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Monday, September 5, 2011

Weekend Music Chill - Labor Day Edition

Happy Labor Day! Here is a reminder that the labor movement once represented people who worked very hard, but who also suffered real oppression, because the businesses for whom they worked used government police forces to enforce oppressive conditions. Here is Tennessee Ernie Ford with the classic "Sixteen Tons."