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Working People Are Struggling · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  People are certainly, uh, struggling, and I think that this is emblematic
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  of what's happening in Chicago- This is the Labor Radio Podcast
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  Daily for Friday, October 30th.
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  Mm-hmm
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  … to working people, what's happening across the nation- No question
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  about it … to working people, that people are really struggling.
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  That's from The Workers Mic on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On this weekend's Labor Arts calendar, Late Shift screens at the
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  Rochester Labor Film Series at 7:30 tonight in Rochester, New York.
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  And you can catch the DC Labor Chorus at the Stayed on Freedom Community Sing
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  in Washington, DC tomorrow at 3:00 PM.
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  Details and the latest labor arts news and events are available at laborheritage.org,
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1971, the International Alliance of
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  Billposters, Billers, and Distributors of the United States and Canada surrendered
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  its AFL-CIO charter and was disbanded.
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  The union at its height represented some six thousand workers in the outdoor
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  advertising and billposting industry.
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  More labor history, quotes, and arts are available on LHF's Labor Arts
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  & Culture Database at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Sebastian Junger.
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  "Humans don't mind hardship.
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  In fact, they thrive on it.
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  What they mind is not feeling necessary.
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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  Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.