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.


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In Struggle Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

Katrina Anniversary Plus Boycott Whole Foods - 27:13  

Katrina: Four Years & Counting & Still Underwater
with
Chris Kromm, Ex. Dir. Institute for Southern Studies

Whole Foods’ Fans Can’t Digest Health Care Op-Ed
with
. Jon Weissman, Coordinator, Western Mass. Jobs with Justice
. Tom Siracuse, Chair of the Manhattan West Side Local, Green Party

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Katrina: Four Years & Counting & Still Underwater
with
Chris Kromm, Ex. Dir. Institute for Southern Studies

New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still waiting for Washington to show leadership in the Katrina recovery. Four years after the storm, one out of three New Orleans addresses are still unoccupied. Now, a special anniversary report grades the Obama administration on Gulf Coast recovery.
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Whole Foods’ Fans Can’t Digest Health Care Op-Ed
with
. Jon Weissman, Coordinator, Western Mass. Jobs with Justice
. Tom Siracuse, Chair of the West Side Local, Green Party

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey can’t digest health care reform and protesters can’t stomach his position. The jolly green giant’s part-time employees receive no health benefits and full-time employees are forced into high-deductible insurance plans. Not so jolly after all, Mackey compares efforts to unionizing his stores to "having herpes." While he says get back protestors fight back.


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