WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price

This film takes you behind the glitz of Wal-Mart’s media campaign and into the real lives of workers and their families, business owners and their communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way you think, feel... and shop.

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WBAI Radio’s Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash.

Fighting Wal-Martization

Wal-Mart is the largest private employer in the US. This video shows why working people and trade unionists are fighting back and what Wal-Mart has in store for the communities it is seeking to build stores in.

Why Argentineans Protested Bush Visit

Massive protests focused on U.S. economic policy toward Latin America at the Western Hemisphere Summit recently concluded. In 2001, Argentina’s economy collapsed. The workers in Argentina organized.

With Activists from Workers Control Movement in Argentina Carlos Alberto Barra of the Unemployed Worker Movement and Elsa Montero of x-IMECC, a worker-run medical cooperative.

• Download/Podcast Building Bridges Nov 7 2005.

WBAI Radio’s Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash.

Maureen Mwanawasa, The First Lady of Zambia Visits New York

Maureen Mwanawasa discusses the most urgent tasks facing Zambia in the fields of economy, trade, science and technology. She will also talk about the recent increase in the minimum wage, conditions of employment, progressive development strategies and debt relief. As part of the African First Ladies Alliance Against AIDS, Ms. Mwanawasa will address the devastation of HIV/AIDS.

• Download/Podcast Building Bridges Nov 14, 2005

WBAI Radio’s Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

NYU’s Union Busting – It’s Disgusting

The 1,000 NYU teaching and research assistants, members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee/UAW Local 2110, are walking picket lines because the university has refused to negotiate a second contract, rescinded recognition of their union and cut their health benefits.

With Jenny Shaw and Miabi Chatterji, Graduate Teaching Assistants and Members of the Organizing Committee of GSOC/UAW Local 2110.

• Download/Podcast Building Bridges Nov 14, 2005.

WBAI Radio’s Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

Telesur goes on air under fire from U. S.

A Latin America-wide TV network competing with U.S. and European international news stations launches.

Telesur, led by Venezuela, is financed by the governments of Argentina, Cuba and Uruguay.

First Call: International Labor Film & Video Festival

We are organizing The First International Labor Film And Video Festival in Istanbul and Ankara, in Turkey between 29th of April – 7th of May 2006, during the May Day celebration.

We invite your endorsement and participation.

Working New York is on the Air

The first episode of this half-hour talk show produced by the NYS AFL-CIO and hosted by State Federation President Denis Hughes, aired Oct 5, 2005.

My City TIF of Thee

WorkWeek Nov 10/11: Vicki Walker and Judy Ancel interview Kansas City Councilman Jim Glover, Missouri Rep. Bob Johnson, and Kansas City Star Business Editor Chris Lester about Tax Increment Financing and incentives to corporations.

The News from Our Side: NYU Graduate Teaching Assistants on Strike • Who voted for Wal-Mart to get notice before inspections? • Is FTAA dead? • Lajat locks out its workers in Mexico; what will Levi Strauss do? • Economics Unmasked with Prof. Gene Wagner on Trade and the Summit in Argentina

Heartland Labor Forum broadcasts Thurs 6:00-7:00 pm, Fri 5:00-6:00 pm on KKFI 90.1 FM Kansas City Community Radio