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May 2016 Overture Online: International Workers’ Day

Overture Online
May 2016

“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.”
– Haymarket Monument

May Day: Celebrating International Workers’ Day

New Agreement Reached With Amazon’s ‘Transparent’
After AFM members protest against unfair treatment, producers at Picrow agree to hold musicians to fair industry standard

Prince Was a Champion for Working People
A look at the legendary artist’s career-spanning fights on behalf of working people

The Best Kept Secret for Musicians
The Actors Fund provides free services and workshops for EVERYONE in entertainment

and more!

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Make Labor Media Matter by May Day

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Let’s bring the nation’s Labor Beat back!

A message from Workers Independent News:

For decades, the “labor beat” has been steadily disappearing from mainstream media sources. A systematic, and some would argue, intentional reduction in the perceived importance of the working class has created an environment of dismissal and even disdain for workers, as they are blamed repeatedly for America’s fiscal woes. Continue reading →

2015 International Worker’s Day March & Celebration in Chinatown

Hanging out with “Proud Union Thug,” longtime Local 47 member Tom Morello (The Nightwatchman, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave).
Above: Diane Lauerman, John Acosta; below: Gary Lasley, Linda Rapka

Local 47 in solidarity with Raise the Wage, Fight For $15, Black Lives Matter, LA Progressive, the ACLU, and the immigrant rights movement that seeks the implementation of DACA and DAPA without delay!

Linda Rapka, Michael Ankney & Diane Lauerman carrying Old Glory all the way from Chinatown to City Hall!