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“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 distant future, Body. Electric. depicts the multi-generational fallout following the creation of the worldʻs first space elevator, an industrial supply pipeline, created by United Adams Corporation, to support exploration and mining off-world.

A world-weary detective ordered to retrieve an escaped synthetic humanoid must unravel a web of lies, and learn what it really means to be human, before it is too late.​

Learn more at https://www.bodyelectricseries.com/about. 

About Patrick Hale

Patrick Hale is an award-winning commercial and short film director based in Los Angeles, CA and Washington, DC. He brings his love of world-building and innovative production design to help clients tell cinematic stories that connect with diverse audiences and move people to action. 

Patrick is the lead filmmaker and producer behind Rooks Productions. Previously, he built and ran the in-house studio for American Councils for International Education, and held a number of roles at Discovery, Inc. and Discovery Studios. 

Learn More about Body.Electric.

• Website - https://www.bodyelectricseries.com/

Learn more about Patrick’s work at:

• Website - https://www.rooksproductions.com

About EMLab’s Artist Works

Artist Works is an EMLab brand that explores the labor, concepts, and inspiration behind the artists illuminating and shaping our world. 

EMLab is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, and laborers who are fighting for a brighter day for everyone, everywhere. Union solidarity forever.

All Links: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab 

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“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 Baltimore, voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Their union is called the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees (or AppleCORE) and they have joined the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). AppleCORE and IAM sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook in May 2022 informing him of the decision to organize their union, listing “access to rights we do not currently have” as a driving reason for the move, which has strong support from a majority of the workers.

According to Apple CORE’s statement, “Apple workers across the country are joining together to help the company live up to its values…Our commitment remains enriching lives by providing customers the best service possible. It’s time Apple and our managers acknowledge that commitment by respecting our rights and sitting down with us to negotiate over the issues that matter to us – scheduling, professional development and more. Joining together in union will provide us more power to make Apple better!”

EML Publishing had the opportunity to interview Billy Jarboe who is a member of AppleCORE and a key organizer at the Apple store in Towson where he has worked over a decade.

During this interview, we discussed:

• Why employees wanted to organize a union at the Apple store;

You can learn more about AppleCore at their website (https://acoreunion.org/ and follow them on Twitter (https://twitter.com/acoreunion) and instagram (https://www.instagram.com/acoreunion/). 

And you can follow Billy’s band Samskara on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/samskaraband/. 

Union Solidarity Forever.

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About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

The Labor Solidarity Podcast is a part of the EML Publishing brands and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. Learn more:  https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab 

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“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 newest book Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s, which provides a new understanding of the industrial revolution and the strategic context for America’s founding.

Anton Chaitkin has been an activist since his childhood in the 1950s. In the early 1930s, his father, Jacob Chaitkin, a pro-Franklin Roosevelt lawyer, had blocked some of the Wall Street financial arrangements with Hitler, and was legal counsel for the American Jewish Congress boycott against Germany. Anton grew up committed to justice, with a strong sense of the realities of power politics. 

Chaitkin has provided original historical analysis of  American history, in hundreds of articles and in two books, Treason in America, from Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman -- a 600-page unveiling of the Eastern Establishment as the tory-British-racist-imperialist faction -- and George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography

Learn more at: https://www.antonchaitkin.com.

About Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s

A half century ago, the Anglo-American Establishment reversed the policies that made America rich, powerful, and humane. They erased our former way of thinking from public memory. They took away from us our original national mission: gaining scientific control over nature to uplift mankind. They falsely inserted their own goal – power for the few over the many – into our history, so that no remedy from our real heritage seemed possible.

This explosive book by the masterful investigative historian, Anton Chaitkin, restores that stolen American legacy.  The secret to modern history is that all the great breakthroughs in technology were deliberate projects for the improvement of humanity. Chaitkin takes you behind the scenes, to see the two sides struggling to control American policy: nationalist statesmen and industrial innovators, versus the British empire, Wall Street and the southern slave owners.

Book content include: 

• Benjamin Franklin guides his friends in England who develop the steam engine, canals and steelmaking -- and discover bio-chemical laws of nature.

Volume 1 takes us to the Civil War. Volume 2 (planned for 2022-3) carries the story of progress, versus empire, from Abraham Lincoln to John F. Kennedy. 

You can buy Who We Are: America's Fight for Universal Progress, from Franklin to Kennedy: Volume I - 1750s to 1850s on Amazon. 

About The Political Economy Project 

The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint seeking to unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of interests of the human spirit.

The Political Economy Project is an EML Publishing brand produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.

Follow our work on Substack at: https://politicaleconomyproject.substack.com/.

“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 swapping for residents who want to reduce, reuse and live a more sustainable lifestyle.

SwapDC aims to bring awareness to the consequences of consumerism on our environment and our culture. Since its debut in 2015, SwapDC has successfully recycled over 5 tons of clothing and donated even more to local shelters, that’s over 10,000 lbs.

Taking the “POP UP” approach, SwapDC has been cited all over the DC area hosting collaborations with local businesses such as Marvin’s, Black Cat and Pen Arts Building.  This also includes, yet is not limited to, various nonprofit and national organizations such as Martha’s Table, DPR, The DC Sustainable Fashion Collective and DC’s Art All Night.

Learn more at https://swapdc.com.

And follow SwapDC’s social media:

• https://www.facebook.com/swapmoredc

And you can follow Zsameria’s work on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/zsameria.

About EML Studio 

EML Studio is based in Riverdale, Maryland just outside Washington, D.C. We are a podcast space, music recording studio, and we host live stream events. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/emlstudio. 

EML Studio is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, and laborers who are fighting for a brighter day for everyone, everywhere. Union solidarity forever.

All Links: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab

“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 Nolan is an American journalist who writes on labor and politics in The Guardian (@Guardian), In These Times (@InTheseTimesMag), and the Columbia Journalism Review (@CJR). He previously wrote for Gawker and was part of the organizing efforts to win unionization. He is also writing his first book titled, Year of the Hammer that will be published in early 2024 by Hachette Books (hachettebooks.com).

We discuss: 

• How Hamilton got interested in organized labor;

• Organizing the newsroom at Gawker before Peter Thiel sued it into bankruptcy;

• His recent article in the Guardian titled: “If Democrats want votes, they should rain fury on union-busting corporations; and

You can follow his work on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hamiltonnolan.

Union Solidarity Forever.

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About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. The Labor Podcast is hosted by Elise Bryant and Evan Papp. 

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

The Labor Solidarity Podcast is an EML Publishing production and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. Learn more:  https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab 

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"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 class action lawsuit from numerous ex-UFC fighters, the promotion has approximately paid out 16 to 20 percent of the revenue to the athletes. Most other major sports leagues — including the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball — pay out around 50 percent of the revenue to the athletes. (source)

Nearly 80 percent of MMA athletes said they would be in favor of organizing a union (source). 

Kobe Bryant even suggested the UFC should have a union. In May of 2017 Bryant was invited to speak to UFC fighters at an athlete’s retreat and was asked by labor organizer and featherweight contender Leslie Smith about the importance of collective bargaining and labor unions to NBA athletes like him. 

Kobe answered as follows:

​“Even us as players, where we have our union meetings and things of that nature, we’re normally at each other’s throats competing against each other. But we understand completely that a rising tide raises all boats,” Bryant continued. “When you guys have this unity and you guys are operating together on the same page together, it does nothing but simply fortify the sport, make the sport better. Not just for the present, but also for future generations that are coming. So, it’s extremely important.” (source).

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Edited Transcript of Luke Rockhold’s Press Conference for UFC 278 on August 17, 2022. 

(Full video here)

(Question) 

Over the past few weeks you've been very vocal about fighter to pay. Do you worry that maybe the promotion will sort of be rooting against you if you continue to talk out about that subject?

Root against me for what? What are they gonna do?

I mean, root against me, go for it, do your thing, dude, I'm here to fight.

I'm not saying anything that's not real.

Everything I'm saying is justified and truthful.

Just because like, I should be in a position of power before I say this shit? Fuck off, I got nothing to lose. I don't need this business.

I love the fighting and I'm here to fight the best motherfuckers and this happens to be the place where it's done, you know?

They need to grow this whole fucking thing needs to grow together.

Our lives are on the fucking line.

Healthcare needs to be taken care of, our fucking health needs to be taken care of.

Mine has not been taken care of, you know what I mean? 

Like, yeah, this is business, every business is like this, it's about leverage, it's a game of leverage and life.

And it's about fucking, always keeping the upper hand.

It's it's not just here, it's everywhere.

And if you let these motherfuckers think that they have that leverage, it's only gonna grow above you. So it's just people understanding their worth.

(Question) 

And when you say your health hasn't been taken care of, can you elaborate on that?

I don't, I don't need to, I mean, it's just, it. things should be easier. You know what I mean?

Insurance should be fucking year round.

The giant is growing and it's like, there's one thing that should be fucking paramount is these fighters health, you know?

It's fucking our lives and our bodies are on the line every fucking time I step into that cage, and if we're not fucking protected, it's like, fuck, come on, wake up.

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About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. The Labor Podcast is hosted by Elise Bryant and Evan Papp. 

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

The Labor Solidarity Podcast is an Empathy Media Lab production and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. Learn more:  https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab 

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“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 erupted in May of 1920, setting into motion a chain of events that led to the largest armed uprising in the United States since the civil war, and offers the largest exhibition of Mine Wars history anywhere in the United States.

It is a people's history museum based in Matewan, WV, where they tell the story of the deadly, decades-long labor struggle between coal miners seeking unionization and the powerful industrialists who opposed them in the early 20th century. 

The museum seeks to ensure this history doesn’t miss another generation, but will instead inspire new ones. You can stay connected and keep up-to-date on Museum happenings on their social media (Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) or their e-newsletter (sign up for updates here).

Learn more about the museum, become a member, and plan a visit: https://wvminewars.org 

Barbara Ellen Smith is an American author, activist, and educator. In 2017 she was named professor emerita of Virginia Tech. Barbara is known for her involvement and writing about social justice in Appalachia, particularly the black lung movement and advocacy for coal miners. Barbara is also a board member of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum and Chair of the Museum Fundraising Committee.

About the Labor Solidarity Podcast

The Labor Solidarity Podcast highlights the work of labor leaders, organizers, and labor journalists  while discussing historic struggles and the importance of organizing with the goal of building international labor solidarity. Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/laborsolidarity

The Labor Solidarity Podcast is an EMLab production and we are a proud member of The Labor Radio Podcast Network. All links: https://wlo.link/@empathymedialab 

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“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, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas. (wikipedia) 

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“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 Atomic Workers Facebook page.

The USW Atomic Energy Workers Council consists of presidents and vice presidents from all USW local unions that have contracts with the Department Of Energy across the nation.

Learn more at: https://www.usw.org/union/mission/industries/atomic.

Also, I want to note a correction around six minutes and thirty seconds in which I misstated that the amount of energy in one uranium fuel pellet is equal to two tons of coal and 200 hundred gallons of oil. The correct equivalent of one uranium fuel pellet is one ton of coal, 149 gallons of oil, or 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas.

About The Political Economy Project 

The Political Economy Project is creating a blueprint seeking to unify our fellow humans to work together and create a new renaissance and a harmony of interests of the human spirit.

The Political Economy Project is an EMLab brand produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.

Follow our work on Substack at: https://politicaleconomyproject.substack.com/. 

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