Broadcast on May 18, 2023

Greg Mitchell and Lyn Goldfarb discuss their new film Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried, which explores a largely forgotten episode in labor--and media—history.

Broadcast on May 18, 2023 on WPFW 89.3 FM in Washington, DC

TV writer Joe Webb says he and 11,500 television writers – members of the Writers Guild -- are prepared to strike for “As long as it takes” to win a fair deal and protect their livelihoods. Plus music from Charlie King; he’s performing a free online concert this Sunday, May 21 at 7p ET.

Broadcast on May 11, 2023

Highlights from labor radio and podcast shows around the country, part of the national Labor Radio Podcast Network, including Your Rights At Work, the Reinventing Solidarity podcast, the Workers Beat radio show, and the Green and Red podcast.

Broadcast on May 11, 2023

Television writer/producer Theo Travers on the “existential threat” that’s got Hollywood writers walking picket lines. 

Broadcast on May 4, 2023

Broadcast on May 4, 2023

DC Labor Chorus Director Elise Bryant previews the May 6 concert featuring the Chorus performing songs from the Love Songs from the Liberation Wars jazz opera. Info/tickets here; 7:30p at the Silver Spring United Methodist Church (8900 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD); streaming also available on request.  

Broadcast on April 27, 2023

Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Elise Bryant joins us to preview next week’s events celebrating work and workers, from the May Day shows on WPFW (89.3FM) to the IWW march and rally on May Day, the Labor Heritage Foundation’s annual Solidarity Forever Award (5/2), the launch of the 2023 DC Labor FilmFest (5/1, 3 & 7), and the DC Labor Chorus concert featuring "Love Songs from the Liberation Wars" (5/6); full details here.

Broadcast on April 20, 2023

Alexis Harper on the April 25 Labor Spring at Kalmanovitz (3:00 – 5:30pm, Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Hall, Georgetown University, 1575 Tondorf Road Washington, DC 20007) and Father Brian Jordan on the April 27 Building Trades' Workers Memorial Day Mass (5:00 – 7:00pm, Saint Camillus Church, 1600 St Camillus Dr, Silver Spring).

Broadcast on April 20, 2023

DoorDash, UberEats, Grubhub, and Instacart: to most of us, these are just handy ways to get food delivered to our home or office. We talk to Katie Wells and Isabella Stratta, authors of a new report released on April 19 -- The Instant Delivery Workplace in D.C. – which finds that the instant food delivery industry in the D.C. region poses risks to worker health and safety, subjects workers to unpredictable and variable wages, and requires unpaid work.

Broadcast on April 13, 2023

First published in 1981, Working Class Giant: The Life of William Z. Foster is the classic biography of the radical American labor organizer and Communist politician. A new edition includes a foreword by today’s guest, union activist and organizer Chris Townsend, who talks about how Foster’s life and legacy continues to inspire a new generation of workers.