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What Is To Be Done?

A Conversation about Organizing and Strategies to Win
With
Stanley Aronowitz, studies labor, and social movements, and is director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He’s authored or edited twenty-five books including: "Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future", "How Class Works", "The Jobless Future", and;"False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness".
and
Professor Manny Ness’ research focuses on working class
protest and revolutionary movements. His numerous books
include "Immigrants, Unions, and the New U.S. Labor Market", "The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest". He is editor of the "Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration", and his newest book is "Guest Workers And Resistance To U.S. Corporate Despotism".

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One of The 100 Most Influential People in the World

With
Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance


TIME Magazine named Ai-jen Poo one of The 100 Most
Influential People in the World - a creative organizer
who knows how to create social change from the
bottom up. Ai-jen Poo, has been growing into that role
since she was a student outraged by the stories of
domestic workers, often immigrants or women of
color, who labored long hours for low pay as nannies,
maids, housekeepers, cooks, elder caregivers, and
other household workers – women who had been
treated as unskilled and expendable, yet who were
responsible for raising children, caring for the ill and
elderly and facilitating the daily lives of millions of
families.


Ai-jen Poo's gift for creating worker-led groups and empathetic tactics has made the National Domestic Workers Alliance into an umbrella organization with 35 satellites around the country, with more than 10,000 members. Ai-jen Poo has done this by creating a new paradigm for how we value work and with that how workers can built their power collectively. Ai-jen goes beyond organizing to transforming. .
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Getting Back to Basics – Jobs for All
With
Trudy Goldberg, Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition


While the issue uppermost in the voters’ minds this election year is jobs, jobs and good jobs, you’d hardly know it by following the campaigns or even the protests for the 99%. But the National Jobs for All Coalition is always on target about the tragedy of unemployment, underemployment and deteriorating working conditions and has a program to move forward on this crucial issue. Trudy Goldberg spoke to us leading a contingent of the National Jobs for All Coalition from the NYC Union Square protest on
May Day 2012

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Building Bridges Occupies Air Waves

with a May Day Special!
May Day in New York City Part 2
With
Lucas Sanchez, Organizer, N.Y. Communities for Change, grocery workers organizing campaign
John Samuelsen, President, Transport Workers Union Local 100
Barbara Bowen, Pres., Professional Staff Congress,
City University of New York
Mario Rodriquez, Organizing Dir.,District Council 37, AFSCME and Occupy Wall Street activist


May Day began in the U.S. in 1886 as a nationwide general strike, led by immigrant workers, fighting for the 8 hour work day. While celebrated across the globe, it has been largely ignored in the U.S., until recently, when immigrant workers revived it.


Now, a new chapter in the history of May Day was written with the involvement of Occupy Wall Street, the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community. And, Building Bridges presente! We were there for this new chapter in the
movement, reporting from May Day events throughout the day.


We spiced those events with commentary and analysis on the struggles of the working class in the midst of capitalist crisis and prospects for change, from leading champions of the working class, who build organization and class consciousness.

Occupy with Building Bridges as we acknowledge the blood, sweat and tears of workers, the workers who really create all the wealth and want it back. So, lock arms, unite and fight for the working class, for the 99%.

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Building Bridges Occupies Air Waves

with a May Day Special!
May Day in New York City Part 1
With
Professor Jeff Goodwin, Sociology Dept, NYU at an NYU
demonstration against student debt and NYU’s capital
expansion plan 2031
and
Arun Gupta, a founding editor, Indypendent newspaper-
reporting from Union Square
plus
Tens of Thousands of May Day Protesters in NYC


May Day began in the U.S. in 1886 as a nationwide general strike, led by immigrant workers, fighting for the 8 hour work day. While celebrated across the globe, it has been largely ignored in the U.S., until recently, when immigrant workers revived it.


Now, a new chapter in the history of May Day was written with the involvement of Occupy Wall Street, the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community. And, Building Bridges presente! We’ll were there for this new chapter in the movement, reporting from May Day events throughout the day, here and from rallies across the country.


We spiced those events with commentary and analysis on the struggles of the working class in the midst of capitalist crisis and prospects for change, from leading champions of the working class, who build organization and class consciousness.


Occupy with Building Bridges as we acknowledge the blood, sweat and tears of workers, the workers who really create all the wealth and want it back. So, lock arms, unite and fight for the working class, for the 99%

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ACT UP N.Y. Commemorates 25th Anniversary By Taking To Wall Street with OWS To End Financial Crimes Against People With Aids & The 99%
With
Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. Manager of the Access Campaign, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
and
Eric Sawyer, founding member ACT UP, Housing Works, Health Gap and senior advisor of UNAIDs




ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) joined by Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community will discuss plans for a daylong
siege in Lower Manhattan on ACT UP's 25th anniversary, The groups are intent on pumping up the volume on a growing outcry for a "Financial Speculation Tax" (Fi.S.T.) on Wall Street. They’re calling on local, state, & federal legislators to "give Wall Street the FiST," to fill AIDS funding gaps and — once and for all — provide universal healthcare in the US. It’s time for effective healthcare to be made available to everyone — to the 99%, not just the 1%. The AIDS crisis is not over, but it could be! Tax Wall Street to End AIDS

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