This week: Oct 24, 2005

BC Capital shutdown as 20,000 support teachers

Workers protest Bill 12; support Teachers’ Federation in British Columbia

Race, Class and the Destruction of New Orleans

Tim Wise offers – for the first time – his just-completed analysis of the disaster in the Delta, a watershed in contemporary race relations in this country.

WBAI’s Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report, National Edition, Produced by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

McLibel

The true story of a postman and a gardener who took on McDonald’s in a legal battle described as "the biggest corporate PR disaster in history."

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

The Future of Food

There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America – a revolution that is transforming the nature of the food we eat. The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves.

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

Bush’s Clone Down Under; NLRB Update

WorkWeek Oct 20: Judy Ancel interviews Andrew Casey from Australia’s Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union about PM John Howard&146;s anti-labor agenda.

The News from Our Side

• ICFTU report of labor rights violations across the world in 2004 •  What does GM have in store for workers? • Tyson exports union busting to Canada

Organizing Tech Workers; Paulo Freire’s Popular Education

WashTech member Jon Heisfelter talks about organizing tech workers with “Section 7” non-traditional organizing strategies. Brazilian educator Ivam Martinez de Martinez discuss the adoption of Paulo Freire’s Popular Education pedagogy by the Brazilian Workers Party.