Labor Radio-Podcast Weekly

Coal Dust and Coffee Shops


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This week on the Labor Radio/Podcast Weekly, we feature stories from across the Labor Radio Podcast Network on coal miners, grassroots democracy movements, labor media, Starbucks organizing, labor music, and more.

Working People: Labor journalist Kim Kelly reports on the Trump administration’s weakening of mine safety protections, exacerbating the black lung crisis and jeopardizing coal miners' health.
Green and Red: Anthropologist Ida Susser discusses France’s Yellow Vest movement, highlighting grassroots workers' challenges to both liberal and far-right politics while fostering new democratic organizing.
The Worker Power Hour: Steve Matthews emphasizes the need for labor unions to adopt podcasts, radio, and digital media to educate and inspire workers in a changing media landscape.
I Am An Actor: In this new SAG-AFTRA series, Kate Hudson explores the craft of acting.
Heat the Ground Up: This episode continues the oral history of Starbucks Workers United, detailing Starbucks’ anti-union campaign and the organizing efforts that transformed labor in the service industry.
Mine Wars Forum: Celebrating the legacy of labor musician and activist Hazel Dickens, stories from her nephew Buddy span from West Virginia coal country to the Pittston strike and beyond.
Plus tips on more Shows You Should Know.

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Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network of shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns.

Produced by Chris Garlock, Patrick Dixon and Harold Phillips.

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