 The
purpose of LaborTech is to bring together labor
video, computer and media activists in the US and from around the
world to build and develop labor communication technology and media.
The first conference was held in 1990 and they have been held throughout
the United States as well as Canada and Russia. Labor Media conferences
are also held in Seoul. We believe that a critical task for labor
is building a labor communication media movement that can tell our
stories and break the corporate information blockade in every corner
of the world. |
ILCA
CONVENTION 2007
New Orleans Labor Media Project
"We will use the Convention as a demonstration project
in labor media centers, providing tools and training for delegates
to report and distribute the stories of crisis, struggle and
progress. We will create articles, blogs, broadcasts and video
stories that capture the issues behind the Hurricane Katrina
tragedy and explain their meaning for everybody. Together ,
we will demonstrate the power of labor's voice." |
It
is not hyperbole (well maybe a little) to say that ILWU Local
10 is
the vanguard of the U.S. labor movement. Local 10, and the
rest of the S. F. ILWU locals, have repeatedly honored community
pickets against the war since 2003 (ILWU members and protesters
were wounded when OPD fired upon them in 2003).
International
Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 has initiated
this national conference in San Francisco, to be
held this Saturday (10/20/07), and is moving in the
direction of serious anti-war action. Although the call for
the conference is national in scope, it could well lead to
labor action at the Port of Oakland. Local 10 may be getting
ready to initiate their own labor action against the war.
The conference
will also be an excellent opportunity to discuss and strategize
around the next community organized picket at the Port of
Oakland. (The terminal of SSA, a company accused of war profiteering,
was shut down by a community
picket on May 19, when the ILWU refused to cross the line.
That picket,at which the OEA was prominently represented,
called for an end to war profiteering, to bring the troops
home now, and for the Port of Oakland to fund local schools
and social services.)
It is not hyperbole
(well maybe a little) to say that ILWU Local 10 is
the vanguard of the U.S. labor movement. Local 10, and the
rest of the S. F. ILWU locals, have repeatedly honored community
pickets against the war since 2003 (ILWU members and protesters
were wounded when OPD fired upon them in 2003). Their strong
position against the war is doubtless far in advance of most
of organized labor. Yet those who know labor history know
that time and again Local 10 has played a leading role, a
catalytic role, whether in refusing to work ships in opposition
to
Apartheid South Africa, striking for freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal,
or
going all the way back to setting off the San Francisco General
Strike.
This conference
has received a number of important endorsements,
including the S. F. Central Labor Council AFL-CIO, the New
York
Metropolitan Postal Workers Union, and the Bay Area and NYC
affilates of
U.S. Labor Against the War. The conference will also build
on the local alliance between the ILWU and the Oakland Teachers
Association.Participants will include Cindy Sheehan, Alexander
Cockburn, and many key labor leaders and militants.
10/20/2007
Labor Conference To Stop The War
ILWU Local 10
400 Northpoint/Mason St.
San Francisco, CA
Donation Requested
Labor Conference
to Stop The War
Register On Line by going to
http://laborstopwar.googlepages.com/laborconferencetostopthewar
or emailing
laborstopwar [at] gmail.com
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Click
here to view a 56 min Labortech video on the recent Anti-War, Labor
protest at the historic San Francisco docks. Jan.27, 2007 Download
MP3 here.
On
Feb. 18, 2007, a few workers, some with their heads covered by paper
bags, staged a small demonstration outside of Burning Man headquarters
in San Francisco to protest what they say are reductions in pay,
forced "death waivers" and lack of adequate health care for the
workers who primarily clean up the desert after the Burning Man
event.
The
Digital Revolution And A Labor Media Strategy
Video Archives here
LaborTech 2006
November 17, 18 & 19th, 2006
University Of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. (at Cole)
San Francisco, California
Privacy Under Siege:Electronic Monitoring of the Workplace.
Jeremy Gruber. pdf here
Movies,
Politics and the Working Class
Visualizing
Ideology: Labor Vs. Capital in the Age of Silent Film
Labor's
Voices 3, April 26-28, 2007 - CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
Join Pablo Alvarado
(NDLON), 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), Bob Fitch (Author, Solidarity for Sale), Harry Kelber
(Labor Media Activist) 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. Visit
the site for more.
New
Paper: The Information Proletariat in the Era of Globilization.
PDF Here
David Hookes, Department of Computer Science,
University of Liverpool, UK
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The following report was commissioned by the AFL-CIO which
represents, via its associated unions, some 500,000 media
and related workers who need to understand better the changes
taking place in the arts and entertainment industry.
Report here
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