Monthly Archive: January 2012

WBAI Broadcast Underlies Need for Pension Benefits for Jazz Artists: J4JA! Takes to the Airwaves

January 3, 2012

On Monday, December 26th, jazz vocalist Keisha St. Joan and Local 802 Recording Vice President John O’Connor appeared on the NYC radio program Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report, produced and Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash over WBAI,99.5FM. In the segment, St. Joan, as always, is particulalry eloquent regarding the injustices …

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Monthly Archive: January 2012

WBAI Broadcast Underlies Need for Pension Benefits for Jazz Artists: J4JA! Takes to the Airwaves

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