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🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Happy Labor Day! The MR Crew is off today but in the meantime please enjoy our annual audio compilation of labor-themed excerpts from luminaries such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mario Savio, John L. Lewis, as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders reading the words of Eugene Debs.
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| 0:00.0 | The Majority Report with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:06.7 | It is Monday. |
| 0:09.9 | September 1st, 2025. |
| 0:12.9 | My name is Emma Vigeland, in for Sam Cedar, |
| 0:15.3 | and this is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:19.4 | We are broadcasting not live at all. |
| 0:23.6 | Broadcasting from the past, |
| 0:25.6 | but still steps from the industrially ravaged |
| 0:28.0 | go on this canal in the heartland of America, |
| 0:31.4 | downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 0:33.9 | On the program today, we have our famous Labor Day show, |
| 0:38.9 | where we will have our compilation of audio and speeches from the likes of FDR, |
| 0:49.4 | John Lewis, Maria Savio, and Senator Bernie Sanders, who is reading from the words of Eugene Debs. |
| 1:00.6 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:01.5 | I hope you're having a great Labor Day. |
| 1:04.5 | Sam will be back on tomorrow, tomorrow on Tuesday. |
| 1:09.3 | So we will have a full live show for you then. But we do this every year to honor Labor Day. Last year, we showed interviews with the late, great Jane McAlevy, who sadly passed away recently, but her work still lives on, including in the campaign of Graham Platner |
| 1:29.7 | up in Maine, who in our interview recently, right after his campaign launch, he's trying to take |
| 1:37.6 | on Susan Collins and the general. He said that Jane McAleavy was who he based his politics around and her labor organizing, |
| 1:46.8 | putting that to the forefront in his campaign, which is amazing. |
| 1:50.6 | So in addition to this, if you want more wonderful labor interviews and inspiration, |
| 1:58.8 | you can go back to our episode from last year on Labor Day and listen to our interviews with |
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