Why Join the Labor Heritage Foundation?
The Labor Heritage Foundation (LHF) exists to celebrate, preserve, and grow the cultural life of the labor movement—its music, film, art, poetry, theater, and stories. Members make that work possible, and membership is how people stay connected to a living, creative labor culture.
Joining LHF isn’t just about supporting an organization. It’s about being part of a community that believes culture is essential to building power, memory, and solidarity.
Labor culture doesn’t happen by accident. It happens because people show up.
Join the Labor Heritage Foundation and help keep the art and soul of the labor movement alive.
What Members Do
LHF members help sustain and shape labor culture in very real ways. By joining, members:
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Support artists and cultural workers whose work reflects labor struggles, victories, and everyday life
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Help preserve labor history and make it accessible through radio, podcasts, film festivals, archives, and public programs
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Strengthen independent labor media, including The Labor Heritage Power Hour, Labor History Today, and The Labor Radio Podcast Network
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Make programs possible like the Labor FilmFest, the Labor Grammys, the Great Labor Arts Exchange, and community events nationwide
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Amplify labor voices—past and present—at a time when working-class stories are too often ignored or erased
Members are part of the reason this work continues, grows, and reaches new audiences.
What Members Receive
LHF members receive a number of meaningful benefits and connections, depending on their level of support. All Labor Heritage Foundation members receive an annual membership, a members-only newsletter and an LHF sticker. Additional benefits increase with each membership level:
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Members ($25 per year) receive two admissions to the D.C. LaborFest FilmFest.
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Supporting Members ($50 per year) receive four admissions to the DC Labor FilmFest.
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Sustaining Members ($75 per year) receive six DC Labor FilmFest admissions, a choice of thank-you gift valued at up to $25 from the LHF Shop, and discounted registration for the Great Labor Arts Exchange.
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Solidarity Members ($100 per year) receive eight DC Labor FilmFest admissions, a choice of LHF Shop gift valued at up to $25, a GLAE registration discount and optional recognition on the LHF website, and special meetings with LHF leadership throughout the year.
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Advocates ($250 per year) receive 12 DC Labor FilmFest admissions, a choice of LHF Shop gift valued at up to $25, a GLAE registration discount and optional website recognition, special meetings with LHF leadership throughout the year, and an invitation to a special reception at the Great Labor Arts Exchange in Silver Spring Maryland.
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Benefactors ($500 per year) receive two admissions to every DC Labor FilmFest screening, a choice of LHF Shop gift valued at up to $25, a GLAE registration discount and optional website recognition, special meetings with LHF leadership throughout the year, an invitation to a special reception at the Great Labor Arts Exchange in Silver Spring Maryland and free tickets to the Solidarity Forever Award ceremony in Washington DC.
Most importantly, members know they are helping keep labor culture alive, visible, and shared.
Why Membership Matters Now
Labor culture doesn’t survive on nostalgia—it survives through active participation and shared support. At a moment when workers are organizing, resisting, and reimagining their futures, culture helps people connect across generations, industries, and movements.
Your membership helps ensure that labor’s songs are sung, its stories are told, and its history is remembered—not as the past, but as something still unfolding.
Join Us
Whether you’re a longtime union member, an artist, a historian, a radio listener, or someone who believes culture belongs to working people, there’s a place for you at LHF.
Join today—and help keep the art and soul of the labor movement strong.
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