Labor Communication
For Local/Regional/Global Solidarity
Using Labor Media Technology Tools To Help Win Our Struggles
20th Year Anniversary Of The Establishment LaborTech

December 10, 11th & 12th
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94118-1080

On December, 10, 11 and 12th, 2010, at the University of San Francisco, labor
video, computer and media trade unionists and workers will come together
to show how new communication technology and tools are being used in the
labor movement now, and how they can be used in the future.

The ability to stream our rallies and strikes on the web, and to use cell phones
to get our messages out can be a vital element in bringing education and soli-
darity to the labor movement and changing the dynamics of the struggle.
This 3 day conference will focus on how working people can get ahead of the
curve in building our own communication networks and breaking the media
blockade that prevents our stories from getting out.

We will also discuss how labor can develop a labor media strategy and agenda
that defends democratic control of the Internet and make the public use of the
airwaves an issue for all people.

We will have workshops on how to use flip cameras, social media and iPhones in covering your struggles, how to stream your rallies, how to develop a labor TV show,
how to protect your privacy at work and in the streets, and how to build labor
film festivals. There will also be forums on the defense of journalists and the
fight to defend the Internet from corporations and governments that have their
own agendas.

We will also have a screening of videos from throughout the US and around
the world.

Conference cost is $125.00 with some subsidized/low income rates
Please go to: www.labortech.net
labortech@labortech.net, (415) 282-1908

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

Paper: The Information Proletariat in the Era of Globilization. PDF Here
David Hookes, Department of Computer Science,
University of Liverpool, UK

http://www.strike.tv/blogs/

Hollywood Renaissance

27th October 2008, 2:45PM
It was just shy of a year ago when I was picketing on a strike line at Disney when a casual idea popped into my head. Hey – why don't us screenwriters create a website where we could produce and stream our own original shows? We could call it "StrikeTV". Why the hell not? Sounds simple and easy to do, right? Well, it's a year later, many dedicated and talented people came together, pooled resources, donated elbow grease and burned the midnight oil. It was far from simple or easy but Strike.TV is here.