WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Jim Crow, Lives In Jena, Louisiana

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, July 30, 2007, 7 – 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM
or streaming live at http://www.wbai.org
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Jim Crow, Lives In Jena, Louisiana:

Black Youth Face Hundred Year Prison Sentences

with

Tony Brown, Louisiana Radio Host ,“Eyes Open with Tony Brown”



Tony Brown radio host broke the story of six African-American youth

facing 100-year prison terms without parole, now Tony Brown brings

the story to Building Bridges. One morning, three lynch nooses, hanging

from a tree in their schoolyard greeted African-American students in

Jena, Louisiana. Soon these youth were to experience precisely what

the rope historically symbolized, a Jim Crow justice system. The

presence of the nooses precipitated heightened tensions between

Jena’s black and white students. A black student was “assaulted” and

a white student was “beaten.” Despite the absence of a weapon and

absent any severe injury to the white student, six black students were

arrested and charged with conspiracy to attempt second-degree murder,

which could result in prison sentences of 100 years without parole.

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Blood and Oil in Colombia

with

German Osman, Vice President, Union Sindical Obrera,

Hernando Meneses, Human Rights Secretary,

Union Sindical Obrera



At a crucial time when the Bush Administration is pushing for a new

Free Trade Agreement with Colombia, leaders of Colombia’s oil workers

union give first hand accounts of the dismal human and labor rights

situation in Colombia. Over the last 20 years 2,550 trade unionists

have been assassinated in oil and other unions by paramilitary

organizations allied with the government and major corporations in

Colombia. They point out that the Colombian government’s recent

efforts to improve its image in this arena is a sham just to facilitate

passage of the Free Trade Agreement.

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A&P Rips Off Workers' Overtime
with
Rachel Geman, Attorney, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein



The N.Y. State Supreme Court recently granted class certification to

claims by A & P workers that The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.

The Food Emporium, and Waldbaum’s, all part of parent company A&P,

systematically denied overtime pay to their hourly employees. The case

involves thousands of cashiers,clerks, bakers, deli, and other hourly-paid

workers in New York State who are challenging A&P’s failure to pay

overtime since 1998. A&P illegally forced off-the-clock work throughout

its stores, and even overtly manipulated employees’ time records to deny

overtime pay.

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