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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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

Medicare Birthday; African American Unemployment - 27:58  

African American Unemployment Skyrockets
with
Algernon Austin, Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program,
Economic Policy Institute

Happy Forty-Fourth Birthday Medicare: A Successful Model for Health Care Reform

with
. Mikuak Rai, Organizer, Coalition of the Uninsured and Under-insured for Single Payer, Washington, D.C.
. Katie Robbins, Asst National Coordinator, Health-Care Now!

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African American Unemployment Skyrockets
with
Algernon AustinDirector of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program,
Economic Policy Institute

As the U.S. struggles with the highest unemployment rate in a
generation, African Americans are especially hard pressed to find
jobs. Overall unemployment in June reached a new high of 9.5%,
but white unemployment was 8.7%, while the African American
unemployment rate was a staggering 14.7%. African American
male unemployment was at "recessionary” levels even when the
overall economy had been strong. In 2006, for example,
unemployment was 3.9% among white men and 9.7% among
black men.
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Happy Forty-Fourth Birthday Medicare: A Successful Model for Health Care Reform
with
. Mikuak Rai, Organizer, Coalition of the Uninsured and Under-insured for Single Payer, Washington, D.C.
. Katie Robbins, Asst National Coordinator, Health-Care Now!

On July 30th the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care
will rallied centrally in Washington, D.C. with concurrent actions around the country to bring the message to Congress that the people, unions, health care workers and faith groups support a single-payer system based on the same principles as Medicare which has successfully provided care to seniors and people with disabilities for almost half a century. With little over 3% administrative overhead, we must look tothis solution to our health care crisis and not the crazy quilt, inadequate, expensive so-called reform built on our failed private insurance system that the Obama Administration is pushing.

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