what is the agenda of the masses of protestors
carrying banners as they massed in Washington recently to march for
immigration reform, & what are the prospects for their achieving progressive legislation?

The AFL-CIO is mounting a national campaign to put America back to
work and ensure that the banks, whose reckless acts created the jobs crisis, pay to create the jobs they destroyed, stop fighting financial reform and start
lending.

Building Bridges Radio: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Building Bridges allows domestic workers to tell their stories –
stories of their pains, their pride and their efforts to organize
for labor rights.

From workers at a Verizon call center, to immigrants in the fish-
processing industry to nurses at the Boston Medical Center and then to a plant where workers made machinery for the paper industry, Tom Juravich channels the workers voices to provide a vivid account of the degradation of workers in America.Plus, Michael Moore submits an alternative with is examination of coop cab drivers.

Kathrine Switzer will always be best known as the woman who challenged the all-male tradition of the Boston Marathon and became the first woman to officially enter and run the event.

Saru Jayaraman details the prevalence in the restaurant industry of
wage theft, sub-minimum wages and widespread discrimination as
well as ROCs innovative fightback.

Despite unrelenting state repression, there have been rumblings of
renewed labor organizing in Iran.

The NYC Dept. of Education’s Panel for Education Policy meeting was protested by thousands of teachers,parents,students and concerned community members against the plan to close 19 schools overwhelming populated by students of color.