ILCA To Set Up Media Center In New Orleans During Convention
The ILCA 2007 Convention will gather the largest group of labor media activists and professionals ever assembled to tell the stories of New Orleans. For three days we - you - will be the media. We'll form teams to go out into the community to report on the people, the unions and the organizations making a difference.
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Massey Energy, Public Radio and the Politics of Coal in West Virginia
If it was Dan Heyman's voice on the radio, you knew it was going to be about coal. Most likely about coal mine safety.
And most likely it was something you would not hear anywhere else on the radio public radio or otherwise.
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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. Read more
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THE BASTARDS ARE COMING
Maritime workers will be among the stars on tele in coming weeks as the hard hitting ABC doco drama on the 1998 waterfront conspiracy goes to air.
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US Labor Organizations Contribute to James Connolly Film
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Labor's Voices 3, April 26-28, 2007 - CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Join Amanda Cooper (UNITE-HERE), Rev. Nelson Johnson (Interfaith Worker Justice), David Bacon (Photojournalist), Janine Jackon (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), Lucas Benitez (Coalition of Immokalee Workers), Bhairavi Desai (NY Taxi Workers Alliance), Saru Jayaraman (ROC-NY), and many other grass roots activists, journalists, organizers, labor communicators and media-makers for a conference on media successes and challenges for a new workers' movement.
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Globe trot to Mexico, find out why hundreds of thousands of public workers are on the march in Puerto Rico and celebrate with the French working class, who brought the government to its knees. Next we’ll take a Fast Boat to China with Andrew Ross who positions himself in stark opposition to Thomas Friedman’s enthusiastic embrace of free trade’s extremes.
While still in China we’ll find out what Wal-Mart is up to there and examine its challenge to union organizing.
Union contracts, pension funds, health benefits under attack, 44 million US residents without health care what do we do – fight back, fight back; all this and more as Rev. Billy preaches virtual sacrilege with his Church of Stop Shopping.
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Heartland Labor Forum |
Print: Strikes, Picketing & Inside CampaignsJudy Ancel interviews Robert Schwartz.
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Video: 5 Factories: Worker Control in Venezuela |
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The changes in Venezuela’s productive sphere are demonstrated with five large companies: a textile company, an aluminum works, a tomato factory, a cocoa factory, and a paper factory.
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