It Starts When You Say We
This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour, we explore the power of solidarity—from the labor roots of "We Shall Overcome" to the workers who built movements one person at a time.
Elise Bryant shares Marge Piercy's powerful poem "The Low Road" from this year's Great Labor Arts Exchange, Eric Bernardino tells the story of Emma Tenayuca and the 1938 San Antonio Pecan Shellers' Strike, and we visit Akron's Rubber Worker statue as part of the People's 250 project. We also hear Kenyetta Dunston's stirring poem "We Didn't Come This Far to Go Back," learn how labor activists won a groundbreaking living wage ordinance in Madison, Wisconsin, and mark the anniversary of the Taft-Hartley Act and the worker resistance it inspired.
As Marge Piercy reminds us: "It starts when you say we and know who you mean."
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