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One of The 100 Most Influential People in the World

With
Ai-jen Poo, Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance


TIME Magazine named Ai-jen Poo one of The 100 Most
Influential People in the World - a creative organizer
who knows how to create social change from the
bottom up. Ai-jen Poo, has been growing into that role
since she was a student outraged by the stories of
domestic workers, often immigrants or women of
color, who labored long hours for low pay as nannies,
maids, housekeepers, cooks, elder caregivers, and
other household workers – women who had been
treated as unskilled and expendable, yet who were
responsible for raising children, caring for the ill and
elderly and facilitating the daily lives of millions of
families.


Ai-jen Poo's gift for creating worker-led groups and empathetic tactics has made the National Domestic Workers Alliance into an umbrella organization with 35 satellites around the country, with more than 10,000 members. Ai-jen Poo has done this by creating a new paradigm for how we value work and with that how workers can built their power collectively. Ai-jen goes beyond organizing to transforming. .
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Getting Back to Basics – Jobs for All
With
Trudy Goldberg, Chair, National Jobs for All Coalition


While the issue uppermost in the voters’ minds this election year is jobs, jobs and good jobs, you’d hardly know it by following the campaigns or even the protests for the 99%. But the National Jobs for All Coalition is always on target about the tragedy of unemployment, underemployment and deteriorating working conditions and has a program to move forward on this crucial issue. Trudy Goldberg spoke to us leading a contingent of the National Jobs for All Coalition from the NYC Union Square protest on
May Day 2012

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Building Bridges Occupies Air Waves

with a May Day Special!
May Day in New York City Part 2
With
Lucas Sanchez, Organizer, N.Y. Communities for Change, grocery workers organizing campaign
John Samuelsen, President, Transport Workers Union Local 100
Barbara Bowen, Pres., Professional Staff Congress,
City University of New York
Mario Rodriquez, Organizing Dir.,District Council 37, AFSCME and Occupy Wall Street activist


May Day began in the U.S. in 1886 as a nationwide general strike, led by immigrant workers, fighting for the 8 hour work day. While celebrated across the globe, it has been largely ignored in the U.S., until recently, when immigrant workers revived it.


Now, a new chapter in the history of May Day was written with the involvement of Occupy Wall Street, the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community. And, Building Bridges presente! We were there for this new chapter in the
movement, reporting from May Day events throughout the day.


We spiced those events with commentary and analysis on the struggles of the working class in the midst of capitalist crisis and prospects for change, from leading champions of the working class, who build organization and class consciousness.

Occupy with Building Bridges as we acknowledge the blood, sweat and tears of workers, the workers who really create all the wealth and want it back. So, lock arms, unite and fight for the working class, for the 99%.

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Building Bridges Occupies Air Waves

with a May Day Special!
May Day in New York City Part 1
With
Professor Jeff Goodwin, Sociology Dept, NYU at an NYU
demonstration against student debt and NYU’s capital
expansion plan 2031
and
Arun Gupta, a founding editor, Indypendent newspaper-
reporting from Union Square
plus
Tens of Thousands of May Day Protesters in NYC


May Day began in the U.S. in 1886 as a nationwide general strike, led by immigrant workers, fighting for the 8 hour work day. While celebrated across the globe, it has been largely ignored in the U.S., until recently, when immigrant workers revived it.


Now, a new chapter in the history of May Day was written with the involvement of Occupy Wall Street, the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community. And, Building Bridges presente! We’ll were there for this new chapter in the movement, reporting from May Day events throughout the day, here and from rallies across the country.


We spiced those events with commentary and analysis on the struggles of the working class in the midst of capitalist crisis and prospects for change, from leading champions of the working class, who build organization and class consciousness.


Occupy with Building Bridges as we acknowledge the blood, sweat and tears of workers, the workers who really create all the wealth and want it back. So, lock arms, unite and fight for the working class, for the 99%

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ACT UP N.Y. Commemorates 25th Anniversary By Taking To Wall Street with OWS To End Financial Crimes Against People With Aids & The 99%
With
Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. Manager of the Access Campaign, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
and
Eric Sawyer, founding member ACT UP, Housing Works, Health Gap and senior advisor of UNAIDs




ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) joined by Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community will discuss plans for a daylong
siege in Lower Manhattan on ACT UP's 25th anniversary, The groups are intent on pumping up the volume on a growing outcry for a "Financial Speculation Tax" (Fi.S.T.) on Wall Street. They’re calling on local, state, & federal legislators to "give Wall Street the FiST," to fill AIDS funding gaps and — once and for all — provide universal healthcare in the US. It’s time for effective healthcare to be made available to everyone — to the 99%, not just the 1%. The AIDS crisis is not over, but it could be! Tax Wall Street to End AIDS

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Obama “JOBS Act” Is A Prescription for Fraud & Financial Fraud

Is A Prime Jobs Killer
With
William Black, professor of economics and law at
the University of Missouri, Kansas City, author of
"The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One," and deputy staff director of the national commission
that investigated the cause of the savings and
loan debacle.


The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, (JOBS),
the cynical bill that emerged from Congress and was
signed by President Obama has been described by
its opponents as something only a financial scavenger
could love – claiming it will add to the unprecedented
level of financial fraud by our most elite CEOS that
have devastated the U.S. and European economies
and cost over 20 million people their jobs. William
Black dissects the "JOBS Act" and reveals why it is
a recipe for fraud.

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Community Seeks Justice For Michael Lembhard, The Latest
African-American Youth To Die By The Hands Of Newburgh Police
With
Lillie Howard, community activist whose grandson was killed by
Newburgh police
and
Juanita King, cousin of Michael Lembhard, killed by Newburgh police

Anger still rages in the latest police killing March 7, in the city of Newburgh,
NY of Michael Lembhard. Governor Cuomo has turned down Newburgh’s
request for a special prosecutor in the case of the fatal shooting. Newburg’s
Mayor, Judy Kennedy meanwhile told a community forum that she and the
City Council will await an Orange County grand jury's verdict before
deciding whether to consider any disciplinary action of their own in the
police shooting death of Lembhard. Meanwhile, the officers involved remain
on administrative leave. The community has been relentless in its pursuit of
justice for Lembhard, vowing never to let it happen again – too many young
people are being lost and Lembhard’s death is the latest in what they claim
is due to police discrimination and brutality towards the African American
community. The community hopes that Lembhard’s death will lead to a
federal probe of the Newburgh police department.

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New National Taxi Union Fights Highway Robbery,
Demanding Owners Stop The Greed & Lower The Lease!
With
Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance

The NY Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) rallied at SLS Jet Garage
in Long Island City, Queens, who has a practice of not allowing drivers
to pay lease in advance for their shifts, and then charging those same
drivers as much as $25 per day for not paying in advance, adding up
to more than $9,000 a year. NYTWA has been targeting SLS Jet for
its current Stop the Greed, Lower the Lease campaign. We will also
discuss the NTWA’s, as new chartered union with the AFL-CIO, which
will be celebrated at an upcoming reception with AFL-CIO President
Richard Trumka in NYC. The new National Taxi Workers Alliance,
the 57th chartered union of the AFL-CIO, is a watershed moment in
U.S. Labor History. This is the first new charter for non-traditional
workers in over 60 years & the first for independent contractors.
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NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Extended To Activist
Organizations
With Speakers from:
Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM); Mosque of Islamic
Brotherhood; Peoples’ Justice for Community Control
& Police Accountability; CAAAV Organizing Asian
Communities; & NYC Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez

Representatives from the Muslim community with civil liberties
advocates came to Police Plaza to decry the NYPD Intelligence
Division’s blanket surveillance of a community based on religion
and race, and to condemn new revelations about surveillance of
community-based advocacy groups. Recent documents unearthed
reveal that the NYPD surveilled dozens of community organizations,
over the last decade. One document reveals that an undercover
NYPD officer traveled to New Orleans to attend the People's
Summit, a gathering of groups organized around their shared
opposition to U.S. economic and trade policies. The undercover
effort entailed groups opposed to U.S. immigration policy, labor
laws and racial profiling. The new revelations heighten & broaden
the serious questions that have yet to be answered by the NYPD
and elected officials surrounding it's Muslim surveillance program
accusing Police Commissioner Kelly of overstepping his authority
with surveillance tactics that critics claim violate the U.S.
Constitution.

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As We Demand Justice For Trayvon Martin
His Death Reveals A Long-Frayed Racial Nerve
With
Linn Washington, Professor of Journalism at Temple University
and
Colin Goddard, shot 4 times at the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and
Assistant Director of Federal Legislation for the Brady Campaign
to Prevent Gun Violence

The murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black youth in
Sanford, Florida, who was shot by George Zimmerman, cloaked in the
reactionary “Stand Your Ground” law, is a crime against humanity and
violation of human rights. The refusal of the Sanford police department
to arrest Zimmerman, despite having evidence that he pursued Trayvon,
and aired profanity and alleged racial epithets along with the cover up
actions by the Sanford police department, sends an age old racist
message - that Black people have no rights that a white is bound to
respect. We’ll examine the demands for the arrest of Zimmerman, the
temporary stepping down of the Sanford police chief and analyze the
role of the National Rifle Association whose vision for America is
embodied in this tragic shooting, with its successful push for the
enactment of laws for carrying of concealed weapons, and the Stand
Your Ground law, which has been referred to as the Shoot to Kill law.

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Saving Postal Jobs & Services From A Management Gone Postal

Community/Labor United for Postal Jobs & Services joined with postal
workers to rally to save postal jobs and the services provided. The
plan is to shut down 4,000 post offices, eliminate 223 which is half of
the mail processing centers nationwide , end Saturday mail delivery
and fire 220,000 postal workers. In N.Y.C. alone, Postmaster General
Donahoe wants to eliminate 34 post offices. There is no fiscal crisis
that warrants these cuts, which will destroy the post office system. But
there is a Congressionally manufactured crisis caused by its imposition
of onerous and unnecessary financial mandates on the Post Office.
Unless we stop Congress, the public postal system will be destroyed
and Wall Street will swoop down and sell it to corporate vultures.

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Hundreds Rally Against Prison Industrial Complex And Mass
Incarceration at the Lincoln Correctional Facility in West Harlem
THE NEW JIM CROW!

The Occupy Wall Street Prisoner Solidarity Subcommittee along with
hundreds of allies heeded Occupy Oakland's call to action and marched
in solidarity with Pelican Bay prisonerâs hunger strike protest, with
brothers and sisters who are dispossessed by the criminal INJUSTICE
system, with immigrant detainees & with political prisoners everywhere.
They raised their voices against the growth of the privatization of the
prison system and mass incarceration - the New Jim Crow. The
characterization of the system of mass incarceration as the New Jim
Crow raises the racist nature of the prison system, pointing out that
between 1970 and 1995, the jailing of African Americans increased
seven fold. African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population -
and 53% of the nation's prison population. There are more African
Americans enslaved under correctional control today - in prison or jail;
on probation or parole - than there were in 1850.

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Protest Demand NY's MTA Brings Back Laid Off Workers
With
Transport Workers Local 100
and
OWS Labor Outreach Committee

TWU Local 100, elected officials, and community supporters called on
the MTA to use nearly $500 million dollars in its GASB 45 Fund to
restore services cut in 2010, and to rehire over 120 laid-off Station
Agents, and settle a fair contract for 38,000 TWU Local 100 members.
According to MTA budget documents, the agency holds approximately
$489 million in a reserve fund called the GASB 45 Fund (Government
Accounting Standards Board). Since 2006, the MTA has been
depositing tens of millions of dollars every year in this account. Even
in 2010, when bus and subway services were reduced or eliminated
altogether, the MTA stashed money away instead of drawing from its
reserve fund to avoid service cuts.
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Thousands Joined The Line Saying “NO MORE PINK SLIPS”
With
Arthur Cheliotes, President, Communications Workers , Local 1180

On Super Tuesday March 6, from 8:14 to 8:28 am New Yorkers joined
to form the world's longest unemployment line for 14 minutes - 1 minute
for each of the 1 million currently unemployed Americans. This visually
stunning and politically significant form of protest symbolized the
14 million Americans who lost their jobs during the last five years, and
the 10 -15 million people who have given up hope of finding a job and
are not even counted in current unemployment statistics. More people
were living in poverty last year than in any year since the Census
Bureau began keeping records half a century ago, while the richest
1% has tripled its wealth and corporations are being bailed out without
giving back. The Line, a creative action stretching arms and joining
together to say, No to Pink Slips, Yes to Government and Business
Putting America Back to Work!

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Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith & Radical Black Sailors in the
United States & Jamaica
with
Gerald Horne, Prof. of History and African-American studies at the
University of Houston

During the heyday of the U.S. & international labor movements in
the 1930s and '40s. Ferdinand Smith, the Jamaican-born co-
founder and second-in-command of the National Maritime Union,
stands out as one of the most "if not the most" powerful black
labor leaders in the United States. Smith's active membership in
the Communist Party, however, coupled with his bold labor
radicalism & shaky immigration status, brought him under
continual surveillance by U.S. authorities, especially during the
red Scare in the '50s. Smith was eventually deported to his
homeland of Jamaica, where he continued his radical labor and
political organizing until his death in 1961. Horne draws on Smith's
life to make insightful connections between labor radicalism & the
Civil Rights Movement "demonstrating that the gains of the latter
were propelled by the former & undermined by anticommunism".
Moreover, Red Seas uncovers the little-known experiences of black
sailors & the contribution to the struggle for labor and civil rights,
the history of the Communist Party & its black members, and the
significant dimension of Jamaican labor & political radicalism.

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The New Jim Crow:
Purging the African American Vote by Felon Disenfranchisement
With
Jazz Hayden, Riverside Church Prison Ministry Campaign
To End The New Jim Crow

Today, nearly five million Americans are barred by law from voting at all
because of a felony conviction. (A felony is any crime that carries a
sentence of a year or more in prison.) More than 1 in 50 adults can't vote.
And because of the racial imbalance in the criminal justice system,
1.4 million black men are disenfranchised. That's 13 percent of the African-
American male population, a figure seven times the national average.
The laws vary from state to state. For example, in Maine, a convicted
murderer may vote while still in prison, but in Virginia, someone arrested for
selling drugs when he was 18 may never vote again. An American suffrage
movement-- voting rights for felons -- could make a considerable difference
in upcoming elections.
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Another Aspect of the New Jim Crow: Impeding the Franchise
With
Lee Roland, counsel with the Democracy Program's Voting Rights
and Elections Team at the Brennan Center for Justice

Ahead of the 2012 elections, there’s been a wave of state legislation tightening
restrictions on voting that has swept across the country. It's been estimated
that more than 5 million Americans could be affected by the new rules in place
this year – which is a number larger than the margin of victory in two of the last
3 presidential elections. Lee Roland counsel discusses this manifestation of
the new Jim Crow.

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"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 – and so began a quest to explore
the institutions and complimentary policies that were
responsible for the Post-Reconstruction re-enslavement of
Blacks, to provide the manpower to fuel the growth of
industrialization in the South. As Blackmon probes this
largely unexplored area, he offers us a mirror to reflect
and grapple with the currency of racial disparity.

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New York Police Dept. Kills Again - Over 1,000 in the Bronx Protest
With Jose,
Stop and Frisk Campaign, Occupy Wall Street

In 2011, at least 700,000 almost entirely African-American and Latinos
in NYC were subjected to the NYPD’s unwarranted stop and frisks.
Most recently, the Mayor’s and his police department’s policies and
practices further resulted in the killing of unarmed Rahmarley Graham,
18 years old in his own home, and the vicious beating of Jatiek Reed
and arrest on false charges. The discriminatory policies and practices
are the catalyst for the frightening explosion in incarceration. And then
for those dragnetted into the criminal justice system, upon their release
is the stigmatization and systemic disenfranchisement from virtually all
opportunities and benefits of the society – this is the new “Jim Crow”.
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COALITION CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OF NYPD COMMISSIONER
OVER ANTI-ISLAM FILM COVER-UP
With
Amna Akbar, An Attorney and a Representative of the Muslim
American Civil Liberties Union
Imam Al Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, Pres., The Islamic Leadership
Council of Metropolitan NY
Cyrus McGoldrick, Council on American Islamic Relations
Jumaane D. Williams, N.Y. City Council Member
bdeen Jabara, civil rights attorney

A Coalition of civil liberties groups came to NY City Hall to call for the
resignations of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly & Deputy Commissioner
Paul Browne due to revelations that they covered up their roles in the
production of an islamophobic propaganda film “The Third Jihad” that
was shown to at least 1,500 NYPD officers and to law enforcement
around the country. "The Third Jihad" was produced by the shadowy
non-profit group the Clarion Fund that had produced an earlier
anti-Muslim propaganda film which was distributed to millions of voters
in swing states just prior to the 2008 election, apparently backed by a
$17 million donation from a "longtime contributor" to neo-conservatives.
The Clarion Fund also has links to theright-wing Israeli group Aish
HaTorah. The Clarion Fund's previous documentary attacking Muslims'
'war on the West' also attracted support from the casino magnate
Sheldon Adelson, a major supporter of Israel, who has helped
reshapethe Republican presidential primary by pouring millions of
dollars into a super PAC that backs Newt Gingrich. Both Kelly’s and
Browne’s participation in and coverup of their role in the film indicates
a total disregard for the civil rights of American Muslims and a complete
lack of respect for one of the city’s largest religious communities. The
NYPD’s Commissioner’s misrepresentations must also be seen in the
context of a recent series of investigative reports by the Associated Press
that revealed that undercover NYPD officers in a so-called "Demographics
Unit" spied on Muslim communities and houses of worship with the
assistance of individuals linked to the CIA.

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TAXES, WE DON’T PAY NO STINKIN' TAXES SAYS VERIZON,
AS THE 99% CRIES FOUL!
With
The Tax Dodgers, OWS Occupy the Boardroom, United NY, Make
the Road NY, Strong Economy for All, NY Communities for Change,
Vocal New York, C.W.A., 99% NY, and other members of the 99%

Verizon Communications has been identified as one of the country’s
worst tax dodgers. Between 2008 - 2010, Verizon actually received
$951 million net in federal tax refunds, our public dollars, making their
effective federal tax rate average to 3% or less. So, an outraged
coalition decided to “occupy” Verizon headquarters to call attention
to the fact that corporations like Verizon, GE, Bank of America, and
others are not paying their fair share of taxes, juxtaposed with a time
when the minimum wage is too low to permit people to pay their bills
and feed their families. The occupiers came to say corporate
‘tax dodgers’ like Verizon, that made over $25 billion in pre-tax US
income, and paid $173 million in compensation to their top five
executives, with $56 million going to their CEO alone – and spending
$52 million for lobbying was obscene while at the same time, since
2008 laying off 20,000 employees.

Meanwhile, in the midst of the occupation, a new sports franchise,
the “Tax Dodgers” had the audacity to show up. One of the players,
claiming to be former Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg introduced the
“Tax Dodgers,” who he explained symbolized the lobbyists and other
groups who likely received a portion of the money that Verizon saved
in taxes, while the occupiers cried foul. Tune in to hear the response
of the 99%ers to Verizon and to the Tax Dodgers, who demonstrated
their agility at stealing bases!


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STOPPING THE NYPD’s Stop and Frisk
With
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow:
Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness
Jamal Mims, Occupy Wall Street
Mary Black, and Benita Rivera, parents
Leticia James, N.Y. City Council member

More than 700,000, according to NYPD documentation predominantly
African-Americans and Latinos have been profiled for stops and frisks,
as a result of what is now referred to as the “new”Jim Crow policies of
policing and inflicting state terror on communities of color. But, in
response to the increasing criminalization of communities of color is a
burgeoning movement prepared to, STOP Stop and Frisk as they say
no to the new Jim Crow.

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America Beyond Capitalism:
Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy
With
Gar Alperovitz, Professor of Political Economy, University of Maryland
and co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative

As discontent with the economic and political status quo mounts in
the wake of the "great recession," Gar Alperovitz's “America Beyond
Capitalism” suggests a bottom-up effort currently already underway
in communities across the U.S., which point in the direction of,
among other things worker-owned cooperatives, and community
land trusts, supported by policies and resources from municipal,
state and federal government. Ongoing economic pain is likely to
continue to inspire such initiatives to demand further action to
democratize the ownership of capital, so that ownership goes to
the 99% in new ways rather than to the top 1%.”

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“Un-Settling Occupation” OWS Stands With Indigenous Americans
With
Janice Richards, Oglala Sioux , activist and educator
Firewolf Nelson-Wong, Dine, AIM member and activist
Joseph, indigenous activist
Christopher Hedges, journalist, activist
Raymond Two Hawks, Narragansett Nation, Rhode Island
Territory

On the 121st anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee,
indigenous people connected the colonial occupation of Manhattan
to Occupy Wall Street - an occupation of already occupied land.
They gathered in order to initiate an open dialogue with OWS, to
raise local and national awareness of ongoing Native struggles,
and to recognize that the injustices and inequalities we currently
confront are the bricks and mortar of conquest and settler
colonialism. Un-settling “occupation” called upon OWS in its
yearnings to voice the experiences of the 99% to make space for
those most marginalized. As stated during the evening, let us
pass the mic, turn up the volume, listen to Native voices, and
break down the culture of domination – and find roads which we
can walk down together

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2012 – We’re Overdue for a Public Banking System
With
Timothy A. Canova,
Betty Hutton Williams Prof. of International Economic Law
Chapman University School of Law

The federal government’s response to the financial crisis has been
a parade of bailout programs injecting public funds into the largest
banks and financial institutions, with precious little assistance for
everyone else. As in the 1930s, Depression failure to achieve a
strong and sustainable recovery should open the door to other
alternatives such as parallel public banking institutions, at both the
federal and state levels, to fill the unmet credit needs stemming
from the massive failures in private banking. In banks owned by
federal and state governments, there is far greater public
accountability in the bank’s oversight, direction, and lending
practices than in private institutions. This so-called “public option”
in banking has a rich tradition in American history which can serve
as models today including the 30's Reconstruction Finance Corp.
at the Federal level and the Bank of North Dakota which has been
successfully operating since the 1930’s and is the model for a number
of attempts today at the state level including California to duplicate its
success
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Plus "The Socialist Bank of North Dakota"
with
Dr. Rozanne Everson Junker, political scientist

North Dakota has long had a state bank which unlike private banks
has faithfully served the people and the state in good times and bad.
We've talked about a public option for health care, but why not for
banks? Thanks to Michael Moore for this case study.

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Justice for Jazz Artists, What No Minimum Wage & No Pension?
With
John O'Connor, Vice President AFM's Local 802
Keisha St. Joan, jazz vocalist

N.Y. City’s musicians’ union has been leafleting outside The Blue
Note, a major jazz club, in a campaign to gain pension benefits
and a minimum wage for jazz artists. The disagreement between
the union and club owners dates back to 2005, when union
leaders and the night clubs successfully lobbied the NYS
Legislature for a reduction in the sales tax on tickets with the
extra revenue to be used to pay for pension and health benefits
for the artists. While jazz has been recognized by the U.S.
Congress as “America’s National Treasure,” and clubs like the
Blue Note, Birdland, the Jazz Standard, Iridium and the Village
Vanguard are still filling seats and charging hefty prices, the jazz
players find themselves facing old age with no pension and little
in the way of Social Security, since much of their pay was in cash
and off the books. “It’s just a sin that we have no pension,” said
Keisha St. Joan, 72, a jazz vocalist who was distributing leaflets.
“I will not have a pension before I die.”

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OWS Undaunted By Dozens Of Arrests In Bid To Reclaim Space,
Continues Its Work
With
The 99 Percent

Celebrating its 3rd month of existence OWS came to take back The
Commons, a space owned by Trinity Church, to assert freedom of
expression and the right to assemble as fundamental freedoms.
While more than 50 arrests ensued still through creative, bold
actions OWS has renewed a sense of hope, revived a belief in
community and awakened a sprit of resistance. “To Occupy”,
the word has been repurposed by OWS to mean to come
together in a resistance movement with people of many colors,
genders and political persuasions who can no longer tolerate the
greed and corruption of the 1% and their governmental shills.
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Demands For Jobs For All Grows
With
Connie Kaplan, 99er, activist
Eric Lernerl Cindy Klumb
Tony Perkins

The Labor Outreach Committee, of OWS, POP, OWS en Espanol,
The Jobless Working Group OWS and Occupy Harlem are among
an expanding chorus advocating for a democratically controlled
public works and public service program, with direct government
employment, to create tens of millions of new jobs at good union
wages. The new jobs will go to meeting the needs of the 99%.
The program would be funded by raising taxes on the rich and
corporations and by ending U.S. wars and would be open to all,
regardless of immigration status or criminal record.

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Occupy West Coast Shuts Down Ports,
While NYC Targeted Goldman Sachs
With
Maria Cardenas, Occupy Oakland
Michael Novick, Occupy LA
OWS demonstrators, NY at Goldman Sachs

The Occupy movement in West Coast port cities called for
shutdowns of their ports. In solidarity OWS, NY targeted
Wall Street giant, the owner of half of one of the world’s
largest transportation and shipping outfits, Goldman Sachs.
The ports were targeted because of the firing of port truckers
organizing at SSA terminals in LA, owned by Goldman Sachs
and the attempt to rupture ILWU union jurisdiction in
Longview, WA by EGT, an exporter led by Bunge Ltd, owned
by 1% bankers which reported a $2.5 billion profit last year
while impoverishing workers in Argentina and Brazil.
These economic blockades were in response to the nationally
coordinated attacks on the Occupy movement.
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Newark Unemployment Protest in 6th Month is a Model for the Nation
with
Larry Hamm, Chairman, People's Organization for Progress, Newark, N.J.

The U.S. economy is struggling, but in many black communities
Americans are in the throes of a depression. With unemployment
exacting an outsize toll on African-American men and women, a
coalition initiated by the People’s Organization for Progress has
been demonstrating daily for over 6 months in a busy intersection
in Newark flanking a statue of Abraham Lincoln outside the Essex
County Courthouse. This persistent and visible protest in one
location has received widespread attention throughout the City
and support from labor, student, religious and other community
groups including Occupy Newark who see unemployment as a
crucial civil rights issue emerging from the country’s economic
woe. "We are more than a half-century away from the Montgomery
bus boycott, but we are dealing with issues just as pressing,"
said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for
Progress. Hamm and like-minded activists started the 381-day
protest modeled after one of the most famous battles of the
Civil Rights era — the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955-56.
They are calling on President Obama and Congress to institute
a jobs program akin to the Works Progress Administration of
the Great Depression, that employed millions of unskilled
Americans in public works jobs. Unemployment is 16 percent
among black Americans, a rate rivaling those of the 1930s.
Newark’s jobless rate hovers around 15%, while the national
rate is 8.6 percent.


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NYC Students Stand Firm After CUNY Police Bully Them During Occupy
City Univeristy of NY (CUNY) Protest Over Tuition Hikes
With
Occupy CUNY Student Members Hector Agredano & Emma Francis-Snyder Barbara Bowen, President of CUNY Professional Staff Congress

Students, faculty, Occupy CUNY and OWS demonstrated outside
Baruch College to protest the Board of Trustees' meeting, where the
Board passed measures to further squeeze the public out of CUNY.
Even though these meetings are legally obligated to be open to the
public, Baruch's president announced that the Vertical Campus would
be closed to almost everyone by 3pm. However, protestors reclaimed
CUNY on the outside, and exposed the Board's illegitimate actions inside.
Police violence has already occurred at Baruch, in response to protests
about tuition hikes, and unfair labor practices targeted toward adjunct
and other faculty, and the privatization of the public CUNY system. But,
like pro-democracy movements from UC-Davis to Occupy Wall Street
the protestors stood firm - our schools and communities are not for sale,
and we will not give up our rights to free speech and assembly.
FREE CUNY!

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The Vanishing Safety Net:
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) at 15 Years
with
Tim Casey, attorney, Legal Momentum and longtime welfare advocate

In Aug.1996, Pres. Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and
Work Opportunity Act, replacing Aid to Families with Dependant
Children with TANF as the national welfare program for needy
Americans. 15 years later, the truth is that TANF has shredded
the safety net. It has been a disaster for poor families, most
of whom are headed by single mothers. Benefit receipt has fallen
from three-fifths of poor children pre-reform to just one-fifth of
poor children post-reform, and benefit amounts have plummeted.
The shriveled safety net condemns millions of women & children
to poverty so extreme that many are deprived sufficient food,
housing, and utility services. As TANF turns 15, we'll look at the
necessity to restore and extend adequate benefits and surmise
what is likely to happen to the reauthorization of TANF which
will be before the Congress.
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Domino’s Pizza Delivers Slavery With A Smile
With
Pastor Robert Brashear, Sweatshop Free NY
Carlos Rodriquez, Justice Will Be Served
Vincent Cao, Justice Will Be Served

Domino’s moguls giddily reap profits off the backs of workers,
watching their corporate sales surge to $1.57 billion in 2010.
Patrick Doyle, President raked in $5.7 million in 2010 and
Dave Melton, NYC franchise had $4 million in yearly sales.
Meanwhile Domino’s workers work up to 78 hours a week,
but many are paid for only half of these hours at $4.40
an hour. Now that Domino workers are organizing Domino
who refuses to comply with labor laws is retaliating against
the workers. But, Justice Will Be Served!


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Occupy Wall Street Occupies The Brooklyn Bridge As Tens Of Thousands Say
We’re Here To Take Back The Wealth We Created And They Covet And Control!
With
The 99%

Angry and reeling from the horrific military attack which Bloomberg
perpetrated on peaceful, sleeping protestors fighting for economic justice
in our increasingly unjust and undemocratic country, in a National Day of
Action both to celebrate the 2-month birthday of Occupy Wall Street, and
protest the outrage of the eviction, an incredible, diverse group, poured
into the streets – “all day, all night Occupy Wall Street”! The 99%
delivered a powerful message that the domination of society by a tiny
elite of super-wealthy individuals and corporations, harnessing government
to do their bidding was unacceptable. The days protests were capped off
by a rally and march over the Brooklyn Bridge by tens of thousands
determined to take back and redistribute the wealth of this country to those
who created it – the 99%.
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Greek Tragedy, Europe’s Achilles Heel?
with
Leo Panitch, Professor of Political Science at York
University, Canada and Editor of the Socialist Register.

As the G-20 economic summit met austerity was sweeping Europe,
the future of the Eurozone was in doubt and then the Greek
government collapsed over its proposed new debt agreement with
the European Union. The deal was reached by European leaders to
stabilize the Euro and to avoid Greek default on its debt to the banks
or its leaving the euro currency zone. Anger among Greek citizens
stems from the proposed agreement’s focus on more austerity to
repay the bank loans leading to increased unemployment. A new
world recession may be drawing closer after the G-20 failed to
agree on fresh financial help for distressed countries.
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Hey Union Busting Is Disgusting! -
Joining the Sotheby Workers Protest with OWS

Some 400 protesters in NYC greeted Sotheby's $500 million
auction with a high-spirited, very high-decibel demonstration in
solidarity with its locked-out workers. Despite making record
profits last year, the auction house is demanding wage and benefit
cuts, and the replacement of skilled, union workers with unskilled,
non-union temporary workers.Several unions, including other
Teamster locals, UAW, CWA, LiUNA, TWU, SEIU and UFT were
represented at the demonstration, together with Hunter, NYU
and Columbia University students and faculty, and of course
Occupied Wall Street activists six of whom were arrested in an
act of civil disobedience.


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Unraveling the Unemployment Insurance Lifeline
with
George Wentworth, Staff Attorney, National Employment Law Project


At a time when U.S. corporations are stockpiling cash, it’s outrageous
that state lawmakers have the audacity to make jobless workers pay
for decades of irresponsible business tax breaks that ultimately
undermined state unemployment insurance finances. But, corporate
lobbyists have ushered through legislative measures, behind closed
doors and with no public debate, of cuts to state unemployment
insurance programs when more people are out of work for longer
than any other period in generations. We have better wakeup and
smell the coffee, realize the consequences of what will be drastic
measures before our unemployment benefits are no longer there
when we need them.
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Occupy Wall Street Protesters including Pulitzer Prize winning
author Christopher Hedges arrested at Goldman Sachs headquarters
in NYC as they chant “Crooks & Thieves, Protected By Police!
The Criminals Are Inside"

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