TV and radio shows for organized labor and working people.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., The Man, The Struggle, The Legacy

A tribute with sound from At the River I Stand and King: Montgomery to Memphis, punctuated by speeches and music from the Civil Rights movement.

Memphis, Spring 1968, marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights Movement. You’ll hear a reconstruction of the two months that transformed a local labor dispute into a national conflagration with the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Montgomery bus boycott and the Memphis sanitation strike – responses to discrimination – offer solutions to racism that are found in the grit and determination of the freedom fighters and workers and their champion.

KPFA Launches New Labor Portal

Collective Trains Working People

The KPFA Labor Collective launched a labor portal on the MLK weekend. The portal contains links to labor programming on radio and video, labor history and culture and a labor calendar.

The site includes history of the Oakland General Strike, the San Francisco General Strike, Black workers in the Bay area, women workers and the history of May Day. It also has national and international links that bring together labor radio and video programming.

Disaster Capitalism: Alternatives to the Katrina Model: Bridges Out Of Poverty

With Dr. Ruby Payne and Phil De Vol, authors of A Framework for Understanding Poverty and Bridges out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities

How could planning for reconstruction involve poor people? What are the causes of poverty? What are the strategies to empower the poor to solve their own problems?

Common Good about what government does right, and why the idea of the “public” is good. A new feature.

The News from Our Side • What really happened at the Sago Mine? • Braceros still seeking social security compensation • African American union members sue their union for discrimination • Bush denies Steelworker petition to stop unfair Chinese pipe imports

Video: Bridging San Francisco Bay, 10 min, USA, 1937 produced by US Steel/Jam Handy Organization

In spite of symphonic music and melodramatic narration, no politicians appear in this film. This black and white documentary captures the dangerous work of the bridgemen who did the work of building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

The Bridge So Far: A Suspense Story, 55 min, USA, 2005, David L. Brown

An entertaining documentary on the wild and troubled history of the new east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The documentary finds both humor and drama in the story of one of California’s greatest fiascos.