WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, October 20, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM
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Kucinich on the Fighting the Recession and Winning the Election

The American Dream or Our New Nightmare Homeownership?
with
Josh Zinner, Co-Director, Neighborhood Economic Development
Advocacy Project (NEDAP)

Half Way Around the World: Korean Workers Take Grievances
to the Doorstep of Sirius Satellite Radio,
with
Delegation members of the Kiryung workers

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Kucinich on the Fighting the Recession and Winning the Election

We talk with Congressman Dennis Kucinich who represents Cleveland,
Ohio, a city and a state fighting both high unemployment and home fore-
closures. Ohio is a battleground state in the Presidential elections.
Kucinich has fought both Republicans & Democrats on issues of war
and the economy. He voted against Paulson’s $700 billion bank bailout
scheme.
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The American Dream or Our New Nightmare Homeownership?
with
Josh Zinner, Co-Director, Neighborhood Economic Development
Advocacy Project (NEDAP)

Must we redefine the stuff that dreams are made of – home ownership?
What’s the fallout in our neighborhoods from the burst housing bubble?
And, if home equity is the primary asset of the working class what does
foreclosure portend for the growing disparity in wealth?
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Half Way Around the World: Korean Workers Take Grievances
to the Doorstep of Sirius Satellite Radio,
with
Delegation members of the Kiryung workers

200 Korean primarily women workers were hired through a contract to
produce Sirius Satellite radios and receivers. After pitifully low wages,
long work hours and no benefits they unionized, for which they were
imprisoned, beaten and fired. These women have engaged in 1200
days of peaceful protests including mass demonstrations, a 3 month
long sit-in at the plant & a 94 day hunger strike. Now, a delegation of
workers is taking their protest directly to SIRUS headquarters in
NYC, demanding they take responsibility for the exploitation.

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