Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report

Produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash over WBAI,99.5FM in the NYC Metro Area

WHO WE ARE

WORKERS OF THE WORLD TUNE IN! Introducing "Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report"

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.

For more information you can contact us at knash@igc.org
In Struggle Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

 

written by building bridges radio at Wednesday, September 3, 2008

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, August 11, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM

"Olympic Sweatshop: Speedo Production in China
Breaks Records for Worker Abuse"
with
Charles Kernaghan, Director, National Labor Committee

Emmett Till: The Opera
with
Charles Lloyd, Jr. composer, tenor Robert Mack as Emmett,
soprano Diana Solomon-Glover as Mamie; bass Kevin Maynor
as the funeral director

Efforts By Bloomberg To Reduce Homelessness
A Case Of The Emperor's News Clothes
with
Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst, Coalition for the Homeless


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"Olympic Sweatshop: Speedo Production in China
Breaks Records for Worker Abuse"
with
Charles Kernaghan, Director, National Labor Committee

Speedo may be the top-selling and best-known swimwear brand in the
world, and an official sponsor of the upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in
China. But, according to a new report by the National Labor Committee,
workers in China producing Speedo sporting goods are drowning in
abuse. Toys 'R' Us and Carrefour are also implicated in this sweatshop
scandal.
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Emmett Till: The Opera
with
Charles Lloyd, Jr. composer, tenor Robert Mack as Emmett,
soprano Diana Solomon-Glover as Mamie; bass Kevin
Maynor as the funeral director

The horrific story of the beating and murder of the boy child, Emmett Till,
scars deep in the hearts of black America. This murder and the story
behind it is now part of American culture. Trilogy: An Opera Company (AOC)
brings this tragic American story to us with the hope of stimulating new and
helpful discussions about a still-divided America.
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Efforts By Bloomberg To Reduce Homelessness A Case Of The
Emperor's News Clothes
with
Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst, Coalition for the Homeless

In 2004, Mayor Bloomberg claimed the city would slash the number of
homeless people by two-thirds in five years by building homes for the poor,
pouring more money into prevention services and claiming that the shelter
system would only be used by those who really needed it. Now, four years
into the five-year plan, a similar number of families are in the shelter system.
We explore why.



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