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2013 GLAE Song Writing Contest
Labor Heritage Foundation Presents The 2013 Great Labor Arts Exchange Song Writing Contest Three Categories; $1000 In Cash Prizes The Jon Fromer Riff (String-buster) ($200) Peace and Justice, Union Solidarity, Ballad written within the last five years The Julie McCall Best Parody ($200) Political Satire The Joe Glazer Best Overall Song ($600) Union New song, [...]
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2013 GLAE Photo Contest
The Newspaper Guild & the Great Labor Arts Exchange are proud to present the “Gonna Take Us All!” photo contest The national office of Newspaper Guild, is once again sponsoring a photo contest at the 35th annual Great Labor Arts Exchange. Deadline for submissions June 1, 2013. $1000 in prize money will be awarded for the [...]
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Joe Glazer: Singer, Songwriter, Union Activist
This article first appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine Music has played an important role in the labor movement’s efforts to uplift, organize, and build solidarity among workers for more than a century. And for the past seven decades, singer-songwriter Joe Glazer dedicated his many talents to the fight [...]
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I’m Not Gone
Singer-Songwriter Hali Hammer recently recorded this stirring tribute to Jon Fromer
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2013 Call for Workshops & Presenters
Great Labor Arts Exchange (GLAE) Featuring the Conference on Creative Organizing (CCO) June 28-30, 2013 Conference Center at the Maritime Institute (near Baltimore, MD) Proposals must be submitted by May 3, 2013 Calling labor artists, organizers, and cultural workers who promote and fuel the labor and progressive movements! Submissions Must include a short paragraph that [...]
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“Baltimore Steel – A history of industrial struggle, past, present and future.” Saturday, June 8, 2013 (this Saturday) 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Govans Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library The closing of the Sparrows Point mills dropped 2,000 jobs, and $ 3 million a week, from the local economy–”devastating” is the best description. [...]
May 11, 1946 – January 2, 2013 Originally published in Labor’s Edge by Rebecca Band, California Labor Federation “There are two ways to bring light to the world. One is to be the flame and the other is to be the mirror that reflects the flame. Jon Fromer is one of those [...]
The DC Labor Chorus presents its annual spring concert on Saturday, May 4th at Plymouth Congregational Church. We are honored to be partnered with M.O.M.I.E.’s. T.L.C. (Mentors of Minorities in Education’s Total Learning Cis-tem), a DC-based nonprofit organization dedicated to “nurturing the genius” of our children by creating a transformative educational experience. This year’s theme [...]
Great Labor Arts Exchange (GLAE) Featuring the Conference on Creative Organizing (CCO) June 28-30, 2013 Conference Center at the Maritime Institute (near Baltimore, MD) Proposals must be submitted by May 3, 2013 Calling labor artists, organizers, and cultural workers who promote and fuel the labor and progressive movements! Submissions Must include a short paragraph that [...]
The 2013 CCO will take place June 28-30, 2013 Register for the Conference on Creative Organizing. Contact our office if you are interested in having a CCO program in your area Program Details The Conference on Creative Organizing Program is a leadership-training program for union staff, organizers, activists, and rank-and-filers. Participants learn how to think [...]
