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

DNC 2008 -OBAMANOMICS  

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, August 25, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Sixteen Million Americans In Dire Poverty –
Yup, It's the Economy!

with
Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Inst.,
and Prof. of Economics at the University of Mass., Amherst

and
Meizhu Lui, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Our Health Care System Is Sick -
Will Democrats Prescribe Placebos?

with
Benjamin Day, co-author of "State Health Reform Flatlines"
and Ex. Dir., Mass-Care


Blogging the DNC:
Blow by Blow Happening & Political Analysis

with
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Dir., Political Reform Program for the
New American Foundation & the Asian American Action Fund,

Christopher Hayes, The Nation and
Malcolm Clark, blogger for Labourhome
& The World Wants Obama


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OBAMANOMICS

Sixteen Million Americans In Dire Poverty –
Yup, It's the Economy!
with
Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Inst.,
and Prof. of Economics at the University of Mass., Amherst
and
Meizhu Lui, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty
has reached a 32-year high and millions of working Americans are
falling closer to the poverty line. "Economic security for American
families" is the Obama slogan, but what's the program and will it
bridge the gap between the nation's 'haves' and 'have-nots'?
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Our Health Care System Is Sick -
Will Democrats Prescribe Placebos?
with
Benjamin Day, co-author of "State Health Reform Flatlines"
and Ex. Dir., Mass-Care

Are the democrats likely to pass bold health reforms or are they
afraid to rock the private insurance boat? The country has a
consensus for expanded health coverage, but experience shows you
can't achieve universal coverage at an affordable price unless you
throw out the insurance companies overhead and profit. Have the
Democrats learned this lesson or is 'universal coverage,' merely a
euphemism for the right to purchase private health insurance? Has
health reform flatlined?
*********
Blogging the DNC:
Blow by Blow Happening & Political Analysis
with
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Dir., Political Reform Program for the
New American Foundation & the Asian American Action Fund,
Christorher Hayes, The Nation
andMalcolm Clark, blogger for Labourhome
& The World Wants Obama

We'll go behind the hype and provide a blow by blow analysis, with
national and international bloggers of the politics driving the convention
and provide perspectives from the 'Big Tent' – the special bloggers,
non-profits and progressive activist venue at the Democratic National
Convention.

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