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Building Bridges Radio: Utah Phillips Got it Right- A Memorial

Union news Login or register to post comments print Submitted by knash on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 9:18am. Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** Utah Phillips Got It Right A Memorial Rebroadcast of an Interview with Utah Phillips Utah Phillips, a seminal figure in American folk music who performed extensively and tirelessly for audiences on two continents for 38 years, died Friday may 23, 2008 of congestive heart failure in Nevada City, California a small town in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he lived for the last 21 years with his wife, Joanna Robinson. Born Bruce Duncan Phillips on May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of labor organizers. Whether through this early influence or an early life that was not always tranquil or easy, by his twenties Phillips demonstrated a lifelong concern with the living conditions of working people. He was a proud member of the Industrial Workers of the World, "the Wobblies," an organizational artifact of early twentieth-century labor struggles that has seen renewed interest and growth in membership in the last decade, not in small part due to his efforts to popularize it. We frequently play Utah’s songs on Building Bridges. In tribute to a great man and wonderful artist we now offer a modified rebroadcast of our interview with Utah Phillips "The Wobblies Got It Right" which we first aired in 2005 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the IWW. ******************************************************************** To Download or listen to this 27:39 minute program, go to: http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesRadioUtahPhillipsGotItRight-AMemorial or http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=27732 for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at www.wbai.org Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WGOT - Gainesville, Florida. WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y. WWUH, - West Hartford, CT WVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA WXOJ, Northampton, MA KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon WKNH ,Keene, NH CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado WRPI, Troy, New York WNRB, Wausau, WI KRBS, Oroville, CA WHLD, Buffalo, NY Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WA KQRP Salida, California East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA as well as internet stations: Radio Veronica,West Point, PA The Journey Radio WXXE Seattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart AmericanFM.org RadioDriftless.org Grateful Dread Public Radio ========================================= For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to www.buildingbridgesradio.org » Login or register to post comments print Bookmark/Search this post with:

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