WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
            Monday, January 5, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM
              
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A Tri-State Protest: Stop Israel's Assault On Gaza
 
Gaza is under attack by one of the most deadly military machines

on the planet - the Israeli military, and, silence in the face of such

suffering is unsupportable for anyone devoted to peace and social

justice. The U.S. government supplied Israel with the military means

to carry out this attack and has generously underwritten the Israeli

government and military with tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars. 

Building Bridges brings you the voices of those piercing the silence

and raising their support for a Free, Free Palestine at a  rally in

Times Square which was several blocks long. 

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Baristas Beat Starbucks
with
Isis Saenz,victorious barista,member, Starbucks Workers Union, IWW
and
Daniel Gross, barista, Starbucks Workers Union, IWW &

co-author with Staughton Lynd of the new edition of "Labor

Law for the Rank & Filer"
 
Starbucks calls its employees partners, but when they tried to unionize

it was so long partner.  But, the baristas took legal action against the

company that masquerades as socially conscious and now a judge

has ordered that the baristas be reinstated and receive back wages.

The judge also called on Starbucks to end discriminatory treatment of

other pro-union workers at four Manhattan locations named in the case.

The decision marks the end of an 18-month trial in New York City that

pitted the ubiquitous multinational corp. against a group of twenty

something baristas who are part of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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Battling the Economic Monster
with
Stanley Aronowitz,  Prof. of sociology, cultural studies, and

urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. 

 
The main news these days is the global economic crisis, an event

ascribed by economists and most pundits to a 'financial' meltdown

caused by the irresponsibility of mainly, but not exclusively, US

lending institutions and consumers in offering-and accepting

'sub-prime' mortgages.  But, Prof. Stanley Aronowitz instructs that the

crisis is buried deep within the structure of capitalism and that there

is little or no prospect that, within the current framework of neo-liberal,

market capitalism, that the deepening economic crisis can be

significantly reversed and a stimulus package bring prosperity. 

But, Prof. Aronowitz opens a dialogue on how the left can wrestle

 the economic monster until it cries uncle.

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