Mike Stout: The Homestead Steel Mill: The Final 10 Years & Love & Solidarity, the Amazing Life of Rev. James Lawson

This week on the Heartland Labor Forum, Steelworker Mike Stout chronicles the closing of the famous Homestead Steel Mill in a new book which is a manual for fighting plant closings. Martin Luther King called the Reverend James Lawson “The leading theorist and strategist of a non-violent world”  Lawson called himself “a Jesus-oriented activist.” Historian Michael Honey made a film called Love and Solidarity: about Lawson’s Search for Workers Rights. Tune in Thursday at 6pm, rebroadcast Friday at 5am.


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