Podcast appearances and mentions of peter rachleff

For 150 years, Richmond's place in history has been as "the capital of the Confederacy." But this label hides a much richer and more complex history. On today's show, originally aired on Feb. 20, 2022, we hear from Peter Rachleff, Co-Executive Director of the East Side Freedom Library, a retired professor of history at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and author of "Black Labor in Richmond, 1865 -1890," as he reveals part of that hidden history, that of Black and White workers in the second half of the 19th century. Note: Excerpted from Rachleff's Feb. 2, 2022 talk for The Virginia Worker; click here for the complete talk.   On this week's Labor History in Two: Yale Grad Students Strike (2/17/1992). Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Editing this week by Patrick Dixon. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory @virginia_worker

Labor historian Peter Rachleff on how a Midwest strike helped shape national labor law plus a preview of his talk on the 1886 takeover of the Richmond (VA) City Council by black and white union activists.   On this week's Labor History in Two: the birth of the original Rebel Girl, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory  

Workers at six Kowalski's grocery stores across the Twin Cities will not walk off the job this week after all. About 600 workers had authorized an unfair labor practices strike last week. But this past Friday the union, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 663, announced it has a tentative agreement with Kolwalski's management. This is the latest Twin Cities grocery store union to narrowly avoid a strike. In the meantime, union organizing continues its surge across Minnesota and the nation. For more on the context of this moment, MPR News host Cathy Wurzer spoke with Peter Rachleff. He's co-executive director of the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul, and a retired history professor at Macalester College specializing in labor history.

(PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE) - Union leaders for postal workers say they're mindful of the need for strong protections amid a push in the labor force for improved working conditions. The USPS holiday hiring blitz coincides with the need for more career clerks and carriers. Comments from Dominic Corso, president, Youngstown Area Local #443, and State Clerk Craft Director, American Postal Workers Union; Karen Garber, postmaster, Cincinnati; and Peter Rachleff, labor historian and co-executive director, East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul, Minnesota. 6 ways to support the podcast Subscribe to the podcast Ways you can support the show Check out our latest podcasts Connect with Chris Pugh on social media Ways you can save money Check out our latest contests --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theohioan/message

Fifteen-thousand nurses are picketing this week at 16 hospitals in the Twin Cities and the Twin Ports. It's the largest private-sector nurse's strike in U.S history. Peter Rachleff is co-executive director of the east side freedom library in St. Paul, and a retired history professor at Macalester College specializing in labor history. He joined Cathy to contextualize the strike. Click the audio player above to listen to the full episode.  Subscribe to the Minnesota Now podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.   We attempt to make transcripts for Minnesota Now available the next business day after a broadcast. When ready they will appear here. 

For 150 years, Richmond's place in history has been as "the capital of the Confederacy." But this label hides a much richer and more complex history. On today's show, we hear from Peter Rachleff, Co-Executive Director of the East Side Freedom Library, a retired professor of history at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and author of "Black Labor in Richmond, 1865 -1890," as he reveals part of that hidden history, that of Black and White workers in the second half of the 19th century. Note: Excerpted from Rachleff's Feb. 2, 2022 talk for The Virginia Worker; click here for the complete talk.   On this week's Labor History in Two: Yale Grad Students Strike (2/17/1992). Questions, comments or suggestions welcome, and to find out how you can be a part of Labor History Today, email us at LaborHistoryToday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. Editing this week by Patrick Dixon. #LaborRadioPod #History #WorkingClass #ClassStruggle @GeorgetownKILWP #LaborHistory @UMDMLA @ILLaborHistory @AFLCIO @StrikeHistory #LaborHistory @wrkclasshistory @virginia_worker

Today we have an interview with Brett Grant, an organizer with Voices for Racial Justice and my organizing partner, and updates from Peter Rachleff with the East Side Freedom Library.

The East Side Freedom Library invites you to a conversation with children's book authors Nicole McCandless and Alejandra Domenzain. Educators say, “If they can see it, they can be it.” When parents, teachers and librarians offer stories of children and their working parents fighting for their rights, they inspire children to imagine a better, more just world. The role models in their literature can teach them to fight bullying, gender inequality, racism and rigid conformity to class-based cultural norms. Stories about social justice issues encourage children to join the resistance when they come of age, and to question the grownups about who rules the world…and why. This is how our friends at Hardball Press describe their work. ESFL is proud to be featuring two newly published children's books from Hardball Press. Tune in to our Facebook page or YouTube channel to catch a conversation between Peter Rachleff and authors Nicole McCandless and Alejandra Domenzain, and stay tuned to hear them read their books. On Saturday morning, May 8, at 10am, they will be reading these books to our “Stories for (Little) People” audience. Please encourage the little people in your lives to tune in then. DOWN ON JAMES STREET takes readers into 1930s Pittsburgh, where two young teens, one White and one Black, are caught up in a police raid on an interracial dance hall. It puts young readers (aged 6-10) in the shoes of two courageous teens, in a story inspired by real historical events from the 1930s. The vivid illustrations evoke the cool vibe of that jazz era, while the story inspires young people today to stand up for justice. The bilingual PARA TODOS/FOR ALL follows Flor and her father as they leave their beloved country for the promise of a land called For All. Dad works long hours for little pay, while Flor struggles to find her place in school. In time, Flor realizes that not having the proper immigration papers means her father must work in unfair & unsafe conditions, and that doors of opportunity will be closed to her. Flor picks up her green pen and writes from the heart about immigrants excluded from “justice for all.” She inspires others to take action in the hope their new country will live up to its ideals. Join us for a conversation with the writers of these great new books. Order the books at www.hardballpress.com View the video: https://youtu.be/fkFohDIfA5w

On today's episode of the Radical News Radio Hour, we're talking about education equity. We'll listen to a clip from a recent discussion held by the Federal Reserve, reported by Rico Morales. Then we'll listen to some announcements from Peter Rachleff at the East Side Freedom Library. You can find the transcript for this episode here.

On the second Friday evening of each month, ESFL screens a labor history film. In this video ESFL's Peter Rachleff discusses the historical context for "Finally Got the News" with David Colman, Associate Professor of African American History, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and James Robinson, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, Metropolitan State University. This film traces the activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an independent black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker's problems, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate wages faced by both black and white workers in the industry. It provides a rare opportunity for African American industrial workers to represent themselves on film and for a self-identified revolutionary organization to provide their own perspective on the past, the present, and the future. The late historian Manning Marable wrote: “The League [of Revolutionary Black Workers] was in many respects the most significant expression of black radical thought and activism in the 1960s. The League took the impetus for Black Power and translated it into a fighting program focusing on industrial workers.” Oral historian and filmmaker Dan Georgakas (author of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying) wrote: “Ideological in the best sense: it is a film about ideas [and] presents a serious strategy for mass working class action… It speaks of a specific time and specific experiences in terms that will remain relevant as long as working people are not able to control their own lives.” To view the video with closed captioning: YouTube.com/eastsidefreedomlibraryorg

Peter Rachleff Author of Black Labor in Richmond, Virginia 1865-1890 and Co-Executive Director of East Side Freedom Library Welcome to the Harmony of Interest series where we explore ideas that positively shape our world. Professor Peter Rachleff is a retired Professor of History at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota specializing in United States labor, immigration, and African American history. He is the author of BLACK LABOR IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, 1865-1890, and HARD-PRESSED IN THE HEARTLAND: THE HORMEL STRIKE AND THE FUTURE OF THE LABOR MOVEMENT.  Peter is Co-Executive Director at East Side Freedom Library, which has become a pillar of organizing and culture in the Twin Cities with a Mission: "To inspire solidarity, advocate for justice, and work towards equity for all." You can follow Peter’s work at the East Side Freedom Library on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ESFLibrary. Empathy Media Lab is a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class.  #HarmonyOfInterest #PoliticalEconomyMatters #LaborRadioPod #1U #UnionStrong

A central mechanism of our dominant culture in the United States has been rendering workers and work invisible. As the old saying goes, “we don't want to know how sausage is made.” But, as the labor anthem “Solidarity Forever” reminds us, “without these hands not a single wheel would turn.” The pandemic has had a complicated impact on these deep-seated practices and visions. Some workers, long disregarded, have been labeled “essential” and have been given new attention. Some have even received hazard pay (for a time) and new respect. But some have also spoken out about feeling “sacrificial,” and some have protested and even struck over their working conditions. Duluth-based visual artist Carolyn Sue Olson has used her imagination, skills and pastels to create a stunning collection of images of “Essential Workers.” You can see her work here: http://carolynolson.net/current-work-.... Carolyn sees an intersection between her work and the project of the East Side Freedom Library. Join ESFL's Peter Rachleff in a conversation with Carolyn about her work and her concerns which have informed it. Through the end of this month, Carolyn and Lizzard's Art Gallery (https://www.lizzards.com/) are dedicating 20% of the proceeds from the sale of her work to benefit ESFL.

On today's episode, recorded before the insurrection that occurred on Jan. 6, we hear from organizers with Voices for Racial Justice about the work happening to prep for the legislative session, as well as Peter Rachleff with the East Side Freedom Library.

Author and historian Peter Rachleff and longtime labor educator and organizer Bill Fletcher Jr. explore labor’s connections to Richmond’s Robert E. Lee statue. PLus: A union-made Halloween. Contributors: Race Capitol podcast; Labor History in 2. Produced and edited by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.comLabor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, 70 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod

On Episode 15 we discuss the House Special Committee on Racial Justice and listen to its presentation on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and Racism. We'll also hear from Peter Rachleff at the East Side Freedom Library about upcoming events being held.

This week Race we discuss Organizing through the Divide. Chels talks to author Dr. Peter Rachleff & labor educator Bill Fletcher Jr about how the institutions of Richmond have worked strategically to divide the movement and how the Lee Monument represents the literal fight in the court and the current symbolic fight to defend Black lives. We go back to why the gigantic monument was proposed in 1890; public memory can verbalize that it was to solidify the white race but do you know the context of the time? Have you learned about the Workingmen’s Reform Party that built the old City Hall on an 8 hour day? Have you learned that it was this labor organizing movement that brought the proposal to glorify a Confederate General and construct the “Lost Cause” narrative we still fight today? Join us this week to learn about this third political party that organized through the national Knights of Labor but was stopped in their tracks with the contract to build the statue of Robert E. Lee. Tune in this week on Race Capitol, and don't forget to subscribe! Learn something? Join our Race Capitol patreon and support our work as we interrogate the racial narratives of our place, space and time in Richmond, VA -- Music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=RDyfQNdwgvJMw&feature=share&playnext=1 resources from episode: -Learn and Read from Bill Fletcher Jr.: http://billfletcherjr.com/books/ -The Story Behind The Robert E Lee Statue by Peter Rachleff: https://progressive.org/dispatches/story-behind-lee-statue-richmond-virginia-rachleff-200707/ -Industrial Slavery in the Old South by Robert S. Starobin https://www.jstor.org/stable/3112636?seq=1 -Black Labor in Richmond VAa 1865-1890 https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/65ngq4ck9780252060267.html -The Freedman’s Savings Bank: -https://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/pages/freedmans-savings-bank.aspx -The Half Thats Never Been Told by Edward E Baptist: https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-the-half-has-never-been-told-by-edward-e-baptist-1409952510 -Yohuru Williams http://www.yohuruwilliams.net/YW_publications.html -Marcus Rediker: https://redemmas.org/titles/16303-the-amistad-rebellion--an-atlantic-odyssey-of-slavery-and-freedom -Never Caught by Dr Erica Armstrong: https://www.amrevmuseum.org/read-the-revolution/history/never-caught-washingtons-relentless-pursuit-their-runaway-slave-ona -The Debt: What Americans Owe to Blacks: http://www.randallrobinson.com/debt.html -Amazon is building on a plantation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/11/27/virginia-portion-amazons-hq-should-acknowledge-what-lies-beneath/?tid=ss_mail&utm_term=.2fb9b0917c41 -Richmond Magazine: Old City Hall: https://richmondmagazine.com/news/richmond-history/40-moments-you-can-fight-for-city-hall/

Peter Rachleff on the history and significance of Labor Day on the Union Yes Iowa podcast; anthropologist Paul Shackel remembers the 1897 Lattimer Massacre; from the Library of Congress’s brand-new America Works podcast, Greg Vaught, the singing gold mine worker from Elko, Nevada. Plus, Pete Seeger remembers textile mill striker Ella Mae Wiggins, and on Labor History in 2: The Making of a National Treasure.   Produced and edited by Chris Garlock. To contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.comLabor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University. We're a proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network, 70 shows focusing on working people’s issues and concerns. #LaborRadioPod

Jeremy Brecher's “Strike for Your Life!”; Peter Rachleff and labor history's lessons for the COVID-19 crisis; plus a preview of Debs In Canton.  “The current situation has led us to reconsider the Minneapolis teamster strikes of 1934; their dramatic story shows that the labor movement is strongest when unions boldly organized workers on the job and in the community around a shared vision of fairness and justice.” Peter Rachleff, co-director of the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul, Minnesota, on how “Lessons from labor history can inform our labor movement during the COVID-19 crisis.” “As a labor historian, the closest thing I can think of to the spread of coronavirus strikes is the epidemic of sitdown strikes to spread across the country in the mid-1930s.” Historian and writer Jeremy Brecher, from “Strike for Your Life!” Also this week, we preview Debs In Canton, a new audio/radio drama from the filmmakers of American Socialist: The Life And Times Of Eugene Victor Debs. Produced by Chris Garlock; to contribute a labor history item, email laborhistorytoday@gmail.com Labor History Today is produced by the Metro Washington Council’s Union City Radio and the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University.

MN State Senator Bobby Joe Champion talks about this last week of the 2019 legislative session, along with an impactful bill he recently helped to pass.  Macalester labor professor Peter Rachleff explains what happened to make Uber and Lyft drivers take a one-day strike.

On Thursday Feb. 22, 2018 Storymobile was at the East Side Freedom Library in Saint Paul to celebrate Meridel LeSueur. Meridel LeSueur, one of the great voices of the 20th century, was born on this day in 1900. Her writings were grounded in the grassroots experiences and stories of women, working people, the disenfranchised and dispossessed. Her immense love and respect for the power of the people and the power of the word was ever present in her poetry, novels, and essays. Meridel’s work touched generations of artists and activists, from Minnesota and the Midwest to the wide expanse of this country and this world. Performers at this event included: Introduction by Peter Rachleff and Beth Cleary Jayanthi Kyle Barb Tilsen and Gayla Ellis Amoke Kubat Shanai Matteson Ed Bok Lee Desdamona SisterTree (Dee Brust and Kerri Jakola) Ben Weaver Tish Jones Colleen Casey Louis Alemayehu Storymobile joined Meridel's family and fans for presentations and performances of Meridel’s work as well as original work by established and emerging artists.

On Thursday Feb. 22, 2018 Storymobile was at the East Side Freedom Library in Saint Paul to celebrate Meridel LeSueur. Meridel LeSueur, one of the great voices of the 20th century, was born on this day in 1900. Her writings were grounded in the grassroots experiences and stories of women, working people, the disenfranchised and dispossessed. Her immense love and respect for the power of the people and the power of the word was ever present in her poetry, novels, and essays. Meridel’s work touched generations of artists and activists, from Minnesota and the Midwest to the wide expanse of this country and this world. Storymobile joined Meridel's family and fans for presentations and performances of Meridel’s work as well as original work by established and emerging artists.

John Milton tells the story of how citizen opposition delayed for many years to completion of Interstate Highway 35 through St. Paul. And labor historian Peter Rachleff describes how he and his partner Beth Cleary plan to convert the closed Arlington Hills public library into the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul.