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Discussion of Plan Mexico on Building Bridges tonight – Monday, March 3, 2008

Building Bridges:Plan Mexico; Puerto Rico Teachers’ Strike; Ruby Dee on The
Emmy By Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg

Bush’s Plan Mexico Is Planned Repression
with Laura Carlsen, Director, the Americas Program,
Center for International Policy

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WBAI Radio’s Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, March 3, 2008, 7 – 8 p.m. EST, over 99.5 FM
or streaming live at http://www.wbai.org
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Bush’s Plan Mexico Is Planned Repression
with Laura Carlsen, Director, the Americas Program,
Center for International Policy

President Bush announced a $500 million per year security cooperation
plan with Mexico, the Merida Initiative or Plan Mexico. It proclaimed its
targets to be narcotics trafficking, counter-terrorism, border security, and
the administration of justice. But, it is increasingly being used to
militarize the Mexican state to counter grassroots organizing and protest from
Oaxaca to Chiapas and throughout Mexico.

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2008/03/95182.html

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Union Busting, It’s Disgusting:
Teachers in Puerto Rico Forced To Strike
with
Raphael Feliciano Hernandez, President,
Teachers’ Federation of Puerto Rico (FMPR)
and
Manuel Boigues, Administrator, FMPR

The FMPR strike, that defies the prohibition on strikes by public employees,
has paralyzed the islands’ public schools. The union, representing more
than 42,000 teachers throughout Puerto Rico, struck after years of bad faith
bargaining by Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila and a contested attempt by him to
decertify the union just for threatening a strike. In response to the
strike, the Governor has had the FMPR decertified and excluded them from elections
he is calling for a new union. Now, the Governor appears to be in collusion
with the Service Employees International Union to bust the FMPR and
install an SEIU affiliate.
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Bidding Farewell to the 80 Anniversary of the Oscars
with Ruby Dee

In 2008, as always, the overwhelming majority of the academy awards went
to white men, and the overwhelming majority of recognized films were about
white men. Actress, activist for more than six decades Ruby Dee reads her
clever essay on being nominated for an Emmy. While about an Emmy the
essay certainly speaks to her angst and insight as she was first nominated
for best supporting actress, but was ultimately passed over for the Oscar.
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