Protesting Israel's Attack on Gaza;Aronowitz on the Economic Crisis;Baristas Beat Starbucks

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
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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