Building Bridges Radio: Disney Arrests Mickey,& Tinker Bell Protestng Health Care Cuts
at Labor Health Care Protest at Disneyland with Ada Briceno, Sec'y-Treasurer, UNITE HERE! Local 11, Mary Ann Hegner, bartender at the Disneyland Hotel & Rosa Garcia, dance instructor, Santa Ana College as Tinker Bell Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell and other fictional fixtures of modern-day childhood were handcuffed, & loaded into police vans recently at the culmination of a labor protest that brought a touch of reality to the Happiest Place on Earth. The arrest of 32 of the protesters, came at the end of an hour- long march to Disneyland's gates from one of three Disney- owned hotels at the center of a labor dispute about health care. Disney is trying to take away health insurance for 2,300 maids, bell hops, cooks and dishwashers at their three Disneyland hotels. *********************************************** Don’t Be a Chicken By Healthcare Now Healthcare Now has produced a humorous cartoon primer on the health care crisis in this country and the single payer solution or Medicare for All which forms the basis of Rep. Conyers HR 676. With the number of uninsured in the US growing each year, HR 676 now has more than 92 co- sponsors in the House of Representatives and the number of unions endorsements grow each week including 39 State Labor Federations. ********************************************************** To Download or listen to this 27:30 minute program, go to http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/29466 or http://www.archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalDisneyArrestsMickeyTinkerBellProtestngHealth for more information contact Ken Nash - knash@igc.org Building Bridges is regularly broadcast live over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and is streamed, archived and pod cast at www.wbai.org . Our website is www.buildingbridgesradio.org Building Bridges National Edition is regularly broadcast over: WGOT - Gainesville, Florida. WUOW - Oneonta, N.Y. WWUH, - West Hartford, CT WVJW- Benwood, WV KRFP, Moscow, ID KCSB, Santa Barbara, CA WXOJ, Northampton, MA KSOW,Cottage Grove, Oregon WKNH ,Keene, NH CKDU, Halifax, N.S., Canada KRFC, Fort Collins, Colorado WRPI, Troy, New York WNRB, Wausau, WI KRBS, Oroville, CA WHLD, Buffalo, NY Radio Free Olympia,Olympia,WA KQRP Salida, California East Hill Radio, Snoqualmie, WA KGHZ, Aberdeen/Hoquiam and Olympia, WA. KSKQ, Ashland, Oregon as well as internet stations: Radio Veronica,West Point, PA The Journey Radio WXXE Seattle Radical Radio Radio for Peace International Radio Labourstart AmericanFM.org RadioDriftless.org Grateful Dread Public Radio ========================================= For archived Building Bridges National Programs go to http://www.archive.org/details/building_bridges For archived Building Bridges program go to our new website: http://www.buildingbridgesradio.org Bookmark/Search this post with: |
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