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Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., July 6, 7 – 8 pm EST streaming @ www.wbai.org/playernew.html<http://www.wbai.org/playernew.html> smartphone streaming @ http://stream.wbai.org Listen live on any phone 1-712-832-2645<tel:1-712-832-2645> & to listen, or download archived shows & podcasts, www.wbai.org/server-archive.html<http://www.wbai.org/server-archive.html> ***************************** Greece at the Crossroads: July 5 Referendum to Decide On More Austerity or A Leap into Uncharted Waters with Costas Panayotakis, Associate Professor of Sociology, N.Y.C. College of Technology of the City University of N.Y. & author of Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy. Struggling to free itself from a web of debt and the economic restructuring plans imposed by the Troika of European creditors (the IMF, European German Central Bank and European Commission) which has resulted in 5 years of ever worsening poverty and unemployment, Greece’s Syriza government last week refused to pay a $1.7 billion debt payment and called for a national referendum of the Troika’s most recent draconian economic restructuring plan focused on pension cuts and tax policy . With the Greek banks closed by a decision of the European Central Bank cuttng off supprt and European Union officials themselves and much of Greece’s media campaigning against him, on Friday, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras renewed his call for Greeks to reject the terms of the bailout offer from the country’s European creditors, warning voters against caving in to “blackmail.” Many are seeing the results of this referendum impacting Syriza’s rule, Greek participation in the Euro and the financial stability of Europe itself. Many economists including Nobel Prize winners Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz agree with Tsipras that austerity itself is the problem not the cure and go further urging a Greek exit from the Euro unless the entire European economic framework is reformed. ------------------- Mexican Farm Workers’ Struggle in Historic Strike with . Al Rojas, a Founding Member of the United Farm Workers; current Pres. , Sacramento Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (AFL-CIO) . Eduardo Rosario, Executive Board Member, NYC Chapter, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement Mexican farm workers in the San Quintin Valley of the state of Baja California are calling for international action to support their demands for decent wages and an end to labor abuses by international produce companies that operate throughout Mexico primarily for export to the US under the label of Driscoll’s. More than 33,000 farm workers declared a historic strike in late March which stopped work at peak harvest and have continued their protests ever since waging intermittent strikes and road blocks and mass mobilizations which have extended to workers in Washington State. They compare their working conditions to those that existed during the colonial period with workdays of more than 15 hours . The San Quintin Valley is a major producer of fruits and vegetables that are exported primarily to the United States. Workers here pick as many as 160 kilos a day that sell for more than $2,000, while the workers make on average US$7 a day. The workers are demanding a base salary of at least $13 for every 8-hour workday as well as recognition by companies and union officials. ***************************** Tune in at 6 - 8 am to Wednesday Edition hosted by Mimi Rosenberg ************************************** In addition to being broadcast over WBAI, 99.5 FM in NYC and the tri-state area 7 - 8 pm EST Mondays, Building Bridges is syndicated to 50 broadcast and internet radio stations in the US, Canada and the UK Building Bridges National Edition is regularly available over: WZBC, Boston, Mass. WDRT, Viroqua, WI. 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