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TODAY’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: When the City Stopped

Chris Garlock | Published on 11/20/2025
When the City Stopped: Stories from New York’s Essential Workers
Today at 1p on WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online.

On the Labor Heritage Power Hour, historian Robert W. Snyder shares When the City Stopped, powerful frontline stories from NYC’s essential workers during the darkest days of COVID.
Then historian Peter Cole brings the life of Black Wobbly Ben Fletcher to the mic — the visionary IWW leader who built an interracial, militant waterfront union decades before the Civil Rights Act. Tune in!

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