Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report

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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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written by building bridges radio at Friday, July 25, 2008

Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, July 21, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST,over 99.5 FM
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The City and State Tell NYC's Housing Authority Drop Dead
with
Victor Bach, Senior Policy Analyst,
Community Service Society
International Criminal Court Swears Out Arrest Warrant
for Omar Hassan al-Bashir
with
Rev. Herbert Daughtry,
House of the Lord Pentecostal Church
Fannie Mae Hey & Freddie Mac When Are You Coming Back?
with
Ron Blackwell, Senior Economist, AFL-CIO


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The City and State Tell NYC's Housing Authority Drop Dead
with
Victor Bach, Senior Policy Analyst, Community Service Society

NYC's Housing Authority is one of the only providers of low-income
housing. Now, due to federal cuts the Authority's workers and its
4000,000 tenants will suffer the consequence of a $170 million budget
deficit, and the State and City haven't lifted a finger to help, but rather
have forced the Authority to shell out over $200 million. We'll find out
why the City is helping to strangle public housing.
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International Criminal Court Swears Out Arrest Warrant
for Omar Hassan al-Bashir
with Rev. Herbert Daughtry, House of the Lord Pentecostal Church

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is
seeking the arrest of the Sudanese President on charges of genocide,
war crimes and crimes against humanity. Will the prosecutor's move
against Mr. Bashir hinder or assist efforts to bring peace to the region?
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Fannie Mae Hey & Freddie Mac When Are You Coming Back?
withRon Blackwell, Senior Economist, AFL-CIO

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federally sponsored corporations that own
or guarantee almost half of all loans to U.S. homeowners, are in deep
trouble. But, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke,
Chairman of the Federal Reserve are proposing an unlimited Federal
bailout of them. Yet, if taxpayers are to assume the risks, why shouldn't
they assume ownership of these lending institutions?


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