AFL-CIO To Banks: Pay to Create Jobs You Destroyed in the “Great” Recession
with
Dan Pedrotty, Director, Office of Investments, AFL-CIO

The AFL-CIO is mounting a national campaign to put America back to
work and ensure that the banks, whose reckless acts created the jobs crisis,
pay to create the jobs they destroyed, stop fighting financial reform and start
lending. Saying that neither Congress nor the Obama administration has
proposed an adequate jobs bill, the AFL-CIO is calling for extending
supplemental unemployment benefits, $2.2 trillion for unmet infrastructure
needs, & helping state & local governments overcome an estimated $588
billion shortfall over the next 4 years. The program would be paid for by
imposing fees on Wall Street banks to pay back the cost of the bank bailout,
a special levy on Wall Street bonuses, increased taxes on hedge fund &
private equity managers, & a financial transactions tax.

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On Breaking the Blockade Against Gaza: Viva Palestina
with
George Galloway, long-term member of the British Parliament,
and outspoken and well-recognized defender of human rights
and supporter of Palestine

Following the massacre in Gaza that began in December 2008,
Galloway called to action the world community to organize
convoys to distribute medical aid, to highlight the inhumanity
of the continued siege of this devastated area, and amplify the
shift in public policy and growing solidarity of people around the
world towards greater support of the Palestinian struggle. We
listen to Galloway, recently in Brooklyn as he speaks about the
blockade and prepares for his latest mission to send a flotilla of
boats to Gaza to break the blockade by sea.

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Domestic Workers Uniting

“Your Home, My Work

”NY Metro Labor Communications Assn. Award Winner in Broadcast Media and Communications Category

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 under-valued. “Your Home, My Work” recognizes and values domestic laborers.

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http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/26910

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The Degradation of Workers in the 21st Century
With
Tom Juravich, Prof. of Labor Studies, author of At the Alter of the Bottom Line, and accomplished musician

Degraded Work – No WayCommie Taxi Drivers – You Talkin’ to Me?
An Excerpt from Michael Moore’s New DVD “Capitalism: a Love Story”

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The Degradation of Workers in the 21st Century
With
Tom Juravich, Prof. of Labor Studies, author of At the Alter of the Bottom Line, and accomplished musician

From workers at a Verizon call center, to immigrants in the fish-processing industry fired if they don’t work fast enough, cheated out of wages, and mistreated by supervisors, to nurses at the Boston Medical Center and then to a plant where workers made machinery for the paper industry, Tom Juravich channels the workers voices to provide a vivid account of the multiple challenges presented in today’s workplaces.
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Degraded Work – No WayCommie Taxi Drivers – You Talkin’ to Me?
An Excerpt from Michael Moore’s New DVD “Capitalism a Love Story”

Michael Moore investigates Union Cab –a cooperative taxi drivers union in Madison Wisconsin which constitute an alternative to the degradation of workers in the 21st Century

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Marathon Woman: Racing Across the Globe for Women’s Sports
with
. Kathrine Switzer
. Les Helfman, Marathon

Runner and Coach Kathrine Switzer will always be best known as the woman who challenged the all-male tradition of the Boston Marathon and became the first woman to officially enter and run the event. Her entry created an uproar and world-wide notoriety when a race official tried to forcibly remove her from the competition. Four decades later, the incident continues to capture the public imagination and is, in part, the reason Switzer has dedicated her multi-faceted career to creating opportunities and equal sport status for women. That career has included creating programs in 27 countries for over 1 million women that led to the inclusion of the women's marathon as an official event in the Olympic Games, changing forever the face of sports, health and opportunities for women around the world.

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