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Building Bridges Radio: Jobs for All; plus Real Healthcare Reform?

2009-11-18T00:33:19Z

Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Health Care Reform or Insurance Industry Rip-Off?
with
Katie Robbins, Asst National Coordinator, Healthcare-Now
and
Don McCanne, M.D., Senior Health Policy Fellow , Physicians for a National Health Program

Democrats said the sweeping overhaul of the US health care system passed by the US House of Representatives would extend coverage to 36 million people now without insurance while creating a government health insurance program. They say it will end insurance company practices like not covering pre-existing conditions or dropping people when they become ill. But, what sort of coverage will the now to be heavily subsidized insurance industry provide especially without a robust public option? Will they truly end up extend coverage to all those eligible? And, as the debate now moves to the Senate, what becomes of the single-payer option which would cover everyone and cost less?
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Tax the Rich to Create Jobs for All
with
Bill Barclay, Chicago Political Economy Group

With the official national unemployment rate exceeding 10 percent and the real rate way above that, we present Bill Barclay from the Chicago Political Economy Group who presented one of the many proposals for full employment offered at the National Jobs for all Coalition Conference held in New York City Nov 13-14 .This jobs program would be paid for by a redistribution of wealth including a national stock transfer tax and increased inheritance taxes on the wealthy - the Paris Hilton Tax.
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To Download or listen to this 28 minute program,

go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/37331
or
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        Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
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Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

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                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
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                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          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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Trumka vs. Wall Street plus Wage Theft

2009-10-27T16:36:40Z

Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                **************************************
Labor President Trumka Takes Fight For Workers To Wall Street

The new President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka called for tough new
regulations on the financial industry and a new approach to making the
U.S. economy responsive to working people. Trumka took to the streets
as part of the new leadership team's national tour to set out a jobs- focused, progressive vision for the economy, and to fight back against the corporate agenda that left workers behind.
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Scrooge Bosses Steal From Low-Wage Workers
with
John DeFilippis, Assoc. Professor, Bloustein School of Planning
and Public Policy, Rutgers University

Low-wage workers are routinely denied overtime pay and are paid less
than the minimum wage, according to a new study based on a survey of
workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The study, the most
comprehensive examination of wage-law violations in a decade,
concludes that "the sheer breadth of the problem, spanning key industries
in the economy, as well as its profound impact on workers, entailing
significant economic hardship, demands urgent attention."
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To Download or listen to this 28 minute program,

go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/36775
or
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            Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
         99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from
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                                 www.wbai.org                                   .
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Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

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                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
                          WVJW- Benwood, WV
                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          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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            For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to
           http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Building+Bridges
    For archived of all Building Bridges programs go to our website:
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Building Bridges: Report from Honduras; Stella Workers Protest- 27:57

2009-10-09T00:09:48Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             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

Building Bridges Radio: Jobless Recovery? Poverty on the Rise!

2009-09-22T22:48:25Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                **************************************
Economic Recovery Leaves Workers Behind?
with
. Heidi Shierholz, Economic Policy Institute
. Meizhu Lui, Dir., Closing the Racial Wealth Gap Initiative, Insight Center for Community & Economic Development
. Avis Jones-DeWeever, Dir., National Council of Negro Women's Research, Public Policy & Information Center

They say the economy may be bouncing back - but not for the workers. Unemployment reestablished its relentless upward climb in August, with the "official rate" rising to 9.7% with significantly higher levels for people of color & young workers. Unemployment, much of it long term, will likely pass 10% by the end of the year and remain elevated for years. Further, for those that have jobs, wage growth slowed dramatically plus income and assets inequality is getting worse. Predictably, poverty is increasing for the unemployed and even workers with jobs.
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go to
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/35824

or http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesJoblessRecoveryPovertyOnTheRise

             Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
         99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from
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                                 www.wbai.org                              .
             Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

                          WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.
                          WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
                          WVJW- Benwood, WV
                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          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
=========================================
            For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to
           http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Building+Bridges
    For archived of all Building Bridges programs go to our website:
                          http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges Radio: Kucinich on Real Health Care Reform

2009-09-15T20:56:49Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                    National Edition 27:23
        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Real Health Care Reform
With
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Cleveland, Ohio

Representative Kucinich is a champion HR 676 the single payer bill which constitutes real reform which is not a placebo but the real curative for what ails our health care system. He dissects the current health care debate talking about the ever shrinking public option, the role of the insurance companies, the prospects for a debate on single payer in Congress, his amendment for choice of single payer by the States and the continuing struggle for real health care reform.
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To Download or listen to this 27:13 minute program, go to www.buildingbridgesradio.org      or
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/35672
or http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesKucinichOnRealHealthCareReform


        Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
         99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from
           7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at
                                 www.wbai.org                             .
             Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

                          WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.
                          WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
                          WVJW- Benwood, WV
                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          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 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
=========================================
            For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to
           http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Building+Bridges
    For archived of all Building Bridges programs go to our new website:
                          http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges Radio: UN Global Economic Crisis Conference

2009-07-02T22:53:30Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
               **************************************
Peoples' Voices on the International Economic Crisis

. Jana Silverman, Coordinator of Campaigns of Social Watch, an
NGO network monitoring poverty eradication & gender equality
(headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay)
. Gemma Adaba, Representative, UN, International Trade
Union Confederation (ITUC), New York
. Milena Kadieva, Legal Advisor & Project Coordinator, Bulgarian
Gender Research Foundation, Plavdiv, Bulgaria
. Beverly Keene, Latin American Coordinator, Jubilee South
   Network, Buenos Aires, Argentina
. Leo Atakpu, Deputy Director, African Network on Economic and Environmental Justice (based in Benin City, Nigeria)

Responses to the current global economic crisis have been inadequate
and fail to fully address the myriad of related global crises, such as food
security and climate change. An international coalition of 'working'
people directly impacted by these crises, and civil society organizations,
met in a public forum Saturday to deliver this message to world leaders
in advance of this week's UN Conference on the economic crisis being
organized by Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, the current President of the
UN General Assembly (and a Sandinista liberation theology priest)
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To Download or listen to this 28 minute program,
go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/34155
or
http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesUnGlobalEconomicCrisisConference

for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

       Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
         99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from
           7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at
                                 www.wbai.org                   .
             Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

                          WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.
                          WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
                          WVJW- Benwood, WV
                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          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 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

Building Bridges Radio: Conyers & Himmelstein on Health Care for All

2009-06-24T22:53:33Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                             National Edition
        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
               **************************************
Band Aid Approach To Hemorrhaging Health Care System
Continues To Prevail
with
U.S. Congressman John Conyers

The economic crisis has increased the urgency for real health care reform now, yet the President and Congress persist in advocating half measures, ignoring the real problem, the health insurance industry. But, the voices for comprehensive, meaningful reform like Rep. Conyers, whose legislation HR 676, a single payer or Medicare for all bill continue to be raised. Rep. Conyers makes the case for health care for all at an event honoring one of the most vocal proponents of single payer, Marilyn Clement, National Coordinator of Healthcare-Now!
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Do You Want To Get Sick To Your Stomach
Then Think About The Cost Of Being Sick In America
with
Dr. David Himmelstein, primary care physician,
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program

A frightening look at a new Harvard study finds that medical problems contributed to nearly two-thirds of all bankruptcies. Surprisingly, most of those bankrupted by medical problems had health insurance. Covering the uninsured isn't enough, but unfortunately, Washington politicians seem all too ready to cave in to insurance firms. We'll also examine the highlights of Sen. Edward Kennedy's draft health care bill, which some say is the most liberal in Congress, and find out if it is.
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To Download or listen to this 27:13 minute program,
go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/33918
or http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalConyersHimmelsteinOnHealthCareForAll

for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

       Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
         99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from
           7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at
                                 www.wbai.org                 .
             Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

                          WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.
                          WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
                          WVJW- Benwood, WV
                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          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 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
=========================================
            For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to
           http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Building+Bridges
    For archived of all Building Bridges program go to our new website:
                          http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges: Israeli Warfare State with Jeff Halper

2009-02-27T00:40:04Z

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

The Israeli Warfare State
with
Prof. Jeff Halper, Director Israeli Committee Against
House Demolitions, Author of "An Israeli in Palestine"
and nominee for he Nobel Peace Prize

Halper argues that whichever parties coalesce to form the
new Israeli government there will be no progress in moving
toward serious peace talks with the Palestinians ending the
occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Israel has become
addicted to war in its dealings with the Palestinians, in its
economy and society. the Israeli economy thrives on the
export of urban warfare strategy and weaponry. Change will
have to come from outside forces pressuring Israel.
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To Download or listen to this 27:52 minute program,
go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/31782
or
http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalIsraeliWarfareStateWithJeffHalper

                         as well as internet stations:

                         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
=========================================
            For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to
           http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Building+Bridges
    For archived of all Building Bridges program go to our new website:
                          http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Cornel West - America at a Crossroads

2009-02-05T21:29:03Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                            National Edition
         Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                         ******************************
America at a Crossroads
With
Dr. Cornel West, Class of 1943 Professor, Princeton
Univ.. Author of "Race Matters","Democracy Matters"
and "Hope on a Tightrope"

Cornel West is one of our most renowned public intellectuals.
As we approach an economic, political, & spiritual crossroads,
the next chapter of the American story is about to be written.
Professor West reflects about America's continuing dialogue

on race and justice, the Obama Presidency, and the economic

crisis.
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To Download or listen to this 27:57 minute program, go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/31450
or
http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalCornelWest-AmericaAtACrossroads

for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

          Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
         99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from
           7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at
                                 www.wbai.org      .
             Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

                          WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.
                          WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
                          WVJW- Benwood, WV
                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          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

                          as well as internet stations:

                         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


=========================================
            For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to
           http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Building+Bridges
    For archived of all Building Bridges program go to our new website:
                          http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges Radio: Stimulating the Economy; Recession Hits Domestic Workers

2009-01-27T14:53:08Z

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

Domestic Workers Hit Hard By Recession
with

Ai- Jen Poo, Domestic Workers United

DMU represents over 200,000 nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care-

givers in NYC. Now, however, their organization is hemorrhaging members

as the growing joblessness of their employers trickles down to the number

of hires of these caregivers. Aside, from growing unemployment amongst

their members,the spike in joblessness for those remaining on the job has

fostered competition resulting in wage cuts, increased workload, and

worsening conditions on the job. Under these conditions, & excluded from

the protections of most labor law, DWU's efforts to secure a NYS Domestic

Workers Bill of Rights is even more pressing.
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Will Obama's Stimulus Plan Provide Jobs and a

Breath Life Into The Economy?
with

Arun Gupta, Editor, the Indypendent
and
William Tabb, Prof. Emeritus of Economics, Queens College & of

Political Science & Sociology, Gradate Center, City University of NY

While the meat has yet to be put on the skeletal frame of President-Elect

Obama's proposed stimulus package, he has revealed enough to cause

alarm for present and future beneficiaries of Medicare and Social Security

and serious questions as to whether it will create "shovel ready" jobs and

whether its tax cuts can jump-start the sputtering economy.

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To Download or listen to this 28 minute program

go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/31334

http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalStimulatingTheEconomyRecessionHitsDomestic

for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org

          Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI,
         99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from
           7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at
                                 www.wbai.org     .
             Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:

                          WGOT - Gainesville, Florida.
                          WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
                          WWUH, - West Hartford, CT
                          WVJW- Benwood, WV
                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
                          WXOJ, Northampton, MA
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          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

                          as well as internet stations:

                         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

Please email Building Bridges if you are broadcasting our National Edition.
We'd like to have an accurate list of which stations are airing Building Bridges.
So please let us know! Email knash@igc.org
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            For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to
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    For archived of all Building Bridges program go to our new website:
                          http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org

Building Bridges Radio: Rethinking the Infrastructure Stimulus; A Secretary for Labor?

2009-01-11T00:52:43Z

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

Rethinking the Infrastructure Stimulus
with
Stanley Aronowitz, Prof. of sociology, cultural studies,

& urban education, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC

Prof. Aronowitz instructs that the economic crisis is buried

deep within the structure of capitalism and that that even

traditional stimulus packages leave much to desire. There is

common agreement in the liberal community that tax rebates

are ineffective, but Aronowitz also urges us to also consider

that outsourcing infrastructure to the private sector that can

be done directly by government wastes valuable resources in

private sector profits and that labor intensive investment also

produces more jobs for the buck.

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A Secretary for Labor?

with

Thea Lee, Director of Policy, AFL-CIO

Jubilant is the word that comes to mind for the reaction of the

labor community to the selection by President Elect Barack

Obama of Rep. Hilda Solis to become the new Secretary of

Labor. The daughter of immigrants, from a union family,

Representative Solis has been described as having a resume

a mile long concerning the rights of workers, women, and the

environment.To provide us with greater insight about that the

new Labor Secretary and the work cut out for her, protecting,

and extending workers rights in the economy, stopping the

hemorrhaging jobs, and growing the economy we're joined by

Thea Lee, Director of Policy of the AFL-CIO
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Building Bridges Radio: Protesting Israel's Attack on Gaza;Aronowitz on the Economic Crisis;Baristas Beat Starbucks

2009-01-08T23:38:21Z

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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Building Bridges:Van Jones - The Green Collar Economy

2008-12-24T22:09:40Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                            National Edition
         Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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The Green Collar Economy:
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
with
best selling author, activist Van Jones

The U.S. economy has suffered a serious slowdown, with the resulting
increase in underemployment and unemployment - poverty is expanding
and deepening. But, don't mourn, organize, capture the moment with
Building Bridges as we explore with Van Jones how the greening of
America is both a moral imperative and provides the nuts and bolts of
economic stimulus. Now is the time to reenergize the discussion, too
long dormant about what/who creates wealth and its redistribution to
those who do. Planting the seeds with Van Jones from which will
sprout a real bailout for workers of the U.S.

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Building Bridges Radio: Washington to Detroit - Drop Dead?

2008-12-04T23:16:45Z

Washington to Detroit - Drop Dead?
with
Frank Hammer, Former President, UAW Local 909,

Warren, Michigan
and
Warren Brown, Auto Columnist, "Washington Post "

When auto executives and unions leaders came to Washington
to ask for a $25 billion bailout, they expected a cold shoulder

from Bush, but got one from many in the Congress as well. Is

the Federal government really willing to take the risk of adding

more than a million auto workers to the unemployment lines

that snake through-out the Midwest? And, what would happen

to the wages and working conditions of auto workers that

might keep their jobs with the big three companies, or other

auto workers across the region and nation?
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Building Bridges Radio: Green Economy Stimulus; Immigrant Murdered in Long Island, NY

2008-11-26T01:14:26Z

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
                            National Edition
         Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
                ********************************************
How To End The Recession
with
Robert Pollin, Economics Professor, & Co-Director,

Political Economy Research Institute, University of Mass.

Co-author, "Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good

Jobs & Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

The recession is certainly here. The question is how to diminish

its length and severity. A large-scale federal stimulus program

is the only action that can possibly do the job. The economy

needs a shot of public investment - and if it's green, the payoff

will be greatest. What does a green stimulus look like; should

there be an auto industry bailout?

*******

Anti-Immigrant Hate In Suffolk Responsible for Stabbing

Death of Ecuadorian Laborer Marcelo Lucero
with
Rev. Allan Ramirez, Pastor, Brookville Reformed Church,

& noted immigrant advocate

Jeffrey Conroy, and 6 other teens declared that they were

going to "attack a Mexican" & headed to the village of

Patchogue,NY to hunt, according to their friends & the authorities.

They found Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old immigrant from a

village in Ecuador who had lived in the U.S. for 16 years, worked

in a dry cleaning store, sending savings home to support his

mother, a cancer survivor. After the boys surrounded, taunted

& punched Mr. Lucero, the authorities say, Mr. Conroy plunged

a knife into his victim's chest, fatally wounding him. While

County Exec.Steve Levy, himself distinguished for anti-

immigrant legislation, would like to isolate the attack to what

he is now calling "white supremacists" others believe the

attack is a reflection of widespread anti-Latino sentiment and

racial intolerance in Suffolk County.
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