You've got to love that name, right? It's a women's trade union choir from Wellington, New Zealand and we've got two of their CDs to play on Radio LabourStart. Wednesday's playlist features the classic union anthem "Which side are you on?" and we'll be adding more songs throughout the week.
A new report by the Human Rights Center of the University of California at Berkeley, and the Washington DC-based anti-slavery group "Free The Slaves" states that at any given time in the United States, 10,000 or more people are forced through violence to work in deplorable conditions for little or no pay. Kellia Ramares from the Workers Independent News Service (WINS) has more.
This report is now playing every day of the week on Radio LabourStart.
"I've been admiring the efforts of LabourStart radio, ever since you went on the air at Live365 last December. You might know that Live365.com is based in San Francisco, and last Thursday night a few of the D.J.s and some staff from Live365 got together for drinks at a Mission bar and grill. I told them how your station epitomized the fusion of independent, non-corporate, activist broadcasting with an emerging global channel of distribution. Your station is now one of my recommendations on my station's homepage.
"And I'm so checking out that Barbra Streisand stuff you've got. What a find!
"Again, just want to say that your station is an excellent addition to Live365 and I will give it a plug whenever and whereever possible."
Lee Templeton
And now you can hear it on Radio LabourStart. The song is called "Wij zijn woedend!", and translates as "We are, we are angry!" The tune belongs to "Queen!".)
LabourStart senior correspondent Oskar van Rijswijk passed it on to us, and explained that the song is "about the social cuts of the Dutch government, and why we struggle against them". By listening, you can get a feel for what it must have been like to be in the streets of the Netherlands this week, marching with hundreds of thousands of others against those cuts.