Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition 27:13
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Band Aid Approach To Hemorrhaging Health Care System Continues To Prevail
with
U.S. Congressman John Conyers

Do You Want To Get Sick To Your Stomach Then Think About The Cost Of Being Sick In America
with
Dr. David Himmelstein, primary care physician, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program

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Band Aid Approach To Hemorrhaging Health Care System Continues To Prevail
with
U.S. Congressman John Conyers

The economic crisis has increased the urgency for real health
care reform now, yet the President and Congress persist in
advocating half measures, ignoring the real problem, the
health insurance industry. But, the voices for comprehensive,
meaningful reform like Rep. Conyers, whose legislation HR 676,
a single payer or Medicare for all bill continue to be raised.
Rep. Conyers makes the case for health care for all at an event
honoring one of the most vocal proponents of single payer,
Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator of Healthcare-Now!
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Do You Want To Get Sick To Your Stomach Then Think About The Cost Of Being Sick In America
with
Dr. David Himmelstein, primary care physician, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program

A frightening look at a new Harvard study finds that medical
problems contributed to nearly two-thirds of all bankruptcies.
Surprisingly, most of those bankrupted by medical problems had
health insurance. Covering the uninsured isn’t enough, but
unfortunately, Washington politicians seem all too ready to cave
in to insurance firms. We’ll also examine the highlights of Sen.
Edward Kennedy’s draft health care bill, which some say is the most liberal in Congress, and find out if it is.

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“The Looting of America:
How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed
Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It”
with
Les Leopold Executive Director, The Labor Institute

A Warning on Obamanomics
with
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens
College & of Political Science & Sociology, Gradate
Center, City University of NY

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“The Looting of America:
How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed
Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It”
with
Les LeopoldExecutive Director, The Labor Institute

Les Leopold has given an entertaining account of the growth
of the derivative market that supported the housing bubble
during the last decade, and offers useful recommendations
for avoiding the next bubble-and-bust. He is one of the few
observers to have understood how today’s crisis has roots
going back three decades, and to have seen how it connects
to the upward redistribution of income over this period.
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A Warning on Obamanomics
with
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens
College & of Political Science & Sociology, Gradate
Center, City University of NY

Tabb asseses Obama’s economic strategy warning that thefinancial policy to bail out the big banks is costing so muchthat it will threaten job creation and infrastructure development.This is creating a situation which will lower living standards
and may recreate another economic crisis in 5-10 years .
The labor and other progressive social movements must speak out against these policies.

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges:
Your Community & Labor Report
Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
56:27
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Domestic Workers United - Your Home, My Work

Building Bridges allows domestic workers to tell their stories -
stories of their pains, their pride and their efforts to organize for
labor rights. Since slavery, the domestic work force has been
predominately women of color. With the abolition of slavery
African-American women were still the predominate workers,
as immigrant woman began to enter that workforce. Today,
women of color, from around the world work as domestic
workers. Everyday, 200, 000 domestic workers (nannies,
elderly companions, housekeepers) in New York make it
possible for their employers to go to work. Most are employed
without a living wage, healthcare, and basic labor protections.
Domestic work is vital to the economy and the community,
but domestic workers remain invisible, vulnerable, and
undervalued. “Your Home, My Work” recognizes and values
domestic laborers.

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition 27:08
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DANGER AHEAD: AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN
with Tariq Ali,
author "The Duel:
Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power"

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Tariq Ali demonstrates Pakistan's unique influence on
the emergence of a secure world or global conflagration.
The west's 'good war' in Afghanistan has turned bad. A
local solution, rather than a neocolonial one, is needed.
U.S. failure in Afghanistan is now evident and NATO
desperation only too visible. Spreading the war to
Pakistan was a disaster for all sides. One way out of
the impasse would require a withdrawal of all U.S./NATO
forces, either preceded or followed by a regional pact
to guarantee Afghan stability for the next ten years.

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