![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges Radio: Farm Labor Organizing Committee - Building on Victories - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ************************* Farm Labor Organizing Committee -Building on Victories With Baldemar Velasquez, President,Farm Labor Organizing Committee Building on the recent victory organizing over 7,000 guest workers in a agreement with the North Carolina Growers Association, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee is continuing its campaign to organize 20,000 RJ Reynolds tobacco worke... Keywords: farmworkers; immigration Downloads: 23 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 18 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Bishop Tutu on the Death Penalty - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:53 ************************************** A Saint On Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, And Thomas Cahill, author A Saint On Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green There have been more than one thousand executions in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976... Keywords: death penalty; capital punishment; Bishop Tutu; Thomas Cahill; Dominique Green Downloads: 11 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Did Mr.Go Sink New Orleans? - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition - 27:23 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Did Mr. Go Help Sink New Orleans? With Pierce O'Donnell, lead attorney in Robinson v. U.S. Gulf coast residents filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers in Federal Court claiming the that Corps amplified the destructive effects of Hurricane Katrina by building a poorly designed navigation channel, MR-GO, adjacent to th... Keywords: New Orleans; MR-GO. U.S. Army Corp of Engineers; Pierce O'Donnell. Hurricane Katrina Downloads: 22 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 4 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges Radio: Primary Analysis with Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************* Primary Analysis With Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder Douglas Wilder began his career in public office after winning a 1969 election to the Virginia State Senate, becoming the first African American Virginia State Senator since Reconstruction. In 1985, Wilder was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia on a Democratic ticket... Keywords: Presidential Elections; Presidential Primaries; Barak Obama Downloads: 67 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges Radio: New Orleans Mass Evictions - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Almost 3,000 families are slated for eviction from their FEMA trailers and thousands of public housing apartments are scheduled for demolition. Tenants in New Orleans continue to be purged from the State - first washed out and now hung out to dry. with Davida Finger, Loyala University Law Clinic and Stephanie Mingo, displaced resident, St. Bernard public housing Keywords: New Orleans; Katrina; Housing; Trailers Downloads: 106 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 15 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 13 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 8 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges: Immigration Raids; Rethink Afghanistan - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:59 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Constitution On Ice: Immigration Home Raids with Peter Markowitz, Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic A cowboy mentality and racial profiling prevailed as armed federal immigration agents illegally stormed into homes of Latinos in New York and New Jersey in hundreds of predawn raids and violated their own agency rules as well as the Constitution, ... Keywords: immigration; Homeland Security; ICE; Robert Greenwald; Brave New Films; Latino; ethnic profiling Downloads: 13 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National Edition:Slavery by Another Name - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ******************************************** "Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" with author Douglas Blackmon On land owned by U.S. Steel was an unmarked African American burial ground â and so began a quest to explore the institutions and complimentary policies that were responsible for the Post-Reconstruction re-e... Keywords: Douglas Blackmon Downloads: 32 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Hiroshima Deceptions Revealed - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg (27:38) ******************************************** From Here To Eternity: U.S. Nuclear Policy From Hiroshima & Nagasaki Through Today with Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Director of Cold War Studies, University of Southern CA. at Berkley Professor Hasegawa discusses why there wasnât any moral or political basis to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, who was already determined to surrender and why... Keywords: Hiroshima; atom bomb; nuclear weapons; President Truman; Japan Downloads: 31 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Immigration Raids plus Rethink Afghanistan - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:59 Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Constitution On Ice: Immigration Home Raids with Peter Markowitz, Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic A cowboy mentality and racial profiling prevailed as armed federal immigration agents illegally stormed into homes of Latinos in New York and New Jersey in hundreds of predawn raids and violated their own agency rules as well as the Constitution, ... Keywords: immigration; Homeland Security; ICE; Robert Greenwald; Brave New Films; Latino; ethnic profiling Downloads: 1 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Israeli War Crimes with Richard Falk - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:54 ****************************** Israelâs Hands Are Stained Red With Gazan Blood: Israeli War Crimes with Richard Falk, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University & author of more than fifty books on war, human rights and international law, including Israel-Palestine on Record: How the New York Tim... Keywords: Israel Invasion; Palestine; Gaza blockade; Richard Falk Downloads: 15 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National:Saigon Grill Victory; Indigenous Colombian Protests - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:59 ******************************************** District Court Finally Serves Justice to Saigon Grill Restaurant Delivery Workers with Saigon Grill Workers, Yu Guan Ke and Qi Hua Lian Jospheine Lee and Fong C. Tsai, Justice Will Be Served Campaign and the Chinese Staff and Workers Assn. A victory for all NYC delivery workers occurred when 36 employees of the Saigon Grill Restaurants, aft... Keywords: Colombia; Indigeneous Colombians; sweatshops; minimum wages; restaurant workers; Chinese-Americans; trade unions; National Mobilization Against Sweatshops Downloads: 12 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Sisters in the Brotherhood; and Stupid Financial Markets - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash please note our new web page is www.buildingbridgesradio.org Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** Is the Economy Stupid? with Prof William Spriggs, Chair, Economics Department, Howard University Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Indy Mac, Bear Streans, Lehman Brothers, AIG...We've been treated to the failure of more major financial firms that in any year since the Depression... Keywords: labor union women; economic crisis; Wall Street Downloads: 26 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Stimulating the Economy; Recession Hits Domestic Workers - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ****************************** 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... Keywords: William Tabb; Arun Gupta; Ai-Jen Poo; domestic workers; economic stimulus; recession Downloads: 24 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Nationalize the Banks? And then... - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:54 ******************************************** 159,000 Jobs Lost in August, 600,000 to loose homes this year by foreclosures What is to be done? with Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research William Tabb, Economist and Author Will bailing out the banks to the tune of 700 billion dollars fix the liquidity crisis or will we need to nationalize the banks? And, What ... Keywords: banks; foreclosures; unemployment; recession Downloads: 22 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 21 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges: Obama Wins; Jobless Increase; Veterans Speak Out - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, November 10, 2008, 7 â 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM 59 minutes **************************************** Obama Wins Presidency as Jobless Rate at 14-Year High with William Spriggs, Chair, Economics Department 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; elections; unemployment; economic crisis; Wiliams Spriggs; Patricia Williams; Veterans Downloads: 19 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 38 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges Radio: Domestic Workers Uniting - Your Home, My Work - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************* Special for Womenâs History Month "Your Home, My Workâ - Domestic Workers Uniting NOTE: 56:27 AND 28 MINUTE VERSIONS AVAILABLE BELOW Building Bridges allows domestic workers to tell their stories - stories of their pains, their pride and their efforts to organize for labor rights... Keywords: women; domestic workers; labor; organizing Downloads: 79 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges Radio: Free John White - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Free John White: A Building Bridges exclusive with the recently convicted John White, attorney Frederick Brewington, Minister Kevin Mohammed, and the Rev. Al Sharpton directly from the mass support rally for John White at the Suffolk County Criminal Court Building(28:17) The right to protect one's home and family is as American as apple pie - or is it when it comes to African-Americas? The recent conviction for manslaughter in Suffolk County of John White, who awoke to find a mob of white youth,... Keywords: civil rights; judicial misconduct; Rev; Al Sharpton; Suffolk County Downloads: 50 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges Radio: Obama's Big Win! - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:28 ******************************************** Obama's Big Win! with Eric Foner, Prof. of History, Columbia University. Author "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution" & "Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln" and Chis Kromm, Exec. Dir. Institute for Southern Studies & Publisher, "Southern Exposure" Foner and Kromm place Obamaâs victory in a perspective of not only the hist... Keywords: Obama; Eric Foner; Chris Kronn; Southern Exposure; Presidential Elections; the South Downloads: 24 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 72 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges: Yosvany Terry - The Afro-Caribbean Roots of Jazz - Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Monday, December 29, 2008, 7 - 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM 57 minutes **************************************** The Afro-Caribbean Roots of Jazz With Yosvany Terry, Composer, Educator, Musician The music of acclaimed Cuban composer and saxophonist Yosvany Terry provides an unmistakable milestone in the often illusive unfolding of modern Jazz - Black classical music... Keywords: jazz and Africa; Jazz and Cuba; Yosvany Terry Downloads: 45 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 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 Downloads: 11 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: H-2 Worker by Stephanie Black - Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition 27:24 ************************************** Immigrant Guest Workers â Now and Then With Stephanie Black, Filmmaker, âH-2 Workerâ, Winner of the Grand Jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival Bruce Goldstein, Exec. Director, Farmworker Justice A fascinating exposé of Floridaâs sugar cane industry, âH-2 Workerâ reveals the systematic exploitation of Caribbean laborers by the Florida sugar industry from WW II through the 1... Keywords: farmworkers; H2 worker; H2a workers; Stephanie Black; immigration; Bruce Goldstein; Farmworker Justice Downloads: 49 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges National: Israeli Warfare State with Jeff Halper - Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:52 ************************************** 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 endin... Keywords: Israel; Zionism; Palestine; West Bank; Gaza; Israel elections; Jeff Halper Downloads: 20 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Building Bridges Radio: Rashid Khalidi: Middle East - Sowing Crisis - Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** Sowing Crisis: The Cold War & American Dominance in the Middle East with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Prof. of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University, & Director, Middle East Institute, Columbia's School of International Affairs. Superpower intervention during the Cold War deeply exacerbated regional and civil wars throughout the Middle East, and prov... Keywords: Rashid Khalidi; Middle East; Cold War; Sowing Crisis Downloads: 23 |
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