Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
28 minutes
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Canadian Auto Workers Blockade GM Headquarters
Fighting Plant Closing
with
Gregg Moffat, Truck Plant Chair, local 222, CAW

GM announced that it would close itâs truck assembly plant
in Ontario, causing the loss of 2,900 jobs. The closing is part
of a restructuring with four North American plants slated to
close as well. However, Canadian workers arenât sitting back
theyâve taken their anger straight to the front door of the GM
executives, with a blockade they vow to continue until their
demands are met.
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Domestic Workers Go National

Domestic Workers are no longer silent. Eight years ago,
Domestic Workers United was formed in NYC by Asian, Latina,
Caribbean and African Women. A âDomestic Workers Bill of
Rights is now pending in the NYS Legislature. At last year's
Social Forum in Atlanda, 16 organizations from around the
country formed the "Domestic Workers Alliance". They came
NYC recently to attend the First National Domestic Workers
Congress. Nearly 400 workers and supporters rallied in front
of NYC City Hall to demand jusitce.
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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

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
Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WA
KQRP Salida, California
East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA

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 knash@igc.org 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!
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