WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
Produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Monday, November 12, 2007, 7-8 pm EST over WBAI, 99.5 FM
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Writers' Strike for Their Future
with
Michael Winship, President, Writers’ Guild East
Tim Carvell, Writer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
In a strike which may define the nature of the film and broadcast industry
for years to come, writers from Coast to Coast have been on strike for
For over a week the dispute has been shutting down production of more
shows each day. The main issue is over the distribution of royalties from
DVDs and new and rebroadcast programs over the internet.
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Democrats Oppose Call for Impeachment
with
U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich
When Rep. Kucinich introduced his resolution for impeachment
of Vice President Cheney, he received the support of only a handful of
Democrats. A Presidential hopeful, we’ll talk Kucinich from the campaign
trial in Iowa about impeachment, whether Democrats really want to end
the War, and one of his signature issues, national single payer health
care for all.
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Broadway Shows are Shut Down
with
Bruce Cohen, Spokesperson, Theatrical Stage Employees, IATSE
Since Saturday, Times Square has all but been shut down due to the
Stagehands’ Union strike. Despite record profits in the industry, the
bosses are demanding givebacks saying that stagehands work too
little for too much money and are blaming the strike on workers’ greed.
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Waterboarding: Torture, Terror & Security
with
Malcolm Nance, Counter-terrorism Consultant and
Author of "The Terrorists of Iraq"
and
Karen Greenberg, Exec. Dir. of the Center On Law and Security
at NYU Law School & Author of "The Torture Debate In America"
The history and current practice of waterboarding as torture against the
backdrop of the confirmation of Michael Mukasey as Attorney General.
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Wednesdays from 6 – 9 AM
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