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Public Employee Press
Radio program on WBAI
takes labors side Building Bridges: Your
Community and Labor Report is a weekly radio program co-produced by DC 37
Education Fund Librarian Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg, senior staff attorney for
the Brooklyn office of the Legal Aid Society. The show airs on Mondays
at 7 p.m. over WBAI, 99.5 FM. After the release of his new documentary, Sicko,
Michael Moore said he had been denied access to the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange but was welcomed at Building Bridges. Indeed, health care
reform is a natural for Building Bridges, which has given voice to
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, economist Paul Krugman and scores of critics of the U.S.
system over the years. Recently, Building Bridges interviewed
Iraqi labor leaders, who spoke about the new oil law that would hand Iraqs
oil reserves to multinational oil companies. They said there is widespread support
in Iraq for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops. WBAI and Building
Bridges try to be consistently on the side of working people in the
class war, said Nash. They have done specials on immigrant workers,
on the devastated residents of New Orleans, the growth of sweatshop America,
local labor activists fighting frontline battles and renowned luminaries such
as Nelson Mandela, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Ossie Davis and Harry
Belafonte. The show is podcast at www.wbai.org.
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