Conyers on Jobs:
"We've Had It." Lays Out Obama, Calls for Protest at White House
With
Representative John Conyers, Founding Member and
Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus

Michigan’s U.S. Representative John Conyers brings us back to
fundamentals, The real crisis in this country is that of unemployment,
the recession &cutbacks. It’s time to explode the myth that budget
deficits are the imminent danger that pervades the rhetoric of Washington
from Obama to the Tea Partyers. The cure is to educate and pressure
them by mobilizations and demonstrations to do the right thing.
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The American Dream is Dying
With
Heather McGhee,Director of Demos' Washington office.

Amongst her many writings, McGhee is the co-author of a chapter on
retirement insecurity in the book "Inequality Matters: The Growing
Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences" .
Heather McGhee speaks to youth, at a national teach-in, with alarm
that they face potentially less opportunity and greater wealth deprivation
than their parents and the imperative for them to organize, organize,
organize for their interests.

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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, November 3, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Ballot Measures in Three States Threaten Abortion Rights
with
Sondra Goldschein, Staff Attorney,
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project

"Colorado Civil Rights Initiative" Actually Seeks to Sink Civil Rights
with
Shanta Driver, BAMN National Chair

Progressives Finally Use Ballot Initiatives:
Milwaukee Possibly First Place to Pass Paid Sick Days?
with
Amy Stear, Wisconsin Director, 9 to 5,
National Organization of Working Women

Will the Election be Stolen?
with
Myrna Pérez , Counsel, Democracy Program,
Brennan Center for Justice,
NYUChis Kromm, Executive Director & Publisher, Southern Exposure

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Ballot Measures in Three States Threaten Abortion Rights
with
Sondra Goldschein, Staff Attorney,
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project

Initiatives aimed at banning abortion, restricting teenagers' access to
abortion, and interfering in a range of private health care decisions will
appear on the ballot in SD (Measure 11), CA (Proposition 4), and CO
(Amendment 48). How will these initiatives affect us all?
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"Colorado Civil Rights Initiative" Actually Seeks to Sink Civil Rights
with
Shanta Driver, BAMN National Chair

Brought forward by California businessman Ward Connerly, the so-called
Colorado Civil Rights Initiative, Amendment 46, seeks to destroy
affirmative action programs throughout the state.
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Progressives Finally Use Ballot Initiatives:
Milwaukee Possibly First Place to Pass Paid Sick Days?
with
Amy Stear, Wisconsin Director, 9 to 5,
National Organization of Working Women

Milwaukee workers without paid sick days are forced to make impossible
choices between vital income and jobs on one hand, and caring for their
own health or family health on the other hand. A new Milwaukee ballot
initiative would allow workers to earn a minimum of one hour of paid sick
time for every 30 hours worked.
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Will the Election be Stolen?
with Myrna Pérez , Counsel, Democracy Program,
Brennan Center for Justice, NYU
Chis Kromm, Executive Director & Publisher, Southern Exposure

There has been a spike in challenges to the right to vote this year across
the nation and in crucial Southern states. Many states will not register
new voters or will purge existing voters from the voter rolls if election
officials cannot match their voter registration information against that in
other government databases. Voter suppression could impact hundreds
of thousands of votes making the difference between winning or
loosing the national election and many local races.

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Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
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McCainonomics vs. Obamanomics
with
Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic
Policy and Research

*Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war'
charge on my bill?
*Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting
the most blatant hypocrisy of the McCain campaign*
Plus John McCain Singing his hit tune "Bomb Iran"

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McCainonomics vs. Obamanomics
with
Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic
Policy and Research

For over a generation, in so called good times and bad,
incomes of all but the rich have fallen while poverty has
increased in the Bush years, and, that was before the
economic crisis that began last year. Barak Obama is
addressing these issues, but is his plan enough? While
McCain hardly recognizes that it’s still the economy,
stupid.
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Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war'
charge on my bill?
*Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting
the most blatant hypocrisy of the McCain campaign
*Plus John McCain Singing his hit tune "Bomb Iran"

byRobert Greenwald and Brave New PAC team
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WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, August 25, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Sixteen Million Americans In Dire Poverty –
Yup, It's the Economy!
with
Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Inst.,
and Prof. of Economics at the University of Mass., Amherst
and
Meizhu Lui, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

Our Health Care System Is Sick -
Will Democrats Prescribe Placebos?
with
Benjamin Day, co-author of "State Health Reform Flatlines"
and Ex. Dir., Mass-Care

Blogging the DNC:
Blow by Blow Happening & Political Analysis
with
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Dir., Political Reform Program for the
New American Foundation & the Asian American Action Fund,
Christopher Hayes, The Nation and
Malcolm Clark, blogger for Labourhome
& The World Wants Obama

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OBAMANOMICS

Sixteen Million Americans In Dire Poverty –
Yup, It's the Economy!
with
Robert Pollin, Co-Director, Political Economy Research Inst.,
and Prof. of Economics at the University of Mass., Amherst
and
Meizhu Lui, Director, Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative,
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development

The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty
has reached a 32-year high and millions of working Americans are
falling closer to the poverty line. "Economic security for American
families" is the Obama slogan, but what's the program and will it
bridge the gap between the nation's 'haves' and 'have-nots'?
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Our Health Care System Is Sick -
Will Democrats Prescribe Placebos?
with
Benjamin Day, co-author of "State Health Reform Flatlines"
and Ex. Dir., Mass-Care

Are the democrats likely to pass bold health reforms or are they
afraid to rock the private insurance boat? The country has a
consensus for expanded health coverage, but experience shows you
can't achieve universal coverage at an affordable price unless you
throw out the insurance companies overhead and profit. Have the
Democrats learned this lesson or is 'universal coverage,' merely a
euphemism for the right to purchase private health insurance? Has
health reform flatlined?
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Blogging the DNC:
Blow by Blow Happening & Political Analysis
with
Gautam Dutta, Deputy Dir., Political Reform Program for the
New American Foundation & the Asian American Action Fund,
Christorher Hayes, The Nation
andMalcolm Clark, blogger for Labourhome
& The World Wants Obama

We'll go behind the hype and provide a blow by blow analysis, with
national and international bloggers of the politics driving the convention
and provide perspectives from the 'Big Tent' – the special bloggers,
non-profits and progressive activist venue at the Democratic National
Convention.

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