers’ strike; Joe Uehlein on Morning Song, his tribute to Pete Seeger.
Plus, on Labor History in 2:00: The First MLK Day & The Charleston Five

Broadcast on January 23 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Work is a real-life Squid Game

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0500

What is a life worth? Kathy Newman talks class, work and horror in Squid Game, the dystopian South Korean hit TV show in which desperate players risk their lives for a chance at financial security. Interview by Lisa Raye Garlock.
PLUS: TWU Local 100’s Official Union Anthem, and two helpings of Labor History in 2:00: Fighting for Opportunity & Johnny Cash Plays Folsom Prison

Broadcast on January 16, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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The king of labor song parodies

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0500

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: A chat with Paul McKenna, who’s written more than 400 labor song parodies; today’s songs include We Just Come to Work Here 2020, and My Nursing Heart (both sung by Ben Grosscup); Labor Notes’ editor Al Bradbury with Union Conga; Plus, on Labor History in 2:00, Taking Care of Our Own.

Broadcast on January 9, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Joe Jencks’ Christmas in Mansfield; 2025 Labor Grammys; Lillian Roberts speaks!

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 14:00:00 -0500

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: veteran singer/songwriter Joe Jencks tells us the story behind his song “Christmas in Mansfield,” where Armco locked out 620 steel workers on September 1, 1999.
Then, in our second segment, we’ll hear about Power At Work’s 2025 Labor Grammys, which you’ll be able to vote on, starting January 6.
In our final segment, archival audio of union and civil rights organizer Lillian Roberts, who was jailed in December 1968 for organizing an illegal strike by New York state employees.

Broadcast on January 2, 2025 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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SFMT’s “A Red Carol”

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0500

On today's Labor Heritage Power Hour: SFMT’s “A Red Carol”

"People always think this story is about you,” Bob Crachit tells Scrooge in the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s “A Red Carol” on today’s show. “But it ain’t about you, it’s about us - and how we let ourselves get infected with your ideas, your greed, your lies, it’s you steppin’ over the hungry and homeless and us following your lead, it’s us lettin’ you turn our government into a casino, listenin’ while you say day after day that profit is the new god, and us not standin’ up and shouting "NO!"'

“It ain’t about you," Cratchit says. "It’s about us.”

Click here to support the San Francisco Mime Troupe and here to support WPFW’s jazz and justice in the New Year!

Produced by the San Francisco Mime Troupe; Broadcast on December 26, 2024; WPFW broadcast engineered by Kahlia Chapman.

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Hilary Peach’s Thick Skin (Encore)

Thu, 19 Dec 2024 12:44:39 -0500

On today’s Labor Heritage Power Hour: Writer and recording artist Hilary Peach worked for twenty years as a transient welder, travelling across Canada and the United States, working in pulp mills, chemical plants, refineries, and generating stations. In 2022 she released a memoir about this time, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood; our interviewer is Susan Eisenberg, a poet, visual artist, oral historian and former electrician.

On today’s installment of our “Story Behind the Song” series, Joe Jencks tells us how he came to write his labor classic “Rise As One”. Joe is a 25-year veteran of the international folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter and celebrated vocalist, and a member of A.F.M. Local 1000, the North American Traveling Musicians Union.

On Labor History in 2:00: the year was 1915; on this date, the most popular labor song in the United States was completed in Chicago.

Broadcast on December 19, 2024; original broadcast January 18, 2024
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

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Incredible Finds, Inc.

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0500

On this week's Labor Heritage Power Hour: A reading from Incredible Finds, Inc., a new play about an exploited factory worker who leads her colleagues in a strike against their company’s brutal and dehumanizing practices; followed by a discussion with playwright Casey J. Adler, actors Regina Fernandez and Amir Levy, and director Dana Schwartz. There’s a free reading of the play at 1p on Sunday, December 15 at the Beverly Hills Library.
In our second segment we tour the American Labor Museum’s Faces From An American Dream exhibit of photographs by Martin Desht with Education Director Evelyn Hershey, who reads Philip Levine’s poem What Work Is.
In our final segment, singer/songwriter Si Kahn, with Were You There, the latest installment of our Story Behind the Song series.

Broadcast on December 12, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Work Songs

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:00:00 -0500

This week's show: Workers have been singing while working and singing about working since antiquity; the Heartland Labor Forum’s Mark Galus plays classics from Billy Bragg, Joe Glazer and Anne Feeney as well as some more obscure folk and punk tracks.

Broadcast on December 5, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; original source The Heartland Labor Forum (KKFI in Kansas City); this version produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Liz Shuler’s favorite labor song (Encore)

Thu, 28 Nov 2024 01:00:00 -0500

Originally broadcast on November 30, 2023
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant

On today’s show, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler joins us to launch the “My Favorite Labor Song” feature, and then we’ve got a preview of the DC Labor Chorus’ upcoming holiday concert (this year on November 7; get your free tix here), and in our final segment, Radical Songbook host Michael Funke’s “Making Cars Medley” of songs in honor of the UAW’s historic Stand Up Strike.
Plus, Labor History in 2:00 on Louisa May Alcott’s “Work: A Story of Experience”.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

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The Green New Deal From Below

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:00:00 -0500

This week's show: Special correspondent Joe Uehlein talks with labor historian and activist Jeremy Brecher about his new book, The Green New Deal From Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy.
And in our Story Behind the Song series, Joe Uehlein tells us about You Can't Giddy Up By Sayin' Whoa.
In Labor History in 2:00: The year was 1888; that was the day that William Le Grand Bundy is credited with inventing something that has become a daily part of life for millions of workers.

Broadcast on November 21 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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The lost labor artist

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:00:00 -0500

This week's show: Kathy M. Newman talks with art historian Patricia Hills and Brooklyn College professor Joseph Entin about Philip Tipperman’s labor paintings, archaeologist Dean Anderson on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and Rick Smith remembers Karen Silkwood.
NOTES: Philip Tipperman’s paintings will be installed at Brooklyn College at 2p on November 22; the event is open to the public and includes a reception; details here. The Dean Anderson segment is from Michigan State University’s Our Daily Work, Our Daily Lives brown bag series; 2024-25 schedule here. Triangle is by the R.J. Phillips Band; check them out here.

Broadcast on November 14, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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We Can Move Mountains

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:13:52 -0500

This week's show: Singer/songwriter Bev Grant on the story behind her song We Can Move Mountains; Lisa Raye Garlock talks with Tabitha Arnold, a “Southern socialist making textile art about unions”.

Broadcast on November 7, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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A Wild Woman Sings the Blues

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:00:00 -0400

This week's show: “The life and music of Barbara Dane,” from The Harry Bridges Project. The story of America told through its social upheaval, its achievements and, above all, its music.

Broadcast on October 31, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant (Peter Pocock co-hosted the live edition); produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Still Lives of Workers in Motion

Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:13:58 -0400

This week's show: photographers Leslie Grant and Jeffrey Skemp discuss their photo exhibit in St Paul, Minnesota, which explores labor through a visual focus on members of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 1005 and Metro Transit employees; plus, William Trent Pancoast’s “Road to Matewan” and Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts shares his favorite labor song.

Broadcast on October 24, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Union: The film, the campaign

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:38:29 -0400

This week's show: we talk with Brett Story and Stephen Maing, the directors of the new film Union, which follows the Amazon Labor Union's historic journey to victory, as, up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
PLUS: A visit with a labor lawyer who’s teaching a class in labor movies, and, on Labor History in 2:00, Labor’s “Magna Carta.”

Broadcast on October 17 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

@unionthefilm @LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Working Theater/Workers Unite! Film Festival

Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: ”Something is fundamentally broken when you can only go see a Broadway show if your family takes in $300K a year…These are symptoms of an American theater which is not working,” says COLM SUMMERS, Artistic Director at Working Theater in New York City, one of the only theater companies in the country that’s dedicated to creating theater specifically for, about and with working people.
“So you can make film on your phone now…and what that ends up doing is sometimes we don't have the most polished end product, but we have an end product that has lots of power and emotion in it. It's right from the heart. It's the truth of what actually is happening on the ground, which is even more important,” says ANDREW TILSON, Director of the Workers Unite! Film Festival, which is launching its’ 13th season next week.

Broadcast on October 10, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Rocking the Cradle, Lessons from the Depression

Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: Why live theater still matters: we talk with Shanara Gabrielle, who’s directing the Theatre Alliance production of The Cradle Will Rock; labor historian Dana Frank takes a new look at working-class activism during the 1930s from the perspective of our own time, in What Can We Learn From the Great Depression? Stories of Ordinary People and Collective Action in Hard Times. She’ll talk with Bill Fletcher Jr. on Oct. 8 at the K Street Busboys and Poets.

Broadcast on October 3, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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“Labor Day” with Si Kahn & George Mann

Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:00:00 -0400

George Mann and Si Kahn’s new Labor Day CD features 21 songs by Si, a legendary songwriter who celebrated his 80th birthday this year. A tribute to workers and their unions, the CD showcases performances by both Kahn and Mann, as well as contributions from renowned folk artists such as Peggy Seeger, Billy Bragg, John McCutcheon and Tom Chapin. Today’s interview with Si and George originally appeared on the Heartland Labor Forum -- which airs weekly on KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio – and includes songs from the new CD.
PLUS: Hali Hammer’s favorite labor song and, on Labor History in 2:00, the 1961 murder of a Black cotton worker.

Broadcast on September 26, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

@LaborHeritage1 @wpfwdc @aflcio #1u #unions #laborradiopod

Shift Happens

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: Children’s book author J. Albert Mann, author of “Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States”; “Clean Up on Aisle 4” host Jamie Mack, with They/Them; “Therapy” from poet Chris Butters; the R.J. Phillips Band celebrates immigrant workers with “Piece of the Pie”: Chris says Netflix hit “The Union” is a miss; Booker T. Washington and the “Atlanta Compromise Speech” on Labor History in 2:00; plus the DC Labor Chorus live from the Takoma Park Folk Fest!

Broadcast on September 19, 2014 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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The power of our stories

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: Family Values @ Work’s Jennifer Morales on Caring Out Loud, storytelling that illuminates the often-overlooked work of caregiving; Lorna Gonsalves on Little Meena and the Big Swim, which teaches children that when many little people stand together, they can move mountains.

Broadcast on September 12, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Our theme song contest

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: Chris and Elise play songs submitted in our Labor Heritage Power Hour Theme Song Contest; which will be the winner?

Broadcast on Sept. 5 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC. (Replay from 9/2 Labor Day show)

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Peekskill, 1949: What Was Lost, What Remained, What It Means Today

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:19:48 -0400

Labor Day Special: Longtime labor activist Kurt Stand, with an excerpt from his essay Peekskill, 1949: What Was Lost, What Remained, What It Means Today, plus music from Paul Robeson, Woody Guthrie, Sweet Honey in the Rock and more.

Broadcast on Sept. 2 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Jamie Raskin’s favorite labor song

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:21:09 -0400

This week's show: Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin on why he loves Tom Morello’s Union Town; a radio version of the new "Saga of KOIN-TV Workers vs The Empire" graphic cartoon; 9 to 5 cofounder Karen Nussbaum’s Unions Songs for Kids playlist; and CWA’s Debbie Goldman on her new book, “Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age”.
NOTE: for a free hard-copy of “The Saga of KOIN-TV Workers vs The Empire" graphic cartoon, email office@nabet51.org; tell them the Labor Heritage Power Hour sent you!

Broadcast on August 2, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Blood in the Streets

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:29:51 -0400

This week's show: Blood in the Streets, photographer Chuck Avery’s illustrated history of American labor struggles, Kurt Stand shares an excerpt from his essay, Peekskill, 1949: What Was Lost, What Remained, What It Means Today, and MacGyver shares some of her favorite labor songs.

Broadcast on August 15, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and MacGyver Williams; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

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The 1934 Minneapolis trucker’s strike

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: Labor historian Peter Rachleff on how a Midwest strike helped shape national labor law plus a preview of his talk on the 1886 takeover of the Richmond (VA) City Council by black and white union activists.
Plus labor music from The Heartland Labor Forum and, on Labor History in 2:00, the birth of the original Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

Broadcast on August 8, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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The Fruit of Labor celebrates 40 years

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:00:00 -0400

Producer MacGyver Williams’ audio postcard from The Fruit of Labor’s 40th anniversary celebration at the Fruit of Labor World Cultural Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Broadcast on August 1, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.

The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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A farewell to BJR

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:00:00 -0400

“I think her music or the soundtrack she provides is for every generation, every decade.” WPFW Program Director Katea Stitt on Sweet Honey in the Rock founder Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, who died last week, here in Washington, DC, at the age of 81.

Broadcast on July 25 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Art Works (Encore)

Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:00:00 -0400

(Originally broadcast 7/6/23) An inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change: Ken Grossinger on his 2023 book Art Works: How Organizers and Artists Are Creating a Better World Together. Check out the Art Works music playlist on Spotify and read Chris Garlock's July 2024 review in Portside.
PLUS: Stand Up, Don’t Sit Down; An excerpt from AFSCME’s I AM STORY podcast.

Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
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Love & Solidarity

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: Remembering civil and labor rights apostle Rev. James Lawson and labor radio pioneer Frank Emspak, who both died recently.
PLUS: LaborForce podcast Michael Struchen’s favorite labor song, incarcerated writer Amber Kim’s poem “In Response to the Prompt ‘Write About the Invention of the Sunkist Bottle’”, more entries in our Labor Heritage Power Hour Theme Song Contest, and, on Labor History in 2:00, the day 1,400 workers at the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company launched a four-day strike.

Broadcast on June 27, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Our Theme Song Contest!

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:09:13 -0400

This week's show: Elise and Chris play some listener suggestions for the show’s new theme song. Plus: the Oregon AFL-CIO’s new mural, the story behind Joe Uehlein’s song “Hands”, a reading from “Presente: A Dockworker’s Story” and, on Labor History in 2:00, the UAW wins a first contract at Ford.

Broadcast on June 20, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Union-The Film

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:00:00 -0400

Union co-director Stephen Maing and cinematographer Martin DiCicco on their new film about the historic Amazon Labor Union victory (screens 6/15 in DC); labor poetry from union organizer Jessen Fox; Chris visits the Kate Mullany House; and in our latest Story Behind the Song series, Daria Marmaluk-Hajioannou on her Ballad of Min Mathesun.
PLUS: We launch our Labor Heritage Power Hour Theme Song Contest!

Broadcast on June 13, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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“Labor’s Turning Point”

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:43:29 -0400

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ strikes, which changed the course of history and the lives of tens of thousands of working people. On today’s show, an excerpt from “Labor’s Turning Point,” a documentary on the strike.

Then we tour Collective Action: Labor Activism in 21st Century Baltimore, a bold new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Industry exploring the historic and contemporary organized labor movement.

On Labor History in 2:00: Striking Toledo Auto-Lite workers OK a deal

Broadcast on June 6, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Favorite labor songs

Thu, 30 May 2024 18:10:01 -0400

Chris & Elise play labor songs requested by listeners, including talkin’ bout a revolution (Tracy Chapman), Chain Gang (Sam Cooke), Union Maid (Anne Feeney) and Solidarity Forever (Billy Bragg).

Broadcast on May 30, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
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Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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“The Black Wobbly” gets a mural

Thu, 23 May 2024 15:09:42 -0400

A mural celebrating Ben Fletcher – “The Black Wobbly” – was unveiled in Philadelphia on May 18; check out our audio postcard.
On this week’s Labor History in Two: Remembering C.L.R. James

Broadcast on May 23, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Please support the program by pledging generously to WPFW’s spring pledge drive: call 202-588-9739 or 1-800-222-9739 or pledge online (be sure to scroll down and select “The Labor Heritage Power Hour”).

Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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The Crab Pickers Strike; Mural of a Black Wobbly

Thu, 16 May 2024 16:32:11 -0400

In 1938, 600 crab pickers struck for higher wages and a union in Crisfield, Maryland; on today’s show, an audio postcard from the May 10 dedication of an official state historical marker commemorating the strike.
Then, we talk with historian Peter Cole, author of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, whose work inspired the new Ben Fletcher mural being dedicated on May 18 in Philadelphia.
Our “Story Behind the Song” feature returns today with Emily Jo Tanzey, one of our 2023 Great Labor Arts Exchange song contest winners; today she tells us the story behind her song “Solidarity is the Only Thing We Need.”
And, on Labor History in Two: The year was 1913; that was the day Philadelphia longshoremen walked off the job.

Mother Jones, Russell Lee & Solidarity Forever

Thu, 09 May 2024 16:09:39 -0400

This week's show: Live from the 2024 LHF Solidarity Forever Awards honoring AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond and retiring LHF Executive Director Elise Bryant; a visit to the annual wreath-laying at the Mother Jones historical marker; clips from the DC Labor Chorus May Day Concert; host Chris Garlock visits the National Archives with photojournalist Earl Dotter to take a look at a new exhibit, "Power & Light: Russell Lee's Coal Survey".
Plus, new music from the R.J. Phillips Band, and, on Labor History in Two: The Battle of Harlan & Popeye Was a Union Man.

Broadcast on May 9, 2024 on WPFW 89.3FM in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman.
The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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“We Mean to Make Things Over”

Sat, 04 May 2024 11:00:00 -0400

Fred Glass on the May Day history exhibit based on the “We Mean to Make Things Over” video; Seafarers president Dave Heindel shares his favorite labor song; 2024 LHF Joe Hill Award-winner Labor Notes editor Alexandra Bradbury on why labor art matters; Metro DC DSA’s Zach Tashman on the May 11 DC Labor History Walking Tour & Happy Hour.
And on Labor History in 2:00: May Day marchers attacked in Cleveland.

Broadcast on May 2, 2024 on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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LIVE from the Great Labor Arts Exchange!

Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:00:00 -0400

Highlights from Saturday night’s concert at the Great Labor Arts Exchange in Chicago, a preview of the DC Labor FilmFest’s Opening Night screening of The Old Oak, and Elise remembers Ed Smith and Dennis Serrette. Plus: The California Spinach Riot.

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Broadcast on April 25, 2024. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant.
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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The Return of John Brown

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:00:00 -0400

Abolitionist John Brown is mistaken for a Black Lives Matter activist in Gene Bruskin’s latest labor musical, Matewan and Office Space return to the DC Labor FilmFest, and a tour guide keeps Black worker history alive.

Broadcast on April 18, 2024 on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington DC. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Labor FilmFest, union photos, Coal Mining Woman

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:00:00 -0400

This week's show: Previewing the 2024 DC Labor FilmFest, winners of the IBEW’s annual photo contest, Si Kahn on Coal Mining Woman. Plus: celebrating the UFW’s Dolores Huerta

Broadcast on April 11, 2024; Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant
Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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Making room for solidarity

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:00:00 -0400

Last year the AFL-CIO changed the name of its main meeting room at the federation’s headquarters from the Gompers Room to the Solidarity Room; CBTU president Terry Melvin tells us why.
PLUS: Part 1 of our DC Labor FilmFest preview; Terry’s favorite labor song; MLK’s “Mountaintop” speech; latest labor arts news briefs.

Broadcast on April 4, 2024 on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington DC. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant; produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Mike Nasella & Kahlia Chapman. The Labor Heritage Power Hour is a member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

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