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A Little City Within a City · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Some areas of the mine are dark, some are very lit up, but it's
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  like a little city down there
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  because we have ambulances, We have all the different groups working down there.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Friday, September 11th.
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  pretty much what we have on surface as far as, uh, mechanical and electricians
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  and it's, it's down there as well.
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  a little city within a city.
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  That's from Solidarity Works on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  On this weekend's labor arts calendar, the Advancing Alabama Labor History
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  Symposium runs from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM today in Auburn, Alabama.
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  and the annual Rochester Labor Film Series launches tonight with a
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  screening of Everyone to Kenmore Street.
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  That's tonight at 7:30 in Rochester, New York.
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  I'll be there to introduce the film.
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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 two thousand one, more than
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  three thousand people were killed in the September 11th attacks.
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  Among those lost in New York City were six hundred and thirty-four union
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  members, most of them firefighters and police officers responding when
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  the World Trade Center towers fell.
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  Today's labor quote is by Edward Croker, who said, "Firefighters do not
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  regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union Plus, a
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  nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in nineteen eighty-six.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.