BRAIN LABOR REPORT
On April 5, 2007, Brain Labor Report celebrated its 100th show via KSKQ and the internet http://www.kskq.org.
First broadcast November 8 on the day after the 2006 election, the Brain Labor Report is our daily radio labor news show which is streamed live every morning Monday through Friday at 7:00 a.m. via community low power fm radio KSKQ. Currently Southern Oregon's lpfm radio streams over the internet as its volunteer staff works to site an antenna so that it can broadcast over the airwaves via the FCC designated 94.9 spoit on the radio dial.
We talk about the many struggles of working people reporting the stories and perspectives of the working class that are ignored by mainstream media.
We play labor songs, such as Anne Feeney¹s "War on the Workers" which opens up each new show. We also syndicate the Workers Independent News, a daily 3-minute broadcast of under-reported labor news. WIN website: http://www.laborradio.org
We conduct interviews each day usually with local, but sometimes with national community leaders, activists, students, unionists and a wide assortment of ordinary working people.
Among the leaders we've interviewed have been Tom Chamberlain and Barbara Byrd- President and Sec/Treas of the Oregon AFL-CIO, Peter Buckley- Oregon State Rep. District 5 and Buck Eichler, SEIU President of Jackson County Employees Association which is the group of workers from our Jackson County Library system-Up to 150 workers and the entire library system is to be shut down April 7, 2007 due to the stoppage of federal funding.
We interviewed 90-year-old labor singer Julius Margolin from NYC who talks about labor organizing for the CIO in the 30¹s and 40¹s. Also Ashland's 98-year-old Mary Stone, who was a social justice activist with the WPA (Works Progress Administration) in the 1930¹s, who shared, "We¹d march and we¹d be on picket lines and we would be arrested because we had sit downs. So once in a while we¹d land in jail"
Wes Brain is the Brain Labor Report's host and is chair of Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice. A long-time volunteer activist with independent media and a community labor organizer, Brain contributes to many indy media outlets such as Rogue Valley Public Access Television (RVTV), KSKQ and the Rogue Independent Media Center- http://rogueimc.org
Jason Houk is the Brain Labor Report¹s engineer and is a media activist who has a passion for reporting the stories and perspectives of the working class that are ignored by mainstream media.
The Brain Labor Report website serves an average of 100 mp3's a day which are downloaded from the show's archives. As of March 30, 2007--The Brain Labor Report recorded a total of 1711 subscribers to syndicated feeds. These subscribers have the Brain Labor Report broadcast directly to their ipod, itunes or rss manager.
Listen LIVE Monday thru Friday at 7:00 AM PST on KSKQ's website- http://www.kskq.org or go visit the archive of past shows and download podcasts at the Brain Labor Report website- http://www.kskq.org/blr
BRAIN LABOR REPORT
c/o KSKQ Community Radio
330 Hersey St. #2
Ashland, Oregon 97520
Phone: (541) 482-3999
E-Mail: blr at kskq.org
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