WBAI’s Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report  
Monday, March 5, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM
or streaming live at http://www.wbai.org             
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash 
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Hundreds Rally Against Prison Industrial Complex And Mass Incarceration –
THE NEW JIM CROW!
 
The Occupy Wall Street Prisoner Solidarity Subcommittee along with hundreds 
of allies heeded Occupy Oakland’s call to action and marched in solidarity with  
Pelican Bay prisoner’s hunger strike protest, with brothers and sisters who are 
dispossessed by the criminal INJUSTICE system, with immigrant detainees  
and with political prisoners everywhere.  They raised their voices against the 
growth of the privatization of the prison system and mass incarceration –
the New Jim Crow.  The characterization of the system of mass incarceration 
as the New Jim Crow raises the racist nature of the prison system, pointing out 
that between 1970 and 1995, the jailing of African Americans increased seven 
fold. African Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population - and 53% of the 
nation’s prison population. There are more African Americans enslaved under 
correctional control today - in prison or jail; on probation or parole - than there 
were in 1850.
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Federal Agents Arrest Workers Fighting Sweatshop Conditions
With
Jei Fong, Chinese Staff and Workers Association
and
Sarah Ahn, The Justice Will Be Served! Campaign

Yes Car Service livery drivers went to the government to expose their employers’ 
illegal practices; labor law violations and tax fraud. Instead of investigating these 
complaints, federal agents engaged in a campaign of harassment against the 
workers, arresting them, and threatening others with jail and deportation to force 
them to retract their complaints. Now workers and community organizations 
are demanding that US Attorney General Eric Holder stop  the attack on workers 
who file complaints with government agencies, prosecute the federal government 
agents for their wrongdoing, and ensure the right of all workers to complain to 
government agencies regardless of their immigration status.
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Protest Demands MTA Brings Back Laid Off Workers
With
Transport Workers Local 100 
and 
OWS Labor Outreach Committee 
 
TWU Local 100, elected officials, and community supporters called on the MTA to 
use nearly $500 million dollars in its GASB 45 Fund to restore services cut in 2010, 
and to rehire 120 laid-off Station Agents, and settle a fair contract for 38,000 TWU 
Local 100 members. According to MTA budget documents, the agency holds 
approximately $489 million in a reserve fund called the GASB 45 Fund (Government 
Accounting Standards Board). Since 2006, the MTA has been depositing tens of 
millions of dollars every year in this account. Even in 2010, when bus and subway 
services were reduced or eliminated al-together, the MTA stashed money away 
instead of drawing from its reserve fund to avoid service cuts. 
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Thousands To Join The Line And Say “NO MORE PINK SLIPS”
With
Arthur Cheliotes, President, Communications Workers , Local 1180
 
Arthur Cheliotes, will discuss and urge you to Join the Line.  Be there Super Tuesday 
March 6, from 8:14 to 8:28 am to form the world’s longest unemployment line for 
14 minutes  - 1 minute for each of the 1 million currently unemployed Americans. This 
visually stunning and politically significant form of protest symbolizes the 14 million 
Americans who lost their jobs during the last five years, and the 10 -15 million people 
who have given up hope of finding a job and are not even counted in current 
unemployment statistics.  More people were living in poverty last year than in any year 
since the Census Bureau began keeping records half a century ago, while the richest 
1% has tripled its wealth and corporations are being bailed out without giving back.  
So Join the Line, a creative action where we will stretch are arms and join together to 
say, No to Pink Slips,  Yes to Government and Business Putting America Back to Work!
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