*A continuing scandal over racism, redistricting and gentrification is taking place in Los Angeles. Pacifica reporter Steve Zeltzer looked at the story behind the scandal and the connection to the redistricting manipulation and corruption in San Francisco with labor and community activists.
*The Ruthless Truth on WSLR, Pacifica Affiliate in Sarasota, Florida, looks at the issue of voting and other assaults on our democratic rights.
*A strike of South African Dockers continues and JV Dube the General Secretary of the Revolutionary Transportation Union of South Africa and ILWU Local 10 immediate past president Trent Willis talk about the strike and the history of the shipping companies.
*CRD reporter in Washington, DC, Thomas O'Rourke, reports on the on-going Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike.
*On October 26, rallies were held in Philadelphia and Oakland to call for a new hearing in the case of CWA NABET journalist, writer and imprisoned political activist Mumia Abu Jamal.
*In San Francisco, there has been a collapse of the payroll system for the school districts teachers, janitors and other service workers. The union president of SEIU 1021 for the San Francisco Unified School District Rafael Piccazo also blamed the cutoff of healthcare benefits for the death of a member. The District has spent additional millions of dollars on the software program Empower which is being used for the payroll and failing to do the job. Producer Steve Zeltzer interviewed SFUSD workers about these issues.