Public Employee Press

Radio program on WBAI takes labor’s side

“Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report” is a weekly radio program co-produced by DC 37 Education Fund Librarian Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg, senior staff attorney for the Brooklyn office of the Legal Aid Society.

The show airs on Mondays at 7 p.m. over WBAI, 99.5 FM. After the release of his new documentary, “Sicko,” Michael Moore said he had been denied access to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange but was welcomed at “Building Bridges.” Indeed, health care reform is a natural for “Building Bridges,” which has given voice to U.S. Rep. John Conyers, economist Paul Krugman and scores of critics of the U.S. system over the years.

Recently, “Building Bridges” interviewed Iraqi labor leaders, who spoke about the new oil law that would hand Iraq’s oil reserves to multinational oil companies. They said there is widespread support in Iraq for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.

WBAI and “Building Bridges” try to be “consistently on the side of working people in the class war,” said Nash.

They have done specials on immigrant workers, on the devastated residents of New Orleans, the growth of “sweatshop America,” local labor activists fighting frontline battles and renowned luminaries such as Nelson Mandela, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, Ossie Davis and Harry Belafonte.

The show is podcast at www.wbai.org.