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Zinn: Art Can Change Lives · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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Despite the political thrust of The People Speak, it was vital to Zinn
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that it worked as theater and not just as an exercise in speechifying.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast daily for Thursday, August 6th.
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He was a believer that art, while not a crude political delivery
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system, does have a unique power to change lives on its own terms.
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That's Dave Zirin on the Labor Heritage Power Hour on the Labor Radio Podcast
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network, laborradionetwork.org.
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One o'clock today here on WPFW 89.3 FM.
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On today's labor arts calendar, Woody Guthrie's American Song
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opens tonight in Washington, DC.
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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 2000, workers at Verizon,
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the nation's largest local telephone company, launched what would become
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an 18-day strike over working conditions and union representation.
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Today's labor quote is by Staunton Lynd, who said, American capitalism no longer
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has any use for 40% of the population.
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There are now superfluous human beings."
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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 Carlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.