WEEK AT A GLANCE…
Monday: Film: Finally Got the News
Thursday: BVOCAL: Boston Voices of Community and Labor
Thursday: You Betcha! Farmer-Labor Solidarity Is Possible
Thursday-Sunday (Final week!): The Garbologists
Sunday: 2025 MLK "Gonna Take Us All" Ball (NEW DATE!)
Ongoing:
Historic photographs of Yakima Valley farmworkers
Gospel of the Working Class: Exhibition
Film: Finally Got the News
Monday, February 17, 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM
New Deal Café, Roosevelt Center, Greenbelt, MD, or remote with registration here.
Highlights the emergence of Black militant unionism at Detroit auto plants in the late 1960s. Prof. Clarence Lusane of Howard U. will guide a post-film discussion.
BVOCAL: Boston Voices of Community and Labor
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Sign up and/or help spread the word by sharing the Facebook event. More info: activistartsboston@gmail.com.
Labor Heritage Power Hour
Thursday, February 13, 2025, 1:00 PM on WPFW 89.3 FM
This week: Chris and Elise play your favorite labor songs! Please support the Power Hour by pledging during the show: online at wpfwfm.org, via CashApp at $WPFWFM, or text WPFWFM to 801801 or call 800-222-9739
You Betcha! Farmer-Labor Solidarity Is Possible
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 7:00 PM until 8:30 PM
East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106
Opening reception; exhibition runs through May 4, 2025. The Farmer-Labor Education Committee (FLEC) commissioned Gita Ghei to create a permanent traveling sculpture, commemorating the Farmer-Labor movement in Minnesota. She and her team engaged with people throughout the state to inform permanent art that commemorates this important history in a whimsical artwork. CLICK HERE to hear Gita Ghei on last week’s Labor Heritage Power Hour radio show.