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WBAIâs Radio Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report Monday, April 2, 2012, 7- 8 pm EST, over 99.5 FM P roduced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash ******************************** NYPD Surveillance of Muslims Extended To Activist Organizations With Speakers from: Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM); Al Awda NY; Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood; Peoplesâ Justice for Community Control & Police Accountability; CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and NYC Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez Representatives from the Muslim community with civil liberties advocates came to Police Plaza to decry the NYPD Intelligence Divisionâs blanket surveillance of a community based on religion and race, and to condemn new revelations about surveillance of community-based advocacy groups. Recent documents unearthed reveal that the NYPD surveilled dozens of community organizations, over the last decade. One document reveals that an undercover NYPD officer traveled to New Orleans to attend the People's Summit, a gathering of groups organized around their shared opposition to U.S. economic and trade policies. The undercover effort entailed groups opposed to U.S. immigration policy, labor laws and racial profiling. The new revelations heighten and broaden the serious questions that have yet to be answered by the NYPD and elected officials surrounding it's Muslim surveillance program accusing Police Commissioner Kelly of overstepping his authority with surveillance tactics that critics claim violate the U.S. Constitution. ******* Rank & File Tells Strand Books, Union Busting Is Disgusting! With Courtney Holbrook, Strand worker and Will Bobrowski, Strand Shop Steward The Strand bookstore has presented its workers with a final contract offer.. Some of its most onerous provisions are its creation of a two-tier wage system, splitting the membership between those hired before and after the last contract in September, instituting a wage-freeze from Sept. 2011 until March 2013, raising healthcare premiums 50%, and cutting personal days and holidays in half. Management is seeking to divide the membership around short-term defensive interests, driving a wedge through the current membership, increasing turnover, and breaking the union in the next negotiation period. Weâll speak with Strand worker representatives on the issues and how theyâre preparing for the contract vote commencing April 2. Union Busting Is Disgusting! ******* Taxi Drivers Say Itâs Highway Robbery, Demanding Owners Stop The Greed & Lower The Lease! With Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers Alliance The NY Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) rallied at SLS Jet Garage in Long Island City, Queens, who has a practice of not allowing drivers to pay lease in advance for their shifts, and then charging those same drivers as much as $25 per day for not paying in advance, adding up to more than $9,000 a year. NYTWA has been targeting SLS Jet for its current Stop the Greed, Lower the Lease campaign. We will also discuss the NTWAâs, as new chartered union with the AFL-CIO, which will be celebrated at an upcoming reception with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in NYC. The new National Taxi Workers Alliance, the 57th chartered union of the AFL-CIO, is a watershed moment in U.S. Labor History. This is the first new charter for non-traditional workers in over 60 years & the first for independent contractors. **************** Visit Our Website WWW.BUILDINGBRIDGESRADIO.ORG

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