Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report

Monday, July 21, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST,over 99.5 FM

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The City and State Tell NYC's Housing Authority Drop Dead

with

Victor Bach, Senior Policy Analyst,

Community Service Society

International Criminal Court Swears Out Arrest Warrant
for Omar Hassan al-Bashir

with

Rev. Herbert Daughtry,

House of the Lord Pentecostal Church

Fannie Mae Hey & Freddie Mac When Are You Coming Back?

with

Ron Blackwell, Senior Economist, AFL-CIO

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The City and State Tell NYC's Housing Authority Drop Dead
with
Victor Bach, Senior Policy Analyst, Community Service Society

NYC's Housing Authority is one of the only providers of low-income
housing. Now, due to federal cuts the Authority's workers and its
4000,000 tenants will suffer the consequence of a $170 million budget
deficit, and the State and City haven't lifted a finger to help, but rather
have forced the Authority to shell out over $200 million. We'll find out
why the City is helping to strangle public housing.
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International Criminal Court Swears Out Arrest Warrant
for Omar Hassan al-Bashir
with Rev. Herbert Daughtry, House of the Lord Pentecostal Church

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is
seeking the arrest of the Sudanese President on charges of genocide,
war crimes and crimes against humanity. Will the prosecutor's move
against Mr. Bashir hinder or assist efforts to bring peace to the region?
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Fannie Mae Hey & Freddie Mac When Are You Coming Back?
withRon Blackwell, Senior Economist, AFL-CIO

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federally sponsored corporations that own
or guarantee almost half of all loans to U.S. homeowners, are in deep
trouble. But, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke,
Chairman of the Federal Reserve are proposing an unlimited Federal
bailout of them. Yet, if taxpayers are to assume the risks, why shouldn't
they assume ownership of these lending institutions?

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, July 14, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM
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Native Americans Conclude 8,300 Mile Protest Walk
with
Ricardo Tapia, organizer

There They Go Again Claiming We Can Have Guns & Butter?
with
William Darity, Prof., African-American Studies & Economics, Duke University

Saber-Rattling Ourselves Into War: Iran, Crucial Facts and Ignored Options
with

Prof. William Beeman

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Native Americans Conclude 8,300 Mile Protest Walk
with
Ricardo Tapia, organizer

Five Hundred Native Americans gathered near the White House to
mark the end of a 8,300 mile walk across the nation, that aimed to
bring attention to the impact of global warming on the environment
and to spotlight the destruction of indigenous sites by greedy and
callous developers. Organizer of the Longest Walk 2, Ricardo
Tapia joins us.
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There They Go Again Claiming We Can Have Guns & Butter?
with
William Darity, Prof., African-American Studies & Economics,
Duke University

With the economic crisis upon us, one factor that has received
little attention has been the effect of our trillion dollar war machine
on the economy . More and more resources are going to the
miliary and fewer to actual production. Who will pay the stiffest
price for the mismanagement of the economy?
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Saber-Rattling Ourselves Into War: Iran,
Crucial Facts and Ignored Options
with
Prof. William Beeman

William Beeman, author of "The 'Great Satan' vs. the 'Mad Mullahs':
How the United States and Iran Demonize Each Other," discusses
whether the U.S. will support terrorists to destabilize Iran and will
revved up rhetoric push us into another Middle East war?

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, July 7, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST,
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"Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics And The Global
Crisis of American Capitalism"
with
author Kevin Phillips

"Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black
Americans from the Civil War to World War II"
with
author Douglas Blackmon

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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics And The Global
Crisis of American Capitalism"withauthor Kevin Phillips

The author sees the cumulative effects of the current debt crisis,
the depreciation of the dollar and global peak oil as leading not
just to a recession, but a long term crisis significantly impacting
living standards in the U.S. Does this forcast the demise of the
U.S. as the fulcrum of world economic power?
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"Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black
Americans from the Civil War to World War II"
with author Douglas Blackmon

On land owned by U.S. Steel was an unmarked African American
burial ground – and so began a quest to explore the institutions
and complimentary policies that were responsible for the Post-
Reconstruction re-enslavement of Blacks, to provide the manpower
to fuel the growth of industrialization in the South. As Blackmon
probes this largely unexplored area, he offers us a mirror to reflect
and grapple with the currency of racial disparity.

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, June 30, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM
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Screen Actors Strike Looms?
with Actress Tess Harper, AFTRA Bargaining Committee Member

"Safety In Numbers: Nurse-To-Patient Ratios & The Future Of Health Care"
with author Suzanne Gordon

"State of the Unions" with. author, Philip Dine

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Screen Actors Strike Looms
with Actresss Tess Harper, AFTRA Bargaining Commitee Member

Many new movie productions are being delayed in anticipation of a possible strike this summer. In the meantime, SAG is lobbying those of its members who are also members of AFTRA to vote no on the current ratification of their contract. The big sticking points are residuals for digital media, the minimum wage and pensions.

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Safety In Numbers: Nurse-To-Patient Ratios & The Future Of Health Care"
with author Suzanne Gordon

Anyone who's been in a hospital lately knows our health care system is hemorrhaging nurses. There is a crisis in nursing, and we'll look at the origins of that crisis and its effect on the future of nursing and its impact on patient care, with award-winning journalist and author Suzanne Gordon.
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"State of the Unions"
with. author, Philip Dine

How can unions regain their strength, empower the working class and regain political influence? Veteran reporter Dine, a two time Pulitzer Prize nominee, draws from his extensive experience analyzing workers organizing, contract and electoral campaigns
to draw lessons on how on how labor can revitalize itself.

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