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The
Digital Revolution And A Labor Media Strategy Dear Brothers
and Sisters,
The
Digital Revolution And A Labor Media Strategy 3:00 PM Registration Begins 3:00
Digital Studio with Rupert and & KPFA Live Radio Interviews
With 7:00 Reception 8:00
Screening Of Films & Introductions 9:00
PM-11:00 Community Access CTC TV Production
& TV Show/Interviews with
9:00
AM Opening of LaborTech Conference 9:30
AM 11:00AM
First Workshop Panels
2:00 PM Workshops
Workplace Issues Internet Access and the
Use of the Internet on the 3:30 Break 3:45 PM Workshop Panels Technology,
Deregulation and Health and Safety-Bob Crow, Carol Criss, 7:30
PM Working
Class Media and Ideology in The Global Economy Sunday November 19, 2006 9:00 AM Panel Workers'
Technology and Class Struggle Around the World (Labor Media and
1:15 PM Workshops Embedding
Workers and Spying On The Job & Off The Job-Nancy
Bupp, John 2:45 PM Break 3:00 PM Defense
of Internet and Telecom for High Value Content and for Democratic 4:30 PM PM Proposals For Action & Organizing 5:30 PM Conference Closes www.labortech.org Speakers & Panelists Al Ainsworth, Author, Retired Officer NALC 82 He delivered mail for the United States Postal Service for 25 years in Portland, Oregon. During his last four years in the Postal Service, he began collecting stories of abused employees. He published GOINGPOSTAL…THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG in January 2002. He also self-published GOING POSTAL…STILL FIGHTING FOR DIGNITY IN THE WORKPLACE in July 2004. During his postal career he was involved in the National Association of Letter Carriers' (NALC) union and the Postal Service's work environment programs. chewah@teleport.com
He has written numerous books and articles, including The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Us the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer (2006); Social Security: The Phony Crisis (with Mark Weisbrot), University of Chicago Press, 1999; The United States Since 1980, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2006; “Asset Returns and Economic Growth,” (with Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman), Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2005); “Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2004; "Medicare Choice Plus: The Solution to the Long-Term Deficit Problem," Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2004; The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Institute, 2004; "Professional Protectionists: The Gains From Free Trade in Highly Paid Professional Services,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2003; “The Run-Up in Home Prices: Is It Real or Is It Another Bubble,” Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2002. His book Getting Prices Right: The Debate Over the Consumer Price Index (M.E. Sharpe, 1997) was a winner of a Choice Book Award as one of the outstanding academic books of the year. He also is the author of the blog, Beat the Press (http://www.prospect.org/deanbaker/), which presents commentary on economic reporting. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, and the OECD’s Trade Union Advisory Council. His columns have appeared in many major media outlets including the Atlantic Monthly, the Washington Post, and the London Financial Times. He is frequently cited in economics reporting in major media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and National Public Radio. He
can be contacted at the Center for Economic and Policy Research,
baker@cepr.net. Pete
Bennett, Organizer Tech Workers Wes
Brain is a member-activist with SEIU#503, OPEU (the Oregon Public
Employees Union). He is a videographer and produces member made
labor media for his union's supported OPEU District 4 Productions.
The union's hour long weekly television show is cablecast in Southern
Oregon on Rogue Valley Community Television and is Oregon's only
regular labor TV program. Wes is on the board of UPPNET, the Union
Producers and Programmers Network and he has worked with the Independent
Media Center movement since the Seattle WTO protests of 1999. A
number of his streaming video clips can be found at the Rogue Independent
Media Center, http://rogueimc.org Nancy
Brigham is a labor activist and web designer, programmer and
consultant for unions and non-profit groups. She served on the United
Auto Workers’ communications staff for 21 years, where she
edited a news service, ran conferences and taught communications
skills before launching the union’s presence on the Internet.
The UAW web site she designed won top awards from the International
Labor Communications Association. She also designed the Wayne State
University Labor Studies Center web site, UE’s International
web site, and the Nation Lawyers Guild’s International Committee
web site. Carl
Bryant, NALC Local 214, Producer-TV214, UPPNET, WIN, KPFA Labor
Collective Nancy
Bupp is an educator for the International Association of Machinists
and Aerospace Workers. Paul
Burton is Managing Editor of San Mateo Labor, the newspaper
of the San Mateo County Central Labor Council and SM County Building
Trades Council. He has written articles on politics, environmental
issues, labor, and music for the alternative press since 1990. Jack
Chernos has written songs of historical significance, including
"Sold Down the River," the song played in continuous-loop
from the Steelworkers' billboard truck during the WTO protests in
Seattle; "The Union Grand," theme song of the Million
Worker March on Washington; "Walk out of Jerusalem," which
will be sung in three languages at the 5 Million Peace March on
Jerusalem; and "The Silence of Good People," which was
inducted into the National Civil Rights Museum. Mary
Ellen Churchill, Director Media Studies Program New College
of California Carol
Criss, SEIU UHW Shop steward, health & safety activist Pat
Daley has worked as a communications representative for the
Canadian Union of Public Employees, Ontario region, for four years.
CUPE is the largest union in Canada, representing 550,000 public
sector workers in municipalities, schools, power utilities, health
care, social services and universities. Since the mid-1970s, Pat
has worked in student, feminist and alternative community newspapers,
radio and web publications. In 1976, she was hired as the first
full-time wire editor for Canadian University Press, providing a
daily news service via teletype. Besides working as an editor, Pat
was a typesetter during that era of technological change when personal
computers became the main tool for print publishing. She also worked
for almost 10 years for the Ontario New Democratic Party, during
the 1990-95 NDP provincial government and for the NDP caucus in
opposition afterwards. She keeps running to catch up to new technology. Todd
Davies, Symbolic Systems Program, Stanford University Jay
Dedman, Educator Web Blogging and broadcasting Frank
Martin Del Campo is president of LACLA and a staff member of
SEIU 790 in San Francisco and has been involved in fighting for
immigrant rights for many years. Steve
Dondley kicked off his union career working for social justice
in 1996 as a union organizer for UFCW Local 1459 in Springfield,
MA. He has also worked as an occupational health and safety educator
and community organizer. He currently serves as the Recording Secretary
of the Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO in Springfield, MA. Maxine
Doogan, an erotic service provider. Greg
Dropkin, Web Master, LabourNet UK Frederic
Dubois is information coordinator at APC, the Association for
Progressive Communications. He rolls out the media strategy, works
on networking in French-speaking Africa and is APC News editor.
Frédéric plays around with blogs, content management
systems, newsletters and publications for social justice and sustainable
development. See http://www.apc.org Stephen
Dunifer, Founder Radio Free Berkeley David
Elsila, Former editor UAW “Solidarity” Frank
Emspak, Executive Producer of WIN Workers Independent News,
(WIN) Donna
Eyestone is a multimedia and online instructor at City College
of San Francisco. She recently “retired” from Apple
Computer to raise her daughter. She has taught audio production
in the Bay Area for the past 10 years. Richard
Fierro has been a member of Teamsters Local 70 for over twenty
years. I recently left employment with Albertsons because of a plant
closure. While with Albertsons I was shop steward for ten years,
and Chief Steward for six. During that time I dealt extensively
with “engineered work standards” on an everyday, grievance,
and contractual basis. Sam Gold is a disabled member of Sheet Metal Workers Union Local #104, who was forced to retire due to an occupational injury. He is the volunteer director of the largest injured worker advocacy organization in California, Californians Injured At Work, (www.ciaw.org) which produces and sponsors the “Injured On The Job” television program, (www.injuredonthejob.tv), the only television program of it’s kind that exposes the graft, fraud and corruption in California’s Workers Compensation system.webdesigner1@yahoo.com Ken
Hamidi, Labor computer/democracy activist and founder of faceintel.com.
He successfully won in California court the right to send e-mails
to workers on the job. Karin
Hart is the Dept. Chair and Coordinator of the Labor Studies
Program [http://laney.peralta.edu/labor_studies] at Laney College
in Oakland, California, where she teaches grievance handling, labor
history, stewards' training, union leadership, collective bargaining,
research strategies, labor images in film, and other classes about
current labor issues to union activists. She is a past executive
officer and negotiator for CWA Local 9415, as well as a founding
member of the East Bay Chapter of Pride At Work. Currently she also
involved in training rank & file workers in the Bay Area leadership
skills needed to handle health and safety issues at work as part
of a partnership with the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC
Berkeley. As an early adopter of technology, Karin works with union
members on how to use technology enhance the fight for rights on
the job. Jack
Heyman, a labor activist in the ILWU for the last 25 years,
has been involved in union campaigns from the anti-apartheid struggle,
to the Liverpool dockers’ dispute, to death row prisoner Mumia
Abu-Jamal to the Charleston 5, to the 2002 ILWU longshore contract
struggle. Leroy
Jackson Jr., President of NABET-CWA Local 59053, National Association
of Broadcast Employees and Technicians – Communications Workers
of America Martin
Jansen is the Director of Workers’ World Media Productions
(South Africa) and is the coordinator for developing and setting
up the International Labor Media Network (ILMN). He previously worked
for the Labor Research Service as head of its Education and Media
Unit. Prior to that he was a trade unionist with the COSATU affiliated
Chemical Workers Industrial Union for about 10 years (1985 - 1995).
Martin has a long history of student, youth and community activism.
He currently chairs the Labor Media Jim
E. Kelly is the Coordinator of Labor Studies at San Jose City
College. He teaches Labor history and Contemporary Issues and is
a member of the American Federation of Teachers Local 6157 His is
also a fill time letter carrier and serves the Legislative Liaison
for the National Association of Letter Carrier as a member of Brach
1427 in Santa Clara. He help founding the May Day Labor Film Festival
now in its 6th season (go to www.reelwork.org) and originated the
Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival honoring civil rights and
labor struggles each Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, now in
it 21st season. How can culture and media activists build audiences
that engage support for working people's issues? Dorothy
Kidd, Chair, USF Department of Media Studies Myoung
Joon Kim, President MediAct, Korea Erv
Knorzer, Founder KRBS-LP, radiobirdstreet and Bird Street Media
Project. Bird's View Productions Producer. Former Sec'y-Treasurer
I.A.F.F. Local 372 and member of I.L.W.U. Local 13, L.A.- Long Beach
Harbor. BA in Communications and Instructional Technology, Calif.
State University at Chico. Host of "The Zev
Kivitky, President, United Stanford Workers Henry
Kroll, Media democracy activst & former member of KQED board
of directors Mark Libkumen is an open source development architect. He currently works with Openflows Community Technology Labs and Mayfirst/People-Link. The former working on projects for union benefit funds and public access television stations and the latter serving on the planning committee helping to build a progressive membership organization of Internet users. http://mayfirst.org libkuman@gmail.com Doug
McCabe is the Director of Sales for Union Web Services Inc.
(www.unionwebservices.com) since 2004, and a long-time member of
United Electrical Workers Local 262. Prior to working full-time
with Union Web Services, Doug worked for Bacons Information, the
North American subsidiary of Observer Group AB, and developed communications
solutions for PR agencies and Fortune 500 companies in the Southeast.
Dick
Meister has covered labor issues for a half-century, currently
as a freelance writer whose columns have appeared in more than 150
newspaper, magazine and online outlets. He previously covered labor
as a reporter for Olga Miranda, President SEIU 87 Bill
Morgan is a Elementary Bilingual (Spanish) Teacher for 25 years
in SFUSD, member of Labor in the Schools Committee of CFT; Author
of several books for children about labor and social justice. Steve
Ongerth, IWW Bay Area chapter, labor media activst Jungmi
Park, Labor News Production, Korea John
Parulis, Media Democracy/Community Activist Michael
Perelman has taught economics at California State University,
Chico since Vivian
Price worked in factories, refineries, and as a union electrician
in construction sites. With this foundation in the working world,
she made several short films on women construction workers, and
two feature documentaries. Hammering It Out (2000) is about women
construction workers in the US, and Transnational Tradeswomen looks
at the impact of globalization and the gendering of work in six
Asian countries. Both films are distributed by Women Make Movies,
http://www.wmm.com Mary
Ann Ring, Executive Board UC CUE Louie
Rocha, is president of CWA 9423 and has been involved in fighting
outsourcing by Comcast, organizing against outsourcing, organizing
campaigns at IBM and is a host on a labor radio show on KKUP radio
in Cupertino, California. Sakura
Saunders works with Pomethius Radio Project and Corp Watch and
was involved in establishing low power radio stations for Eric
Shackelford is with CWA-NABET 52 and is a shop steward at KQED
in San Francisco Sid
Shniad, Education Director Telecommunications Workers Union,
BC Arthur
Shostak, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Drexel
University where for 37 years he taught and introduced courses in
Industrial Sociology, Race and Ethnic Relations, Social Implications
of 20th century Technology, and Urban Sociology. Previously, he
was on the faculty of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce,
University of Pennsylvania (1961-67). From 1975 through 2000 he
was the Adjunct Sociologist for the AFL-CIO George Meany Center
for Labor Studies (Silver Spring. MD.). In 2006, Shostak was designated
by the American Sociological Association the year's Outstanding
Applied Sociologist, a lifetime achievement award. He earned a B.S.
degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University
(1958) and a M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from Princeton
University (1961). He has assisted the American Federation of Government
Employees, the Machinists Union, the Steelworkers Union, the Postal
Workers Union, the IBEW, and many others. He is the author of CyberUnion:
Empowering Labor through Computer Technology (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe,
1999), which was the first book to discuss the impact of computerization
on the labor movement. His book, Impacts of Changing Employment:
If the Good Jobs Go Away (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996), explores
the potential of massive job loss and the role public policy can
play in addressing this issue. Other books among his 31 volumes
include such titles as Blue Collar Life, Blue Collar World, Blue
Collar Stress, For Labor's Sake, Robust Unionism and others outlined
on his website www.futureshaping.com/shostak Mfanafuthi Sithebe, Media officer of the Communication Union of South Africa David
Silver is an assistant professor of media studies at the University
of San Francisco, the director of the Resource Center for Cyberculture
Studies (http://rccs.usfca.edu), and the co-director of The September
Project, a grassroots effort to encourage all people in all countries
to attend libraries on September 11 to discuss issues that matter.
He blogs at http://silverinsf.blogspot.com nancys68@hotmail.com
John
Tait, CSUSF, SEIU 2579 John
Trumpbour is Research Director for the Labor & Worklife
Program at Harvard Law School. He also serves as a staff member
of the Science & Engineering Workforce Project (SEWP) at the
National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of Selling
Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery
of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950 (Cambridge University Press
2002), which won the Allan Nevins Prize for Literary Excellence
in History from the Society of American Historians. A member of
the editorial board of Labor History, he will be co-editing a special
issue in 2007 on "Labor in the Information Age." Nick
Yale, SEIU 1000, Labor Video Producer Steve
Zeltzer, Producer Labor Video Project, LaborNet, LaborFest,
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