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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WORKERS OF THE WORLD TUNE IN! Introducing "Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report"

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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In Struggle Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

NYC Financial Disaster; Afro-Colombian Workers Repressed  

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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