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Building Bridges: Report from Honduras; Stella Workers Protest- 27:57
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Joining Honduran President Zelaya In Brazilian Embassy
with
Andres Conteris, Director, Program on the Americas,
Nonviolence International, in the Brazilian Embassy
in Honduras where Pres. Zelaya has taken refuge
and
Tim Russo, Correspondent, Free Speech Radio News,
has been reporting live from Tegucigalpa, Honduras
since the return of Pres. Zelaya
More than 90 days since the military coup d'etat in Honduras Pres. Zelaya returned to join the resistance movement in the final stretch of the fight to restore constitutional order. Report from inside the Brazilian Embassy where Pres. Zelaya has sought sanctuary and from the streets of Honduras after the escalation of repression by the coup government. How is Zelaya lining up his support and strategy in these moments, how are the masses responding and what has been the role of the U.S.?.
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Stella Workers Rally vs. Goldman Sachs & Mayor Bloomberg
Anti-union Lance Inc., based in No.Carolina is poised to buy Stella D'Oro cookies and if they do the Bronx plant will be shut and its unionized workers, who have waged a courageous struggle for more than a year will lose their jobs. So, the Stella workers and their supporters brought their pleas to keep the plant in New York to Goldman Sachs one of Lance's high-profile investors and then to Mayor Bloomberg to intervene to keep Stella D'oro in the Bronx.
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To Download or listen to this 27:57 minute program, go to http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
**************************************
Joining Honduran President Zelaya In Brazilian Embassy
with
Andres Conteris, Director, Program on the Americas,
Nonviolence International, in the Brazilian Embassy
in Honduras where Pres. Zelaya has taken refuge
and
Tim Russo, Correspondent, Free Speech Radio News,
has been reporting live from Tegucigalpa, Honduras
since the return of Pres. Zelaya
More than 90 days since the military coup d'etat in Honduras Pres. Zelaya returned to join the resistance movement in the final stretch of the fight to restore constitutional order. Report from inside the Brazilian Embassy where Pres. Zelaya has sought sanctuary and from the streets of Honduras after the escalation of repression by the coup government. How is Zelaya lining up his support and strategy in these moments, how are the masses responding and what has been the role of the U.S.?.
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Stella Workers Rally vs. Goldman Sachs & Mayor Bloomberg
Anti-union Lance Inc., based in No.Carolina is poised to buy Stella D'Oro cookies and if they do the Bronx plant will be shut and its unionized workers, who have waged a courageous struggle for more than a year will lose their jobs. So, the Stella workers and their supporters brought their pleas to keep the plant in New York to Goldman Sachs one of Lance's high-profile investors and then to Mayor Bloomberg to intervene to keep Stella D'oro in the Bronx.
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To Download or listen to this 27:57 minute program, go to http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org
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I live down the block from the Stella plant. The picket line that surrounded it for a year has disappeared. I had gotten the feeling that whatever deal the Stella company concocted to screw its employees had already been concluded.
October 9, 2009 10:06 AM | Reply | Permalink