The Digital Revolution And A Labor Media Strategy

LaborTech 2006..... Conference Video Archives
November 17, 18 & 19th, 2006
University Of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. (at Cole)
San Francisco, California]
www.labortech.net

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Join trade unionists, educators and workers this November from the US and around the world as they debate, discuss and learn about new communication technology and the development of a labor media movement.
LaborTech has had conferences since 1990, which brings together labor video, computer, labor media activists and labor educators to advance knowledge and use of the Internet and multi-media by working people. This year, we are also including an educational /academic component with papers about labor, media and telecommunications. How is new technology being used to exploit and spy on working people and how can labor use these new technologies such as blogging and portals like youtube to help organize, build solidarity and link up locally, nationally and internationally.
The ongoing battle of labor to survive against the corporate onslaught and media blockade requires the development of an independent labor media strategy to defend working people and their struggles.

Themes for workshops and plenums
1. The Bosses¹ Use of Technology and Worker¹s Resistance (Surveillance, Union
Busting, and Globalization)
2. Workers' Technology and Class Struggle Around the World (Labor Media and Internet Tools)
3. Democratic Communication Rights (Internet Access and Digital Divides)

Workshops:
* Community Internet, Wax-Fi and Net Neutrality
* Labor Culture and Technology
* Radio and Labor Media
* Web Sites, Blogs and Using Technology to Build Organizing and Information Networks
* Workplace Issues Internet Access and the use of the Internet on the job
* Labor Media, Education and Labor Culture
* Globalization For Workers Using Communication Technology
* Labor And Who Controls The Internet
* Embedding Workers and Spying On The Job & Off The Job
* How To Start A Labor TV Community Access Show
* Micro Radio and The Labor Potential
* Technology, Deregulation and Health and Safety
* Labor Networking, Democracy and the Internet: Lessons for Today and The Future
* Streaming Your Labor Rally or Conference and How To Do It
* WIN, Pacifica and Labor Radio Channels
* Development of regional labor portals and LaborNets Internationally
* Defense of Internet for high value content and for democratic control
* International labor media network
* Outsourcing, Technology and Labor & Organizing Tech Workers Here & Abroad
* Building International Labor Film & Video Festivals-Lessons On How To Do It
* Labor Journalists and Media Issues Within The Labor Movement
* Labor Boycotts/Solidarity Campaigns Using the Internet
* Pod Casting and Cell Casting

Conference Endorsers:
California AFL-CIO, San Francisco Labor Council, OPEIU Local 3, NALC 214, SEIU 535,
B.A.C. Local 3,

California Faculty Association, CWA 2423, UA 393, CWA 9415, SEIU 87, USF
Media Studies Program, Laney College
Labor Studies Program, San Francisco
City College Labor Studies Program, San Jose Community College Labor Studies Program,

SFSU Labor Studies Program, Union Producers and Programmers Network (UPPNET),
Labor Video Project, KPFA Labor Collective,
Letter Carriers TV 214,
Computer Professionals For Social Responsibility (CPSR),
Symbolic Systems Program Stanford University,
Labornet, USF Faculty Association, New College Of California Media Studies Department,
Seoul Labor News Production,
Martin Jansen, Workers World Media Productions Capetown, South Africa,
Communication Workers Union Of South Africa

April 3-4 2004 Conference Streaming Audio and Video

All the following Video and Audio Streams are copywrited by Labortech2004

1) Plenary- Labor and Multimedia Strategy in Communications:
Johnson, Kvitsky, Davies, Bensky, Zeltzer, Kim  Quicktime Video   MP3

2) Workplace Discrimination In High Tech: Speery, Bennett
Quicktime Video  MP3

14) Labor Media, Breaking The Corporate Media Blockade and
Getting The Message Out: Stallone, Blin, Ingalls  Quicktime Video  MP3

4) Building A Labor Cultural Art Movement & Using The Internet:
Huck, Konopacki, Chernos, Jen Guracar  Quicktime Video  MP3

16) Spying and Surveillance, And How To Defend Our Privacy:
Hasbrouck, Bupp, Pierce  Quicktime Video   MP3