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A Broader Name for a Bigger Story · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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So we actually started our journey as the Irish Railroad Workers Museum.
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This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, August 21st.
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we recently just changed the name last year to better reflect
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the stories that we tell.
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So we focus on the Irish immigrant experiences and tell the stories
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of their work life, their community life, and kind of the legacy
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that they've left in America-
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Mm-hmm
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That's from the Maryland Labor History Podcast on
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the Labor Radio Podcast network, laborradionetwork.org.
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On today's Labor Arts calendar, there's a benefit concert for USW Local seven
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dash one oil workers at six o'clock local time in Griffith, Indiana.
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Then, at 7:15 tonight in Washington, DC, Woody Guthrie's American Song.
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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 1831, the slave revolt led by Nat Turner
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began in Southampton County, Virginia.
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Today's labor quote is from Nat Turner by the R. J. Phillips Band.
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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.