Kansas City Heartland Labor Forum: Run the street cars non-union? That's the plan in City Hall and Musician Lance Canales and the Deportee Headstone Project

Kansas City Heartland Labor Forum: Run the street cars non-union? That's the plan in City Hall and Musician Lance Canales and the Deportee Headstone Project

From: "Ancel, Judith"
Subject: This week on the Heartland Labor Forum: Run the street cars non-union? That's the plan in City Hall and Musician Lance Canales and the Deportee Headstone Project
Date: February 17, 2014 11:40:08 AM PST

This week on The Heartland Labor Forum: KC is all excited about new street cars, but City Manager Troy Schulte wants them on the cheap. We’ll talk to Amalgamated Transit Union President JP Walker about the city’s plans to run street cars nonunion and take money out of the bus budget to do it. We also interview a retiree who drove the street cars in the 1950s. Then we interview bandleader Lance Canales, in town for the Folk Alliance Convention. Lance spearheaded The Deportee Headstone Project, for the nameless deportees who died in a plane crash recounted in song by Woody Guthrie.

The Heartland Labor Forum: Thursdays 6pm, rebroadcast Fridays at 5am. KKFI -- Kansas City Community Radio 90.1 FM kkfi.org

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Last week on the Heartland Labor Forum: We returned to the Bangladesh factory collapse with Liana Fox-Vog of the International Labor Rights Forum and asked “Were the workers left in the Rubble?” Then we asked Sen. Paul LeVota and Rep. Michael Frame who in Jeff City is plotting against Missouri workers’ rights.

Listen to it at www.heartlandlaborforum.org
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Upcoming events from our calendar:

THE MEXICO SOLIDARITY NETWORK, THE CROSS BORDER NETWORK, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY LATINA/LATINO STUDIES and UMKC WORKER EDUCATION & LABOR STUDIES, CULTIVATE KC, THE KANSAS CITY FOOD CIRCLE AND THE SIERRA CLUB KANZA GROUP PRESENT

THE FUTURE OF CORN IN TLAXCALA MEXICO WITH LUZ RIVERA MARTINEZ, ORGANIZER WITH CONSEJO NATIONAL URBANO Y CAMPESINO (CNUC - National Council of Urban and Rural Farmers). The CNUC is dedicated to retrieving community life and resistance by the men and women of Tlaxcala. Tlaxcala is a largely agrarian state in central Mexico, one of the places corn was created. There are 52 native varieties of corn grown there.

Luz will speak of her 20 years’ experience constructing autonomy, organizing outside the electoral system and resisting genetically modified corn while protecting millennia-old varieties. Luz is an inspiring speaker and will give us many lessons on movements of women and agricultural and urban workers.

Program bilingual English/Spanish

MONDAY FEBRUARY 24, 6:30 PM
UMKC – LIBRARY LEARNING CENTER, ROOM 452
800 EAST 51ST ST., KANSAS CITY, MO
Park in lot on north side of library. Learning Center is new addition on west side of library.

For more information, call Judy Ancel 816-835-4745, ancelj@umkc.edu

Judy Ancel, Director
Worker Education and Labor Studies
The University of Missouri-Kansas City
211 Haag Hall
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
office: Royall Hall 408D
816-235-1470
fax: 816-235-2834
web: cas.umkc.edu/labor-ed