audio building_bridges Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ******************************************** Canadian Auto Workers Blockade GM Headquarters Fighting Plant Closing with Gregg Moffat, Truck Plant Chair, local 222, CAW GM announced that it would close it’s truck assembly plant in Ontario, causing the loss of 2,900 jobs. The closing is part of a restructuring with four North American plants slated to close as well. However, Canadian workers aren’t sitting back they’ve taken their anger straight to the front door of the GM executives, with a blockade they vow to continue until their demands are met. **************************************** Domestic Workers Go National Domestic Workers are no longer silent. Eight years ago, Domestic Workers United was formed in NYC by Asian, Latina, Caribbean and African Women. A “Domestic Workers Bill of Rights is now pending in the NYS Legislature. At last year's Social Forum in Atlanda, 16 organizations from around the country formed the "Domestic Workers Alliance". They came NYC recently to attend the First National Domestic Workers Congress. Nearly 400 workers and supporters rallied in front of NYC City Hall to demand jusitce. ************************************************************* for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at www.wbai.org Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WGOT - Gainesville, Florida. WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y. WWUH, - West Hartford, CT WVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA WXOJ, Northampton, MA KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon WKNH ,Keene, NH CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado WRPI, Troy, New York WNRB, Wausau, WI KRBS, Oroville, CA WHLD, Buffalo, NY Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WA KQRP Salida, California East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA as well as internet stations: Radio Veronica,West Point, PA The Journey Radio WXXE Seattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart AmericanFM.org RadioDriftless.org Grateful Dread Public Radio Please email Building Bridges knash@igc.org if you are broadcasting our National Edition. We'd like to have an accurate list of which stations are airing Building Bridges., so please let us know! ========================================= For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to www.buildingbridgesradio.org auto workers; canada; domestic workers Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ BuildingBridgesRadiocanadianAutoWorkersBlockadeGmHeadquartersAnd_293 knash@igc.org 2008-06-13 23:06:34 2008-06-13 23:09:03