WBAI Radio and the New York Society for Ethical Culture
present
The People’s Agenda:
Working For An Economy By The People, For The People!
Produced by WBAI’s Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash

Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 7:00 – 9:30 PM (doors open at 6:30pm)
NY Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St (at Central Park West)

An examination of the present crisis of capitalism and peoples’ demands that the road to economic recovery lies in directly increasing their living standard and abandoning trickle down economics. In the words of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who gave his life fighting for the rights of the Memphis sanitation workers and for a poor people’s movement for economic rights, “A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth…and say: `This is not just.'"

.The program (partial list):

. Ajamu Sankofa, Private Health Insurance Must Go Coalition

. Lillian Roberts, Ex. Dir. DC 37, American Federation of State County &
Municipal Employees (AFSCME)

. video message from U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich

. Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research; author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy

. Stanley Aronowitz, Prof. of Sociology, & Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center; author of Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future ; University Wide Officer, Professional Staff Congress, AFT

. Representatives of the April 3 and 4 marches on Wall Street Coalitions

. presenters from housing and community service coalitions

Suggested donation $10, (no one will be turned away)
To Benefit for WBAI and the NY Society for Ethical Culture

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National Edition 27.5 minutes
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Seventy Five Thousand In Country’s Largest Protest Say No To Budget Cuts & Demand Tax The Rich
speakers
Randi Weingarten, AFT; Lillian Roberts, DC 37; George Gresham, 1199; Faye Moore, Local 371, DC 37; Barbara Bowen, PSC; Nancy Wackstein, United Community Houses; Selah Brown, student, NYC Technical College; Harry Nespoli, IBT Local 831, Sanitation Employees; Lynne Muchinsky, lab technologist, Mary Immaculate Hospital; Noel Auld, Jewish Home and Hospital Nursing Home; and a cast of tens of thousands

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New York City just hosted the country’s largest protest to date, 75,000strong, declaring no to proposed state and city budget cuts and yes to taxing the rich. New Yorkers rallied against budget cuts being considered by the Governor and the Mayor. Unions, social service organizations and community groups came together to unite and fight. They demanded a more equitable tax share by the state's wealthiest taxpayers which would generate an estimated
6 billion dollars annually. Just as the protesters expressed their class interests in a show of solidarity the NY Times, and Daily News failed to run articles on the rally clearly expressing their class interest.

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March 2, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 58 minutes ****************************************

Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty
with
Jeffrey Sachs, economist is Director of the Earth Institute at
Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-
General Ban Ki-Moon, is founder and co-President of the
Millennium Promise Alliance, an organization dedicated to ending
extreme poverty and hunger, and he’s authored numerous books
including his best seller, recently released in paperback Common
Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.

Mayor Bloomberg’s Union Busting is Disgusting:
Bloomberg Contracts Out Housing Authority Jobs & Fires Workers
with
Fitz Reid, Pres. Health Services Local 768,
DC 37Faye Moore,Pres. Social Service Employees Union Local 371,DC 37

What Domino’s Pizza Dishes Out
Makes Worker’s Sick To Their Stomachs
with
Mike, a fired Domino’s Pizza Deliveryman
and
Josephine Lee, representative of the Justice Will Be Served Campaign

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Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty
with
Jeffrey Sachs, economist is Director of the Earth Institute at
Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-
General Ban Ki-Moon, is founder and co-President of the
Millennium Promise Alliance, an organization dedicated to ending
extreme poverty and hunger, and he’s authored numerous books
including his best seller, recently released in paperback Common
Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Prof. Sachs talks about how to
address the fact that one-sixth of the world remains trapped in extreme
poverty, and now we’re in a global financial meltdown and how to respond
to the challenge.
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Mayor Bloomberg’s Union Busting is Disgusting:
Bloomberg Contracts Out Housing Authority Jobs & Fires Workers
with
Fitz Reid, Pres. Health Services Local 768, DC 37
Faye Moore,Pres. Social Service Employees Union Local 371,DC 37


More than 200 social service and health-care workers employed in Housing
Authority community centers were laid off Feb. 20 despite community and
labor protests, and multiple lawsuits by the unions, The City Council had
agreed to provide $18 million to keep the centers open, then Bloomberg
administration decided to fire the city workers and contract out the
operation of the community centers.
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What Domino’s Pizza Dishes Out
Makes Worker’s Sick To Their Stomachs
with
Mike, a fired Domino’s Pizza Deliveryman
and
Josephine Lee, representative of the Justice Will Be Served Campaign


Domino’s Pizza forces delivery workers to work over 60 hours per week and then
refused to pay them overtime and minimum wage. And, when workers at a New
Jersey Domino’s Pizza stood up for their rights, the boss fired them, but, they’re not taking it lying down.

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National Edition - 27:52
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The Israeli Warfare State
with
Prof. Jeff Halper,
Director Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions,
Author of "An Israeli in Palestine"and nominee for he Nobel Peace Prize

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Halper argues that whichever parties coalesce to form the new Israeli government there will be no progress in movingtoward serious peace talks with the Palestinians ending the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Israel has become addicted to war in its dealings with the Palestinians, in itseconomy and society. the Israeli economy thrives on the export of urban warfare strategy and weaponry. Change will have to come from outside forces pressuring Israel.

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
28 minutes
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Earl Robinson’s Cantata, Lonesome Train,
as part of Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

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The Riverside Church in NYC presented the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, The NYC Labor Chorus and The Riverside Inspirational Choir in Earl Robinson’s cantata, The Lonesome Train in honor of the 200th birthday of the great emancipator Abraham Lincoln. The work had not been heard in its entirety for more than 50 years. The performance featured theatrical direction by LorcaPeress,a narrator played by acclaimed actress Ruby Dee (American Gangster, Steam), a chorus led by a balladeer, Michael Mark (I Love My Wife, Cotton Patch Gospel), barn-dance caller David Amram (composer/Author/Jazz musician), banjo soloist Eric Weissberg (Dueling Banjos, Deliverance) and Sam Waterston (Law and Order) as President Lincoln. The four join gospel preacher Tyrone Aiken and his choir, a barn dance caller and fiddler to honor Lincoln’s message of “a new nation conceived in liberty.” The Riverside production was introduced by Pete Seeger.

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National Edition
27:22
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Chicago Strikers Stood Up for Justice by Sitting In
with
Ricky Maclin,VP L. 1110, United Electrical Workers(UE)
Raul Flores,Steward,Local 1110,UE
Mark Meinster, UE Field Organizer
Joycleyn Campbell, Domestic Workers United
Sara Rodriguez a striking Stella D'Oro Cookie Worker,
L. 50, Bakery, Confectioners, Tobacco Workers Union

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In December, in an electrifying action 260 workers at Republic Windows occupied their plant for 6 days in response to the closing of their plant. Their militancy and the national support they gained helped them win a partial settlement from Bank of America and Republic Owners, but the struggle continues to regain their jobs. Now, in a national tour they tell their story, and their efforts to create a broad campaign for worker justice.

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Monday, January 26, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Black Workers And The UAW In Detroit
with
David Lewis-Colman, author Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers And The UAW In Detroit

The Citizens Budget Commission Lets Big Business Off The Hook And Scapegoats Public Workers
with
James Parrott, Deputy Director and Chief Economist,Fiscal Policy Institute

Chicago Strikers Stood Up for Justice by Sitting In
with
Ricky Maclin, VP Local 1110, United Electrical Workers

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Black Workers And The UAW In Detroit
with
David Lewis-Colman, author Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers And The UAW In Detroit

Too many blame the gain of autoworkers as responsible for the plight of the auto industry. Auto is one of the most critical sectors of our economy and the wages and benefits of unionized auto workers to date & how they achieved them is critical to the advancement of organized labor. We’ll probe with Lewis-Colman his careful history ofthe black labor movement in Detroit and its compelling contributions that shaped the politics of the labor movement.
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The Citizens Budget Commission Lets Big Business Off The Hook And Scapegoats Public Workers
with
James Parrott, Deputy Director and Chief Economist,Fiscal Policy Institute

The Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) released a report claiming NY City & State employees receive bloated compensation - unfair pensions and benefits. But, James Parrott corrects the record, explaining that a main cause of the economic crisis is the shift of income and assets to the wealthy, and that the cure must be to redistribute income to the people and not attack the benefits that they have.
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Chicago Strikers Stood Up for Justice by Sitting In
with
Ricky Maclin, VP Local 1110, United Electrical Workers

In December, in an electrifying action 260 workers at Republic Windows occupied their plant for 6 days in response to the closing of their plant. Their militancy and the national support they gained helped them win a partial settlement from Bank of America and Republic Owners, but the struggle continues to regain their jobs. Now, in a national tour they tell their story,

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National Edition
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America at a Crossroads
With Dr. Cornel West,
Class of 1943 Professor, Princeton Univ.. Author of “Race Matters”,
“Democracy Matters” and “Hope on a Tightrope”

Cornel West is one of our most renowned public intellectuals. As we approach an economic, political, & spiritual crossroads, the next chapter of the American story is about to be written. Professor West reflects about America’s continuing dialogue on race and justice, the Obama Presidency, and the economic
crisis.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Monday, December 22, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM
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United We Stand Against Hate Crime:
In Memoriam of Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay

A Secretary for Labor?
with
Thea Lee, Director of Policy, AFL-CIO

From The Picket Line:
Strikers Claim Stella D'Oro Cookies Leave You With A Sour Taste
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United We Stand Against Hate Crime:
In Memoriam of Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay

Thirty-one year old, Ecuadorian immigrant Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay died December 12, after being viciously hit over the head with an aluminum baseball bat on a Bushwick sidewalk. Mr. Sucuzhanay and his brother were walking home, arms around each other when three men jumped from a utility vehicle and attacked the brothers yelling anti-gay and anti-Hispanic slurs. One of the men broke a bottle over Jose Sucuzhaney’s head and when he fell to the ground another began beating him with the baseball bat as they kicked and punched him. No one has been apprehended for the homicide at this time. This attack came just five weeks after the stabbing death in Patchogue of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Building Bridges attended an “International Immigrants Awareness Day Vigil: United We Stand Against Hate Crime” at the very spot that Jose Osvaldowas brutally attacked.
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A Secretary for Labor?
with
Thea Lee, Director of Policy, AFL-CIO

Jubilant is the word that comes to mind for the reaction of the labor
community to the selection by President Elect Barack Obama of Rep. Hilda
Solis to become the new Secretary of Labor. The daughter of immigrants,
from a union family, Representative has been described as having a resume
a mile long concerning the rights of workers, women, and the environment.
To provide us with greater insight about that the new Labor Secretary and the
work cut out for her, protecting, and extending workers rights in the economy,
stopping the hemorrhaging jobs, and growing the economy we’re joined by
Thea Lee, Director of Policy of the AFL-CIO
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From The Picket Line:
Strikers Claim Stella D'Oro Cookies Leave You With A Sour Taste

The 135 workers of Stella D'Oro, the biscuit producers, most of whom are women and Latinos, now in their fourth month on strike are confronting a difficult Christmas on the picket line. The company has refused to negotiate their demands to eliminate holidays, vacation and sick pay,slash wages and pension benefits, and impose crushing healthcare premiums. They are demanding that the workers return to work without a contract in an effort to break the union. The workers are standing strong and none have broken the line to return to work.

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27:58
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The Green Collar Economy:
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
with
best selling author, activist Van Jones

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The Green Collar Economy:
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
with
best selling author, activist Van Jones

The U.S. economy has suffered a serious slowdown, with the resulting increase in underemployment and unemployment - poverty is expanding and deepening. But,
don't mourn, organize, capture the moment with Building Bridges as we explore
with Van Jones how the greening of America is both a moral imperative and
provides the nuts and bolts of economic stimulus. Now is the time to reenergize
the discussion, too long dormant about what/who creates wealth and its
redistribution to those who do. Planting the seeds with Van Jones from which
will sprout a real bailout for workers of the U.S.
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Monday, December 1, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death: Its Record of Endangering Workers & Consumers Unabated,
with
Pat Purcell, Director, Special Projects, Local 1500, UFCW

Jared's Waist Maybe Shrinking at Subway's Restaurants, But Wages and Working Conditions Are Also Slim for Subway's Tomato Pickers
with
Leonel Perez, Member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
and
Marc Rodriguez, Student/Farmworker Alliance

People's Bailout Now!!National Week of Action December 7-13,
with
Laura McSpedon, North East Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice
Fran Tobin, Mid-West Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice

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Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death: Its Record of Endangering Workers & Consumers Unabated,
with
Pat Purcell, Director, Special Projects, Local 1500, UFCW

Jdimytai Damour, a Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after he was trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store, subsequent to being whipped into a frenzy of bargain hunting by the retail giant, who failed to protect its staff and consumers from the expected crush.
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Jared's Waist Maybe Shrinking at Subway's Restaurants, But Wages and Working Conditions Are Also Slim for Subway's Tomato Pickers
with
Leonel Perez, Member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
and
Marc Rodriguez, Student/Farmworker Alliance

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers launched a national protest calling on Subway Restaurant, the world's largest sandwich chain and the biggestfast-food buyer of Florida tomatoes to improve wages and working conditions for those who pick the tomatoes. Their national protest will culminate with a march from the United Nations to a local Subway Restaurant on International Human Rights Day, December 10th.
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People's Bailout Now!!National Week of Action December 7-13,
with
Laura McSpedon, North East Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice
Fran Tobin, Mid-West Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice

The Wall Street bailout has proven to be a give-away to the same financial bigwigs that have been pocketing millions while wrecking the real economy. Little or no benefit has gone to the working people and the real economy. By the time Obama is sworn in, hundreds of thousands of additional people will lose their jobs, lose their homes and lose their health care. Jobs with Justice is calling for a "People's Bailout" that fixes the real economy, restores a voice for working people in challenging corporate greed, provides emergency help to the victims of the crisis and begins building a fair economy that works for all, addressing crises in housing, health care,jobs, retirement security and the environment.
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Monday, November 24, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Washington to Detroit - Drop Dead?
with
Frank Hammer, Former Pres., UAW Local 909, Warren, Michigan
and
Warren Brown, Auto Columnist, "Washington Post "
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Agriprocessors' Immigrant Worker Exploitation
with
Rev. Paul Ouderkirk – Pastor, St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church, Postville Iowa

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Agriprocessors' Union Busting Kosher?
with
David Young, Organizing Director, Local 342, UFCW

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Washington to Detroit - Drop Dead?
with
Frank Hammer, Former Pres., UAW Local 909, Warren, Michigan
and
Warren Brown, Auto Columnist, "Washington Post "

When auto executives and unions leaders came to Washington last weekto ask for a $25 billion bailout, they expected a cold shoulder from Bush, but got one from the Congress as well. Is the Federal government really willing to take the risk of adding more than a million auto workers to the unemployment lines that snake throughout the Midwest? And, what would happen to the wages and working conditions of auto workers that might keep their jobs with the big three companies, or other auto workers across the region and nation?
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Agriprocessors' Immigrant Worker Exploitation
with
Rev. Paul Ouderkirk – Pastor, St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church, Postville Iowa

On May 12, 2008, US Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested approximately 400 workers at the Agriprocessors, Inc. meat-processing plant. Family members of those arrested were terrified to return to their homes. For almost a week after the raid, hundreds of family members sought refuge in St. Bridget's Church. This and other raids are sweeping across the country, wreaking havoc on families, communities and businesses. Father Paul Oudekirk, Pastor of St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church in Postville, Iowa gained national recognition for his work with the families of the immigrants who were arrested in the largest workplace raid in Iowa history and spoke to us during a recent trip to New York.

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Agriprocessors' Union Busting Kosher?
with
David Young, Organizing Director, Local 342, UFCW

In 2005, workers at the Agriprocessors warehouse in NYC voted to unionize. The Rubashkin family owners of Agriprocessors refused to recognize the union,ironically alleging some of its workers were undocumented. Despite three rounds of judicial rulings that Agriprocessors must recognize the union, the Rubashkin family continues to flaunt the law and super-exploit its workers.
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Monday, November 17, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM
58:50
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Anti-Immigrant Hate In Suffolk Responsible for Stabbing Death of Ecuadorian
Laborer Marcelo Lucero
with
Rev. Allan Ramirez, Pastor, Brookville Reformed Church, & noted immigrant advocate

How To End The Recession
with
Robert Pollin, Economics Professor, & founding Co-Director of
the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Mass.
Co-author of Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs &
Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

Fighting Governor Paterson's Budget Cuts
with
Nancy Wackstein, Exec. Director, United Neighborhood Houses
Judy Wessler, Director, Commission on the Public's Health System
Billy Easton, Executive Director, Alliance for Quality Education

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Anti-Immigrant Hate In Suffolk Responsible for Stabbing Death of Ecuadorian Laborer Marcelo Lucero
with
Rev. Allan Ramirez, Pastor, Brookville Reformed Church, & noted immigrant advocate

Jeffrey Conroy, and 6 other teens declared that they were going to "attack
a Mexican" and headed to the village of Patchogue to hunt, according to
their friends and the authorities. They found Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old
immigrant from a poor village in Ecuador who had lived in the U.S. for
16 years, worked in a dry cleaning store, sending savings home to support
his mother, a cancer survivor. After the boys surrounded, taunted and
punched Mr. Lucero, the authorities say, Mr. Conroy plunged a knife into
his victim's chest, fatally wounding him. While County Executive Steve
Levy, himself distinguished for anti-immigrant legislation, would like to
isolate the attack to what he is now calling "white supremacists" others
believe the attack is a reflection of widespread anti-Latino sentiment and
racial intolerance in Suffolk County.
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How To End The Recession
with
Robert Pollin, Economics Professor, & founding Co-Director of
the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Mass.
Co-author of Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs &
Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

The recession is certainly here, so the question is how to diminish its
length and severity. A large-scale federal stimulus program is the only
action that can possibly do the job. The economy needs a shot of public
investment – and if it's green, the payoff will be greatest. What does a
green stimulus look like; should there be an auto industry bailout and what
happened at the world economic summit?

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Fighting Governor Paterson's Budget Cuts
with
Nancy Wackstein, Exec. Director, United Neighborhood Houses
Judy Wessler, Director, Commission on the Public's Health System
Billy Easton, Executive Director, Alliance for Quality Education

NYS Governor Paterson has proposed that the State Legislature cut $2B
from the State Budget this year and $3.2 B the next by slashing health care,
education and social service funding. Now hundreds of unions & community
groups have banded together in new coalitions 1 NY and Better Choice
Budget Coalition to demonstrate in Albany this Tuesday to demand that
we stop the cuts by raising taxes on higher income people as we did
successfully in the 2003 recession.

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Monday, November 10, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM
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Obama Wins Presidency as Jobless Rate at 14-Year High
with
William Spriggs, Chair, Economics Department Howard University

The Language of Race, Class & Gender How Was It Used and
How Did It Affect The Voters In Election 2008?
with
Patricia Williams, Nation Columnist and Professor of Law,
Columbia University

Veteran’s Day Special:
Supporting the Troops, Defeating the Policies
with
. Matt Howard, Iraq Veterans Against the War and American
Friends Service Committee
. Drew Cameron, Warrior Writers Project, Iraq Veterans Against
the War

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Obama Wins Presidency as Jobless Rate at 14-Year High
with
William Spriggs, Chair, Economics Department Howard University

President-elect Barack Obama will assume office in January in an
American economy which has lost 240,000 jobs in October, and has shed
1.2 million jobs since the beginning of the year. The country and the world
is sinking deeper into the quicksand of recession. Saddled with over-
whelming challenges, the electorate has placed its hope in his leadership.
So what are the first steps he’s taking or should take on the path to
address the economic freefall?
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The Language of Race, Class & Gender How Was It Used and
How Did It Affect The Voters In Election 2008?
with
Patricia Williams, Nation Columnist and Professor of Law,
Columbia University

In the aftermath of the extraordinary election of Barack Obama, Prof.
Williams, tries to parse out the victory using the multiple lens of race, class
and gender to determine how the electorate saw the candidates, their
messages and how Obama’s candidacy overcame the historic barriers of
racism and red-baiting.
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Veteran’s Day Special:
Supporting the Troops, Defeating the Policies
with
. Matt Howard, Iraq Veterans Against the War and American
Friends Service Committee. Drew Cameron, Warrior Writers Project,
Iraq Veterans Against the War

Service members continue to die, and are catastrophically wounded due
to the predatory wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? According to researchers,
large numbers of American soldiers when they’ve returned from combat
show signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and others psychiatric
difficulties, suicides are increasing. The average age of the fighting
personnel is just 19, but the prognosis for a healthy life is bleak.

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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Obama's Big Win! withEric Foner, Prof. of History, Columbia University.
Author "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished
Revolution" & "Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on
Lincoln" and
Chis Kromm, Exec. Dir. Institute for Southern Studies
& Publisher, "Southern Exposure"

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Obama's Big Win!
with
Eric Foner, Prof. of History, Columbia University.
Author "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished
Revolution" & "Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on
Lincoln" and
Chis Kromm, Exec. Dir. Institute for Southern Studies
& Publisher, "Southern Exposure"

Foner and Kromm place Obama’s victory in a perspective of
not only the history of racism in this country but the traditional
reactionary role played by the South since Reconstruction. Is
there a different South emerging that could shake up politics
not only in the region but the nation for years to come?****************************************
Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at http://www.wbai.org/ .
Our website is http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org/

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Monday, November 3, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Ballot Measures in Three States Threaten Abortion Rights
with
Sondra Goldschein, Staff Attorney,
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project

"Colorado Civil Rights Initiative" Actually Seeks to Sink Civil Rights
with
Shanta Driver, BAMN National Chair

Progressives Finally Use Ballot Initiatives:
Milwaukee Possibly First Place to Pass Paid Sick Days?
with
Amy Stear, Wisconsin Director, 9 to 5,
National Organization of Working Women

Will the Election be Stolen?
with
Myrna Pérez , Counsel, Democracy Program,
Brennan Center for Justice,
NYUChis Kromm, Executive Director & Publisher, Southern Exposure

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Ballot Measures in Three States Threaten Abortion Rights
with
Sondra Goldschein, Staff Attorney,
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project

Initiatives aimed at banning abortion, restricting teenagers' access to
abortion, and interfering in a range of private health care decisions will
appear on the ballot in SD (Measure 11), CA (Proposition 4), and CO
(Amendment 48). How will these initiatives affect us all?
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"Colorado Civil Rights Initiative" Actually Seeks to Sink Civil Rights
with
Shanta Driver, BAMN National Chair

Brought forward by California businessman Ward Connerly, the so-called
Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, Amendment 46, seeks to destroy
affirmative action programs throughout the state.
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Progressives Finally Use Ballot Initiatives:
Milwaukee Possibly First Place to Pass Paid Sick Days?
with
Amy Stear, Wisconsin Director, 9 to 5,
National Organization of Working Women

Milwaukee workers without paid sick days are forced to make impossible
choices between vital income and jobs on one hand, and caring for their
own health or family health on the other hand. A new Milwaukee ballot
initiative would allow workers to earn a minimum of one hour of paid sick
time for every 30 hours worked.
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Will the Election be Stolen?
with Myrna Pérez , Counsel, Democracy Program,
Brennan Center for Justice, NYU
Chis Kromm, Executive Director & Publisher, Southern Exposure

There has been a spike in challenges to the right to vote this year across
the nation and in crucial Southern states. Many states will not register
new voters or will purge existing voters from the voter rolls if election
officials cannot match their voter registration information against that in
other government databases. Voter suppression could impact hundreds
of thousands of votes making the difference between winning or
loosing the national election and many local races.

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, October 27, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
District Court Finally Serves Justice to Saigon Grill Restaurant
Delivery Workers
with
Saigon Grill Workers,
Josephine Lee, Coordinator, Justice Will Be Served Campaign
Representative of the Chinese Staff and Workers Association

Indigenous Columbian Leader In US To Testify Against Uribe
Government Policies
with
Rafael Coicué who was the indigenous Governor of Corinto in
Northern Cauca and a representative of the Association of
Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, Colombia (ACIN)

Post-Mortem: 55 Years After the Execution of His Co-Defendants,
Convicted “Atomic Spy” Morton Sobell Confesses – But to What?
with
Robert Meerpool, Youngest Son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
and Executive Director of the Rosenberg fund for Children

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District Court Finally Serves Justice to Saigon Grill Restaurant
Delivery Workers
with
Saigon Grill Workers,
Josephine Lee, Coordinator, Justice Will Be Served Campaign
Representative of the Chinese Staff and Workers Association

A victory for all NYC delivery workers occurred when 36 employees of the
Saigon Grill Restaurants, after more than one and a half years of battling
with its owners Simon and Michelle Nget, were awarded $4.6 million for
federal and state labor law violations. The 36 worked at Saigon Grill
restaurants until they were fired in March 2007, in retaliation for
organizing a union and planning to bring a lawsuit against the owners. ****************************************
Indigenous Columbian Leader In US To Testify Against Uribe
Government Policies
with
Rafael Coicué who was the indigenous Governor of Corinto in
Northern Cauca and a representative of the Association of
Indigenous Councils of Northern Cauca, Colombia (ACIN)

The mass upheaval of the indigenous people of Cauca has been met
with military force resulting in 3 deaths and 122 wounded. Coicué recently
testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the
OAS about the militarization of indigenous lands, the US-Columbia Free
Trade Agreement, the failure of President Uribe’s administration to honor
accords with the indigenous communities and the current repression of
Indigenous protests in Cauca.
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Post-Mortem: 55 Years After the Execution of His Co-Defendants,
Convicted “Atomic Spy” Morton Sobell Confesses – But to What?
with
Robert Meerpool, Youngest Son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
and Executive Director of the Rosenberg fund for Children

Morton Sobell, now 91 years old and the only living defendant in the
Rosenberg “Atomic Spy” case , 55 years after his co-defendants Ethel
and Julius Rosenberg were put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing
prison, admitted transferring U.S. military information to the Soviets. But,
what did Sobell actually confess to and what are the essential lessons of
the “atomic spy” trial that keeps this case alive?

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Monday, October 20, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM
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Kucinich on the Fighting the Recession and Winning the Election

The American Dream or Our New Nightmare Homeownership?
with
Josh Zinner, Co-Director, Neighborhood Economic Development
Advocacy Project (NEDAP)

Half Way Around the World: Korean Workers Take Grievances
to the Doorstep of Sirius Satellite Radio,
with
Delegation members of the Kiryung workers

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Kucinich on the Fighting the Recession and Winning the Election

We talk with Congressman Dennis Kucinich who represents Cleveland,
Ohio, a city and a state fighting both high unemployment and home fore-
closures. Ohio is a battleground state in the Presidential elections.
Kucinich has fought both Republicans & Democrats on issues of war
and the economy. He voted against Paulson’s $700 billion bank bailout
scheme.
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The American Dream or Our New Nightmare Homeownership?
with
Josh Zinner, Co-Director, Neighborhood Economic Development
Advocacy Project (NEDAP)

Must we redefine the stuff that dreams are made of – home ownership?
What’s the fallout in our neighborhoods from the burst housing bubble?
And, if home equity is the primary asset of the working class what does
foreclosure portend for the growing disparity in wealth?
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Half Way Around the World: Korean Workers Take Grievances
to the Doorstep of Sirius Satellite Radio,
with
Delegation members of the Kiryung workers

200 Korean primarily women workers were hired through a contract to
produce Sirius Satellite radios and receivers. After pitifully low wages,
long work hours and no benefits they unionized, for which they were
imprisoned, beaten and fired. These women have engaged in 1200
days of peaceful protests including mass demonstrations, a 3 month
long sit-in at the plant & a 94 day hunger strike. Now, a delegation of
workers is taking their protest directly to SIRUS headquarters in
NYC, demanding they take responsibility for the exploitation.

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Monday, October 13, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM
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Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
with
Dean Hutchinson, Cherokee scholar & poet

What Is To Be Done?: Responding To The Crisis of Capitalism
with
. William Greider, journalist, & author persistently challenging
mainstream thinking on economics
. Arun Gupta, journalist, & activist focusing on searing commentary
on the US economic structure
. Francis Fox Piven, one of America's most thoughtful & provocative
commentators of America's social welfare system

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Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
with
Dean Hutchinson, Cherokee scholar & poet

Indigenous People mark the anniversary of Columbus' voyage, to use
the occasion to reveal the historical truth about the invasion & the
consequent genocide and environmental destruction and then to
organize against its continuation today, and to celebrate Indigenous
resistance. We celebrate Native resistance at The American Indian
Community House.
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What Is To Be Done?: Responding To The Crisis of Capitalism
with
. William Greider, journalist, & author persistently challenging
mainstream thinking on economics.
Arun Gupta, journalist, & activist focusing on searing commentary
on the US economic structure
. Francis Fox Piven, one of America's most thoughtful & provocative
commentators of America's social welfare system

Feeling dizzy from the whirlwind events on Wall Street? While capitalism's
balloon bursts we won't deflate, but what should we make out of the dire
pronouncements – what is to be done? We bring you highlights of an
emergency forum of leading left voices on economics and grassroots
politics.

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, October 6, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
NYC: Financial Disaster Ahead?
with
James Parrott Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute
Author, "The End of Wall Street as We Know It"

"The Colombian Free Trade Agreement, Displacement of
Afro-Colombians, and Violence against Trade Unionists"
with
Carlos RoseroFounder, Procesos de Comunidades Negras
Raul Arroyave, Executive Board Member, Central Unitaria
de Trabajadores(CUT) labor federation
Jose Schiffino, Trade Unionists in Solidarity with Colombia

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NYC: Financial Disaster Ahead?
with
James Parrott, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute
Author, "The End of Wall Street as We Know It"

Employers cut 159,000 jobs in Sept.. It was the biggest monthly decline
since 2003 and new evidence of a strengthening recession. The NYC
financial industry, one of the cornerstones of the NYC economy and a
mainstay of the City and State's tax base, may be heading for a long
term decline. The financial crisis has already claimed Bear Stearns,
Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and AIG. The NYS Labor Department
is predicting the loss of 120,000 jobs and is asking for Federal Aid. ************************************************
The Colombian Free Trade Agreement, Displacement of
Afro-Colombians, and Violence against Trade Unionists"
with
Carlos RoseroFounder, Procesos de Comunidades Negras
Raul Arroyave, Executive Board Member, Central Unitaria
de Trabajadores(CUT) labor federation
Jose Schiffino, Trade Unionists in Solidarity with Colombia

Thousands of predominately Afro-Colombian sugarcane workers are on
strike, calling for basic minimum wage & safety standards. The
companies have refused to negotiate and instead sent in state troops
resulting in at least 33 injuries. Violence is also accelerating in the forced
removal of Afro-Colombian communal farmers from their land to make way
for massive palm oil plantations. All this on the heels of the Colombian
government's lobbying blitz in Washington, in a last ditch effort for the U.S.
Congress to pass the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. ************************************************
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159,000 Jobs Lost in August,
600,000 to loose homes this year by foreclosures What is to be done?
with
Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
William Tabb, Economist and Author

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Will bailing out the banks to the tune of 700 billion dollars fix the liquidity crisis or will we need to nationalize the banks?And, what about the growing threat of home foreclosures, unemployment and contraction of the real economy. What is to be done?**********************************************************
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Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at www.wbai.org .

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Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.WWUH, - West Hartford, CTWVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA WXOJ, Northampton, MAKSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon WKNH ,Keene, NHCKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado WRPI, Troy, New York WNRB, Wausau, WI KRBS, Oroville, CA WHLD, Buffalo, NY Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WAKQRP Salida, California East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WAKSKQ, Ashland, Oregonas well as internet stations: Radio Veronica,West Point, PAThe Journey Radio WXXESeattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart AmericanFM.orgRadioDriftless.orgGrateful Dread Public Radio

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National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Scrooge Disney arrests Mickey, Aladdin & Tinker Bell
at Labor Health Care Protest at Disneyland
with
Ada Briceno, Sec'y-Treasurer, UNITE HERE! Local 11,
Mary Ann Hegner, bartender at the Disneyland Hotel
& Rosa Garcia, dance instructor, Santa Ana College as Tinker Bell
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Don’t Be a Chicken
By Healthcare Now

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Scrooge Disney arrests Mickey, Aladdin & Tinker Bell
at Labor Health Care Protest at Disneyland
withAda Briceno, Sec'y-Treasurer, UNITE HERE! Local 11,
Mary Ann Hegner, bartender at the Disneyland Hotel &
Rosa Garcia, dance instructor, Santa Ana College as Tinker Bell

Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of
modern-day childhood were handcuffed, frisked & loadedinto
police vans recently at the culmination of a labor protest that
brought a touch of reality to the Happiest Place on Earth. The
arrest of 32 of the protesters, came at the end of an hour-long
march to Disneyland's gates from one of three Disney-owned
hotels at the center of a labor dispute about health care. Disney
is trying to take away health insurance for 2,300 maids, bell hops,
cooks and dishwashers at their three Disneyland hotels. ***********************************************
Don’t Be a Chicken
By Healthcare Now

Healthcare Now has produced a humorous cartoon primer on
the health care crisis in this country and the single payer
solution or Medicare for All which forms the basis of Rep.
Conyers HR 676. With the number of uninsured in the US
growing each year, HR 676 now has more than 92 co-
sponsors in the House of Representatives and the number of
unions endorsements grow each week
including 39 State Labor Federations.
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go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/29466or
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for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM
in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST
and is streamed, archived and pod cast at www.wbai.org .

Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.WWUH, - West Hartford, CTWVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA WXOJ, Northampton, MAKSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon WKNH ,Keene, NHCKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado WRPI, Troy, New York WNRB, Wausau, WI KRBS, Oroville, CA WHLD, Buffalo, NY Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WAKQRP Salida, California East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WAKSKQ, Ashland, Oregonas well as internet stations: Radio Veronica,West Point, PAThe Journey Radio WXXESeattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart AmericanFM.orgRadioDriftless.orgGrateful Dread Public Radio

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