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Peacetalks: Interview with Dr. Ann Lopez NAFTA and Immigration (audio/mpeg 35.6MB) Interview with Dr. Ann Lopez on NAFTA and the effects on Immigration and the environment....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 7:30am PDT
David Bacon: Children of NAFTA (audio/mpeg 27.5MB) For over fifteen years, David Bacon has been a documentary photographer, covering labor movements, immigration, and international politics. His background as a labor organizer with UFW, UEW, ILGW, and other unions, gives Bacon a unique perspective on migration, and the struggle for worker's rights. David Bacon spoke on Friday, June 23 in Watsonville, about his recent book, The Children of NAFTA. TRT- 29:58...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 4:54pm PDT
UC Regents Meeting reportback 5/17 (audio/mpeg 6.0MB) On Wednesday 5/17 the UC Regents held a meeting at UCSF. Students, Workers and unions were present, primarily in response to UC's plan to cut workers' pensions. The unions were united & unapologetic, cheering loudly as three California State Senators including Figeroa (D) and Maldonado (R), called for Dynes' resignation....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2006 2:44pm PDT
FRSC: May Day callins from Bakersfeild cops preventing march grabing marchers (audio/mpeg 1.3MB) Two Calls from Bakersfeild where cops are preventing march and start arresting. caller was aperently grabbed by cops....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:42pm PDT
Cristina reporting from Bakersfeild angry crowd grabbed by cops (audio/mpeg 961.6KB) ...
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:42pm PDT
FRSC: May Day callins from the marches San Fransisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 1.1MB) Callins to Free radio Santa Cruz from San Fransisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz including Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina, Payso and FRSC programmers Sandino and Danielsan....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 1:41pm PDT
Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina, Payso at Civic Center San fransisco (audio/mpeg 5.0MB) ...
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 1:41pm PDT
FRSC: More Callins from the marches (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) Bradley Reporting from Watsonville Ca. Thousands of Marchers heading into Plaza 2:15pm...
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2006 2:26pm PDT
PoP dEFECT RADIO: May Day Special: Worker Songs Vol1 (audio/mpeg 25.8MB) A May Day Special for all the workers bustin their asses in wage slave jobs
featuring songs and commentary by The Pinkos, Rube Waddel, U Utah Phillips, Fiffteen, Jon Lee, Tree more..
Happy May Day!!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 25, 2006 7:38am PDT
WAJE Hands Over 6,000 Petition Signatures (audio/mpeg 2.2MB) Photos & Audio (3 min 12 sec) of Nora Hochman and Victor Medina from the Working Alliance for a Just Economy (WAJE) as the group turned over thousands of signatures at City Hall to be verified in the ballot initiative process. If enough signatures qualify, the minimum wage hike will go before the voters in November....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 11:37pm PDT
San Francisco School Board votes in Strikebreakers (audio/mpeg 2.5MB) The San Francisco School Board voted to permit SFUSD to hire subsitute teachers who haven't passed the CBEST, the exam required required by the State of California to become a teacher. This proposal, which passed Wednesday night, goes into affect if the SF teachers union, UESF, goes on strike. UESF voted to strike if contract demands are not met during the ongoing negotations for increased pay and safer schools. The audio piece runs 2:42....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 4:01pm PDT
Santa Cruz County Workers Strike Cripples Services for a Day (audio/mpeg 4.1MB) Eighteen-hundred Santa Cruz county employees represented by SEIU Local 415, staged a one day strike March 14, crippling road maintenance, payroll processing, social work, and many other services. Vinny Lombardo reports....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 9:22pm PST
The Oakland General Strike Of 1946: A KPFA Radio Show (audio/mpeg 26.0MB) This radio show from the Pacifica Radio Archives was on the Oakland General Strike of 1946 and
was broadcast on 11/29/76 on the 30th anniversary of the strike.
56.50 min 26 MB...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 10:36am PST
Audio Of Historian Michael Kazin On Labor and the 1906 Quake (audio/mpeg 28.6MB) This audio presentation is by labor historian Michael Kazn about the San Francisco labor
movement during the period of the 1906 earthquake. Kazin's book
"Barons Of Labor, The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
is an important contribution on the history of working people in San Francisco.
28.6MB 1.02 minutes...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 2:18pm PST
LOJ Show On The Attack On SF Public Workers & Civil Service (audio/mpeg 15.5MB) The show of Labor On The Job focuses on the struggle to defend civil service in San Francisco
and the plans by Mayor Newsom and his Human Resources Director Phil Ginzberg to replace
civil service with cronyism and eliminate anychecks and balances on who is hired. It also
exposes the growing privatization in the city and how private contractors are colluding to
help eliminate civil service....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:28am PST
Sweat-Free Campus Campaign Heats Up (audio/mpeg 4.0MB) United Students Against Sweatshops have been organizing on college campuses around the US, to pressure school officials into adopting policies that strengthen the rights of garment workers who produce university apparel. A clothing optional rally drew about three dozen students to the base of UC Santa Cruz on March 1. Vinny Lombardo has more....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 2:19pm PST
The Fight Against Racial Discrimination in the Richmond Shipyards:An interview with Soskin (audio/mpeg 12.6MB) Betty Reid Soskin experienced racism during the 2nd WW in the Richmond shipyards and she
discusses this with Steve Zeltzer from the KPFA Labor Collective.
27.25 minutes 12.6 mb...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:26pm PST
Segregation in the US and Bay Area Trade Unionists (audio/mpeg 7.3MB) This interview exposes the history of segregation and the
effect on SEIU UHW hospital workers....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:12pm PST
Labor Anti-War Rally at Dolores Park (audio/mpeg 6.9MB) Labor held its own rally at Dolores Park during the 9/24 San Francisco anti-war Rally. Harry Brill represents the Berkeley Honda dealership strikers. Michael Eisenscher speaks on behalf of Labor Against the War. formed after a 2003 AFL-CIO vote to oppose the war in Iraq, the first formal labor resolution directly opposing U.S. government war policy. (8 minutes)...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2005 8:04pm PDT
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