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Labor Photo: May Day Rally

Solidarity Center Report: Risks to Women Workers Pervasive in South African Mines

Your Voice/Readers Write: One of the 400

Today's Labor Quote

Today's Labor History

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Union City Radio: 7:15am daily
WPFW-FM 89.3 FM; [link removed] click here to hear today's report

[link removed] Loudoun County Labor Caucus: Tue, May 4, 5pm - 6pm
Meeting of union members and community allies in Loudoun.

[link removed] Virtual phone bank for the Medical Debt Protection Act: Tue, May 4, 6pm - 8pm
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"Wednesdays with Warner" for the PRO Act: Wed, May 5, 8:15am - 8:45am

500 S. Lee St., Alexandria, VA ([link removed] map)

NoVA Labor Arts Caucus: Wed, May 5, 3pm - 4pm

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Virtual Rally for the DC Essential Workers Bill Of Rights: Wed, May 5, 6pm - 7pm
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Film: Waging Change (on PBS): Wed, May 5, 7pm - 9pm

PBS; check local listings for station

Alexandria Dems Labor Caucus: Wed, May 5, 7:30pm - 8:30pm

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COMING UP/MARK YOUR CALENDAR:
ELIZABETH "LIZ" DAVIS: WTU Virtual Celebration of Life: Thu, May 6, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
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La Lucha Sigue! 20 Years of Fighting for Immigrant Justice in Washington, DC: Thu, May 6, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
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DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert (Virtual): Sat, May 8, 7:30pm - 9:30pm

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If you missed WPFW's annual May Day show last Saturday, catch [link removed] Hour 1 here. Union City Radio teamed up with the House of Soul with tunes about work and workers, along with the best of labor radio and podcast programming from across the country.

Labor Photo: May Day Rally
Co-sponsored by Metro DC Democratic Socialists of America and Northern Virginia Our Revolution at Senator Mark Warner's house. The rally was attended by over 200 people including members of CWA, ATU 689, Unite Here 23, UFCW Local 400, National Nurses United, Democratic Socialists of America, Our Revolution and others.
- Carl Goldman, AFSCME (ret)

Solidarity Center Report: Risks to Women Workers Pervasive in South African Mines
A new report shows women working in South African mines "at times confront danger, violence and indignity in their work environments," where gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) appears both widespread and normalized. The report, by the Solidarity Center and South Africa-based Lawyers for Human Rights, finds that "women mineworkers, striving to support their families, live a troubling reality--one that comes at great cost to their physical and mental well-being." [link removed] Find out more at Solidarity Center.

Your Voice/Readers Write: One of the 400
"Thanks for the Peter Seeger/Weavers item and 'Which side are you on?' ([link removed] 5/3 UC)," writes PAI News' Mark Gruenberg. "It was part of their last joint appearance, and, no, it WASN'T at Carnegie Hall. It was six months later at the pro-green pro-Hudson River cleanup Clearwater Festival in Westchester County, and word raced around the area, among all 400 or so of us, they'd be there. I ought to know...I was one of the 400."

Today's Labor Quote: Haymarket Massacre, by Jay Kulstad

On this day we celebrate the never-ending fight

of workers struggling for their workplace rights

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TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week's [link removed] Labor History Today podcast: 50 years of "Strike!" Last week's show: [link removed] Mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living!

Haymarket massacre. A bomb is thrown as Chicago police start to break up a rally for strikers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. A riot erupts, 11 police and strikers die, mostly from gunfire, and scores more are injured - 1886

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