Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report National Edition Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash ************************************* 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 [...]

      Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                   National Edition          Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                   ******************************************** 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. [...]

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** 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, [...]

 to listen or download go to: http://www.buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/2012/01/stopping-nypds-stop-and-frisk.html     Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                              National Edition                    Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                           ******************************************** STOPPING THE NYPD’s Stop and Frisk With l  Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness l  Jamal Mims, Occupy Wall Street l  Mary Black, [...]

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg ******************************************** 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 [...]

to download or listen go to:  http://buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/2012/01/occupy-wall-st-stands-with-indigenous.html         Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                              National Edition                    Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                           ******************************************** “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 l Raymond [...]

to listen or download go to: http://www.buildingbridgesradio.blogspot.com/2012/01/banking-building-public-option-2722.html           Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                              National Edition                    Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                           ******************************************** 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 [...]

            Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                              National Edition                    Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                           ******************************************** 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 [...]

to listen to or download this radio program go to our website http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org              Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report                                              National Edition                    Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                           ******************************************** Occupy West Coast Shuts Down Ports, While NYC Targeted Goldman Sachs With l    Maria Cardenas, Occupy Oakland l    Michael Novick, Occupy LA l<span style="font-family: Arial;color: [...]

to download or listen go to our website http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report                                     National Edition          Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                 ******************************************** 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 [...]

      Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                     National Edition          Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                 ******************************************** NYC Students Stand Firm After CUNY Police Bully Them During Occupy City Univeristy of NY (CUNY) Protest Over Tuition Hikes With l  Occupy CUNY Student Members Hector Agredano & Emma Francis-Snyder l  Barbara Bowen, President of CUNY Professional Staff [...]

      Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                     National Edition          Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                 ******************************************** 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 August 1996, President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, replacing Aid to Families with Dependant [...]

      Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                     National Edition          Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                 ******************************************** 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 [...]

Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report                                     National Edition          Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                 ******************************************** 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 [...]

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 [...]

    Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report                                National Edition          Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                  ******************************************** All Day, All Week – N.Y.C. Occupy Wall Street Actions at Sotheby’s Auction Lockout, Harlem Protest Against Stop and Fisk and Verizon Workers Contract Protest   It’s was a busy week for NYC’s Occupy Wall Street protesters. Building Bridges brings you coverage of [...]

          Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report                              National Edition        Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                     ******************************************** Occupy Wall Street Wins, Then Celebrates with Citywide Protests   Following a huge and rapid public outcry that included hundreds of thousands of online petition signatures and phone calls to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office, a threatened clean-up/eviction of [...]

         Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report                                                 National Edition                     Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg                                ******************************************** “Occupy Wall  Street” Creates a Movement with Labor & Community Support Despite Police Repression. Occupy Wall Street, the movement whose organizational forms and demands are evolving continues to pick up support including organized [...]