audio building_bridges Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report National Edition Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg 27:59 ****************************** Rethinking the Infrastructure Stimulus with Stanley Aronowitz, Prof. of sociology, cultural studies, and urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. Prof. Aronowitz instructs that the economic crisis is buried deep within the structure of capitalism and that that even traditional stimulus packages leave much to desire. There is common agreement in the liberal community that tax rebates are ineffective, but Aronowitz also urges us to also consider that outsourcing infrastructure to the private sector that can be done directly by government wastes valuable resources in private sector profits and that labor intensive investment also produces more jobs for the buck. ******************************************** A Secretary for Labor? with Thea Lee, Director of Policy, AFL-CIO Jubilant is the word that comes to mind for the reaction of the labor community to the selection by President Elect Barack Obama of Rep. Hilda Solis to become the new Secretary of Labor. The daughter of immigrants, from a union family, Representative Solis has been described as having a resume a mile long concerning the rights of workers, women, and the environment.To provide us with greater insight about that the new Labor Secretary and the work cut out for her, protecting, and extending workers rights in the economy, stopping the hemorrhaging jobs, and growing the economy we’re joined by Thea Lee, Director of Policy of the AFL-CIO .************************************** 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 . Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.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 Free Radio Olympia, Olympia,WA KQRP Salida, California East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA KSKQ, Ashland, Oregon KWMD, Kasiloff-Anchorage, Alaska 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 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! Email knash@igc.org ========================================= For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Building+Bridges For archived of all Building Bridges program go to our new website: http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org Thea Lee; AFL-CIO; Representative Hilda Solis; Secretary of Labor; economic stimulus; infrastructure; Stanley Aronowitz Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ BuildingBridgesNationalRethinkingInfrastructureStimulusASecretaryFor knash@igc.org 2009-01-11 00:08:43 2009-01-11 00:10:41