{"article":{"id":122964,"heading":"Building Bridges Radio: Homeland Security Attacks Its Workers Plus Tribute to Ossie Davis","author":"Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg","created":"2005-02-22 15:38:26","modified":"2005-02-22 15:38:26","last_modified":"Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:38:26","article":"

Building Bridges:

Your Community and Labor Report - National Edition

Produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash

presents

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Homeland Security Department Attacks Its Workers

with Colleen Kelley, Pres.,National Treasury Employees Union

The Bush Administration has begun a massive assault on the rights of federal government workers. Recently, the Dept. of Homeland Security issued new regulations which strip meaningful collective bargaining and civil service rights from over 110,000 civilian employees. There a plans to extend these new

regulations to all civilian federal government workers. The Dept of Defense which has 700,000 civilian workers is next on the hit list.

Plus, A Tribute to Author, Playwright, Actor and Political Activist - The Great Ossie Davis (1917-2005)

with

Dennis Rivera Pres., Local 1199, SEIU;

Wynton Marsales;

Avery Brooks reads from \"Purlie Victorious by Ossie Davis and

Ossie Davis reads

Eugene Victor Debs \"Statement to the Court (1918)

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