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NEWS SOURCES:
SELECTED LABOR AND MEDIA SITES:
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AFL-CIO. Includes searchable labor news archives.
- Agre archived.
Searchable collection of Phil Agre's frequent bulletins and
analyses on telecommunications issues.
- Alliance for
Community Media. The national advocate
for citizens' rights to create and schedule programs for cable.
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Breaking Bread Project.
Denver-based group produces community tv for progressive
organizations.
- Center
for Labor Ed, U. of Hawaii. Labor web links, labor
videos, labor law.
- Center for Media Education.
Media issues, including children's tv issues.
- Chicago Access Corporation.
A leading municipal agency in developing public-use cable
channels.
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Czarnecki's links,
news, and extensive labor resources.
- Deep Dish TV.
National board once distributed hundreds of great independent
progressive programs via satellite.
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FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
. Publicizes some of the media's bias favoring corporations' political views.
Newsletters
highlights.
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Freespeech.org
.
Internet video and audio programs via RealPlayer. The
Free Speech TV
site has info about the progressive series seen in over fifty cities.
- Holt Labor Library,
San Francisco. A large collection of resources. New index soon.
- Independent Television
Service. Administers private and public funds intended
for independent productions for U.S. public television.
- Institute for
Alternative Journalism (new web address).
Sponsor of major 'media and democracy' conferences.
- International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Union Local 1220,
with which Labor Beat is affiliated.
- International
Labor Organization, U.S. site of the United Nations agency
charged to promote fair working standards.
- Jobs With Justice.
A national action-oriented labor, community, and religious
coalition for working peoples' rights.
Chicago JWJ.
- Labor
at the Crossroads. The Labor X tv series from the
American Social History Project at City U. of New York.
-
Labor Beat
.
Labor tv/radio/video documentaries and this collection of
Internet links! http://www.wwa.com/~bgfolder/lb/. Internet
playbacks.
"Translation"
of the Labor Beat site. (Software attempt; inevitably error-filled. Cf. note below at the
"'Translation' of text" link.)
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Labor Express radio playbacks
(RealAudio).
-
Labor History.
U.S. labor history, outlined for teaching. Sponsored by the
Illinois Labor History Society. An Illinois labor timeline is at
the
Illinois Institute of Labor Relations.
- Labor Link.
Extensive labor interest links.
- LaborNet IGC, including
labor news edited every few days, and action alerts
 .
Links
are organized in subgroups, including a
labor media
directory. Or see the hundreds of links in a
single alphabetical list.
(Institute for Global Communications also hosts the
outstanding progressive sites
PeaceNet, ConflictNet, WomensNet, and EcoNet.)
- LabourStart, including
international labor news edited every few days. Developed by Eric Lee,
author of 'Labour and the Inernet.' Labor Beat has been a
"Site of the Week"
- LabourNet.
International labor news and contacts.
- LOKA Institute. Advocacy
related to the social consequences of technology.
- Paper Tiger Media
reform analyses, programs, links.
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Progressive Video WebRing.
Several progressive video/tv and
video activism sites.
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.
- Radio 4 All.
Connects you to the microradio movement to reclaim the people's airwaves.
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Revolutionary Unionism.
Anarcho-Syndicalist links.
- Strike Page.
Information about recent strikes and lockouts.
- SWEAT online magazine.
News and opinion on many current U.S., Canada, Mexico labor issues. Searchable.
http://www.sweatmag.org
- UAW International Union.
Has many labor links.
- Union for Democratic Communications.
- Union Resource Network.
Searchable lists of union sites by country/state.
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Union Ring.
Links to 300 miscellaneous labor-related sites.
UNION RING:
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Site] [Skip
Next] [Next
5]
[List all sites]
[Join].
- United Electrical,
Radio & Machine Workers, UE.
including links and
newsletter archives.
- UPPNet
(Union Producers and Programmers Network), promoting
shows on working people's interests.
Soon to move here.
- working tv (no caps).
Vancouver group distributes excellent community tv "from the
point of view of those of us who do the work."
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More Links
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Clif Brown, producer of some pro-labor radio shows.
- California
Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. Example of a
well-developed web site.
- Citta'
Invisible. Progressive politics links in Italy, U.S.,
other Europe.
- Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility / Chicago
Coalition for Information Access. Computer and telecommunications
issues group.
- Disgruntled.
Magazine. Miscellaneous workplace complaints.
- Electronic Frontier
Foundation. Telecommunications law alerts and
analyses.
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GMP Local 238.
Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics, and Allied Workers Intl.
- HandsNet network. A
forum of many organizations for economic and social
justice.
- Hard Miles. New
releases include labor songs. RealAudio.
- Illinois
U. list of some Illinois unions links.
- International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades.
Progressive
District Council 5 in Seattle.
Sign Display & Allied Crafts local 510 in San Francisco,
a leading force
in efforts to save democracy in locals and the International.
- IUGW gasworkers
lockout. An "Alert and Action" web site
example.
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IWW Radio Network.
Unofficial Wobblies community radio coalition. Free online listening
software.
- Laborers.org.
An unofficial reform-minded site of the
Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA).
- LaborMedia.
A third international labor media conference is planned for Seoul,
Korea, in November 1999. Site has documents from the first conference, 1997.
We need a 1999 info link.
- Marketing
consultant's ideas for labor organizations.
- McLibel.
Prosecuted for speaking out against McDonald's.
- National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.
Mobilizing the religious community on worker issues.
- National Association of
Letter Carriers, California, links for
locals and the state and national union.
- New Directions,
a rank and file movement within Transport Workers Union Local 100.
Hear 'Solidarity Forever'.
- New Vision NALC,
a movement for agressive unionism in the National
Association of Letter Carriers.
- Paperworkers for
Reform.
- Search worldwide for
free software and shareware via
http://www.shareware.com/. Virus dangers seem minimal.
- Solinet, solidarity network
for Canadian public employes and more.
- Staley Lockout.
Workers support site, Decatur IL. 1996 and continuing.
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'Translation'
of text or a web page. Paste or type some text or a URL.
Spanish, German, French, ... Warning: 'Translation' by software
is inevitably error-filled! Skilled professional translators
are available through
Translators and Interpreters Guild Local T-100
(Newspaper Guild - Communications Workers of America - AFL-CIO).
- Union Summer,
the programs for young adults.
- United Food and
Commercial Workers International Union.
- U.S. National Archives.
Old pictures and other resources accessible via easy catalog searches.
- Virtual Reference Desk.
Links to many research resources on the Internet. Articles, photos, ....
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Wallace, Len.
Canadian musician and activist.
- WebActive,
searchable list of 2500 progressive web sites. Categories include
'Labor' and 'Media Watch Organizations'.
- Web
page development, some tips and examples.
- Web pages via email. Text versions. (A browser-capable computer is not needed.) To
agora@capri.mi.mss.co.jp
send a message with lines ala: send http://....
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WWW Virtual Library's Labor heading. Many organization and
history links.
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Yahoo's Labor heading. A number of sites organized into
subcategories (Unions, labor interest organizations, ...).
- Sites
that link to Labor Beat. (Does yours yet? <A
href="http://www.wwa.com/~bgfolder/lb/">Labor Beat</A>
Advocates for labor media. (The search engine takes time. Each run
yields a different number of hits. And the 'translation' offered is just
a computer software attempt. Cf. note at the link above for 'Translation
of text.')
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Report on labor in South Africa ....
Projectionists' battle ....
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Pullman commemoration ....
Another mural celebrating Labor ....
Labor singer on tour ....
Homeless organize ....
What to expect for your union dues ....
Armored truck guards organizing ....
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