audio building_bridges Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 28 minutes ******************************************** Health Care, Who Cares? With The Coalition against Privatization of GHI and HIP Protesters massed outside the Manhattan offices of GHI after a proposal to convert GHI and HIP to a for-profit status. This would adversely affect 4 million GHI & HIP subscribers state- wide, including 500,000 NYC public employees. It will mean higher premiums, denial of care and higher deductibles when non-profit safeguards are removed. Now protesters are urging unions and public officials to join their campaign against the conversion application currently under review by the State Superintendent of Insurance Eric Dinallo. ******************************************* Brick by Brick: Building Labour Solidarity with Palestine With Jenny Peto,Member Local 1998,United Steelworkers, Toronto The Labour Committee of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid held a conference in Toronto for labour activists working in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The conference sought to bring together workers to explore and refine the arguments and strategy in defense of the campaign for a boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. ******************************************************************** 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 Israel; Palestine; national health care Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ BuildinngBridgesRadioLabourSolidarityWithPalestineAndProtesting knash@igc.org 2008-06-07 23:49:28 2008-06-07 23:52:16