{"article":{"id":111506,"heading":"Building Bridges Radio- POLICE BUST AT PURCHASE COLLEGE, SUNY & Bhopal Disaster Continues","author":"Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash","created":"2004-05-31 12:57:49","modified":"2005-08-15 02:57:08","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:57:08","article":"

Building Bridges:

Your Community & Labor Report – National Edition

Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

Presents

POLICE BUST AT PURCHASE COLLEGE, SUNY

as Workers and Students Demonstrate for a

Union for Food Service Workers with

\tJessee Lehrer, Purchase student activist

Rose Goldstein Bookbinder, Purchase student activist

Charles Barley, CSEA, AFSCME Organizer

Cindy Polinsky, CSEA , AFSCME Organizer



TELL UNION CARBIDE\/DOW CHEMICALS

TO CLEANUP BHOPAL

with

Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi –

Founder of Clinic in Bhopal to Help Victims of the Disaster



POLICE BUST AT PURCHASE COLLEGE, SUNY as Workers and Students Demonstrate for a

Union for Food Service Workers with

\tJessee Lehrer, Purchase student activist

Rose Goldstein Bookbinder, Purchase student activist

Charles Barley, CSEA, AFSCME Organizer

Cindy Polansky, CSEA , AFSCME Organizer

Despite students and faculty pleas, Chartwells Food Service Co. a subsidiary of Compass, a multi-billion dollar multinational corporation, refuses to allow the food service workers on the Purchase Campus of

SUNY to form a union. Many of these workers make about $14,000\/yr. and pay too much for health insurance. Thirteen students were arrested

recently after they marched across campus and attempted to deliver Chartwells’ CEO, Steve Sweeney, who was speaking on campus, an award for being the worst employer on campus. The workers and students are now protesting the use of excessive police force at this demonstration and are calling for an independent investigation of the Administration’s

handling of the non-violent protest.

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TELL UNION CARBIDE\/DOW CHEMICALS

TO CLEANUP BHOPAL

with

Satinath (Sathyu) Sarangi –

Founder of Clinic in Bhopal to Help Victims of the Disaster

THE WORLD'S WORST-EVER INDUSTRIAL DISASTER devastated the

Indian city of Bhopal nearly 20 years ago, in 1984. More than half a million people were exposed to the deadly gas released from a Union Carbide

factory there; of those, 20,000 have died and 150,000 were maimed.



The thousands of tons of toxic wastes dumped by Carbide in and around its factory site in Bhopal have leached poisons into the drinking water supply of

at least 20,000 Bhopal residents.. Although scientific confirmation on the groundwater contamination has been available since 1990, the Government

of India and Madhya Pradesh have done nothing till date to address the peoples demand for clean water.

Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI, 99.5 FM in the N.Y.C

Metropolitan area on Mondays from 7-8pm EST and streamed at http:\/\/www.2600.com\/offthehook\/hot2.ram<\/a>

for more information email knash@igc.org<\/a>

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