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Building Bridges Occupies Air Waves

with a May Day Special!
May Day in New York City Part 1
With
Professor Jeff Goodwin, Sociology Dept, NYU at an NYU
demonstration against student debt and NYU’s capital
expansion plan 2031
and
Arun Gupta, a founding editor, Indypendent newspaper-
reporting from Union Square
plus
Tens of Thousands of May Day Protesters in NYC


May Day began in the U.S. in 1886 as a nationwide general strike, led by immigrant workers, fighting for the 8 hour work day. While celebrated across the globe, it has been largely ignored in the U.S., until recently, when immigrant workers revived it.


Now, a new chapter in the history of May Day was written with the involvement of Occupy Wall Street, the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community. And, Building Bridges presente! We’ll were there for this new chapter in the movement, reporting from May Day events throughout the day, here and from rallies across the country.


We spiced those events with commentary and analysis on the struggles of the working class in the midst of capitalist crisis and prospects for change, from leading champions of the working class, who build organization and class consciousness.


Occupy with Building Bridges as we acknowledge the blood, sweat and tears of workers, the workers who really create all the wealth and want it back. So, lock arms, unite and fight for the working class, for the 99%

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

Will Obama’s Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy? with
Arun Gupta, Editor, the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

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Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

DMU represents over 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care-
givers in NYC. Now, however, their organization is hemorrhaging members
as the growing joblessness of their employers trickles down to the number
of hires of these caregivers. Aside, from growing unemployment amongst
their members,the spike in joblessness for those remaining on the job has
fostered competition resulting in wage cuts, increased workload, and
worsening conditions on the job. Under these conditions, & excluded from
the protections of most labor law, DWU’s efforts to secure a NYS Domestic
Workers Bill of Rights is even more pressing.
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Will Obama’s Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy?
with
Arun Gupta, Editor, the Indypendent and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

While the meat has yet to be put on the skeletal frame of President-Elect
Obama’s proposed stimulus package, he has revealed enough to cause
alarm for present and future beneficiaries of Medicare and Social Security
and serious questions as to whether it will create “shovel ready” jobs and
whether its tax cuts can jump-start the sputtering economy.

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, January 12, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Israel's Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood:
Insights Into The Middle East
with
Former Ambassador Edward Peck

Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy?
with
Arun Gupta, editor of the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

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Israel's Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood:
Insights Into The Middle East
with
Former Ambassador Edward Peck, Special Asst. to the Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nixon Administration, Chief
of Mission in Baghdad, Carter Administration. Also served as a
Foreign Service Officer in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Egypt, &
as Ambassador in Mauritania. At the State Department he served
as Deputy Director of Covert Intelligence Programs & Director of
the Office of Egyptian Affairs. Deputy Director, White House Task
Force on Terrorism, Reagan Administration. Pres., Foreign
Services International, a consulting firm that works with
governments, businesses & educational institutions across the
world.

Ambassador Peck, recently returned from a trip to the Mideast organized
by the Council for the National Interest, discusses the media blockade that
prevents balanced information on Gaza and the West Bank reaching the
U.S. public, Israel's imprisoned of dozens of democratically elected
Hamas parliamentarians and analysis of Israel's bombardment and full
scale grand invasion of Gaza.
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Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with
Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

DMU represents over 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care-
givers in NYC. Now, however, their organization is hemorrhaging members
as the growing joblessness of their employers trickles down to the number
of hires of these caregivers. Aside, from growing unemployment amongst
their members,the spike in joblessness for those remaining on the job has
fostered competition resulting in wage cuts, increased workload, and
worsening conditions on the job. Under these conditions, & excluded from
the protections of most labor law, DMU's efforts to secure a NYS Domestic
Workers Bill of Rights is even more pressing.
****************************************
Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a
Breath Life Into The Economy?
with
Arun Gupta, editor of the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of
Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

While the meat has yet to be put on the skeletal frame of President-Elect
Obama's proposed stimulus package, he has revealed enough to cause
alarm for present and future beneficiaries of Medicaid and Social Security
and serious questions as to whether it will create "shovel ready" jobs and
whether its tax cuts can jump-start the sputtering economy.

Read More...

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, October 13, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM
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Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
with
Dean Hutchinson, Cherokee scholar & poet

What Is To Be Done?: Responding To The Crisis of Capitalism
with
. William Greider, journalist, & author persistently challenging
mainstream thinking on economics
. Arun Gupta, journalist, & activist focusing on searing commentary
on the US economic structure
. Francis Fox Piven, one of America's most thoughtful & provocative
commentators of America's social welfare system

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Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day
with
Dean Hutchinson, Cherokee scholar & poet

Indigenous People mark the anniversary of Columbus' voyage, to use
the occasion to reveal the historical truth about the invasion & the
consequent genocide and environmental destruction and then to
organize against its continuation today, and to celebrate Indigenous
resistance. We celebrate Native resistance at The American Indian
Community House.
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What Is To Be Done?: Responding To The Crisis of Capitalism
with
. William Greider, journalist, & author persistently challenging
mainstream thinking on economics.
Arun Gupta, journalist, & activist focusing on searing commentary
on the US economic structure
. Francis Fox Piven, one of America's most thoughtful & provocative
commentators of America's social welfare system

Feeling dizzy from the whirlwind events on Wall Street? While capitalism's
balloon bursts we won't deflate, but what should we make out of the dire
pronouncements – what is to be done? We bring you highlights of an
emergency forum of leading left voices on economics and grassroots
politics.

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