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A Ransom Note to Billionaires · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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I like to say it's a, it's, it's not a love note, it's more like a ransom note.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Thursday, November 5th.
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Somehow in the last, like, I don't know, 50, 60, 70 years, have, like,
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idolized the rich into a world that really is, is not equitable anymore,
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and is really harmful for the masses.
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In today's labor history, on this date in 1855, Eugene V. Debs, labor leader,
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socialist, three-time candidate for president, and the first president
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of the American Railway Union, was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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Today's labor quote is by Gene Debs.
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" Wherever capitalism appears in pursuit of its mission of exploitation,
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there will be socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and
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vitalized by agitation, be also found, unfurling its class struggle banner and
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proclaiming its mission of emancipation."
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More information at unionplus.org.
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This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast network.