Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report

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

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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

Puerto Rican Workers Fight Layoffs; and Domestic Workers Bill of Rights  

Workers Protest Puerto Rico’s Governor ‘s Lay Off Of Tens Of Thousands
with
Benjamin Borges, Executive Director, Public Service Workers United of Puerto Rico (Servidores Públicos Unidos de Puerto Rico) Council 95, AFSCME

A Domestic Workers Bill of Rights

With
Ai-Jen Poo, Lead Organizer, Domestic Workers United And Pat Francois, Member, Domestic Workers United

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Workers Protest Puerto Rico’s Governor ‘s Lay Off Of Tens Of Thousands

with
Benjamin Borges, Executive Director, Public Service Workers United of Puerto Rico (Servidores Públicos Unidos de Puerto Rico) Council 95, AFSCME

One hundred thousand marched in San Juan to protest the recent firing of10,000 workers by prostatehood Governor Luis Fortuño. The march was organized by “All of Puerto Rico for Puerto Rico,” a new coalition that includes unions affiliated to Change to Win, the AFL-CIO, independent unions, community groups, and church organizations, who also protested Law 7, which would privatize public workers jobs and allow the government to discard contracts already signed with labor unions. Gov. Luis Fortuño plans to cut 30,000 more public sector jobs as well.
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A Domestic Workers Bill of Rights
With
Ai-Jen Poo, Lead Organizer, Domestic Workers United
And Pat Francois, Member, Domestic Workers United


Today, women of color, from around the world work as domestic workers. Everyday,
200, 000 domestic workers (nannies, elderly companions, housekeepers) in New York make it possible for their employers to go to work. Most are employed without a living wage, healthcare, and basic labor protections. In New York State DomesticWorkers United is mounting an aggressive campaign to have theState government enact a domestic workers bill of rights to establish
basic work standards under the law. If enacted, it will be model for the
entire country.



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