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SAG-AFTRA Strike: Actors Out in Full Force at Netflix, Disney & More on First Day (THR News) 

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Work, by John McCutcheon

Tune in to the Labor Heritage Power Hour this Thursday, July 20 at 1p ET – WPFW 89.3FM (or catch the podcast here after 2p) -- to hear hosts Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant’s interview with McCutcheon.

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Gary Huck, Huck/Konopacki Cartoons

“Wake up and smell the coffee. We demand respect! You cannot exist without us! They (studios) stand on the wrong side of history.”

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher, in her scathing announcement of the SAG-AFTRA strike last week.



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2023 San Francisco LaborFest (30th Annual)

July 1-31, various dates, times & locations; CLICK HERE for complete schedule

Dozens of labor events, films, tours, walks, forums, readings, music, theater, & art

NoVA Labor Book Club

Tue, July 25, 7:30pm – 9:00pm

We are reading "Horse," by Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks. 

To sign up for the NoVA Labor book club, click here.

UALE Southern School for Women Workers 

August 2-5, Nashville, TN

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Check out this week's Labor History Today podcast, The Port Chicago Mutiny: On July 17, 1944, two ammunition ships exploded at Port Chicago, Calif., killing 322, including 202 African-Americans assigned by the Navy to handle explosives. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II. The resulting refusal of 258 African-Americans to return to the dangerous work underpinned the trial and conviction of 50 of the men in what is called the Port Chicago Mutiny.

Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Delegates adopt a Declaration of Women's Rights and call for women's suffrage - 1848

An amendment to the 1939 Hatch Act, a federal law whose main provision prohibits federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity, is amended to also cover state and local employees whose salaries include any federal funds - 1940

LABOR HISTORY QUIZ OF THE WEEK

Last week's quiz: Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Massachusetts of murder and payroll robbery (as 30% of readers knew), not a bombing attack (as 63% thought) or union organizing (2%) and eventually executed. Most historians agree the convictions were unfair; fifty years after their deaths the state's governor issued a proclamation saying they had been treated unfairly and that "any disgrace should be forever removed from their names." 

Check out Charlie King’s song about Sacco and Vanzetti: “Two Good Arms” (below).