WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, October 6, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
NYC: Financial Disaster Ahead?
with
James Parrott Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute
Author, "The End of Wall Street as We Know It"

"The Colombian Free Trade Agreement, Displacement of
Afro-Colombians, and Violence against Trade Unionists"
with
Carlos RoseroFounder, Procesos de Comunidades Negras
Raul Arroyave, Executive Board Member, Central Unitaria
de Trabajadores(CUT) labor federation
Jose Schiffino, Trade Unionists in Solidarity with Colombia

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NYC: Financial Disaster Ahead?
with
James Parrott, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute
Author, "The End of Wall Street as We Know It"

Employers cut 159,000 jobs in Sept.. It was the biggest monthly decline
since 2003 and new evidence of a strengthening recession. The NYC
financial industry, one of the cornerstones of the NYC economy and a
mainstay of the City and State's tax base, may be heading for a long
term decline. The financial crisis has already claimed Bear Stearns,
Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and AIG. The NYS Labor Department
is predicting the loss of 120,000 jobs and is asking for Federal Aid. ************************************************
The Colombian Free Trade Agreement, Displacement of
Afro-Colombians, and Violence against Trade Unionists"
with
Carlos RoseroFounder, Procesos de Comunidades Negras
Raul Arroyave, Executive Board Member, Central Unitaria
de Trabajadores(CUT) labor federation
Jose Schiffino, Trade Unionists in Solidarity with Colombia

Thousands of predominately Afro-Colombian sugarcane workers are on
strike, calling for basic minimum wage & safety standards. The
companies have refused to negotiate and instead sent in state troops
resulting in at least 33 injuries. Violence is also accelerating in the forced
removal of Afro-Colombian communal farmers from their land to make way
for massive palm oil plantations. All this on the heels of the Colombian
government's lobbying blitz in Washington, in a last ditch effort for the U.S.
Congress to pass the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. ************************************************
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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor ReportNational Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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159,000 Jobs Lost in August,
600,000 to loose homes this year by foreclosures What is to be done?
with
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
William Tabb, Economist and Author

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Will bailing out the banks to the tune of 700 billion dollars fix the liquidity crisis or will we need to nationalize the banks?And, what about the growing threat of home foreclosures, unemployment and contraction of the real economy. What is to be done?**********************************************************
for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Scrooge Disney arrests Mickey, Aladdin & Tinker Bell
at Labor Health Care Protest at Disneyland
with
Ada Briceno, Sec'y-Treasurer, UNITE HERE! Local 11,
Mary Ann Hegner, bartender at the Disneyland Hotel
& Rosa Garcia, dance instructor, Santa Ana College as Tinker Bell
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Don’t Be a Chicken
By Healthcare Now

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Scrooge Disney arrests Mickey, Aladdin & Tinker Bell
at Labor Health Care Protest at Disneyland
withAda Briceno, Sec'y-Treasurer, UNITE HERE! Local 11,
Mary Ann Hegner, bartender at the Disneyland Hotel &
Rosa Garcia, dance instructor, Santa Ana College as Tinker Bell

Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of
modern-day childhood were handcuffed, frisked & loadedinto
police vans recently at the culmination of a labor protest that
brought a touch of reality to the Happiest Place on Earth. The
arrest of 32 of the protesters, came at the end of an hour-long
march to Disneyland's gates from one of three Disney-owned
hotels at the center of a labor dispute about health care. Disney
is trying to take away health insurance for 2,300 maids, bell hops,
cooks and dishwashers at their three Disneyland hotels. ***********************************************
Don’t Be a Chicken
By Healthcare Now

Healthcare Now has produced a humorous cartoon primer on
the health care crisis in this country and the single payer
solution or Medicare for All which forms the basis of Rep.
Conyers HR 676. With the number of uninsured in the US
growing each year, HR 676 now has more than 92 co-
sponsors in the House of Representatives and the number of
unions endorsements grow each week
including 39 State Labor Federations.
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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 www.wbai.org .

Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.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, WAKSKQ, 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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