Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., April 24, 7 – 8 pm EST
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"When Silence is Not an Option" | A Message to the Nation from
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II on Rekindling a Moral Vision for
Justice, Movement Building and Social Change
with
The Rev. William J. Barber II, president of the North Carolina
NAACP, architect of the Moral Monday protest movement, and
Repairers of the Breach, his most recent  books include
“Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation” and
“The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics
and the Rise of a New Justice Movement.”
 
Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations
of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach,
the restorer of streets to live in.  — Isaiah 58:12
 
William Barber, one of the nations’ leading theologians advocates
tirelessly for the rights of the poor, the imprisoned, the disenfranchised
and the working class, obliterating the social, cultural, religious and
political barriers in society.  Barber’s Forward Together Moral
Movement gained national acclaim with its Moral Monday protests at
the North Carolina General Assembly in 2013. These weekly actions
drew tens of thousands of North Carolinians and other moral witnesses
to the state legislature. More than 1,050 peaceful protesters were
arrested, handcuffed and jailed, bringing attention to the actions of the
legislature.
 
Barber’s work is about building a progressive agenda rooted in a
moral framework to counter the ultra-conservative constructs that try to
dominate the public square. He helps frame public policies which are
not constrained or confined by the narrow tenets of neo-conservatism. 
He brings together people from different faith traditions, with people
 without a spiritual practice but who share the moral principles at the
heart to repair the breaches caused by centuries old systems of racial
and gender inequality
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Whose Streets: The History and Future of Activism
with
Sarah Jaffe, an independent journalist covering labor, economic
justice, social movements, politics, gender, and pop culture.
She is the co-host, with Michelle Chen, of Dissent magazine’s
Belabored podcast, as well as an editorial board member at
Dissent and a columnist at New Labor Forum. Necessary Trouble:
Americans in Revolt is her first book.  She was one of the first
 reporters to cover Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for $15
and
Mark Brenner, Director of Labor Notes, a media and organizing
project that has been the voice of union activists who want to
put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979. 
Labor Notes also works with local unions and community
groups to organize Troublemakers Schools, bringing labor
activists together for a day of workshops on grassroots
unionism and skills that officers and rank and filers need.

Sarah Jaffe  covers the class war one battle at a time.  She has criss-
crossed the country, asking people what they were angry about, and
what they were doing to take power back.  She penetrates the heart
of these movements, explaining what has made ordinary Americans
become activists. She attended a people's assembly in a church
gymnasium in Ferguson, Missouri; walked a picket line at an Atlanta
Burger King; rode a bus from New York to Ohio with student organizers;
and went door-to-door in Queens days after Hurricane Sandy.  From
the successful fight for a 15 minimum wage in Seattle and New York
to the halting of Shell's Arctic drilling program, Americans are
discovering the effectiveness of making good, necessary trouble.
Sarah Jaffe captures the essence of the class struggle, tells the
stories of the movers and shakers in labor and community activities
to empower the people towards building a just, egalitarian,  peaceful
society. 
 
Mark Brenner knows that we don’t need a crystal ball to figure out
what a Trump presidency has in store for labor:  national “right-to-work”
legislation, outsourcing and privatizing more public services, large-scale
deportations, a ban on prevailing-wage laws and this is just the tip of the
iceberg.   But that’s precisely when Labor Notes kicks into gear insisting,
“after we mourn, we need to organize”. Mark will talk about how under
Trump, labor must abandon its insider approach and concentrate on the
power of the rank and file and where that’s happening.
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Tune in at 6 - 8 am to Wednesday Edition hosted by Mimi Rosenberg
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In addition to being broadcast over WBAI,  99.5 FM in NYC and the
tri-state area 7 - 8 pm EST Mondays, Building Bridges is syndicated
to 50  broadcast and internet  radio stations in the US, Canada and
the UK                                

Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over:
                        
                          KGRN Columbus, Ohio
                          KOPN, Columbia, MO
                          KWRK, Fairbanks, Alaska
                          WLSL, Dade City, FL
                          WMNB, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
                          WZBC, Boston, Mass.
                          WDRT, Viroqua, WI
                          KYRS, Spokane, WA
                          Liberty and Justice1640, Shirley Mass
                          KWTF,Sonoma County CA
                          KNSJ, San Diego, CA
                          KRFY, Sandpoint, ID
                          KMUD, Redway, CA
                          WXOJ-LP, Florence, MA
                          KPOV, Bend, Oregon
                          KONR Ankorage, Alaska
                          WAPJ, Torrington, CT.
                          WOOL, Great Falls, Vermont and New Hampshire
                          KKRN Bella Vista, CA
                          KGHI, Westport, WA
                          KSVR, Mount Vernon, WA
                          WAZU, Peoria, Illinois
                          KMEC, Ukiah, CA
                          KOWA, Olympia Washington .
                          WWUH, West Hartford, CT
                          WMNF HD FM Tampa, Florida
                          WPVM - MAIN-FM  Asheville, NC
                          WERU Blue Hill and Bangor, Maine
                          WGOT -  Gainesville, Florida.
                          WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y.
                          WVJW- Benwood, WV
                          KRFP, Moscow, ID
                          KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon
                          WKNH ,Keene, NH
                          CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada
                          WRPI, Troy, New York
                          WNRB, Wausau, WI
                          KQRP Salida, California
                          East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA
                          KSKQ, Ashland, Oregon
                          KWMD, Kasiloff-Anchorage, Alaska
                          WPRR, Grand Rapids, Michigan
                          KROV, Oroville, CA
 
                          as well as internet stations:
 
                         Chiampa Internet Radio
                         Global Community Radio 1, Geneva, N.Y.
                         WTF Radio, Bodega Bay CA
                         CPR Metro, NYC
                         Radio Free Radical
                         Radio Free Kansas
                         Radio Veronica, West Point, PA
                         Catalystradio.org,  U.K.
                         WXXE
                         Seattle Radical Radio
                         Radio for Peace International
                         Labourstart
                         AmericanFM.org
                         Grateful Dread Public Radio
                         Detour Network, Knoxville, TN
                         KDX Radio, Homeland, North American
                         Radio Ear Network, Sarasota, FL
                         TuneIn.com
                         Channel One Radio
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