Building Bridges: White Terrorist Murders African-American Timothy Caughman; Trump to Gut Workers Health & Safety; Boycott Hewlett-Packer, Support Palestine Detainees - Бесплатная аудиокнига

Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash Mon., March 27, 7 â 8 pm EST ***************************** Say His Name: TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN! Confronting Terror Attacks Against African-Americans, Resisting White Supremacy, Combating White Nationalism! Timothy Caughman, 66, was a former social worker, who, in his retirement years, had taken to recycling to keep busy and help pay his rent. Caughman was African-American, which made him a target for his professed killer, who stabbed him to death with a sword, a white supremacist who admitted traveling to NYC from Baltimore to kill a Black man because "New York is the media capital of the world". The killing of Timothy Caughman was a hate crime and an act of terrorism. We should also think of it as a lynching, the latest episode in an American form of racial violence that stretches back to the 19th century. To describe this attack as a lynching is to emphasize the reality of anti-black violence, its persistence through time, and the way in which itâs justified and the failure of our society to fully excavate our past to grapple with the present. By understanding Timothy Caughmanâs murder as a lynching, we gain clarity into how racial violence is more than hateâhow itâs meant to enforce racial caste by making an example of any unfortunate person of African ancestry who circumstantially crossed the path of the white supremacist. We must understand Timothy Caughmanâs murder as a modern lynching, for we have yet to understand and grapple with the legacy of racial oppression and its current manifestations as a society. To call Timothy Caughmanâs murder an act of terrorism is also to re-contextualize the age of lynching as an earlier age of terrorism, forgotten by most, but whose wounds still fester and which scars remain prevalent in the collective memories of African-Americans. And there is a political context for white supremacy and white nationalism flaring up anew. Donald Trump, has yet to comment on the extraordinary murder of Timothy Caughman, issue condolences to his family, or condemn this act of terror. He did choose to relate to and send a message of condolence about an American victim of terrorism in London. Trump never condemned the January shooting at a Québec mosque that took six lives, and it took him a week to condemn the killing of an Indian computer engineer in Kansas. "J'accuse ...!" Black Lives Matter: Timothy Caughmanâs death renews the challenge for us to tear out root and branch, the cultural, social, economic and political systemic manifestations of racism and the impediments to equality. Say HIS NAME: TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN! ******************* OSHA Under Trump: Dismantling Workers Health & Safety Protections with Nadia Marin-Molina is Associate Director, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) Legal experts are predicting significant changes for worker safety regulation under Trump. Trump offers the unprecedented case of an incoming President who has been fined multiple times by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) for safety violations at his worksites. His businesses also have relied on contractors and subcontractors who have been hit with major penalties. One of his contractors was fined $104,000 after a construction worker fell 42 stories to his death in 2008 at the Trump SoHo hotel condominium in N.YC.. The penalty was later reduced to $44,000. Now legal experts fear a new direction for OSHA, regulations could be undone, funding could decrease and strategies for worker safety could shift 180 degrees. On the campaign trail, Trump touted his belief in smaller government with fewer rules. He vowed to eliminate two regulations for every new one enacted. He promised to âease the burdens on big businessesâ. Trump seeks to steer OSHA more toward compliance assistance and away from enforcement and weâll drill down to unearth the regulations in jeopardy and access what they mean for workers health and safety and whatâs to become of anti- retaliation protections for workers. ******************* NYers Demand Freedom for Palestinian Prisoners & Call for Boycott of Hewlett-Packard Products with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network We join protestors that gathered outside the Best Buy in Union Square to demand freedom for Palestinian prisoners and to urge shoppers to boycott Hewlett-Packard (HP) products until the corporation ends its contracts with Israeli prisons, checkpoints and other repressive mechanisms. The protest, organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, focused on the hunger strikes of Palestinian prisoners demanding their release from imprisonment without charge or trial under administrative detention. Palestinian prisoners including Mohammed Alaqimah , Raafat Shalash and Mahmoud Saada are currently refusing food to demand their freedom, while thousands of prisoners will participate in a collective hunger strike scheduled to begin on 17 April, Palestinian Prisonersâ Day. Out of nearly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners, around 600 are held in administrative detention; among other issues highlighted by the hunger strikers, Palestinian prisoners are also demanding an end to constant denials of family visits. Protestors also urged consumers to boycott HP who provides much of the technology infrastructure that Israel uses to maintain its system of apartheid and settler colonialism over the Palestinian people. HP is the primary contractor for the Israeli biometric access control system in its military checkpoints and apartheid wall; it provides the database system for the Israel Prison Service that manages the imprisonment of Palestinians. HP even provides technology used by the Israeli navy to impose the siege on Gaza and fire upon, destroy boats and seize Gaza fishermen. ******************* 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 broadcast over: KGRN Columbus, Ohio KOPN, Columbia, MO KWRK, Fairbanks, Alaska WLSL, Dade City, FL WMNB, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina WZBC, Boston, Mass. 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