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WorkWeek Radio on KPFA is a weekly labor show that covers the struggles of workers & unions in the US and the world. https://soundcloud.com/workweek
WorkWeek 10-24-24 Privatization & The Attack On CCSF & BRICS, China, Africa & Imperialism
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WorkWeek looks at the long struggle to privatize and destroy the Community College of San Francisco through selling off the campuses, laying off the faculty and eliminating classes for working class and poor students.
WorkWeek speaks with AFT 2121 CCSF lecturer Rick Baum who talks about the latest attacks on students by eliminating classes and the privatization of Balboa reservoir which now has eliminated parking for thousands of working class students. He also talks about the role of the local Democrats who have gone along with privatization and turning over the reservoir for for profit condo developer Avalon. Next WorkWeek interviews political economist Patrick Bond who is a professor at the University of Johannessburg who talks about the role of China in Africa and how it is now looting the continent like US and European imperialists. He talks about how BRICS is based on capitalist exploitation and mimics the IMF and WTO in how it bases itself on capitalist financial relations.
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WorkWeek 10-24-24 China, BRICS Africa & The Crisis In Imperialism
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WorkWeek continues the interview with political economist Patrick Bond who is a professor at the University of Johanessburg about the role of China and BRICS in Africa.
Bond who has spent decades studying the IMF, WB and other capitalist financial organizations looks at the role of BRICS set up by China and how its investments are based. He also discusses the systemic corruption and capture of the comprador capitalists running South Africa and many other countries in Africa.
He also looks at the both the political and economic role of the BRICS members in relationship to Zionism and the genocide in Gaza. He talks about how China is helping the Israeli regime along with the other members of BRICS in economically supporting and profiting from the Zionist state.
This interview was done on 10/17/24
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WW 10-24-24 Privatization & The Attack On CCSF & BRICS, China, Africa & Imperialism
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WorkWeek looks at the long struggle to privatize and destroy the Community College of San Francisco through selling off the campuses, laying off the faculty and eliminating classes for working class and poor students.
WorkWeek speaks with AFT 2121 CCSF lecturer Rick Baum who talks about the latest attacks on students by eliminating classes and the privatization of Balboa reservoir which now has eliminated parking for thousands of working class students. He also talks about the role of the local Democrats who have gone along with privatization and turning over the reservoir for for profit condo developer Avalon. Next WorkWeek interviews political economist Patrick Bond who is a professor at the University of Johannessburg who talks about the role of China in Africa and how it is now looting the continent like US and European imperialists. He talks about how BRICS is based on capitalist exploitation and mimics the IMF and WTO in how it bases itself on capitalist financial relations.
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WW 10-24-24 China, BRICS Africa & The Crisis In Imperialism
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WorkWeek continues the interview with political economist Patrick Bond who is a professor at the University of Johanessburg about the role of China and BRICS in Africa.
Bond who has spent decades studying the IMF, WB and other capitalist financial organizations looks at the role of BRICS set up by China and how its investments are based. He also discusses the systemic corruption and capture of the comprador capitalists running South Africa and many other countries in Africa.
He also looks at the both the political and economic role of the BRICS members in relationship to Zionism and the genocide in Gaza. He talks about how China is helping the Israeli regime along with the other members of BRICS in economically supporting and profiting from the Zionist state.
This interview was done on 10/17/24
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WW 10-17-24 UCSF Health Workers For Palestine, SFSU Palestine Action UAL Mechanics
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WorkWeek covers labor and student actions around the country on the one year anniversary of the US supported genocide in Gaza. At the University of California in San Francisco, healthcare workers and students spoke out about who is responsible for this genocide and the cost of the lives of healthcare workers and their families.
We also interview students who walked out at San Francisco State University and charge the University management with complicity of the genocide.
Last we cover the struggle of UAL Teamsters Local 856 mechanics and CWA Airline Flight Attendants at UAL. They talk about mechanics having ot live in their cars due to the high cost of housing and the flight attendants who have been negotiating for four years for a contract because of the reactionary Railroad Labor Act.
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WW 10-17-24 Lessons Of Bhopal, Extraction Industries & Capitalism With Kakoli Matti
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WorkWeek looks at the lessons of the massive industrial disaster Bhopal India caused by the US company Union Carbide 40 years ago. Over 10,000 residents and workers were killed due to criminal negligence and the drive for profits by the company which is now owned by Dow Chemical. We interview scientist and lawyer Kakoli Matri who organized an event with the women from Bhopal and 30 environmental and human rights organizations in Northern California. She discusses the systemic causes of not only Bhopal but other environmental and climate catastrophes including the deadly hurricanes hitting the Florida and the south.
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WW 10-17-24 UCSF Health Workers For Palestine, SFSU Palestine Action UAL Mechanics
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WorkWeek covers labor and student actions around the country on the one year anniversary of the US supported genocide in Gaza. At the University of California in San Francisco, healthcare workers and students spoke out about who is responsible for this genocide and the cost of the lives of healthcare workers and their families.
We also interview students who walked out at San Francisco State University and charge the University management with complicity of the genocide.
Last we cover the struggle of UAL Teamsters Local 856 mechanics and CWA Airline Flight Attendants at UAL. They talk about mechanics having ot live in their cars due to the high cost of housing and the flight attendants who have been negotiating for four years for a contract because of the reactionary Railroad Labor Act.
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WW 10-3-24 Rally To Stop Attacks On Argentina Workers Part & Attacks on UC Students, Staff & Faculty
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WorkWeek covers a September 23 at the Oakland Federal building to demand the dropping of criminal charges against the Argentinian Workers Party and Piqueteros movement. The US government is supporting the fascist president Javier Millei who is carrying out the policies of the IMF and billionaires
To privatize the entire economy and allow the looting of the resources by billionaires like Elon Musk.
Next WorkWeek covers the growing attack on students, faculty and staff who are opposing the genocide Gaza at the University of California has included physical assaults by Zionists and right-wingers and an effort to completely shutdown democratic discussion, debate and actions at the University.
Christine Hong is a UCSC Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and Literature. She is also with the the Center for Racial Justice at UC Santa Cruz and is part of a working committee to have a tribunal on the relationship of the University of California regents and managers to Zionism and the Israeli
genocide. This tribunal will hold it’s first event on November 10th and November 11th when th UC Regents meeting at Mission Bay UCSF in San Francisco.
She spoke recently at a Labor For Palestine meeting in San Diego.
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WW 10-3-24 Fed Judge Does Damage Control For Norfolk Southern East Palestine Settlement & 40th Anniversary Of Bhopal Disaster
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WorkWeek covers a hearing over a settlement for the residents of East Palestine, Ohio. Last week a Federal judge in Youngstown Ohio approved a settlement in the Norfolk Southern rail derailment at East Palestine that contaminated thousands with vynal chloride and other chemicals. The judge refused to allow the residents to speak out as well as independent toxocologists. The plaintiff’s lawyers also colluded with Norfolk Southern to prevent the issue of their healthcare needs from being addressed.
Fourty years ago, the largest industrial disaster in the world took place in Bhopal India where a union carbide chemical plant blew up and killed and injured tens of thousands of people.
Union Carbide and the successor company Dow chemical refused to take responsibility for their disaster and some of the residents. We interview women survivors of this disaster who were recently on tour in the US and spoke in Oakland, California.
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WorkWeek AFL-CIO, AIFLD, Labor Imperialism & Colombia & Peru
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WorkWeek looks at the International role of the AFL-CIO which is little known by most US workers and trade unionists
but it has played a critical role in the support of US imperialism and multi-nationals around the world.
On September 11 in 1972 the CIA with the support of the AFL-CIO leadership helped organize a military coup against
the Allende government and tens of thousands of workers were tortured and murdered as a direct result of this
coup.The Labor Education Project on AFL-CIO operations recently held an educational forum on the role of the
AFL-CIO AIFLD and labor imperialism in Colombia and Peru. It also covered what the AFL-CIO is doing today
with it’s international operations which got $75 million from the US funding National Endowment for Democracy
or NED.
The AFL-CIO Solidarity Center is funded almost entirely by the US government and operates in 62 countries with
no oversight by US workers. Is this operation an appendage of the US government operating in the name of labor?
Additional Media:
Links Between Zionism, Histadrut, South Africa, CIA & The AFL-CIO At BA Labor For Palestine Conf
youtu.be/4oKlvqu6GAs
Zionism, The Histadrut, The AFL-CIO & South Africa
youtu.be/_VioS5r1SAw
The Isreali Histadrut, The AFL-CIO, Zionism & Labor Imperialism With Carol Lang
youtu.be/aH2JslHpeZk
AFL-CIO Leadership Tries To Block Affiliates Vote On Endorsing BDS:AFL-CIO Leadership Cited A Procedural Rule To Tell The San Francisco Council It Couldn't Even Debate A Resolution On BDS.
theintercept.com/2021/10/21/palestine-bds-san-francisco-labor-afl-cio/
The Israeli Histadrut, Zionism, The AFL-CIO & Imperialism With Carol Lang
youtu.be/HLtLDS0FbSE
The Histadrut: Israeli’s Racist Trade Union
electronicintifada.net/content/histadrut-israels-racist-trade-union/8121
2015 resolution by the CT Machinists
www.thestruggle.org/bds%20resolution%20on%20palestine%20ct%20afl-cio%20oct%2029%202015.pdf
Organized labor was among the earliest investors in Israel bonds.
www.israelbonds.com/News-Events/The-Enterprise-that-Helped-Build-Israel-Turns-70/An-Impressive-Le…
AFL-CIO, Imperialism, Zionism and The Palestinians
youtu.be/o_Eo_ZTuJzM
U.S. Unions Are Voicing Unprecedented Support for Palestine
inthesetimes.com/article/palestine-israel-labor-unions-afl-cio-aft-bds-gaza
Palestinian Workers, Human Rights, US Labor, Zionists And How The Zionists Helped The Nazis
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The ITUC and Global Union Federations condemn the designation by Israel of six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations.
Israel’s designation of Palestinian human rights groups as terrorists is outrageous
www.ituc-csi.org/Israel-Palestinian-human-rights
Organized labor was among the earliest investors in Israel bonds.
www.israelbonds.com/News-Events/The-Enterprise-that-Helped-Build-Israel-Turns-70/An-Impressive-Le…
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2024 Apple Launch Protest Over Child Labor In Congo & Palestine & Roots Of Fasism
WorkWeek 9-19-24
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WorkWeek goes to the Apple launch of a new phone and other products on September 9th. There was a
march and rally at the event by Congolese activists who spoke about the role of Apple and the use of
child labor in the cobalt mines that help build the phones.
They also were protesting the profiting of Apple on the genocide in Gaza and how the company is
profiting off the genocide and helping to further the US supported Israeli operations in the Gaza and
in the West Bank.
Next WorkWeek looks at the rise of fascism in the United States On Saturday September 7 Roofers
Local 36 called a working class conference on fascism, democracy and a workers party.
A keynote speaker was Johanna Fernandez who is a member of AFT PSC and a professor at CUNY
college in New York City. She spoke on the roots of fascism.
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WW 9-12-24 Tesla Labor Day Protest, SF Hotel Workers Strike, Heat Wave
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WorkWeek covers a Labor Day protest at Elon Musk's Fremont Tesla plant over union busting
and systemic racism at the plant. It was also in solidarity with striking Swedish Tesla Workers.
Next WorkWeek covers the strike of thousands of San Francisco hotel workers with interviews
at the San Franciscan Hilton.
WorkWeek also covers the heatwave and the fight for strike action at UPS Teamster to stop the
heat deaths on the job. Last we hear from journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal
speaking to a labor conference in Los Angeles on fascism, democracy and a workers party.
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WW 9-12-24 UCSF Students & Workers Rally For Palestine Healthcare Workers & The AFL-CIO & Histadrut
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WorkWeek covers a rally held at UCSF on September 6, 2024 by students and healthcare workers to remember
Palestine healthcare workers who have been jailed or killed. They also talk about the role of UCSF to Zionism
and the growing repression.
Next WorkWeek hears about the role of the AFL-CIO and Zionism. We interview UCSF UPTE worker and
supporter of UPTE Members for Palestine Lisa Milos.
Last WorkWeek covers the growing number of racist attacks on Black people including an attack by the San
Francisco mother of 5 who jaywalked and was attacked and arrested by San Francisco police and the silence
of San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
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FCC Monitorship Threatens KPFA & Pacifica, Rescue Pacifica Press Conference
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Rescue Pacifica held a press conference at KPFA on July 31, 2024 to warn about the FCC monitorship of KPFA and Pacifica and the dangers with the rise of fascism.
The press conference participants reported that the members of The Protectors group who are on the majority on the KPFA Local Station Board had filed a complaint with the FCC to monitor WBAI and have tried to physically shutdown the WBAI Affilate of Pacifica.
These delegates as a result of their complaint with the FCC forced KFPA to pay a fine of $25,000 and also ended up in a full monitorship and oversight of the entire foundation and all stations including KPFA. This has led to a dangerous situation in which KPFA has been unable to have a summer fund drive in a time of dire need. The PNB management which is controlled by The Protectors has also laid off all the staff of the Pacifica Archives which threatens the historic archives of the Pacifica Foundation.
Additional Media:
KPFA Pacifica's 75th Anniversary & The Genocide In Gaza
youtu.be/uWeACjMHcYk
Defend Democracy & Journalists At KPFA & Pacific-Rescue Pacifica Supporters Speak Out
youtu.be/I_PXufckOY8
KPFA Journalist Frank Sterling, , Elections, Pacifica & The Fight Against The Racist Antioch Police
youtu.be/I_PXufckOY8
KPFA & Pacifica Radio Network Struggle For Democracy & Transparency In LSB Elections
youtu.be/_-uuWZpFwpU
Ian Masters CIA Operative Protested At KPFA Pacifica In Berkeley
youtu.be/DzzoEnzvJPE
Shut Up Or Speak Out! KPFA Press Conference For Democracy & Transparency
youtu.be/hbHUrLR9Wy0
The KPFA Local Station Candidate Debates On the Air! Youtube Won't Do & Stop Rigging Elections!
youtu.be/95PHBEWymrQ
KPFA Business Maria Negret Report To Staff On Failure to Pay Property Taxes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AhKXQZPFLk&t=322s
KPFA Bylaw Referendum Debate July 2, 2021
kpfa.org/archives/2021/7/2/
KPFA Pacifica Local Station Board/Public Discuss On Financial Crisis, Bankruptcy & Governance
youtu.be/WsN9lZPQrJs
Rescue Pacifica is running candidate in the election and you can get more information about it by going to:
rescuepacifica.ne
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WW 8-15-24 Slave Labor & Free Labor In The Golden State With Professor Jean Pfealzer
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WorkWeek hears a presentation by Jean Pfealzer, a professor and author of California A Slave State on slave labor and free
labor in California . She discussed the history of slavery in California from the Spaniards and the Missions to the Russians and then slavery when California became a state..
This presentation was part of Laborfest which commemorates the San Francisco general strike and it was held at the Angel Island immigration station where tens of thousands of immigrants including many Chinese arrived in the United States.
Pfealzer besides the author of California A Slave State is also author of Driven Out:The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans.
Additional Media:
California A Slave State With Jean Pfaelzer
youtu.be/JjMisZzA-n0
The History Of Slavery In California With Professor Jean Pfealzer
youtu.be/tfgQU0qig6Y
Additional Info:
www.jeanpfaelzer.com
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