Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report

Produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash over WBAI,99.5FM in the NYC Metro Area

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WORKERS OF THE WORLD TUNE IN! Introducing "Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report"

Our beat is the labor front, broadly defined, both geographically and conceptually. We examine the world of work and workers on the job as well as where they live. We examine the issues that affect their everyday lives, with a particular sensitivity towards human rights abuses, environmental concerns and the U.S. drive for global domination. We record their global struggles and provide analysis of their efforts to empower themselves and transform society to provide greater democratic, human, social, political and economic rights. Each program consists of feature stories, generally interviews, within a historical context, often accompanied by sound from demonstrations, rallies or conferences, and complemented and enhanced by poetry and instrumental or vocal -- people's culture.

Over the years Building Bridges has produced a weekly one hour program, Mondays from 7-8 PM EST, covering local, national and international labor and community issues over radio WBAI-Pacifica 99.5 FM in New York. We also produce half hour version, Building Bridges National, which is distribtued to over 40 broadcast and internet radio stations.


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Kucinich & Aronowitz on the People's Agenda  

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition 27 minutes
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Excerpts from

The People’s Agenda:
Working For An Economy For The People!

A forum presented recently by WBAI, Building Bridges
and the New York Society for Ethical Culture which examined

the present crisis of capitalism and peoples’ demands that the
road to economic recovery lies in directly increasing their living
standard and abandoning trickle down economics.
with
Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Representative, Cleveland, Ohio
and

Stanley Aronowitz Prof. of Sociology, & Urban Education,
at the City University of NY Graduate Center, and author
of Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future


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with
Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Representative, Cleveland, Ohio

As mayor of Cleveland, Ohio Kucinich had the courage to
stand up to the banks. He has been Representative of the 10th
Congressional District of Ohio since 1997 He continues to stand
up for principle, advocating for the impeachment of former Pres.
George W. Bush for war crimes, his co-sponsorship with Rep.
John Conyers of HR 676, a single-payer health care system
and his criticism of the financial industry in the current economic
crisis.
and
Stanley Aronowitz Prof. of Sociology, & Urban Education,
at the City University of NY Graduate Center, and author
of Left Turn: Forging a New Political Future

Prof. Aronowitz is author of over 25 books and a plethora of
articles on education, sociology, the nature of class, trade unions,
and economics. His analysis Is always right on target and in the
current crisis he has advocated for a massive federal jobs
program, WPA-style as the centerpiece of economic recovery.
But that no meaningful progress can be made without a mass
movement .

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Wall Street Protests - Bail Out the People  

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition 27 minutes
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The Bail Out Our Streets, Not Wall Street Protests. Thousands and thousands of protesters marched to and rallied on Wall Street on April 3rd and 4th. The actions were sponsored by the Bail Out the People Coalition and United for Peace and Justice, both coalitions fighting to make clear it’s the people, who are suffering in the current economic downturn, not the financial institutions who created the crisis, that must be bailed out. Looming large and stimulating the protest messages was the figure of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. whose efforts on behalf of striking Memphis sanitation workers when he was gunned down April 4 1968, echoed through the mass gatherings.

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Obama’s Healthcare Fix a Band-Aid?  

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition 27 minutes
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Will President Obama’s 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. and
Co-Founder Physicians for a National Health Program


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President Obama summoned health care figures of all stripes to the White House to debate ideas for overhauling the nation’s costly system and declared, “The status quo is the one option that is not on the table” . He wants healthcare reform within a year. We’ll discuss what’s on the table so far and what is the best way, the simple way, the economical way, the humane way to stop the bleeding with two of the leading voices for universal healthcare.

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