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LABOR ARTS CALENDAR WEEK AT A GLANCE…
Tues: Organize Or Die: The Story of Local 78 (NY)

Tues: Preview Screening of 'Collision Course' (NY)

Thur: Labor Heritage Power Hour (radio/online)

Thur: Maryland Labor History: The 1877 Railroad Strike (MD)
Ongoing Events

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Labor Arts News Updates

U.S.-based Le Monde Employees Strike For The Second Time In Two Months

The Newsguild-CWA says Le Monde’s Los Angeles-based subsidiary has engaged in several unfair practices while bargaining a first contract. Read more.

Keep Anti-Fascist History on San Francisco’s Waterfront

“Help protect this landmark,” says the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. Read more.

Artists Exchange

Working on a labor arts, culture, or history project and looking for performers, writers, musicians, designers, researchers, or other collaborators to help bring it to life? Email info@laborheritage.org with "Artists Exchange" in the subject line. Tell us about your project, where you are in the process, and the kind of help you're looking for, and we'll spread the word through our network.

Building a People’s Museum from Below 

On this week's Labor History Today: Who gets to tell workers’ history? Artist and “community-taught historian” Shaun Slifer shares how the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum grew from a grassroots vision into a community institution in Matewan.

From installing homemade historical markers in Pittsburgh to preserving a red bandana carried toward the Battle of Blair Mountain, Slifer explores how working people reclaim their stories. Along the way, he reflects on listening to coalfield communities, collaborating with union miners, and building trust through the everyday objects families choose to share.

Dearest Billionaires, Solidarity Forever. 

On this week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour,  Josh Solomon and Erika Brett of The Empty Pockets explain how a polite letter to the boss became “Dearest Billionaires,” as California votes on a billionaire tax. Labor journalist Max Alvarez reflects on why working people’s stories matter, and we hear one of his favorites, Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.” Then historian Kathryn Moore traces “Solidarity Forever” back to the West Virginia coalfields, on Mine Wars Forum.

TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY
1935: The Committee for Industrial Organization is founded by eight unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. The eight want more focus on organizing mass production industry workers.

1952: Philip Murray dies at the age of 66. He was the first president of the United Steelworkers Organizing Committee, the first president of the United Steelworkers of America, and president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations for 12 years following the death of John L. Lewis.

1988: Security forces murder three striking workers and wound dozens more when they attempt to retake the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (National Iron Metallurgy Company) of Brazil. The event will come to be known as "The Volta Redonda Massacre."

RECENT NEWSLETTERS
Dearest Billionaires, Solidarity Forever. (11/6)
Remembering Dolores; honoring Elise (10/30)
Workers Take the Screen. Woody Takes the Stage. (10/23)
Ballet Dancers Organize. Museum Workers Join In. (10/16)

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