![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges Radio:Canadian Auto Workers Blockade GM Headquarters and Domestic Workers Go National - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ******************************************** 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...
Keywords: canadian auto workers; general motors; domestic workers
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| Building Bridges National: Free Gaza Rally at Times Sqaure - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 26:58 ******************************************** Free Gaza Rally at Times Square Gaza is under attack by one of the most deadly military machines on the planet â the Israeli military, and, silence in the face of such suffering is unsupportable for anyone devoted to peace and social justice...
Keywords: Gaza Invasion; Palestine; Israel
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| Building Bridges Radio: Unregulated Work in the Global City - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************* "Unregulated Work in the Global Cityâ with Annette Bernhardt, Deputy Dir. of the Justice Program, The Brennan Center, New York University A recent study by the Brennan Center's Economic Justice Project, details the systemic violation of federal, state & local labor law which is increasingly the way of doing business in N.Y.C...
Keywords: labor; unions; work; regulation
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| Building Bridges National: Not Kosher - Exploitation of Immigrant Workers - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg (26:59) ******************************************* Exploitation of Immigrant Workers Isn't Kosher with Rabbi Harold Kravitz, Adath Jeshurun Synagogue, Minnetonka, MN Paul Rael, Director of Hispanic Ministries, St. Bridget's Catholic Church, Postville, Iowa Sister Mary McCauley, Administrator, St...
Keywords: immigation; kosher; Catholic Church; religion in politics; child labor
Downloads: 9 |
| Building Bridges National:Obama & Recession;Elections - Race, Class, Gender - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:50 ******************************************** Obama Wins Presidency as Jobless Rate at 14-Year High with William Spriggs,Chair,Economics Dept. Howard University President-elect Barack Obama will assume office in January in an American economy which has lost 240,000 jobs in October, and has shed 1.2 million jobs since the beginning of the year...
Keywords: Obama; Pat Williams; William Spriggs; elections; recession; race; class and gender
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| Building Bridges National: Not Kosher-Agriprocessors' Exploitation from Iowa to NYC - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:57 ******************************************** Agriprocessors' Immigrant Worker Exploitation with Rev. Paul Ouderkirk â Pastor, St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church, Postville Iowa On May 12, 2008, US Immigrant and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested approximately 400 workers at the Agriprocessors, Inc...
Keywords: immigration; ICE; workplace raids; Postville; Iowa; Rev. Paul Ouderkirk; St. Bridget's Church; Rubashkin; Agriprocessors; Kosher
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| Building Bridges National: Immigrant Workers in Korea and U.S. Fightback - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash 27 minutes ******************************************* Filipina Immigrant Worker Sues Former UN Ambassador From the Phillipines over Human Trafficking Violations with Ivy O. Suriyopas, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) Marichu Suarez Baoanan, a citizen from the Philippines, paid $5,000 to the the Ambassador & his wife's travel agency for transportation...
Keywords: Phillipines; immigrant workers; slavery; Korea; undocumeneted immigrants
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| Building Bridges Radio: Clintons and Welfare "Reform" and Indian Guest Workers Speak Out - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ****************************************** In '96 Pres. Clinton Ended Welfare As We Know It & Shredded the Safety Net, Now We're in Recession with Avis Jones-DeWeever, Dir., Research & Public Policy, National Council of Negro Women In 1996 Bill Clinton, supported by Hillary pledged to "end welfare as we know it" imposing a work requirement and a five year limit on cash assistance...
Keywords: welfare; Clinton; guest workers; gulf coast
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| Building Bridges: Forida Farmworkers vs Burger King and Goldman Sachs - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers won victories with McDonaldâ s for Florida farmworkers. But now Burger King & Goldman Sachs have joined with the Florida tomato industry growers to launch an assault on farmworkers. with Gerardo Reyes Chavez, Coalition of Immokalee Workers; Jordan Buckley, Interfaith Action;Naomi Klein, Author-Activist
Keywords: farmworkers; Burger King; Goldman Sachs; Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Downloads: 16 |
| Building Bridges National: Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 28 minutes ************************************** Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty with Jeffrey Sachs, economist is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-Moon, is founder and co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance, an organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty and hunger, and heâs authored numerous books including his best seller, ...
Keywords: Jeffrey Sachs; Earth Institute; United Nations; Common Wealth; poverty; Millennium Promise Alliance
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| Building Bridges National: Sitting In for Justice on the Job - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:22 ****************************** Chicago Strikers Stood Up for Justice by Sitting In with Ricky Maclin,VP L. 1110, United Electrical Workers(UE) Raul Flores,Steward,Local 1110,UE Mark Meinster, UE Field Organizer Joycleyn Campbell, Domestic Workers United Sara Rodriguez a striking Stella D'Oro Cookie Worker, L...
Keywords: UE; United Electrical Workers; sit in; Republic Windows; economic crisis Chicago
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| Building Bridges Radio: Laborâs Agenda to Fight Corporate Greed - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************* Laborâs Agenda to Fight Corporate Greed(27:54) with Richard Trumpka, Secretary- Treasurer, AFL-CIO William Scheuerman, President, National Labor College In a discussion on the agenda for the labor movement, Trumpka & Scheureman analyze the challenges workers face in an economy controlled by corporate interests who have rigged the system to their benefit at the exp...
Keywords: labor; unions; working class; AFL-CIO
Downloads: 26 |
| Building Bridges Radio: The Global Food Crisis - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg (26:04) ******************************************** Whose Stuffed & Whoâs Starved: The Global Food Crisis with Raj Patel, Prof., African Studies Center ,UC Berkeley and Katarina Wahlberg, Social & Economic Policy Program Coordinator, Global Policy Forum, The high cost of rice and other staples around the world are provoking food riots...
Keywords: food crisis; food prices; inflation; farmers
Downloads: 59 |
| Building Bridges:At the G-20 & the UN with Social Watch - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition -27:08 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Social Watch Fights To Put Peoples Needs Before Capital at G-20 with . Jana Silverman, Coordinator of Campaigns of Social Watch, an NGO network monitoring poverty eradication & gender equality . Roberto Bissio, Coordinator of Social Watch & Exec. Dir., Third World Institute, Uruguay ...
Keywords: poverty; social watch; Roberto Bissio; Jana Silverman; G-20; underdeveloped countries
Downloads: 10 |
| Building Bridges: Elections Special - Ballot Initiatives and Voter Suppression - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, November 3, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM (59:57) **************************************** Ballot Measures in Three States Threaten Abortion Rights with Sondra Goldschein, Staff Attorney, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project Initiatives aimed at banning abortion, restricting teenagers' access to abortion, and interfering in a range of private health care decisions will appear on t...
Keywords: U.S. elections; Barack Obama; sick leave; abortion; affirmative action; voter propositions
Downloads: 15 |
| Building Bridges: A Secretary for Labor?; In Memoriam of Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay; No Cookies, No Contract - Stella D'Oro - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, December 22, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM 58:30 **************************************** United We Stand Against Hate Crime: In Memoriam of Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay Thirty-one year old, Ecuadorian immigrant Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay died December 12, after being viciously hit over the head with an aluminum baseball bat on a Bushwick sidewalk...
Keywords: Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay; hate crimes; Thea Lee; Secretary of Labor; Hilda Solis; Stella D'Oro strke; Bakery Union
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| Building Bridges: Iraqi Labor Leaders Speak Out - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27' Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Iraqi Labor Leaders: Their Fight For Workers & Against Occupation with . Hassan Jumaa, Pres. Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions . Rasim Awadi, Pres., General Federation of Iraqi Workers . Sardar Mohammed, Pres., Iraqi Kurdish Workers Syndicates & Unions ...
Keywords: Iraq; Iraqi unions; Iraqi oil law; iraq occupation
Downloads: 9 |
| Building Bridges: Israel's Bloody Invasion; Blunt Economic Stimulus?; Recession Hits Domestic Worker - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, January 12, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 58:30 **************************************** Israelâs Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood: Insights Into The Middle East with Former Ambassador Edward Peck, Special Asst. to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Nixon Administration, Chief of Mission in Baghdad, Carter Administration...
Keywords: Gaza Invasion; Edward Peck; Israel; economic crisis; Arun Gupta; Bill Tabb; domestic workers; Ai-Jen Poo
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| Building Bridges: Jobless Recovery? Poverty on the Rise! - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:32 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 Womenâs Research, Public Policy & Information Center They say the economy may be boun...
Keywords: economic crisis; economic recovery; unemployment; poverty; racial wealth gap; Heidi Shierholz; Economic Policy Institute; Avis Jones-DeWeever; Dir; National Council of Negro; Meizhu Lui
Downloads: 19 |
| Building Bridges: Medicare Birthday; African American Unemployment - ken nash and mimi rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:58 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** African American Unemployment Skyrockets With Algernon Austin Director of the Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy program, Economic Policy Institute As the U.S. struggles with the highest unemployment rate in a generation, African Americans are especially hard pressed to find jobs...
Keywords: medicare; health care reform; health care now; african american unemployment
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| Building Bridges National: American Idol - In Reality a Sweatshop - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg (27:58) ******************************************** The Real Losers On American Idol Are Its Behind Scenes Workers with Michael Winship, President, Writers Guild of America East and Vince Waldron, documentary filmmaker and author The Writers Guilds of America and the Teamsters are conducting nation- wide protests against "American Idol," "Million Dollar Password" "Farmer Wants a Wife" and ...
Keywords: American Idol; Fremantle; labor unions; writers' guild
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| Building Bridges National: Breaking The Israeli Blockade Of Gaza - Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Breaking The Israeli Blockade Of Gaza Is Gaining Ground Against The Real Pirates with . Lamis Deek, Co-Chair, Al-Awda-NY . New York City Councilman Charles Barron . Father Luis Barrios . Rev. Lucius Walker . Kevin Ovenden, Rep. of London MP George Galloway After Israeli Defense Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the Spirit of Huma...
Keywords: Gaza aid; Israel; Palestine; George Galloway; Lucias Walker; Lamis Deek; Al-Awda-NY; Charles Barron; Father Luis Barrios
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| Building Bridges National: Green Economy Stimulus; Immigrant Murdered in Long Island, NY - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:57 ******************************************** 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...
Keywords: Robert Pollin; green economy; economic stimulus; green stimulus; Barack Obama; Allan Ramirez; immigration; Steve Levy; hate crimes; Suffolk County; Marcelo Lucero. immigrant labor
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| Building Bridges National: McCainonomics vs. Obamanomics plus McCain Sings Bomb Iran - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg (27:40) ******************************************** McCainonmics vs. Obamanomics with Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research For over a generation, in so called good times and bad, incomes of all but the rich have fallen while poverty has increased in the Bush years, and, that was before the economic crisis that began last year...
Keywords: Obama; John McCain; economy; Iran; GI Bill
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| Building Bridges National: No Contract, No Cookies - The Stella D'Oro Strike - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27' ******************************************** From The Picket Line: Stella D'Oro Strikers Say - No Contract, No Cookies The 135 workers of Stella D'Oro, the biscuit producers, most of whom are women and Latinos, now in their fourth month on strike are confronting a difficult Holiday Season on the picket line...
Keywords: Stella D'Oro Strike; Bakery Union
Downloads: 64 |
| Building Bridges National: Obamaâs Healthcare Fix a Band-Aid? - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 26:58 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Will President Obamaâs Overhaul Of Healthcare Be More Than A Band-Aid with Oliver Fein, President, Physicians for a National Health Program, and Dr. of Internal Medicine, the Weill Cornell Medical Center and David Himmelstein, Assoc. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Univ...
Keywords: health care; single payer; medicare for all; physicians for a national healthcare program; Dr. Oliver Fein; Dr. David Himmelstein
Downloads: 49 |
| Building Bridges National: Sitting In for Justice on the Job - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:22 ****************************** Chicago Strikers Stood Up for Justice by Sitting In with Ricky Maclin,VP L. 1110, United Electrical Workers(UE) Raul Flores,Steward,Local 1110,UE Mark Meinster, UE Field Organizer Joycleyn Campbell, Domestic Workers United Sara Rodriguez a striking Stella D'Oro Cookie Worker, L...
Keywords: sit in strike; UE; United Electrical Workers; Republic Windows; Jobs with Justice
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| Building Bridges National:Van Jones - The Green Collar Economy - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:58 ******************************************** 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...
Keywords: Van Jones; Green Collar Economy; economic stimulus; recession; environment
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| Building Bridges: NYC Financial Disaster; Afro-Colombian Workers Repressed - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, October 6, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM (58 minutes **************************************** NYC: Financial Disaster Ahead? with James Parrott Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Fiscal Policy Institute Author, "The End of Wall Street as We Know It" Employers cut 159,000 jobs in Sept.. It was the biggest monthly decline since 2003 and new evidence of a strengthening recession...
Keywords: economic crisis; New York State economy; Colombia trade unions; Afro-Colombians
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| Building Bridges: Outrageous Honduran Coup - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:20 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Outrageous, The Who & Why Of The Army Coup Which Deposed Honduras President Manuel Zelaya with Honduran UN Ambassador & Interior Minister Jorge Arturo Reina The June 28 coup against President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras reminds us of the worst years in Latin Americaâs history, but international, regional and popular power in the streets are mobili...
Keywords: President Zelaya; Jorge Arturo Reina; Honduras Coup; United Nations
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| Building Bridges Radio: Yosvany Terry and the Afro-Caribbean Roots of Jazz - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Yosvany Terry brings the Arara� culture of West African and Cuba to life, incorporating American Jazz traditions with his own Afro-Cuban roots to produce compositions and solo work that flow from the rhythmic and hard driving avant-garde to sweet sounding - 57'32"
Keywords: Jazz; Cuba; Africa
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| Building Bridges: Saigon Grill Victory; Indigenous Colombian Protests; Atomic Spy Case Revisited - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
oWBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, October 27, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM 59:52 **************************************** District Court Finally Serves Justice to Saigon Grill Restaurant Delivery Workers with Saigon Grill Workers, Jospheine Lee, Coordinator, Justice Will Be Served Campaign Representative of the Chinese Staff and Workers Assocation A victory for all NYC delivery workers occurred when 36 employ...
Keywords: Restaurant workers; sweatshops; minimum wage; Chinese-Americans; labor unions; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Martin Sobell. Robert Meerpool; Colombia; Indigenous Colombians
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| Building Bridges: Stella D'Oro Round 2; Sick for Profit - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:06 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Round Two: Stella DâOro Workers Fight Against Plant Shutdown with . Joyce Alston, President Local 50, Bakery Workers Union . Mike Philipo, Shop Steward . Eddie Morrero, Foreman Bakery Dept. Days after a judge found Stella DâOro Biscuit Co. guilty of labor law violations and ordered the company to reinstate more than 130 workers on strike since ...
Keywords: Stella D'Oro; Bakery workers Union; Brynwood Partners; UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley; healthcare crisis; Robert greenwald; brave new films
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| Building Bridges: UN Global Economic Crisis Conference - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition -28 minutes Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Peoplesâ 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 ...
Keywords: economic crisis; United Nations; Miguel DâEscoto Brockmann; Jana Silverman; Coordinator of Campaigns of Social Watch; Gemma Adaba; Representative; UN; International Trade
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| Building Bridges: Wal-Mart Shopping Death; Subway Subs Farmworker Protest; People's Bailout Now - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, December 1, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM 58:19 **************************************** Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death: Its Record of Endangering Workers & Consumers Unabated, with Pat Purcell, Director, Special Projects, Local 1500, UFCW Jdimytai Damour, a Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after he was trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front d...
Keywords: economic crisis; Jobs with Justice; Wal-Mart; UFCW; Pat Purcell; Local 1500; UFCW; Coalition of Immoakee Workers; immigrant workers; Subway Sandwiches; immigrant workers
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| Building Bridges Your Community and Labor Report 6-30-08 - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, June 30, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 58:30 **************************************** Screen Actors Strike Looms with Anne Marie Johnson, Actress, SAG National Board Member Many new movie productions are being delayed in anticipation of a possible strike this summer. In the meantime, SAG is lobbying those of its members who are also members of AFTRA to vote no on the current r...
Keywords: labor unions; Screen Actors Guild; AFTRA. Phillip Dine; Nurses
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| Washington to Detroit - Drop Dead? - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:36 ******************************************** 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...
Keywords: Detroit; economic crisis; unemployment; auto; auto bailout; Frank Hammer; Warren Brown
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| Building Bridges: Appalachian Nurses Strike and the Oaxaca Uprising - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Nearly 700 nurses in Ky & W. Va. have been striking for months against pay cuts, unsafe staffing levels for patients & mandatory overtime. And a new film about the Oaxaca Uprising captures the excitement and the organizing of that crucial struggle
Keywords: Mexico; nursing; unions; strikes; Oaxaca
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| Building Bridges: Africa Labor Report plus Sanders on Health Care Reform - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:06 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Africa: Its Labor News & Views In Focus produced by Radio Workers World Productions, Cape Town, South Africa Building Bridges in collaboration with South African based radio Workers World Productions brings us the issues for and protests of Africaâs laboring class, amidst the global economic crisis...
Keywords: Africa Labor; South Africa Labor Unions; Senator Bernie Sanders; Billionaires for Wealthcare; healthcare reform; single payer; medicare for all
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| Building Bridges: Auto Bailout?; Agriprocessors' Exploitation from Iowa to NYC - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, November 24, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM 57:59 **************************************** Washington to Detroit - Drop Dead? with Frank Hammer, Former Pres., UAW Local 909, Warren, Michigan and Warren Brown, Auto Columnist, "Washington Post " When auto executives and unions leaders came to Washington last week to ask for a $25 billion bailout, they expected a cold shoulder from...
Keywords: auto industry; auto bailout; economic crisis; Warren Brown; Mike Hammer; UAW; Agriprocessors; UFCW; Paul Ouderkirk; Postville; St. Bridget's Church; Rubaskin
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| Building Bridges Radio: Cafeteria Workers Fed Up and Indian Guest Workers Revolt - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:59 minutes ************************* Fed Up Food Service Workers On the Picket Line at Bank of New York with ARAMARK Cafeteria Workers, Members Local 100 HERE Bank of New York cafeteria workers employed by the giant food service company ARAMARK are on strike for a living wage. Their average take home pay is $375/week...
Keywords: H2 workers; guest workers; Hurricane Katrina; Gulf State workers; ARAMARK; Bank of New York; food service workers
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| Building Bridges: Capitalism's Crisis; Indigenous People's Day - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, October 13, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM (59 minutes) **************************************** Replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day with Dean Hutchinson, Cherokee scholar & poet Indigenous People mark the anniversary of Columbus' voyage, to use the occasion to reveal the historical truth about the invasion & the consequent genocide and environmental destruction and then to organize against its continuation to...
Keywords: Colombus Day; Native Americans; Indigenous People's Day; Economic Crisis; William Greider; Francis Fox Piven; Arun Gupta
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| Building Bridges: Chicago Sit In Workers; Scapegoating Public Workers; Black Autoworkers - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, January 26, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 58:27 **************************************** Black Workers And The UAW In Detroit with David Lewis-Colman, author Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers And The UAW In Detroit Too many blame the gain of autoworkers as responsible for the plight of the auto industry...
Keywords: Republic Windows; Sit-In; Sit In; UAW; autoworkers; black auto workers; Walter Reuther; David Lewis-Colman; Race Against Liberalism; James Parrott; Fiscal Policy Institute; Citizens Budget Commission; UAW
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| Building Bridges: Domestic Workers United - Your Home, My Work - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report 56:27 **************************************** Domestic Workers United - "Your Home, My Workâ Building Bridges allows domestic workers to tell their stories - stories of their pains, their pride and their efforts to organize for labor rights. Since slavery, the domestic work force has been predominately women of color. With the abolition of slavery African-American women were still the predominate workers, as immigrant woman began to ...
Keywords: domestic workers; domestic workers united; domestic workers bill of rights; Ai-Jen Poo
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| Building Bridges: Emmett Till Opera plus NAACP Mumia Resolution - 27:59 - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** NAACP Passes Resolution for Mumia and other prisoners with Brother Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, President, Baltimore NAACP A new resolution on Mumia Abu-Jamal , which also included Troy Davis, Marshall Eddie Conway, and Reggie Clemons, was passed at the NAACP convention as an emergency resolution...
Keywords: Mumia Abu-Jamal; NAACP; NAACP Baltimore; Emmett Till; death penality; Brother Marvin Doc Cheatham
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| Building Bridges: Extreme Poverty;Bloomberg's Union Busting; What Dominoâs Pizza Dishes Out to Work - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, March 2, 2009, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 58 minutes **************************************** Economic Aid To Feed Extreme Poverty with Jeffrey Sachs, economist is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-Moon, is founder and co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance, an organization dedicated to end...
Keywords: poverty; developing countries; Jeffrey Sachs; Bloomberg unions; union busting
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| Building Bridges:Guadeloupe-Haiti Workers Fight Back!; Sen. Sanders vs Health Care Lies - Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:57 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** While Capital Says Get Back, The Workers of Guadeloupe-Haiti Said Fight Back! with . Elie Domota, General Secretary, General Union of Workers of Guadeloupe (UGTG) & leader of the general strike there last winter. . Fignolé Saint Cyr, General Secretary,Autonomous Confederation of Haitian Workers (CATH)...
Keywords: Guadeloupe; Haiti; Elie Domota; Fignolé Saint Cyr; unions; health care crisis; Bernie Sanders; Robert Greenwald
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| building bridges hedges - ken nash and Mimi rosenberg
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