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SHOWS AND VIDEOSOur Shows: Titles and
descriptions. Online/offline searchable detailed information. Our
productions document issues of importance to workers -- some of the
many issues that are either ignored or distorted by the corporate
(including 'public broadcasting') media. Labor Beat advocates the
development of new media with strong rank-and-file viewpoints. For the shows descriptions, select: 'Videos' are those Labor Beat productions that we can offer
on disk or tape to workers' organizations, schools, libraries, and
individuals. These are the shows that are for sale by us.  FEATURED LINKSFirst, add Labor Beat to your Bookmark Favorites. Then, choose links (arranged in 3 separate sections here: "Labor's Issues In Today's News", "Labor and Media", and "More Links". Your browser software's "BACK" button can return you to Labor Beat at any time. Please offer your comments and suggestions. LABOR'S ISSUES IN TODAY'S NEWS: 
Remember that the 'spin' and even the 'facts' must always be
challenged in the corporate media's coverage of Labor's issues!
MEMBERS' LINKSGary Brooks.
Labor Beat on Livestream.com, selected recent shows always streaming, and live(!) Labor Beat studio shows at announced times.
Larry Duncan and others. Labor events news video releases and Labor Beat shows on
YouTube,
Internet Archive,
Google Videos.
Andrew Friend.
Labor Beat on facebook.com, information and selected recent shows.
Jerry Mead-Lucero.
Labor Express, information and links to shows.
And Pilsen Prole, Jerry's frequent news commentaries as a producer of media on working class issues, and a proud resident of Chicago's historic working-class Pilsen neighborhood.
SELECTED SITES ON LABOR-AND-MEDIA
AFL-CIO site. Includes weekly news
about U.S. unions. And searchable archives.
Alliance for Community Media.
The national advocate for citizens' rights to create and schedule
programs for cable.
Error. Where now?: Breaking
Bread Project. Denver-based group produces community tv for
progressive organizations.
Brain Labor Report. Daily labor
radio news interviews and music. Streamed live, 7:00 a.m from Ashland,
Oregon. On-demand archives.
Bright Path Film and
Video. With labor audio and video programs. Many on-demand
playbacks.
Chicago Access Network Television.
 (CAN
TV). Demonstrating how a major cable access organization supports
citizens and groups in the use of noncommercial television.
Center for Labor Ed, U. of
Hawaii. Labor web links, labor videos, labor law.
Error. Where now?: Center for Media
Education. Media issues, including children's tv issues.
Chicago Media Action.
 Media activism. News,
issues, and links.
Chicago Independent
Television.
 A monthly video magazine with Chicago
actions. Archives.
Chicago Media Watch.
Media reform research and eduction.
Chicago Union News .com. 'Daily independent coverage.'
Citizens for Independent Public
Broadcasting.
 Defunct. Attempted a national membership
organization to Put the public back in Public Broadcasting.
Class War Channel
 .
Selected channels with shows you can [Play Now].
Error. Where now?: Czarnecki's links,
news, and extensive labor resources.
Deep Dish TV. National board once
distributed hundreds of great independent progressive programs via
satellite.
Democracy Now! daily tv and radio
show. Today's show and archived shows on demand.
Evanston Community Media Center. Labor Beat. Constantly streaming shows.
FAIR,
 Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting. Publicizes some of the media's bias favoring
corporations' political views. Newsletters Error. Where now?: highlights.
Freespeech.org.
Progressive video and audio programs, via RealPlayer. The Error. Where
now?: Free Speech TV site
has online shows and info about the progressive series seen in over
fifty cities.
Holt Labor Library
site, including its links to many periodicals sites and other labor
libraries.
Illinois Labor Trail.
 Tour historic sites. Interactive
web pages with descriptions, images, and videos.
ILCA,
 The International
Labor Communictions Association. Contacts and news items.
Independent Media Center.
Global
 and links to 50 other Independent Media
Center sites worldwide, including our own IMC Chicago site. View and
post news (text, photos, audio, video) without depending on the
corporate media. Searchable (For example, you can find many postings by
or about Labor
Beat on the Chicago IMC, or items with union stored on the global
IMC).
Interfaith Worker Justice,
 a national
organization which engages the religious community to support workers'
campaigns and issues. IWJ works with local and international unions.
Their Can My Boss Do That
project presents state and federal laws and other information,
resources, and tools to enable workers to protect their rights.
Independent Television Service.
Administers private and public funds for independent productions for
U.S. public television stations.
Institute for Alternative
Journalism. Sponsor of major 'media and democracy'
conferences.
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, Union Local 1220. Labor Beat is affiliated with
IBEW 1220, but views expressed in our productions are not necessarily
those of Local 1220.
International Labor Organization,
U.S. branch of the United Nations agency charged to promote fair
working standards worldwide.
Jobs With Justice. A national
action-oriented labor, community, and religious coalition for working
peoples' rights. Chicago JWJ
site.
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 newsclips, documentaries and this collection of Internet
links! www.laborbeat.org. Internet On-demand streaming. Labor media
development news. was Spanish
translation attempt. Software attempt is inevitably error-filled! Cf.
note below at the "'Translation' of text" link.
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Labor Express.
 Labor Beat's weekly
radio news magazine show.
Labor Express Radio worldwide webcasts
are streamed
Mondays at 10:00 AM
via www.wluw.org,
right after 'Democracy Now!',
and broadcast in Chicago over WLUW-FM-88.7.
Flyer.
Podcasts: www.laborexpress.org.
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LABOR HISTORY.
U.S. labor history, outlined for teaching. Sponsored by the Error.
Where now?: Illinois
Labor History Society. Visit the new Error. Where now?: Women and
Labor History Project. Also, an Illinois labor timeline is at the
Illinois Institute of Labor
Relations.
Labor Link. Very
extensive labor interest links.
LaborNet (USA and other
countries).
 Major sites on
international labor issues, with resource links. Links to LaborNets
around the world, such as LabourNet
UK. Featuring 'alerts' for you to take action. Revised every few
days. The labor links section is
organized into subgroups, including a labor media directory.
Or see the hundreds of links in a single alphabetical
list. (The Institute for Global Communications no longer hosts
LaborNet; but it still hosts the progressive sites PeaceNet, ConflictNet, WomensNet, and
EcoNet.)
Labor
websites around the world.
 Fifteen of the best, as selected by
LabourStart.com correspondents in December 2007.
LabourStart. International
labor news, by country. Includes U.S.items. Revised hourly.
Labor Tech.
 . Includes annual conference
items.
Links2Go labor
links. (Awards Labor Beat a 'key labor site' status, based on an
objective Internet analysis.)
LOKA Institute. Research and advocacy
related to the social consequences of technology.
Media Channel. Discusses and
documents business distortion of news.
Media Issues Links. A resource for
media reform activists. News issues summarized. Best links.
Michael Moore
commentaries.
NABET-CWA Local 41 in Chicago.
Generous financial supporter of Labor Beat.
New York Hotel Trades Council special site about the long Crown Plaza Hotel Strike.
Includes videos. The Council also has a jobs site.
Organize! Why
and how to unionize your workplace. From United Electrical Workers
site.
Paper Tiger media reform
analyses, programs, links.
Pilsenprole, news
commentaries of Jerry Mead-Lucero, producer of media on working class
issues, and proud resident of Chicago's historic working-class Pilsen
neighborhood.
Progressive
Secretary. Site editors draft and send issue emails to multiple
elected officials for you!
Quorum 325,
www.9898.us/quorum325. A labor action forum begun at UAW Local 325 at
the now closed Ford plant in St. Louis. Edited by Dennis Gallie.
RADIO 4 ALL, www.radio4all.org.
Reclaim the people s airwaves. Stations everywhere. Micro-radio issues
and the FCC.
radio4all.net, The a-Infos Radio
Project, offering full broadcast quality .mp3 audio programs by the
hundreds for listening and rebroadcasting. You can upload, too. Our own
LABOR EXPRESS series has posted programs there.
Revolutionary Unionism.
Anarcho-Syndicalist links.
Seattle Independent Media
Center. E.g., grassroots WTO conference coverage.
Error. Where now?: Strike
Page. News and contacts for many current strikes and lockouts.
SWEAT online magazine. News and
opinion on many current U.S., Canada, Mexico labor issues.
Searchable.
Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100, New York City publicizes its videos as a YouTube Channel.
UAW International Union. Has many
labor links.
Error. Where now?: Union for Democratic
Communications.
Union Resource Network. Searchable
lists of union sites by country/state.
United Electrical, Radio &
Machine Workers, UE. including links and Error. Where now?: newsletter
archives.
UAW Crisis,
www.9898.us/uawcrisis. Rank and file talk about the auto companies
battles with labor. (2006
edition.)
UPPNet.
 Union Producers
and Programmers Network. Links to independent U.S. shows on working
people's interests. Including quarterly newsletters archive.
working tv (no caps). Vancouver
group distributes excellent community tv "from the point of view of
those of us who do the work."
Yahoo
editors Labor and Union News daily headlines. Also a form to search all news,
e.g., for union.
MORE LINKS
California Federation of
Labor, AFL-CIO. Example of a well-developed union web site.
Carpenters for a Democratic
Union, for democratic control of the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters.
Chicago Independent Media Network, developing
ways to share news and resources.
Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility / Chicago Coalition for Information Access.
Computer and telecommunications issues group.
Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Telecommunications law alerts and analyses.
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.
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades. Progressive
Error. Where now?: District Council 5 in
Seattle. Sign Display and Allied
Crafts local 510 in San Francisco, a leading force in efforts to
save democracy in locals and the International.
Error. Where now?: IUGW
gasworkers lockout. An "Alert and Action" web site example.
IWW
Radio Network. Unofficial Wobblies community radio coalition. Free
online listening software.
Labor Archives
Roundtable, Society of American Archivists (SAA) via
www.archivists.org/saagroups/labor. Includes information about the
Roundtable and the SAA August 2007 conference in Chicago.
Laborers.org. A site with
documents and links for reformers of the Laborers International Union
of North America (LIUNA).
LaborMedia. Annual
international labor media conferences in Seoul, Korea. November?. We
need an English URL update.
Marketing
consultant's ideas for labor organizations.
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.
WASNew Directions, a rank
and file movement within Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100. Hear
'Solidarity Forever'.
Error. Where now?: New Vision
NALC, a movement for agressive unionism in the National Association
of Letter Carriers.
Error. Where now?: Prometheus
Radio Project, a group that tours to promote low power community
radio. Includes primer for groups considering applying for a license.
Search worldwide for free software
and shareware via www.shareware.com/. Virus dangers seem
minimal.
Error. Where now?: Solinet,
solidarity network for Canadian public employes and more.
Error. Where now?: Springfield
Solidarity Beat. TV show on cable.
Staley Lockout. The workers
support site, Decatur IL. 1996 and continuing.
Substance News. Site and
monthly newspaper on important U.S. public schools matters. Defending
the Public Schools for over 30 years.
TWU (Transport Workers Union) Local 100 (New York) video page.
Teamsters for a Democratic Union, the
large rank-and-file movement to reform the Teamsters.
Error. Where now?: '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
Error. Where now?: WAS Translators
and Interpreters Guild Local T-100 (Newspaper Guild -
Communications Workers of America - AFL-CIO).
WASUnion Summer, the programs for
young adults.
Error. Where now?: United Food
and Commercial Workers International Union.
Error. Where now?: 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, . . .
Wallace,
Len. Canadian musician and activist.
Web page development, some tips and
examples.
Error. Where now?: WWW
Virtual Library's Labor heading. Many organization and history
links.
Some sites that
link to Labor Beat, by Google search. (Does your site link to Labor
Beat yet? [Use: <A href="http://www.laborbeat.org/">Labor
Beat</A> Advocates for labor media.] (The search engine may take
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