Thursday at 6:00 pm
The Heartland Labor Forum is Kansas City’s only program about the workplace. It’s radio that talks back to the boss! Whether you’re a union member or your workplace isn’t organized, Heartland Labor Forum (HLF) has stories for you, guaranteed to inspire, educate, or enrage you. HLF is produced by a diverse group of working people and coordinated by The UMKC’s Labor Studies Program. We have been agitating for the rights of working people on the KKFI airwaves since 1989.
Find out about labor struggles and strikes, organizing in Kansas City, global sweatshops, and how the economy is working from the point of view of working people. Listen to our monthly features: Know Your Rights, Safety First, Economics Unmasked, and Washington Window on Workers. Heartland Labor Forum has won the International Labor Communications Association first prize for radio several times. Other media have plenty of business news of, by, and for the 1%; HLF is for the rest of us.
Find our schedule of upcoming shows and our archive at www.heartlandlaborforum.org.
- Judy Ancel – Directs the labor studies program at UMKC and has been educating, agitating and organizing for justice for working people since the 1970s. She coordinates the show.
- Frank Bradley, Jr. – Is a local artist and composer who thinks artists should be respected as the working people that they are.
- Janice Brill – taught public school near St. Louis for many years. She’s now retired and spends her time raising her grandchildren and raising hell along with Jobs with Justice. She produced a monthly series on Heartland Labor Forum called Don’t Be Ladylike about women in the past who did the same.
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Conrad Creitz
Conrad Creitz is a Vietnam vet, passionately anti-war and a member of Veterans For Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He thinks the Pentagon budget needs to be cut in half, and that money should be spent on repairing our own country and putting the working people back to work at union scale wages. He is also interested in Veterans programs that help his fellow veterans.
- Oliver Dreher is our resident Luddite and thinks technology is the ruination of the working stiff. He also just got an MA in economics from UMKC.
- Hester Duisik has been downsized, retrained and re-employed from more jobs than all of us put together. She’s an ardent member of CWA, the Communications Workers and was one of the first women techs that AT&T hired in the 1970s.
- Sayra Gordillo organizes for Missouri Jobs with Justice, thinks immigrants deserve to have rights and dignity at work, and is the youngest sprout in the current crop of radio trouble makers.
- Cris Mann teaches special education in the Kansas City Missouri school district. She dreams of the day when the Pentagon budget will be redirected to our schools and teachers. She’s a member of Kansas City Federation of Teachers
- Molly Madden – is a retired city bus driver and tireless agitator for justice. Having worked in factories, taught school and learned radio production, she’s living proof that a working person’s life can span many careers.
- Shawn Saving makes maps for the State of Kansas in his day job and plays in a rock band by night. When he’s not fixing up his house, he’s producing radio.
- Michael Savwoir retired from UPS after several years where he was a member of Teamsters Local 41 and a proud dissident in Teamsters for a Democratic Union.
- Susan Sanders spent years as a psychotherapist until she decided to trade in the couch and put her lovely Tennessee drawl on the air. At Heartland Labor Forum she hosts the Pioneer Women series.
- John Todd has his own music show, but at Heartland Labor Forum he’s our engineer and makes us sound good despite all the craziness inherent in a group show.
- Mary Erio hosts the monthly Safety First feature warning us of hazards at work and informing us how to work safer. She is an industrial hygienist so she knows what she’s talking about.
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Angie Williams
Angie Williams does our “Know Your Rights” segment. She is an attorney in Kansas City focusing on complex family immigration and removal defense and criminal defense. She is an activist for immigrant rights and immigration reform. Angie has written extensively on the subject as well as testified against unconstitutional state based immigration laws in both the Kansas and Missouri Legislature.
- Mark Gruenberg is on once a month with Washington Window on Workers. He is a full-time labor journalist with PAI-Press Associates Inc. which provides news to unions and labor publications.
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Death on the Job May 16, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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Teach your Children April 25, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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2 Authors, 2 Books April 18, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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The New Free Trade Frankenstein: Trans Pacific Partnership and the Labor Project For Working Families April 4, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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An immigration reform that’s good for workers March 21, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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GM Hunger Strike and International Labor Rights Forum March 14, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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AT&T Broken Promises and Catholic Social Teaching on Workers February 28, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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A Tax Policy that Creates Jobs February 21, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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Obamacare February 14, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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Dreamers Waiting for Their Papers and Rob Larson’s Bleakonomics – A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and Environmental Destruction February 7, 2013 | 6:00 pm
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Pioneer Women and Fire Your Boss and Form a CO-OP December 20, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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Jerry Tucker: Labor Visionary December 13, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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Thanks to the Labor Songsters: A Thanksgiving Music Special November 22, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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A Tale of Two Elections: Venezuela and the U.S. November 8, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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Meet the Candidates for Kansas Legislature October 25, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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Whose Aiming at Our Right to Vote and How to Protect It October 11, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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Pioneer Women: Alise Martiny, New Manager of the KC Building Trades Unions and Workers Call-in on War September 20, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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Occupy Thursday August 16, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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Recalling Wisconsin: What are the Lessons? and Saying “No” to NATO: the Chicago Protest July 12, 2012 | 6:00 pm
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The Heartland Labor Forum is produced by a group of volunteers who are labor and community activists who believe in workplace democracy, workers rights, and economic justice. We're the only show in Kansas City that focuses on working people: who is fighting on their side and who is not, what they need to know about the economy. We seek to educate and inspire.
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The Heartland Labor Forum is produced by a group of volunteers who are labor and community activists who believe in workplace democracy, workers rights, and economic justice. We're the only show in Kansas City that focuses on working people: who is fighting on their side and who is not, what they need to know about the economy. We seek to educate and inspire.
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