Labor Beat: The Virden and Mt. Olive Monuments: Honoring Coal Miner History {LB562}
The Oct. 28th, 2006 unveiling of the impressive new monument commemorating the Virden massacre in 1898 in Southern Illinois.
With interviews, coal miner memorabilia, a fire-breathing speech by UMWA President Cecil Roberts, plus the ceremony at the Mother Jones monument only a few miles away in Mt. Olive, Illinois.
Produced by Gary Brooks for Labor Beat, this video won an Honorable Mention Award at the 2007 Hometown Video Awards. Reprise of LB514.
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Go Left TV {selections}
The Daily Left News. Also links to play recent productions of 10 other tv channels.
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Agora TV {selections}
Agora TV. Internet TV channel of the Argentinan collective Grupo Alavio. Class struggles.
Social conflicts, occupied factories, unemployed worker organizations, political prisoners, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, subway workers struggling for a 6 hour workday, art, and Iraq.
Mostly in Spanish. Some audio and video selections have English narration or subtitles. www.agoratv.org.
Democracy Now! {selections}
Democracy Now! site features video and audio playbacks of Amy Goodman's daily national news and interviews show. See/hear today's show and rich archives. www.democracynow.org.
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Internet Archive,
Google videos,
YouTube.com .
Search selected sites for 'labor' {selections}
'Labor' word search of selected sites, with results in newest first order.
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informaNation
Before you think about enlisting! A frank look at the seriousness of military enlistment and the tactics of recruiters.
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Counterspin Radio Series
Highly topical radio programs from FAIR.
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CommonDreams {selections}
CommonDreams is very popular as a browser home page because of its well-chosen daily news and opinion selections. The 'radio' and 'television' links include a number of progressive channels.
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Free Speech TV {selections}
Free Speech TV. FSTV. Cable, satellite, and broadcast shows and on-demand videos. www.freespeech.org.
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Center for Union Facts [so called] {selections}
Slick, mean, nationwide anti-union ads secretly funded by major corporations. Imagine, Business accusing Labor of being racist and undemocratic!
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Labor Beat: Demonizing the Inner City - Ideology and the Urban Poor {LB515}
Steve Macek, author of "Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and the Moral Panic Over the City", talks about how the right wing has -- through re-packaging the 19th-century Victorian capitalists' demonizing of the economic lower-rung -- developed through the media an ideological attack on the urban poor. Assorted visuals. Produced by Labor Beat
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The Oct. 28th, 2006 unveiling of the impressive new monument commemorating the Virden massacre in 1898 in Southern Illinois.
With interviews, coal miner memorabilia, a fire-breathing speech by UMWA President Cecil Roberts, plus the ceremony at the Mother Jones monument only a few miles away in Mt. Olive, Illinois.
Produced by Gary Brooks for Labor Beat, this video won an Honorable Mention Award at the 2007 Hometown Video Awards.
How Unions Can Utilize Public Access TV
Within: Labor Beat: CIW Seeks Support in Chicago / Chicago Stands with Oaxaca / How Unions Can Utilize Public Access TV
Produced by SEIU 503 in Oregon.
Labor Beat: Brewing Solidarity {LB510}
- Brewing Solidarity. A Profile on the IWW-Starbucks Workers Union
This new video by Andrew Freund spotlights the new IWW-Starbucks Union at Logan Square, a neighborhood on Chicago's north side. Interviews with baristas Christine Morgan and Joe Tessone show why they decided to form a union and what happened next ....
- This Labor Beat show adds a 4-minute segment by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers about a day in the life of "Ronaldo McDonald" working in the tomato fields.
(The MPEG2 choice is full DVD quality!) Archive.org.
Streaming (broadband connection necessary).
Or here
(Flash format, Google.com.)
Or download 30 MB slideshow
(.Avi format. Laborbeat.org.)
Labor Beat: The Penthouse of Heaven {LB499}
Chicago's Immigrant Rights/Workers Rights March, May Day 2006
On May Day, 2006 the largest march ever in Chicago took place--to support the rights of immigrant workers. Estimates of the size of the march ranged from 400,000 to 700,000!
Labor Beat's 27 minute documentary about that event and what led up to it: The earlier March 10 massive march which kicked off a national immigrants rights movement; Follow-up community planning meetings for the next big march; The emerging role of the unions in this struggle, including the press conference on April 24 at Haymarket Square, with Chicago Federation of Labor (AFL-CIO) and Change To Win speakers; The last minute preparations of the organizers on the eve of the march; The launch point activities at Union Park on march day.
The video contains interviews with union spokespeople from UNITE HERE, UFCW, SEIU, Carpenters, U.E., and others, including Jorge Mujica of the March 10 Committee, and a speech at the Haymarket Square ceremony by James Thindwa (Chicago Jobs with Justice) reminding us that the negative effects of NAFTA have been forgotten in the national discussion about border crossings from Mexico. The message of the video also criticizes guest worker schemes, and it calls for unionization, not just legalization, of immigrant workers, and for living wage legislation.
The march participants remind us with their signs and in eloquent statements that this protest was not only about Mexican/Hispanic immigrants, but about all immigrants, from Poland to India to the Philippines. Labor Beat's video about this historic day in the movement for social justice.
On-demand plabacks: A broadband connection is needed for the (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3663927984454687227) Google playback. An .avi slideshow (a 29MB file download from www.laborbeat.org/3/lb499poh-slideshow.avi). Will work on many more systems.
Labor Beat: Resolution 53: How the AFL-CIO Stood Up Against the War {LB484}
This Labor Beat documentary follows the story of the creation of a moment in labor history. At its 2005 Convention, the AFL-CIO for the first time passed a resolution against an ongoing war--the war in Iraq.
The video shows the preparations for this breakthrough, how U.S. Labor Against the War worked at the Convention to strengthen the Resolution Committee's initially weak resolution. It shows how USLAW used the momentum of its 2005 Iraq Labor Tour and the 18 anti-war resolutions passed by labor bodies around the country; how Resolution 53 was amended; how the discussion was moved up to a prominent point of the Convention agenda through Jesse Jackson's call to "bring the troops home"; how Resolution 53 was debated on the Convention floor; and the celebratory Iraq Forum, with labor representatives from Iraq and Kurdistan immediately after the resolution passed.
"Resolution 53: How the AFL-CIO Stood Up Against the War" captures two days in July 2005 that will be remembered as a turning point in labor's fight against the war.
Indymedia Presents {selections}
Series by the Seattle WA Indymedia Center and the Pepperspray video collective.
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Labor Beat TV Series {selections}
Selected current labor issues.
LaborBeat.ORG has today's labor news and Labor Beat show descriptions with many links for on-demand viewing and listening.
Over 500 programs have been produced since 1986. Original TV broadcasts are on Chicago cable at 9:30 Thursday nights and 4:30 Friday afternoons.
To get disks, to arrange rebroadcasts in your locale, or to submit material contact: Committee for Labor Access; 37 S. Ashland Blvd.; Chicago IL 60607. Phone (312) 226-3330, or fax (773) 561-0908.
Chicago Independent TV {selections}
The monthly series by the Chicago IL Indymedia Center video group.
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Class War Channel {selections}
Some editors' selections of on-demand video and audio playbacks links found on the Inetenet. For activists, potential activists, and progressive couch potatoes.
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Pepperspray Collective {selections}
Video collective based in Seattle WA.
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Labor Express Radio Series {selections}
Selected current labor issues.
LaborExpress.ORG has today's labor news, Labor Express show descriptions with links for on-demand listening and RSS.
Since 1994. Original broadcasts are webcast via www.wluw.org. WLUW-FM broadcast is to Chicago's North Side on 88.7 MHz.
Building Bridges Radio {selections}
Building Bridges Radio program from WBAI-FM in New York City. Audio playbacks of archived news interview shows. www.buildingbridgesradio.org.
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LabourStart.TV {selections}
Short videos by and for labor groups around the world. Www.labourstart.org/tv.
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Workers Independent News {selections}
WIN site, features audio playbacks of daily labor news headlines. www.laborradio.org.
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Heartland Labor Forum {selections}
Kansas City-based labor radio show archives. "Radio that talks back to the boss."
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NOW: Justice for Janitors
Janitors in SEIU (Service Employees International Union) strike for a living wage. Houston,Texas, October 2006. As reported on Public Broadcasting System's 'NOW' show.
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KPFA Labor Collective {selections}
audio and video programs from San Francisco-based collective. Videos: http://www.umkc.edu/labor-ed/shows.htm. Audio: http://www.kpfalaborcollective.org/parent_kpfa.htm.
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NOW: Income Inequality In America
[cf pbs.org for wealth disparity interviews on NOW seen in Chicago Sun Aug 12 2007. Need descriptio, title, frame.]
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working tv {selections}
Workers issues videos by Vancouver Canada group.
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Alphabetical Index
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Agora TV
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Building Bridges Radio
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Center for Union Facts [so called]
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Chicago Independent TV
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Class War Channel
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CommonDreams
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Counterspin Radio Series
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Democracy Now!
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Free Speech TV
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Go Left TV
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Heartland Labor Forum
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How Unions Can Utilize Public Access TV
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Indymedia Presents
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informaNation
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KPFA Labor Collective
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Labor Beat: Brewing Solidarity
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Labor Beat: Demonizing the Inner City - Ideology and the Urban Poor
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Labor Beat: The Penthouse of Heaven
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Labor Beat: Resolution 53: How the AFL-CIO Stood Up Against the War
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Labor Beat TV Series
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Labor Beat: The Virden and Mt. Olive Monuments: Honoring Coal Miner History
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Labor Beat: The Virden and Mt. Olive Monuments: Honoring Coal Miner History
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Labor Express Radio Series
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LabourStart.TV
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NOW: Income Inequality In America
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NOW: Justice for Janitors
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Pepperspray Collective
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Search selected sites for 'labor'
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Workers Independent News
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working tv