Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report

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

WHO WE ARE

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.


For more information you can contact us at knash@igc.org
In Struggle Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

Stimulating the Economy; Recession Hits Domestic Workers  

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession

with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

Will Obama’s Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy? with
Arun Gupta, Editor, the Indypendent

and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

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Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United


DMU represents over 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care-
givers in NYC. Now, however, their organization is hemorrhaging members
as the growing joblessness of their employers trickles down to the number
of hires of these caregivers. Aside, from growing unemployment amongst
their members,the spike in joblessness for those remaining on the job has
fostered competition resulting in wage cuts, increased workload, and
worsening conditions on the job. Under these conditions, & excluded from
the protections of most labor law, DWU’s efforts to secure a NYS Domestic
Workers Bill of Rights is even more pressing.
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Will Obama’s Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy?

with
Arun Gupta, Editor, the Indypendent and

William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY


While the meat has yet to be put on the skeletal frame of President-Elect
Obama’s proposed stimulus package, he has revealed enough to cause
alarm for present and future beneficiaries of Medicare and Social Security
and serious questions as to whether it will create “shovel ready” jobs and
whether its tax cuts can jump-start the sputtering economy.

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Israeli War Crimes with Richard Falk  

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Israel’s Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood:
Israeli War Crimes
with
Richard Falk, UN special rapporteur on human rights
in the Palestinian Territories, Professor Emeritus of
International Law, Princeton University & author of
more than fifty books on war, human rights and
international law, including Israel-Palestine on
Record: How the New York Times Misreports Conflict
in the Middle East.


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Just days after calling the then Israeli blockade of Gaza “a
crime against humanity” Richard Falk was detained & then
expelled from Israel. Richard Falk, who recently returned
from delivering a statement to the special session of the
Human Rights Council on the situation in the Gaza Strip
gives context and depth to the struggle for a free, free
Palestine.


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Israel's Bloody Invasion; Blunt Economic Stimulus?; Recession Hits Domestic Workers  

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, January 12, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Israel's Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood:
Insights Into The Middle East

with
Former Ambassador Edward Peck

Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession

with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy?

with
Arun Gupta, editor of the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY


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Israel's Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood:
Insights Into The Middle East

with
Former Ambassador Edward Peck, Special Asst. to the Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nixon Administration, Chief
of Mission in Baghdad, Carter Administration. Also served as a
Foreign Service Officer in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Egypt, &
as Ambassador in Mauritania. At the State Department he served
as Deputy Director of Covert Intelligence Programs & Director of
the Office of Egyptian Affairs. Deputy Director, White House Task
Force on Terrorism, Reagan Administration. Pres., Foreign
Services International, a consulting firm that works with
governments, businesses & educational institutions across the
world.


Ambassador Peck, recently returned from a trip to the Mideast organized
by the Council for the National Interest, discusses the media blockade that
prevents balanced information on Gaza and the West Bank reaching the
U.S. public, Israel's imprisoned of dozens of democratically elected
Hamas parliamentarians and analysis of Israel's bombardment and full
scale grand invasion of Gaza.
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Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

DMU represents over 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care-
givers in NYC. Now, however, their organization is hemorrhaging members
as the growing joblessness of their employers trickles down to the number
of hires of these caregivers. Aside, from growing unemployment amongst
their members,the spike in joblessness for those remaining on the job has
fostered competition resulting in wage cuts, increased workload, and
worsening conditions on the job. Under these conditions, & excluded from
the protections of most labor law, DMU's efforts to secure a NYS Domestic
Workers Bill of Rights is even more pressing.
****************************************
Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy?

with
Arun Gupta, editor of the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY


While the meat has yet to be put on the skeletal frame of President-Elect
Obama's proposed stimulus package, he has revealed enough to cause
alarm for present and future beneficiaries of Medicaid and Social Security
and serious questions as to whether it will create "shovel ready" jobs and
whether its tax cuts can jump-start the sputtering economy.


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Protesting Israel's Attack on Gaza;Aronowitz on the Economic Crisis;Baristas Beat Starbucks  

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, January 5, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
A Tri-State Protest: Stop Israel's Assault On Gaza

Baristas Beat Starbucks with Isis Saenz,victorious barista,member, Starbucks Workers Union, IWW andDaniel Gross, barista, Starbucks Workers Union, IWW
& co-author with Staughton Lynd of the new edition of "Labor Law for the Rank & Filer"

Battling the Economic MonsterwithStanley Aronowitz, Prof. of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political activist, cultural critic and champion of organized labor


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A Tri-State Protest: Stop Israel's Assault On Gaza

Gaza is under attack by one of the most deadly military machines on the
planet – the Israeli military, and, silence in the face of such suffering is
unsupportable for anyone devoted to peace and social justice. The U.S.
government supplied Israel with the military means to carry out this attack
and has generously underwritten the Israeli government and military with
tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars. Building Bridges brings you the voices
of those piercing the silence and raising their support for a Free, Free
Palestine at a rally in Times Square which was several blocks long.
We must form a chorus demanding an end to the siege of Gaza and a
fundamental reorientation of our foreign policy. The Time Is Now!.
Free, Free Palestine!
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Baristas Beat Starbucks
with
Isis Saenz,victorious barista,member, Starbucks Workers Union, IWW
and
Daniel Gross, barista, Starbucks Workers Union, IWW & co-author with
Staughton Lynd of the new edition of "Labor Law for the Rank & Filer"


Starbucks calls its employees partners, but when they tried to unionize it was
so long partner. But, the baristas took legal action against the company that
masquerades as socially conscious and now a judge has ordered that the
baristas be reinstated and receive back wages. The judge also called on
Starbucks to end discriminatory treatment of other pro-union workers at four
Manhattan locations named in the case. The decision marks the end of an
18-month trial in New York City that pitted the ubiquitous multinational corp.
against a group of twenty something baristas who are part of the Industrial
Workers of the World.
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Battling the Economic Monster
with
Stanley Aronowitz, Prof. of sociology, cultural studies, and urban
education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is also a veteran political
activist, cultural critic and champion of organized labor


The main news these days is the global economic crisis, an event ascribed
by economists and most pundits to a 'financial' meltdown caused by the
irresponsibility of mainly, but not exclusively, US lending institutions and
consumers in offering-and accepting-'sub-prime' mortgages. But, Prof.
Stanley Aronowitz instructs that the crisis is buried deep within the structure
of capitalism and that there is little or no prospect that, within the current
framework of neo-liberal, market capitalism, that the deepening economic
crisis can be significantly reversed and a stimulus package bring prosperity.
But, Prof. Aronowitz opens a dialogue on how the left can wrestle the
economic monster until it cries uncle.

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Yosvany Terry - The Afro-Caribbean Roots of Jazz  

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, December 29, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
A Building Bridges Special
The Afro-Caribbean Roots of Jazz
with

Yosvany Terry, Composer, Educator, Musician

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The music of acclaimed Cuban composer and saxophonist Yosvany
Terry provides an unmistakable milestone in the often illusive unfolding
of modern Jazz - Black classical music. He creates a synthesis that
links past and present influences of Afro-Cuban and Caribbean Jazz
with Cuban popular music. Terry brings the Arara’ culture of West
African and Cuba to life, incorporating American Jazz traditions with
his own Afro-Cuban roots to produce compositions and solo work that
flow from the rhythmic and hard driving avant-garde to sweet sounding
lyricism.

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