songs
Picking up sticks and stones at Woody Fest 2018
July 16, 2018In the hometown where Woody grew up, Okemah, Okla, each year around his birthday the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival takes place. It’s sorta an old hippie crowd along with progressive young persons desiring to connect to...
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Songs, poems, speeches and sewing honor 100 years of L.A. garment work
March 6, 2017To mark International Working Women’s Day/Día international de la mujer trabajadora, the UCLA Labor Center, pairing with the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, sponsored an uplifting afternoon at the Labor Center’s building across from downtown’s MacArthur...
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Who was Casey Jones? Hint: Not just a Joe Hill song
October 2, 2015Jonathan Luther "John""Casey" Jones from Jackson, Tenn., was an American railroader who worked for the Illinois Central Railroad.
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Today in labor history: Joe Hill executed
November 19, 2014On November 19, 1915, labor leader and songwriter Joe Hill was executed in Utah on what many believe was a framed charge of murder.
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A triumphant must-see show about Paul Robeson
May 2, 2014Daniel Beaty doesn't miss a beat in his one-man tribute to African American Paul Robeson, the son of a runaway slave who went on to become an actor, activist and Renaissance Man.
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