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Building Bridges Radio: March on Washington - One Nation Working Together - 28 minutes

2010-09-09T00:15:33Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                     National Edition
              Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                ***************************

One Nation Working Together
With
. Arlene Holt Baker, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO
. George Gresham, President of 1199SEIU

This October 2nd, triggered by the AFL-CIO, SEIU Local 1199
and the NAACP, now joined by hundreds of organizations we're
headed, to a mass demonstration in Washington D.C. to demand
the jobs to put people to work, and back to work. Jobs, economic
security, comprehensive immigration reform, safe and renewable
energy policy and a reversal of national priorities from making
wars to meeting human needs - that's the message! We're
going to march to demand the change we voted for when Barack
Obama was elected. That's right - create jobs and stop moving
money out of education and into wars and prisons. Plus sound
from Wall Street Jobs Rally.
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Building Bridges Radio: Balanced Budget Madness Hits Social Security with James Galbraith - 27:23

2010-08-15T21:45:37Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                     National Edition
              Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                ****************************
Prostrated At the Altar of the Balanced Budget: Sacrificing Social
Security, Medicare, and Economic Recovery
with
James Galbraith, Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Gov't/ Business
Relations, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University
of Texas at Austin

The Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction Commission established by the
president, will deliver an attack on Social Security and Medicare dressed
up in the sanctimonious rhetoric of deficit reduction. The Obama spending
freeze is another sacrifice to the deficit gods. But, the deficit phobia of Wall
Street, the press, some economists and practically all politicians is one of
the deepest dangers that we face. It's not just the old and the sick who are
threatened; we all are. To cut federal budget deficits without first rebuilding
the economy is a sure path to stagnation, to a double-dip recession--even
to a second Great Depression.
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It's Time to Play "Social Security Survivor"
with
Gerald W. McEntee, Pres., American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

A broad coalition of groups has been formed to defend Social Security. Of all the ideas proposed this one comes from AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee: A new reality show starring the people who want to cut Social Security. He suggests having John Boehner, billionaire benefit-cut advocate Peter G. Peterson, and Deficit Commission chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles live for a year on the average Social Security benefit of $14,000.
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Building Bridges Radio: South of the Border with Mark Weisbrot; plus Ecudoran Pres. Correa on global capitalism's crisis

2010-07-21T20:40:42Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
     Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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South and North of the Border
with
Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic & Policy
Research, Pres. of Just Foreign Policy, & screen writer of the
new Oliver Stone documentary "South of the Border"

Producer Director Oliver Stone and screenwriters Mark Weisbrot and
Tariq Ali celebrate the new reality of the independence won by most of
the countries of Latin America from U.S. hegemony. They shed new
light upon the exciting transformations in the region. We'll also speak
with Mark Weisbrot about developments north of the border and how the
U.S. is imposing at home the kind of austerity blood letting that it once
reserved for poor indebted countries, including the looming attack on
the Social Security Trust Fund which will come when Pres. Obama's
National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform makes it's
recommendations after the elections.
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Latin American President Responding To International Economic
Crisis Advocates Abolition of the International Monetary Fund
with
Rafeal Correa, President of Ecuador

Continuing on our theme of exploring the growing independence of Latin America from U.S. dominance, Building Bridges brings you high-lights of Ecuadoran President Correa's presentation on the crisis of global capital, to a packed chamber at the UN at a Conference on economic development. Correa sharply criticized the policies of the International Monetary Fund and went so far as to advocate its abolition. He then proceeded with a sharp critique of capitalism's relentless drive for profits.
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Building Bridges Radio: NYC Municipal Workers Fighting

2010-06-24T15:26:23Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                 ****************************
Selections from Building Bridges Live Coverage
OF MASS RALLY OF NYC PUBLIC WORKERS
                 AGAINST THE CUTS!

With
. Michael Mulgrew, Pres., United Federation of Teachers
. Judy Wessler, Dir., Commission on the Public's Health System
. John Samuelsen, Pres. , Transport Workers Union, Local 100
. Ed Ott, Distinguished Lecturer, Murphy Inst.of Workers Studies, CUNY; former Executive Director, NYC Central Labor Council
. David Jones, Pres. & CEO of the Community Service Society
A coalition of municipal labor unions, turned out tens of thousands of workers and community activits to protest job losses and service cuts that will permanently alter the lives of NYC workers and residents. Mayor Bloomberg is sharpening his carving knife and on the chopping block are thousands of civil service jobs: educators, transit workers, public health, social service workers, and library workers. The loss of these jobs mean reduced transit services, education, healthcare, fire services, and the myriad services provided by public sector workers. And, as the city hemorrhages public sector jobs and services, it aggressively advances the privatization of public sector jobs and the services they provide. It's an all out attack on public sector unions and the workers, and benefits those unions fought for. So in the fight for its life, public workers and their unions say hell no to pro-corporate policies
that serve the wealthy at the expense of the majority of New Yorkers.
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                          as well as internet stations:

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Building Bridges Radio: NYS Domestic Workers Will Win

2010-06-15T22:46:11Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                 ****************************
Domestic Workers Urge NYS Pass Fair Labor Standards In 2010
with
Barbara Young, Domestic Workers United, Ed Ott, labor activist,
Hector Figueroa, Sec. Treasurer Local 32BJ, George Gresham,
1199 SEIU Pres., Esther Cooper Jackson, civil rights activist,
State Senator Diane Savino, N.Y. City Councilwoman Gale Brewer

Legendary Civil Rights-era activist Esther Cooper Jackson, distinguished
labor activists alongside of cheering nannies, housekeepers, and elderly
caregivers raised their voices in tribute to domestic workers and
demanded basic benefits, such as paid leave, and notice, & protection
from discrimination by passage of Senator Diane Savino's and
Assemblyman Keith Wright's Domestic Workers Bill of Rights which

would make it the first, and hopefully not the last state to give justice to

domestic workers.Recently both the NYS Senate and Assembly passed

differing versions of the domestic workers bill of rights. The bill is in

conference committee and then goes to Governor Patterson for his

signature or veto.
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                          as well as internet stations:

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Building Bridges Radio: Jeff Halper: Israelis In Palestine Resist House Demolitions

2010-06-10T21:16:30Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                 ****************************
An Israeli In Palestine: Resisting Dispossession
with
Jeff Halper, Founder, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

The actions of the brave band of activists from the Freedom flotilla

to break Israel's blockade of gaza has resulted in worldwide

condemnation of the blockade and the suffering it has caused. But

what of the wider apartheid policies of the state of Israel towards

the Palestinian people both within Israel and in the occupied

territories? Drawing on his many years of directly challenging Israel's

treatment of the Palestinians, Jeff Halper offers one of the most

insightful analyses of the occupation you'll hear. Halper discusses

how Israel can not maintain its exclusive Jewish character without

imposing on the Palestinian population policies of ethnic cleansing,

occupation and discrimination, expressed most graphically in its

ongoing demolition of thousands of Palestinian homes, both inside

Israel and in the Occupied Territories. His voice cries out to be

heard as does the plight of the Palestinian people.
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                         AmericanFM.org
                         RadioDriftless.org
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Building Bridges Radio: George Galloway - Israel, Palestine and Obama

2010-06-01T22:40:22Z

         Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                       National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Israel, Palestine and US
With
George Galloway, former British Parliament Member
and founder Viva Palestina

We present a wide ranging interview with George Galloway on the key role of the U.S. maintaining Israeli apartheid policies towards the Palestinians. Galloway talks about the recent challenges to the Israeli blockade of Gaza, possible changes in U.S. public opinion and the Obama Adminstration's views on Israel and Palestine as well his evolving views on a one state solution.
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                          WCRS, Columbus, Ohio
                          WSLU, St. Leo, Florida

                          as well as internet stations:

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                         Radio Veronica, West Point, PA
                         The Journey Radio
                         WXXE
                         Seattle Radical Radio
                         Radio for Peace International
                         Radio Labourstart
                         AmericanFM.org
                         RadioDriftless.org
                         Grateful Dread Public Radio
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Building Bridges Radio: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs - 27:44

2010-05-26T17:45:49Z

        Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                       National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                 ****************************
The State of Working America
With
Avis Jones-DeWeever, Director of Research & Public Policy, National Council of Negro Women
Juan Cartagena, General Counsel & Vice Pres. of Advocacy, Community Service Society,
Robert Pollin, Co- Dir., Political Economy Research Institute & economics professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst..

The United States is experiencing its worst jobs crisis since the Great Depression. Nearly 16 million Americans, our family, friends, and neighbors are out of work. This national crisis demands a bold plan to put people back to work. We must understand why there's a jobs crisis, and create a plan that would create millions of jobs each year, every year. We do the analysis of the jobs crisis and discuss what must be done to put America back to work.
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                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
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                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
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                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
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                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
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                          KRBS, Oroville, CA
                          WHLD, Buffalo, NY
                          Free Radio Olympia, Olympia,WA
                          KQRP Salida, California
                          East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA
                          KSKQ, Ashland, Oregon
                          KWMD, Kasiloff-Anchorage, Alaska
                          WPRR, Grand Rapids, Michigan
                          WCRS, Columbus, Ohio
                          WSLU, St. Leo, Florida

                          as well as internet stations:

                         Radio Free Kansas
                         Radio Veronica, West Point, PA
                         The Journey Radio
                         WXXE
                         Seattle Radical Radio
                         Radio for Peace International
                         Radio Labourstart
                         AmericanFM.org
                         RadioDriftless.org
                         Grateful Dread Public Radio
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Building Bridges Radio: Greek Meltdown; Mass Transit Unions Fight Cuts

2010-05-18T21:13:10Z

TWU Local 100 - Keep America Moving - Fighting Layoffs
Featuring
John Samuelsen, President, TWU, Local 100
Rev. Jesse Jackson, President, Rainbow PUSH Coalition
Larry Hanley. ATU International Vice President

2500 Transit workers and supporters rallied at NYC's Penn Station
in an event timed to coincide with other actions taken around the
nation to protest the insufficiency of federal funding for mass transit.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson spoke as part of the Keep America Moving
Coalition, an alliance of transit workers, advocates for workers and the
poor, and environmentalists.

For Local 100, the event was not only about Keep America Moving, but
also about the immanent layoff of hundreds of Station Agents with threats
of many more layoffs in other titles including bus drivers. Union members
expressed their profound anger over the firings, which are seen as
unnecessary because of the availability of $140 million in federal stimulus
funds which could be used to cover operating expenses.
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The Greek Meltdown
with
Prof. Costas Panayotakis, Professor of Sociology,
NYC College of Technology, CUNY.

After weeks of massive, tumultuous worker protests over the austerity
measures being forced on the Greece as part of the EU rescue package,
the measures were approved by the Greek Parliament and the leaders of
the European Union. The $146 billion three-year package would indirectly
bail out the European banks that hold most of the Greek debt.by attempting
to solve the crisis on the backs of ordinary Greeks. It raises taxes as well
as imposes deep cuts in public sector wages and pensions in both public
and private sectors. If it indeed works as intended, it will intensify the
Greek recession, unemployment and poverty. This may exacerbate the
very debt crisis it is supposed to solve
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Building Bridges Radio: Labor Takes on Wall Street

2010-05-11T23:29:20Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                       National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                 ****************************
Taking the Bull by the Horns: Labor Takes on Wall Street

Thousands of people marched on Wall Street April 29, in a major protest
of financial sector greed and lending practices by big banks. Taking to
the streets of downtown Manhattan, 10,000 labor and community groups
shouted and jeered at the offices surrounding them, demanding three
major changes to Wall Street culture. The first is to call off the lobbyists
fighting regulatory reform. The second is to stop the incessant focus on
market speculation over business lending. The third is to tax Wall Street
to fund job creation The rally, was one of the largest in recent
memory to take place at the epicenter of finance capital Wall Street.
*************************
The Socialist Bank of North Dakota
with
Dr Rozanne Everson Junker, political scientist

We've talked about a public option in health care
But what about for the banks?
Thanks to Michael Moore we have this case study.
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Building Bridges Radio: Arizona May Day Immigrant Rights Protest

2010-05-04T17:26:39Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                       National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                 ****************************
Thousands Gather For May Day, Immigrant Rights Rally In Arizona
with
Isabel Garcia, Director of the Pima County Legal Defenders and
Co-chair of the Coalition de Derechos Humanos, Arizona
and
Leilani Clark, Youth Organizer, Coalition de Derechos Humanos

Immigrants rights organizers report on the tens of thousands of immigrant
rights demonstrators who rallied on May Day in Arizona to protest the
tough new immigration law 1070, and state and federal law enforcement harassment of Arizona's immigrants, as they demand that stalled legislative reforms in Congress proceed.
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Building Bridges Radio: Supreme Court's Gallop To The Right

2010-04-28T00:06:07Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                       National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                 ****************************
Will Obama Stop The Supreme Court's Gallop To The Right
with
Theodore Shaw, former Director-Counsel and President of the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he litigated
civil rights cases at the US Supreme Court, and former trial
attorney in the Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice

On the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens we'll look at the myth
and reality of his legacy, possible nominees to replace him and the
current and seemingly continuing drift to the right of the US Supreme
Court and whether the Obama Administration is likely to or can move
beyond appeasement of the center-right.
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Building Bridges Radio: Massey Mine Disaster - What Needs To Be Done?

2010-04-22T00:13:30Z

Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report
                                       National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                     *************************
Massey Energy Company Flaunts Power,
Evades Regulation and Miners Die
with
. Tony Oppegard, Former General Counsel, Kentucky Dept. of
Mine Safety
. Wes Addington, Mine Safety Project, Appalachian Citizens'
Law Center

Owners of the Upper Branch Mine were warned over two years ago
about a pattern of violations, which would have allowed far stricter
federal oversight of the mine. But, while it continued to amass violations,
the Mine Safety & Health Administration allowed Massey Energy Co.
to avoid meaningful discipline, and the question as 29 miners die is
what must be done to beef up mine-safety enforcement?

PLUS
Mine Workers Pres. Roberts: Massey's Blankenship Should Be Jailed
In a speech at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO convention, Mine Workers (UMWA) President Cecil Roberts says that Massey Energy Co.'s continued inaction on safety violations at its Upper Big Branch Mine, should send Massey CEO Donald Blankenship to jail.

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Building Bridges Radio: Marching for Immigrant Rights

2010-04-06T23:19:06Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                                       National Edition
                Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                                     *************************
Hundreds of Thousands Continue The March For Immigrant Rights
                                                      with
                 Amy Sugimori, Executive Director La Fuente
                                                      and
         Laura Vasquez, Legislative Analyst, Immigration Policy Project,
                                                  La Raza

There are more than 11 million immigrants in the country, and efforts to fix
the current immigration system have failed in recent years. Liberals have
sought a path for citizenship for undocumented workers, while conservatives
have been just as adamant in opposing what they have called plans for
amnesty. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do support efforts to
secure the border with Mexico, albeit with some tactical differentiation and
degree of militarization. But, what is the agenda of the masses of protestors
carrying banners as they massed in Washington recently to march for
immigration reform, & what are the prospects for their achieving progressive
legislation?

Plus
REV. JESSE JACKSON'S SPEEECH AT THE MASSIVE IMMIGRATION
REFORM MARCH IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON MARCH 21, 2010

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Building Bridges Radio: Tax Banks to Create Jobs

2010-03-31T14:51:52Z

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                               National Edition
        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                 *************************
                              AFL-CIO To Banks:
Pay to Create Jobs You Destroyed in the "Great" Recession
                                            with
Dan Pedrotty, Director, Office of Investments, AFL-CIO

The AFL-CIO is mounting a national campaign to put America back to
work and ensure that the banks, whose reckless acts created the jobs crisis,
pay to create the jobs they destroyed, stop fighting financial reform and start
lending. Saying that neither Congress nor the Obama administration has
proposed an adequate jobs bill, the AFL-CIO is calling for extending
supplemental unemployment benefits, $2.2 trillion for unmet infrastructure
needs, & helping state & local governments overcome an estimated $588
billion shortfall over the next 4 years. The program would be paid for by
imposing fees on Wall Street banks to pay back the cost of the bank bailout,
a special levy on Wall Street bonuses, increased taxes on hedge fund &
private equity managers, & a financial transactions tax.
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