Empathy Media Lab
314 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Empathy Media Lab’s is a multi-brand podcast exploring labor, political economy, art, and culture. Producer and host Evan Papp
seeks to build solidarity by universalizing the struggles of our human condition while outlining policy solutions that address the most intractable challenges of today.
Union Solidarity Forever.
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African Artist’s Intellectual Property with Foza Fawehinmi - Artist Works
November 16, 2022 15:44 - 24 minutes - 33.7 MB“You are also competing with the guy that goes on TikTok and eats 10,000 pieces of meat and is a superstar. Right? So Superstardom is no longer exclusive to artists or filmmakers or actors. I really feel for the artists.” Foza Fawehinmi, President, Digital Music Commerce and Exchange Limited Foza Fawehinmi is an award-winning lawyer and the President of Digital Music Commerce and Exchange Limited, an intellectual property valuation, management and administration company serving sub-Sahara...
MLK Tapes: What We’ve Learned About the Interests Fighting Unity and Organized Labor
November 16, 2022 03:16 - 1 hour - 85.1 MB“It's a matter of history now. With the podcast, it's not in a book somewhere that's just gonna sit in a library and nobody's gonna read it. Those voices are up in the ether, and they will remain there until the earth falls into the sun. So anybody going forward who wants to write something about the murder of Martin Luther King is going to have to deal with those people, those voices, those witnesses that we gathered there. You will not be able to go around it and not deal with it.” Bill K...
Working 9 to 5 A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and Iconic Movie with Ellen Cassedy
October 12, 2022 15:39 - 34 minutes - 48 MB“Sexual harassment was completely legal. Pregnancy discrimination was legal. We held these bad boss contests. Where, the first winner was a boss who had asked his secretary to sew up a hole in his pants while he was wearing them. So it was really dire out there. And when we started speaking up, everyone was so shocked. It was like the wallpaper had come alive.” Ellen Cassedy, 9 to 5 About the 9 to 5 Movement Starting out in Boston in 1973, the women of 9 to 5 built a nationwide feminist m...
Bwando Farms Growing Good Food in Zambia with Conrad Bwalya
October 11, 2022 00:28 - 1 hour - 104 MB“We tend to be so lucky in Zambia and Africa because much of the land that we own, most people just inherit it. You don't buy it. And and yet you're sitting on this inherited land and not making it productive.You can’t send your kids to school, you can't have decent housing, you can't actually sustainably feed yourself and yet you're sitting on this resource, So my focus was how do we turn this resource that we sit on, which we don't even value into something that we can actually get jobs ou...
Policies for Universal Prosperity with Daniel Burke - Political Economy Project
October 06, 2022 20:24 - 1 hour - 103 MB“Look at economics from the standpoint of the ability to increase the potential relative population density the number of people that you can potentially support in a given square kilometer. “And that's what economics really is about. It's about increasing the power of labor, the power of an individual to do productive work. The way you increase that is through machine tools, through technologies, and you increase it through fundamental breakthroughs in energy. “You want to go to more inte...
Climate Change as Class War with Matt Huber - Author and Professor of Geography
October 04, 2022 18:10 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MB“If you do look at the renewable industry today, it's very hostile to unions. They're very hard jobs to organize. They're spread out, they're dispersed, very transient workplaces and so they're very low density unions. And also, renewable energy projects because of the tax credit system in our country, are owned by Wall Street. Some of the wealthiest people in the whole economy are the ones that have financing and stakes in these renewable energy projects. So, renewable energy right now is a...
261. Life with Energy Scarcity 101 with Irina Slav - Political Economy Project
October 03, 2022 17:41 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MB“There's still people on social media who say, ‘You know, we should just shut up and suck it up. We can get through the winter, even if it's a bit colder.’ But it won't be a bit colder. It might end up being a lot colder and there might be energy rationing, which is the worst case scenario. I think it will be a brutal wake up call for those people.” Irina Slav, Energy Journalist Irina Slav is an energy journalist who writes about energy, mining, and geopolitics for Oilprice.com with occasi...
Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder with author Christian Parenti
October 02, 2022 20:26 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MB“Workers increase their standard of living and increase their wages through the class struggle, but there's limits to what that can bear if the economy in which that class struggle is happening isn't growing and isn't producing surplus.” Christian Parenti Professor of Political Economy and Author of Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder Christian Parenti is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, CUNY (City University of New York). His books includ...
Body.Electric. Is a Science Fiction Anthology Series by Patrick Hale - Artist Works
October 01, 2022 16:40 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MB“You could basically do anything. And so I took that one step further and I was like, okay, let me make a movie on my own or at least get it as far as I can get it, without a huge production crew. And so, that's been a labor of love.” Patrick Hale, Author, Director, and Producer of Body.Electric. Body. Electric. is a genre-spanning anthology series that examines humanity's best and worst instincts as we explore the universe and discover, and create, new forms of intelligence. Set in the ...
Unionizing Apple Stores with Billy Jarboe AppleCore Union Member and Organizer
September 15, 2022 16:40 - 41 minutes - 57.7 MB“Depoliticize it, cuz it's not about that. If there is a chance to utilize these rights to create better conditions and don't worry about the dues part of it because you'll get to see the contract and do the math. If the dues are worth it, sign the contract, right? If they aren't, you don't have to sign for it. As long as the workers are on the same page.” Billy Jarboe, AppleCore Member and Organizer In June 2022, more than 100 Apple store employees in Towson, Maryland, a suburb of Balti...
America’s Fight for Universal Progress from Franklin to Kennedy with Author and Historian Anton Chaitkin
September 14, 2022 18:55 - 1 hour - 127 MB“Power is a good thing for people to have. It can be misused by ugly cliques who take over governments or who exercise some coercion on people or make people degrade themselves and help them to do that. But power in history is what we're aiming for, the power of human beings to do good.” Anton Chaitkin Historian and Author of Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s Anton Chaitkin is a historian and author and we discuss his n...
Creative Recycling with Zsameria of SwapDC
September 10, 2022 15:48 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MB“Our world is really all we got. This planet, at least right now, this planet Earth. So I'm like, I'm just trying to have the power within my community, build, breathe and do more with our imagination to create, you know, to be intentional with that, and Swap DC is a part of that.” Zsameria, Founder of SwapDC Last month, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Zsameria to discuss SwapDC, which is a creative recycling event in Washington, DC that fosters a fun and diverse community around s...
THANK A UNION - Cecil Roberts President United Mine Workers of America - Battle of Blair Mountain
September 03, 2022 19:55 - 2 minutes - 2.04 MB"When you see all these people with a social security check, you think that fell out of the sky? Thank a union!" Cecil Roberts is a miner and president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). This was recorded in Sharples, West Virginia during Labor Day 2021 in celebration of the 100 Year Anniversary of the Battle of Blair Mountain. The full audio documentary can be found here: https://www.empathymedialab.com/post/voices-from-the-centennial-march-to-blair-mountain-organized-b...
Fighting for a Better Future with Labor Journalist Hamilton Nolan - Labor Solidarity Podcast
August 24, 2022 02:00 - 27 minutes - 37.4 MB“Thousands of journalists across the country have been through their own union drives in the past five years or so. And it changes people…I mean, it obviously educates people and opens their eyes to how important labor is. And also you have people who are going through their own union busting campaigns. They're going through having to negotiate contracts with their own boss. And so it really has elevated the profile of unions in the news.” Hamilton Nolan American Labor Journalist Hamilton...
Luke Rockhold on Healthcare and UFC Fighter Pay
August 19, 2022 20:24 - 1 minute - 1.57 MB"And if you let these motherf*****s think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding their worth." Luke Rockhold is an American professional mixed martial artist (MMA). Rockhold is currently signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he competes in the Light Heavyweight division. Rockhold is a former UFC Middleweight Champion. The UFC is notorious for being anti-union. Based on records made available through an ongoing cla...
West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Barbara Ellen Smith
August 12, 2022 17:30 - 31 minutes - 42.7 MB“One coal operator quite explicitly said that you need a judicious mixture of white mountaineers, black workers from the Jim Crow south, and immigrant workers in order to maintain division. So the effort was very intentional to divide workers along the lines of immigration status, language, and race..” Barbara Ellen Smith, Professor Emerita of Virginia Tech Board member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum is at the site of a historic battle which erupt...
”We choose to go to the Moon” - JFK on Space Exploration
August 04, 2022 18:29 - 1 minute - 2.18 MB“That goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills…And new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.” "We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a September 12, 1962, speech by United States President John F. Kennedy to further inform the public about his plan to land a man on the Moon before 1970. Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen,...
Lynne Hancock - Nuclear Times Newsletter of the United Steel Workers
August 03, 2022 16:43 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MB“We needed something for our nuclear workers because we have so many sectors at the United Steel Workers…So I decided to start this newsletter [Nuclear Times] because our Atomic Energy Workers Council is incredible. Those folks know more about their plants than a lot of the contractor management does because they've been there for years.” Lynn Hancock is part of the United Steel Workers (USW) Communications Department and helped found the Nuclear Times newsletter and administers the USW Ato...
Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council United Steel Workers
August 02, 2022 19:14 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MB“These [nuclear energy jobs] provided good family sustaining wages with good benefits. And a lot of people put their kids through college, bought a home, paid it off and during the sixties, through the eighties, it was one of highest paying jobs in the regions where these [nuclear] plants are located.” Jim Key President Atomic Energy Workers Council Jim Key is the President of the United Steel Workers (USW) Atomic Energy Workers Council (AEWC) and former Vice President At Large of USW Loc...
Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe - Artist Works
July 29, 2022 15:48 - 32 minutes - 44 MB“Being an artist is a constant chase. But most importantly, never sell out. Because once you sell your soul, you can never get it back.” Michael Gene Sullivan is an actor, writer, director, blogger, and teacher committed to developing theater of social and economic justice, of political self-determination, and, of course, musical comedy. Michael is also a Collective Member and Resident Director of the Tony and OBIE award-winning, always revolutionary, and never, ever silent San Francisco Mi...
Prayer of the 54th Regiment Before the Battle of Fort Wagner - Morgan Freeman
July 28, 2022 03:41 - 41 seconds - 651 KB“We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!” Morgan Freeman delivers a powerful prayer during one of my favorite scenes in the movie Glory, when the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment gather for prayer on the eve of the tragic Battle of Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863 during the U.S. Civil War. Transcript Tomorrow we have to meet the judgment day. Heavenly father, we want you to let our folks know that we died facing the enemy. We want 'em to know that we went ...
End Eco-Colonialism and Free Africa’s Nuclear Energy with Princy Mthombeni
July 26, 2022 23:23 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MB“I'm a humanitarian at heart. So I see nuclear as a vehicle that will deliver prosperity to the African continent.” Princy Mthombeni Princy Mthombeni is an award winning communications specialist, nuclear energy advocate, entrepreneur, philanthropist and thought leader. As a former Board Member of Women in Nuclear South Africa, an African Young Generation in Nuclear Communication Head, Editor-In-Chief of Nuclear Energy Workers Newsletter and a Stand Up For Nuclear South Africa Coordinat...
Nuclear Surplus Energy: China vs. United States
July 25, 2022 17:58 - 3 minutes - 4.65 MB“China is building more reactors than the rest of the world has built over the past 35 years.” Energy is Everything. It sustains all life. Without securing reliable and affordable energy, a nation will perish. A political economy oriented to promote universal prosperity and defend the general welfare for a more perfect union, must orient policy goals to produce surplus food, water and energy. Dear friends, the question of our values is at hand. Show me your budget and how you allocate re...
An Artist’s Duty - Nina Simone
July 22, 2022 03:39 - 59 seconds - 1.39 MB"We will shape and mold this country or it will not be shaped and molded at all any more." Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist, and a revolutionary artist. I love her work. Rest in peace, dear Nina. Transcript: An artist's duty as far as I'm concerned is to reflect the times. I think that is true of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians. As far as I'm concerned it's their choice. But I choose to reflect the times and situations in which I...
Energy 101 with Isaac Orr on The Power Hungry Podcast - Excerpt
July 20, 2022 19:57 - 1 minute - 2.48 MB“They've had the electricity come on every time they've hit the switch for the last 40 years. So why would they worry about tomorrow the light not coming on?” Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at Center of the American Experiment You can watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSY79RqsAeY The Power Hungry podcast spotlights energy, power, innovation, and politics. Author and journalist Robert Bryce talks with top thinkers, writers, and influencers — as well as regular citi...
Mexico and U.S. Labor Solidarity Lessons Learned with Robin Alexander
July 18, 2022 22:24 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MB“In spite of all of the horrible things that are happening in the world today, I think that on the labor front, both in the United States and Mexico, these are really exciting times.” Robin Alexander, Retired UE Director of International Affairs This new e-book by retired UE Director of International Affairs Robin Alexander tells the story of the partnership between the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the Mexican Frente Auténtico del Trabajo (FAT), a story ...
Ain’t I A Woman? Reverend Addie Wyatt on Sojourner Truth
July 13, 2022 19:56 - 1 minute - 2.08 MB“I born 13 children and seen almost all sold off into slavery.” Addie L. Wyatt (March 8, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was a leader in the United States Labor movement, and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Learn more about Addie here. This speech was given at Harvard’s Divinity School on November 2, 2002. Watch the full speech here. Sojourner Truth (...
JFK On Revolution - March 13, 1962
July 12, 2022 19:08 - 38 seconds - 919 KBFor too long, my country, the wealthiest nation, failed to carry out its full responsibilities to its sister republics. Those who possess wealth and power must accept their own responsibilities. They must lead the fight for those basic reforms, which alone can preserve the fabric of their societies. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. President John F. Kennedy at the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress - March 13, 1962 Photog...
JFK Alliance for Progress first Anniversary speech - March 13, 1962
July 12, 2022 19:01 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MBMarch 13, 1962 Mr. Vice President, Ambassadors from our sister Republics, members of the OAS, the nine wise men upon whom so much depends, Members of the Congress, whom I am very glad to see here today--on whom we depend so much in guiding and supporting and stimulating and directing our policies in this Hemisphere--Ambassador Moscoso, the Coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, gentlemen: One year ago, on a similar occasion, I proposed the Alliance for Progress. That was the conception,...
Killing People with a Bad Electrical Grid - Meredith Angwin: Author of Shorting the Grid
July 11, 2022 15:02 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MB“People die when you can't get the grid operating.” Meredith Angwin, Author, Shorting the Grid Shorting the Grid, The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid is an exposé of the insider-ruled practices of the “deregulated” areas of the United States electric grid. The grid in these areas is managed by a regional transmission organization (RTO). Within these organizations, no group is responsible or accountable for grid reliability. The RTO areas have higher retail electricity prices, no way ...
What Is Your Life’s Blueprint? Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Excerpt - October 26, 1967
July 09, 2022 20:25 - 2 minutes - 4.08 MBRarely seen footage of Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking to students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia on October 26, 1967, where he delivered his speech "What Is Your Life's Blueprint?" Full speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmtOGXreTOU MLK’s Edited Speech What is in your life's blueprint? And I want to suggest number one in your life's blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you feel th...
Robert Frost Reads His Poem The Road Not Taken
July 07, 2022 23:51 - 1 minute - 1.71 MB“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back..” Poem’s Meaning according to Ben Kageyama: “Robert Frost spent some time in Great Britain during the early 20th century. In his time there, he made friends with a fellow poet named Edward Thomas. For inspiration and leisure, the duo would often go for walks around the English countryside. “Thomas had an odd habit of regretting whichever path he took during his strolls with Frost. He’d often state that if they ha...
Jazz Lewis - Delegate Representing District 24 - Maryland House of Delegates
July 06, 2022 17:44 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MB“In my legislative district, between the Northern tip of [Maryland] to the Southern tip, I represent 135,000 people…there's a 20 year life expectancy gap, 20 years. 20 minutes apart. It's insane.” Jazz Lewis is running for re-election for District 24 Maryland House of Delegates representing parts of Prince George’s County. The Maryland primary election is on July 19, 2022. Jazz began his career as a community and labor organizer in Baltimore. Through organizing, he learned the power of coll...
No Time - A beautiful sad soul blues folk tune by Ronald Charles McKernan
June 30, 2022 17:07 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MBI heard this song over a decade ago on some b-side of a forgotten bootleg. The melancholy soul expressed in the singing and lyrics will forever resonate and I can’t help but sing along. Since I couldn’t find this song to stream or find the lyrics to sing after many searches, I decided to make a video with lyrics to pay homage to this beautiful soul blues folk tune. This was the last known recording of the artist in 1973–No Time. Rest in peace Ronald Charles McKernan, September 8, 1945 – M...
Chisenga - Global Hip Hop Artist, Producer, and Sound Engineer
June 30, 2022 03:41 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MB“Sometimes I'll be feeling all alone…like, am I the only person that believes it? But I believe in it enough to know that where there's a will, there's a way.” Chisenga - Hip Hop Artist Extraordinaire Chisenga is a Grammy-recognised Hip-Hop artist born in Zambia and now based in Perth, Australia. His latest album is Rhythm and Poetry Born in Lusaka, Zambia, his interest in performing began at the early age of 10. With time spent at home with his mother listening to country music and later...
My soul has grown deep like the rivers - Langston Hughes
June 28, 2022 17:34 - 1 minute - 1.71 MB“I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.” The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes was first published n the June 1921 issue of The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The poem is found in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 1994 the Estate of Langston Hughes. Poem: The Negro Speak...
Driving home with the Labor Radio Podcast Network
June 27, 2022 21:02 - 7 minutes - 6.67 MB“There's a lot of solidarity, a lot of love and in both Philadelphia and Chicago, and it's been a great road trip with the Labor Radio Podcast Network.” Empathy Media Lab partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia to the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. Evan Papp, Chris Garlock, and Patrick Dixon reflect on these conferences on their drive back to Washington, D.C. Follow the Labor Radio Podcast Network (h...
Why Love? A message from Belief Street Faith and Labor.
June 26, 2022 17:39 - 1 minute - 2.49 MBWHY LOVE? If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not ru...
CEOs Screwing Workers with Sarah Anderson of the Global Economy Project at IPS and Co-Editor of Inequality.org
June 25, 2022 19:18 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MB“At Amazon, the CEO got $213 million last year, and that was 6,474 times as much as median worker pay at the company, which was about $32,800.” Sarah Anderson Director of the Global Economy Project at IPS and Co-Editor of Inequality.org Executive Excess 2022 The CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers are grabbing huge raises while workers and consumers struggle with rising costs. Sarah Anderson and her co-authors at the Institute for Policy Studies found that more than half of our ...
The Coalition of Labor Union Women Response to the Supreme Court Decision on Roe v. Wade.
June 24, 2022 20:40 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBThis is Elise Bryant, president of the coalition of labor union women. The coalition of labor union women was founded in 1974, the year after Roe V. Wade confirmed a woman's constitutional right to an abortion. The CLUW founding mothers believe in a woman's right to a safe termination of her pregnancy. And we still believe everyone has that right. The U.S. Supreme court today overturned Roe V. Wade and Planned Parenthood versus Casey and declared that the U.S. constitution no longer prot...
Labor On The Airwaves at Labor Notes
June 22, 2022 15:42 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB“If you're thinking about trying to start a podcast or a radio show, don't think about doing it all yourself, This is a collective thing.” Judy Ancel - Heartland Labor Forum The Labor On The Airwaves panel attracted an overflow audience at this year's Labor Notes conference. A show of hands revealed that about a third of those in attendance already had shows while another third was interested in finding out how to start their own shows, many of whom stopped by the Network's booth after t...
“Billionaires have got to go! F—k Jeff Bezos!”
June 21, 2022 16:34 - 1 hour - 67.2 MB“When you come to the fight with organized labor, if you are corporate America, and you want to take us on, or you are a crooked corruptible politician, put your helmets on, buckle your chin strap. It's a full contact sport!” Teamster President Sean O’Brien Friday night’s all-star program at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago featured Chris Smalls from the Amazon Labor Union, Bernie Sanders and Teamsters president Sean O’Brien, who fired up an already-fired-up crowd. We’ve got high...
Voices from Labor Notes Conference 2022 - Labor Radio Podcast Daily
June 20, 2022 19:14 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBThere are over 4,000 folks at the 2022 Labor Notes conference in Chicago and the Labor Radio Podcast Network team talked to almost all of them today…Liz Medina, Will Westlake, Michael Brennan, Robert Ovetz, Jeff Eagan, Noah Strang, John Courtney, Jordan Fisher, Mitchell Jones, Howard Stewart, Sam Sprole, Lynn Fields, Lakeisha Lloyd, Dan Kask and Bobby Lynn Negron. OK, maybe not all 4,000, but a terrific cross-section of the activists and self-proclaimed “troublemakers” gathered here in Chica...
Labor Radio Podcast Daily: The Network takes a road trip!
June 18, 2022 16:14 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBPatrick, Chris and Evan hit the road for Chicago and the Labor Notes conference. On the way, they share impressions of the just-concluded AFL-CIO convention and break some exciting news about next steps for the Labor Radio Podcast Network! #LaborRadioPod @AFLCIO #AFLCIOConv @labornotes Recording/editing by Evan Papp; produced by Chris Garlock; social media guru Mr. Harold Phillips.
Rockin’ the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the Labor Radio Podcast Network
June 16, 2022 04:10 - 30 minutes - 22 MBEmpathy Media Lab has partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement. On today’s show Patrick Dixon talks with WILL EMPOWER's Sherri Davis-Faulkner and Lane Windham about the AFL-CIO convention’s diversity, as well as how it has addressed many women's issues. Longtime labor talk show host Rick Smith dropped by the Labor Radio Podcast Network studio yesterday and we prevailed on him to interview the president of the AFL-CIO's Metal Trades Department, who ta...
Spiritual and Global Solidarity
June 14, 2022 15:20 - 32 minutes - 24.6 MBThe Labor Radio Podcast Daily is coming to you from the AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement. Hundreds gathered for an interfaith breakfast Sunday morning before the convention officially opened at noon, so our show begins with Father Clete Kiley and Clayton Sinyai; Father Kiley is chaplain to the Chicago Federation of Labor and senior adviser to Unite Here, while Clayton Sin...
LIVE from the AFL-CIO convention!
June 14, 2022 14:29 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBWelcome to the Labor Radio Podcast Daily, a special edition of the Labor Radio Podcast Weekly. Empathy Media Lab has partnered with the LRPN to capture the voices of the global trade union movement. We’re here in Philadelphia at the AFL-CIO Convention, where thousands of union leaders and members have gathered to celebrate the strength of the federation’s 56 affiliated unions and 12.5 million members, honor the souls lost and renew the movement’s commitment to build back better with unions...
Richard DeShay Elliott - Candidate District 24 Maryland House of Delegates
June 07, 2022 23:46 - 49 minutes - 67.8 MBRichard DeShay Elliott is running for District 24 Maryland House of Delegates representing parts of Prince George’s County. The Maryland primary election is on July 19, 2022. Richard is a member of the Maryland NAACP, Our Revolution Maryland, Progressive Maryland, Prince George’s County Young Democrats, and the Democratic Socialists of America. He has worked on and supported numerous political campaigns across Maryland, including the Steering Committee of Maryland for Bernie Sanders, Jill ...
James Baldwin on how Suffering is a Bridge
June 07, 2022 13:12 - 1 minute - 1.17 MB“Your suffering does not isolate you. That your suffering is your bridge. That many people have suffered before you, many people are suffering around. And always will.” James Baldwin In 1971 James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni taped a two-hour “dialogue” for a public TV show called Soul! At forty-seven years old, Baldwin was a legend speaking with Giovanni, then twenty-eight, who had published the 1968 poetry collection Black Feeling, Black Talk. All rights to Soul! and ShoutFactoryTV.com. ...
You can undermine any barrier that separates one man from the other - Howard Thurman
June 06, 2022 14:32 - 39 seconds - 612 KB“The experiences of unity among people are more important and crucial than all the concepts, prejudices, ideologies, and faiths that may divide.” Howard Thurman Thurman's theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr. Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvJVxsezAwc Bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Thurman #Be...