Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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Is the Economy Stupid?
with
Prof William Spriggs, Chair, Economics Department,
Howard University

"Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in N.Y."
with
author Jane LaTour

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Is the Economy Stupid?
with
Prof William Spriggs, Chair, Economics Department,
Howard University

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Indy Mac, Bear Streans, Lehman Brothers, AIG...
We've been treated to the failure of more
major financial firms that in any year since the Depression.
What's the fallout for us, what is to be done and what is the
role of government now that the markets have failed?*********************************************************
"Sisters in the Brotherhoods: Working Women Organizing for Equality in N.Y."
with
author Jane LaTour

"Sisters in the Brotherhoods profiles the indomitable women who fought their way into some of the best-defended male monopolies in the U.S. labor force: the skilled trades of N.Y.C. . Jane Latour's engaging oral histories reveal the diverse routes women traveled to claim these jobs, the alliances that sustained them, & the strategies they developed to master their crafts in the face of employer hostility, co-worker harassment, union corruption, and a government that all but abandoned them.
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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 http://www.wbai.org/

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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McCainonomics vs. Obamanomics
with
Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic
Policy and Research

*Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war'
charge on my bill?
*Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting
the most blatant hypocrisy of the McCain campaign*
Plus John McCain Singing his hit tune "Bomb Iran"

by Robert Greenwald and Brave New PAC team

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McCainonomics vs. Obamanomics
with
Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic
Policy and Research

For over a generation, in so called good times and bad,
incomes of all but the rich have fallen while poverty has
increased in the Bush years, and, that was before the
economic crisis that began last year. Barak Obama is
addressing these issues, but is his plan enough? While
McCain hardly recognizes that it’s still the economy,
stupid.
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Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war'
charge on my bill?
*Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting
the most blatant hypocrisy of the McCain campaign
*Plus John McCain Singing his hit tune "Bomb Iran"

byRobert Greenwald and Brave New PAC team
**********************************************************
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 http://www.wbai.org/

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.WWUH, - West Hartford, CTWVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA WXOJ, Northampton, MAKSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon WKNH ,Keene, NHCKDU, 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,WAKQRP Salida, California East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WAKGHZ, Aberdeen/Hoquiam and Olympia, WA.KSKQ, Ashland, Oregonas well as internet stations: Radio Veronica,West Point, PAThe Journey Radio WXXESeattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart AmericanFM.orgRadioDriftless.orgGrateful Dread Public Radio=========================================
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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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ICEd in the Biggest Immigration Raid Yet
with
Bill Chandler, Executive Dir., Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA)

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW
by Robert Greenwald and the Brave New PAC team

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ICEd in the Biggest Immigration Raid Yet
With
Bill Chandler, Executive Dir., Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance (MIRA)

In the biggest workplace immigration crackdown yet, federal officials raided a
factory in Laurel Mississippi detaining almost 600 workers they claimed were
in the country illegally. Numerous agents from Immigration and Customs
Enforcement descended on a factory belonging to Howard Industries Inc.,
which manufactures electrical transformers, among other products. **********************************************************
Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW
byRobert Greenwald and the Brave New PAC team

John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every
chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing
how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his
taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads.
But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining
loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country. **********************************************************
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 http://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
KGHZ, Aberdeen/Hoquiam and Olympia, WA.
KSKQ, Ashland, Oregon

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 http://www.archive.org/details/building_bridges
For archived Building Bridges program go to our new website:
http://www.buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, August 25, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Sixteen Million Americans In Dire Poverty –
Yup, It's the Economy!
with
Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Inst.,
and Prof. of Economics at the University of Mass., Amherst
and
Meizhu Lui, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Our Health Care System Is Sick -
Will Democrats Prescribe Placebos?
with
Benjamin Day, co-author of "State Health Reform Flatlines"
and Ex. Dir., Mass-Care

Blogging the DNC:
Blow by Blow Happening & Political Analysis
with
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Dir., Political Reform Program for the
New American Foundation & the Asian American Action Fund,
Christopher Hayes, The Nation and
Malcolm Clark, blogger for Labourhome
& The World Wants Obama

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OBAMANOMICS

Sixteen Million Americans In Dire Poverty –
Yup, It's the Economy!
with
Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Inst.,
and Prof. of Economics at the University of Mass., Amherst
and
Meizhu Lui, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty
has reached a 32-year high and millions of working Americans are
falling closer to the poverty line. "Economic security for American
families" is the Obama slogan, but what's the program and will it
bridge the gap between the nation's 'haves' and 'have-nots'?
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Our Health Care System Is Sick -
Will Democrats Prescribe Placebos?
with
Benjamin Day, co-author of "State Health Reform Flatlines"
and Ex. Dir., Mass-Care

Are the democrats likely to pass bold health reforms or are they
afraid to rock the private insurance boat? The country has a
consensus for expanded health coverage, but experience shows you
can't achieve universal coverage at an affordable price unless you
throw out the insurance companies overhead and profit. Have the
Democrats learned this lesson or is 'universal coverage,' merely a
euphemism for the right to purchase private health insurance? Has
health reform flatlined?
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Blogging the DNC:
Blow by Blow Happening & Political Analysis
with
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Dir., Political Reform Program for the
New American Foundation & the Asian American Action Fund,
Christorher Hayes, The Nation
andMalcolm Clark, blogger for Labourhome
& The World Wants Obama

We'll go behind the hype and provide a blow by blow analysis, with
national and international bloggers of the politics driving the convention
and provide perspectives from the 'Big Tent' – the special bloggers,
non-profits and progressive activist venue at the Democratic National
Convention.

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, August 18, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
The Real Losers On American Idol Are Its Behind Scenes Workers
with
Michael Winship, President, Writers Guild of America East and
Vince Waldron, documentary filmmaker and author

Georgia On My Mind
with
Peter Gowan, Prof. International Relations, London Metropolitan
University, editor New Left Review

Car Wash Employees Are Getting Hosed,
with
N.Y.S. Labor Commissioner Patricia Smith

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The Real Losers On American Idol Are Its Behind Scenes Workers
with
Michael Winship, President, Writers Guild of America East and
Vince Waldron, documentary filmmaker and author

The Writers Guilds of America and the Teamsters are conducting nation-
wide protests against "American Idol," "Million Dollar Password" "Farmer
Wants a Wife" and "America's Got Talent." Many of the workers on these
shows endure serious workplace exploitation including violations of state
and federal minimum wage and overtime laws and benefits below the
standard in the entertainment industry – how's that for reality TV?
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Georgia On My Mind
with
Peter Gowan, Prof. International Relations, London Metropolitan
University, editor New Left Review

Georgia and Russia have signed a truce, but uncertainty remains. While the
long-standing enmity between Ossetians and Georgians played a role as
did the visceral dislike between Moscow and Tbilisi in the commencement of
this short, but brutal war we go behind the news to root out its origins - and
oh yes the role of the United States.
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Car Wash Employees Are Getting Hosed,
with
N.Y.S. Labor Commissioner Patricia Smith A Department of Labor
investigation found 78% of the city's car washes have been seriously
shortchanging employees, violating minimum wage and
overtime laws. Now it's time they cleaned up their act.

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, August 11, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM

"Olympic Sweatshop: Speedo Production in China
Breaks Records for Worker Abuse"
with
Charles Kernaghan, Director, National Labor Committee

Emmett Till: The Opera
with
Charles Lloyd, Jr. composer, tenor Robert Mack as Emmett,
soprano Diana Solomon-Glover as Mamie; bass Kevin Maynor
as the funeral director

Efforts By Bloomberg To Reduce Homelessness
A Case Of The Emperor's News Clothes
with
Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst, Coalition for the Homeless


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"Olympic Sweatshop: Speedo Production in China
Breaks Records for Worker Abuse"
with
Charles Kernaghan, Director, National Labor Committee

Speedo may be the top-selling and best-known swimwear brand in the
world, and an official sponsor of the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in
China. But, according to a new report by the National Labor Committee,
workers in China producing Speedo sporting goods are drowning in
abuse. Toys 'R' Us and Carrefour are also implicated in this sweatshop
scandal.
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Emmett Till: The Opera
with
Charles Lloyd, Jr. composer, tenor Robert Mack as Emmett,
soprano Diana Solomon-Glover as Mamie; bass Kevin
Maynor as the funeral director

The horrific story of the beating and murder of the boy child, Emmett Till,
scars deep in the hearts of black America. This murder and the story
behind it is now part of American culture. Trilogy: An Opera Company (AOC)
brings this tragic American story to us with the hope of stimulating new and
helpful discussions about a still-divided America.
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Efforts By Bloomberg To Reduce Homelessness A Case Of The
Emperor's News Clothes
with
Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst, Coalition for the Homeless

In 2004, Mayor Bloomberg claimed the city would slash the number of
homeless people by two-thirds in five years by building homes for the poor,
pouring more money into prevention services and claiming that the shelter
system would only be used by those who really needed it. Now, four years
into the five-year plan, a similar number of families are in the shelter system.
We explore why.

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