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www.labortech.net
LaborTech
2008
The
Digital Revolution and Labor Media Strategy
December
5, 6 & 7, 2008
At
University of San Francisco
2130
Fulton St., near Cole, San Francisco
Dear
Brothers and Sisters,
Labortech 2008 takes place in the midst of the greatest financial
crisis in the history of the United States. The logic of deregulation
and privatization now are destroying the lives of tens of millions
of working people. Critical to labor’s challenge today is
to get our message out and break the information blockade that corporate
media and telecom promote. LaborTech can be a vital tool in this
work, and this conference will discuss and learn how to get our
messages out and win the information and media battle.
This semi-annual educational and training conference brings together
labor videographers, radio programmers, Internet developers, educators,
artists and cultural workers to help educate, train and build labor
communication and media technology for working people. It also examines
issues of how these new technologies are being used both for and
against labor in the workplace, on the Internet and the airwaves.
We will look at how unions are building new channels on the web,
using pod-casting and other Internet tools to develop labor education,
solidarity and directly connect with the rank and file. We will
learn how to produce a daily video strike bulletin, how to stream
our rallies and conferences, and how to develop labor channels on
YouTube and other portals as well as using social networks.
We will also see examples of video and radio programs that have
helped win our battles by education and involving the community
in these campaigns. Labor and our unions cannot afford to wait in
using these tools in our struggle to defend working people and to
train our members to build a labor media movement.
The need to educate working people is critical. Only working together
to build our understanding and use of these communication tools
will help transform our situation.
Join
us in this year’s LaborTech conference.
Workshops:
(partial list as of 10/15/08)
Plenums:
*Labor & social networking: Using the Internet to build a democratic
labor communications network
*Union busting, labor journalism and the future of news and broadcast
journalists and media workers
*The war on terrorism, ideology, labor and democracy
*The Economic Crisis, Labor Media and Breaking The Information Blockade
With Perelman, Rasmus, Frank Emspack,
Workshops:
*Developing a regional multi-media labor portal-
*How to produce a community access TV show
*How to produce a labor radio show
*How to do labor video documentaries
*How to stream your rallies and conferences on the web, with skype
and pod casting
*Media unions, union busting and new technology
*Open source, what it is and how to use and defend it
*New technology, health and safety and labor
*Medical privacy, technology and labor protection
*Developing an international labor media network
*How to produce a labor film/cultural arts festival
*Labor culture and using technology
*Defending democratic and union rights on the Internet, net neutrality
and social networks
*Public broadband and expanding democracy in communication technology
*Using websites and the internet for communication, information
and solidarity campaigns including erule making and other technologies
*Defending libraries, democracy and privatization of information,
LSSI
*Micro radio and labor media-Dick Delman,
*Internet Telephony, Cell Phones and Open Source For Labor
*Building A Democratic Labor Communication Network
Partial
list of Panelists/Participants:
John See, University of Minnesota Labor Education Service/Videogapher
Nancy Bupp,
Formerly with Education Department IAM International*
Julian Peeples,
California School Employees Association* ?
Vivian Price,
Professor CSUDH, Labor Film maker, CFA*
Yeo Shinjoung,
Radical Reference, Stanford Library*
Frank Emspach,
WIN Founder and Director www.laboradio.org
Marty Fishgold,
Director Communications SEIU 371/NY*
Bruce Wolf,
Founder www.public.freemuni.net public broadband
Edward Hasbrouck,
The Identity Project Privacy & Repression
Andrew Knight
& Andrew Kong, Angry Tired Teachers Band, member CTA*
Jack Chernos,
AFM Local 6* and Labor Musician
Catherine Alexander,
SEIU 521*, Librarian
Mehmet &
Gulden Bayran, LaborFest Turkey & Sendika.org
Dr. Larry Rose,
Last doctor at Ca-OSHA, AFSCME member
Wes Brain, Labor
Radio Producer, Brain Radio Report
Tami Bryant,
SEIU 1000* Host Of “Union Buzz”
Jeff Sharlet,
Journalist, historian*
Collette Washington,
CNA Web Master
Jeff Smedberg,
Reelworks Labor Film Festival, SEIU 521*
James Jacobs,
Radical Reference, Stanford Library
Carl Bryant,
TV 214, NALC 214*
Steve Dondley,
Promethus ILMN Website
Shiela Davis,
Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition-Nanotechnology
Peter B. Collins,
AFTRA Executive Board*, Radio Host
Todd Davies,
Stanford University, CPSR
Steve Stallone,
Pres. ILCA, Editor of N. California Media Workers Newspaper CWA
Chris Witteman,
Communications Rights Lawyer
Marco Berlinguer,
Labor and Globalization in the World Social Forum
Michael Perelman,
Professor CSUC, Member CFA
Dorothy Kidd,
USF Media Department Chair
John Parulis,
Labortech Webmaster, Community Activist
Ralph Schoenman,
WBAI Radio Host “Taking Aim”
Jack Rasmus,
Labor Economist, Author
Dick Meister,
Labor Journalist and Reporter TNG
Nick Yale, SEIU
1000*, Videographer
Jim E. Kelly,
Coordinator of Labor Studies at San Jose City College. AFT Local
6157*
Peter Phillips,
Professor CSUS, Director of Project Censored, Member of CFA
Nancy Bupp,
Education Department Of IAM International Retired
Bill Sparks,
Labor Video Project, Member of Sign, Local 510 Sign and Display*
Linda Ackerman,
Privacy Activism
David Frias,
Media Director of Living Wage and Producer Of “SF Living Wage”
Shannon Sheppard,
Director Holt Labor Library
Jano Oscherwitz,
SEIU 1021
*invited
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