Building Bridges: What Chicago Teachers Taught Us; Occupy One Year Old And Developing; An Exit Strategy to the War on Drugs
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WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Monday, September 24, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
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What Chicago Teachers Taught Us
With
Kimberly Bowsky, Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) rank and file
activist, member of CORE, Council of Rank and File Educators
and the CTU House of Delegates
and
Brian Jones, former NYC public elementary school teacher, now
pursuing a doctorate in urban education, co-narrator of the film
âThe Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Supermanâ and
contributor to the book âEducation and Capitalism: Struggles
for Learning and Liberationâ
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has a tentative agreement. Some
have proclaimed the strike as the biggest and most inspiring union victory
since the 1997 UPS Teamsters strike. While it clearly demonstrates the
resilience of unions and the viability of the traditional strike tactic, it also raises the limitations of what even the best led unions can accomplish
through collective bargaining alone today. What are the lessons of the
CTU strike for N.Y.C.'s school personnel and its students, and for teacherâs
unions and public workers across the country facing challenges to their
very existence?
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An Idea Still In The Process Of Becoming A Material Force for Change:
Occupy One Year Old And Developing
with
âThe 99%â
The sense of economic inequality and wealth distribution that fueled Occupy
one year ago remains palpable and continues to fuel its development. That
idea has ignited imaginations and sparked the political activity of people
across the country. Weâll bring you the voices of Occupiers from a host of
New York neighborhoods, and from Vermont, Texas, Florida. They're all
excited by challenging the plutocracy around economic inequities, womenâs,
immigrant, human and labor rights, health care, and housing, to name but a
few of the broad range of issues fervently displayed as Occupy celebrated
its one year anniversary recently. And what was clear amongst all the
protestors was willingness to challenge the plutocracyâs terrible inequities.
One year and counting Occupy continues its metamorphosis, and promise to
birth a movement of the masses to challenge capital.
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"We need an exit strategy to the War on Drugs."
With
Stephen Downing. Retired LAPD Deputy Chief , Los Angeles, CA
Member of LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Downingâs vast experience in drug law enforcement led him to the conclusion
that the War on Drugs has failed to effectively address the problems of drug
abuse, the problems of addiction, and the problems of crime caused by the
existence of a criminal black market in drugs. By continuing to fight the so-
called âWar on Drugs,â the US and Mexican governments have worsened
these problems instead of alleviating them. A system of regulation and
control of these substances by the government, replacing the current the black
market would be a less harmful, less costly, more ethical, and more effective
public policy.
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Visit Our Website
WWW.BUILDINGBRIDGESRADIO.ORG
Monday, September 24, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
********************************
What Chicago Teachers Taught Us
With
Kimberly Bowsky, Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) rank and file
activist, member of CORE, Council of Rank and File Educators
and the CTU House of Delegates
and
Brian Jones, former NYC public elementary school teacher, now
pursuing a doctorate in urban education, co-narrator of the film
âThe Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Supermanâ and
contributor to the book âEducation and Capitalism: Struggles
for Learning and Liberationâ
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has a tentative agreement. Some
have proclaimed the strike as the biggest and most inspiring union victory
since the 1997 UPS Teamsters strike. While it clearly demonstrates the
resilience of unions and the viability of the traditional strike tactic, it also raises the limitations of what even the best led unions can accomplish
through collective bargaining alone today. What are the lessons of the
CTU strike for N.Y.C.'s school personnel and its students, and for teacherâs
unions and public workers across the country facing challenges to their
very existence?
*********************
An Idea Still In The Process Of Becoming A Material Force for Change:
Occupy One Year Old And Developing
with
âThe 99%â
The sense of economic inequality and wealth distribution that fueled Occupy
one year ago remains palpable and continues to fuel its development. That
idea has ignited imaginations and sparked the political activity of people
across the country. Weâll bring you the voices of Occupiers from a host of
New York neighborhoods, and from Vermont, Texas, Florida. They're all
excited by challenging the plutocracy around economic inequities, womenâs,
immigrant, human and labor rights, health care, and housing, to name but a
few of the broad range of issues fervently displayed as Occupy celebrated
its one year anniversary recently. And what was clear amongst all the
protestors was willingness to challenge the plutocracyâs terrible inequities.
One year and counting Occupy continues its metamorphosis, and promise to
birth a movement of the masses to challenge capital.
==========================
"We need an exit strategy to the War on Drugs."
With
Stephen Downing. Retired LAPD Deputy Chief , Los Angeles, CA
Member of LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Downingâs vast experience in drug law enforcement led him to the conclusion
that the War on Drugs has failed to effectively address the problems of drug
abuse, the problems of addiction, and the problems of crime caused by the
existence of a criminal black market in drugs. By continuing to fight the so-
called âWar on Drugs,â the US and Mexican governments have worsened
these problems instead of alleviating them. A system of regulation and
control of these substances by the government, replacing the current the black
market would be a less harmful, less costly, more ethical, and more effective
public policy.
*********************************************
Visit Our Website
WWW.BUILDINGBRIDGESRADIO.ORG
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