Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report

Produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash over WBAI,99.5FM in the NYC Metro Area

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Our beat is the labor front, broadly defined, both geographically and conceptually. We examine the world of work and workers on the job as well as where they live. We examine the issues that affect their everyday lives, with a particular sensitivity towards human rights abuses, environmental concerns and the U.S. drive for global domination. We record their global struggles and provide analysis of their efforts to empower themselves and transform society to provide greater democratic, human, social, political and economic rights. Each program consists of feature stories, generally interviews, within a historical context, often accompanied by sound from demonstrations, rallies or conferences, and complemented and enhanced by poetry and instrumental or vocal -- people's culture.

Over the years Building Bridges has produced a weekly one hour program, Mondays from 7-8 PM EST, covering local, national and international labor and community issues over radio WBAI-Pacifica 99.5 FM in New York. We also produce half hour version, Building Bridges National, which is distribtued to over 40 broadcast and internet radio stations.


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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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