WBAI Radio's Building Bridges:
Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, December 22, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM
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United We Stand Against Hate Crime:
In Memoriam of Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay

A Secretary for Labor?
with
Thea Lee, Director of Policy, AFL-CIO

From The Picket Line:
Strikers Claim Stella D'Oro Cookies Leave You With A Sour Taste
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United We Stand Against Hate Crime:
In Memoriam of Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay

Thirty-one year old, Ecuadorian immigrant Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay died December 12, after being viciously hit over the head with an aluminum baseball bat on a Bushwick sidewalk. Mr. Sucuzhanay and his brother were walking home, arms around each other when three men jumped from a utility vehicle and attacked the brothers yelling anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. One of the men broke a bottle over Jose Sucuzhaney’s head and when he fell to the ground another began beating him with the baseball bat as they kicked and punched him. No one has been apprehended for the homicide at this time. This attack came just five weeks after the stabbing death in Patchogue of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Building Bridges attended an “International Immigrants Awareness Day Vigil: United We Stand Against Hate Crime” at the very spot that Jose Osvaldowas brutally attacked.
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A Secretary for Labor?
with
Thea Lee, Director of Policy, AFL-CIO

Jubilant is the word that comes to mind for the reaction of the labor
community to the selection by President Elect Barack Obama of Rep. Hilda
Solis to become the new Secretary of Labor. The daughter of immigrants,
from a union family, Representative has been described as having a resume
a mile long concerning the rights of workers, women, and the environment.
To provide us with greater insight about that the new Labor Secretary and the
work cut out for her, protecting, and extending workers rights in the economy,
stopping the hemorrhaging jobs, and growing the economy we’re joined by
Thea Lee, Director of Policy of the AFL-CIO
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From The Picket Line:
Strikers Claim Stella D'Oro Cookies Leave You With A Sour Taste

The 135 workers of Stella D'Oro, the biscuit producers, most of whom are women and Latinos, now in their fourth month on strike are confronting a difficult Christmas on the picket line. The company has refused to negotiate their demands to eliminate holidays, vacation and sick pay,slash wages and pension benefits, and impose crushing healthcare premiums. They are demanding that the workers return to work without a contract in an effort to break the union. The workers are standing strong and none have broken the line to return to work.

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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The Green Collar Economy:
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
with
best selling author, activist Van Jones

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The Green Collar Economy:
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
with
best selling author, activist Van Jones

The U.S. economy has suffered a serious slowdown, with the resulting increase in underemployment and unemployment - poverty is expanding and deepening. But,
don't mourn, organize, capture the moment with Building Bridges as we explore
with Van Jones how the greening of America is both a moral imperative and
provides the nuts and bolts of economic stimulus. Now is the time to reenergize
the discussion, too long dormant about what/who creates wealth and its
redistribution to those who do. Planting the seeds with Van Jones from which
will sprout a real bailout for workers of the U.S.
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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, December 1, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death: Its Record of Endangering Workers & Consumers Unabated,
with
Pat Purcell, Director, Special Projects, Local 1500, UFCW

Jared's Waist Maybe Shrinking at Subway's Restaurants, But Wages and Working Conditions Are Also Slim for Subway's Tomato Pickers
with
Leonel Perez, Member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
and
Marc Rodriguez, Student/Farmworker Alliance

People's Bailout Now!!National Week of Action December 7-13,
with
Laura McSpedon, North East Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice
Fran Tobin, Mid-West Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice

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Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death: Its Record of Endangering Workers & Consumers Unabated,
with
Pat Purcell, Director, Special Projects, Local 1500, UFCW

Jdimytai Damour, a Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after he was trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store, subsequent to being whipped into a frenzy of bargain hunting by the retail giant, who failed to protect its staff and consumers from the expected crush.
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Jared's Waist Maybe Shrinking at Subway's Restaurants, But Wages and Working Conditions Are Also Slim for Subway's Tomato Pickers
with
Leonel Perez, Member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
and
Marc Rodriguez, Student/Farmworker Alliance

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers launched a national protest calling on Subway Restaurant, the world's largest sandwich chain and the biggestfast-food buyer of Florida tomatoes to improve wages and working conditions for those who pick the tomatoes. Their national protest will culminate with a march from the United Nations to a local Subway Restaurant on International Human Rights Day, December 10th.
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People's Bailout Now!!National Week of Action December 7-13,
with
Laura McSpedon, North East Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice
Fran Tobin, Mid-West Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice

The Wall Street bailout has proven to be a give-away to the same financial bigwigs that have been pocketing millions while wrecking the real economy. Little or no benefit has gone to the working people and the real economy. By the time Obama is sworn in, hundreds of thousands of additional people will lose their jobs, lose their homes and lose their health care. Jobs with Justice is calling for a "People's Bailout" that fixes the real economy, restores a voice for working people in challenging corporate greed, provides emergency help to the victims of the crisis and begins building a fair economy that works for all, addressing crises in housing, health care,jobs, retirement security and the environment.
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