Ranked #1
Activist explorer Juliana Barnet
Activist explorer Juliana Barnet
This week’s guest is Juliana Barnet, an “anticolonial anthropologist” who’s been active in a wide range of movements in ... Read more
20 May 2022
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27mins
Ranked #2
9 to 5, the movies, the movement
9 to 5, the movies, the movement
Labor Goes to the Movies co-host Elise Bryant recalls the impact of seeing the 1980 hit film 9 to 5 as a working secreta... Read more
13 May 2022
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25mins
Ranked #3
Black Dinners Matter
Black Dinners Matter
Soleil Ho and Amanda Yee teamed up to write BLACK DINNERS MATTER for Whetstone Magazine, in which they examine the films... Read more
10 Apr 2022
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51mins
Ranked #4
Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike
Local 1196: A Steelworkers Strike
Last year, 1,500 steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania went out on strike for four long months. If you don’t remember hea... Read more
16 Mar 2022
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54mins
Ranked #5
Labor films at the SAG Awards
Labor films at the SAG Awards
LGTTM co-host Chris Garlock got to know Harold Phillips a couple of years ago when he started working with Chris to buil... Read more
25 Feb 2022
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58mins
Ranked #6
Meyerson on The Irishman & When Tomorrow Comes
Meyerson on The Irishman & When Tomorrow Comes
Harold Meyerson, Editor At Large for The American Prospect, writes some of the best political analysis around, but every... Read more
11 Feb 2022
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59mins
Ranked #7
Sidney Poitier: Nobody You Can Boss Around
Sidney Poitier: Nobody You Can Boss Around
When iconic and groundbreaking actor Sidney Poitier died last month, most of the tributes focused on his brilliant actin... Read more
4 Feb 2022
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1hr 1min
Ranked #8
The 1970 Wisconsin TA Strike
The 1970 Wisconsin TA Strike
In March 1970 the Teaching Assistants Association at the University of Wisconsin went out on strike for twenty-four days... Read more
27 Jan 2022
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46mins
Ranked #9
National Film Registry’s 2021 labor films
National Film Registry’s 2021 labor films
Five labor-related films were inducted into the National Film Registry last year: The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971), Req... Read more
14 Jan 2022
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56mins
Ranked #10
With Babies and Banners, women still rising
With Babies and Banners, women still rising
Today’s film is a short documentary that should have been made in the nineteen-thirties, about women who played crucial ... Read more
24 Dec 2021
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45mins