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Our 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.

(Tips: You can search any list for any term of interest by using your browser's Find command. E.g., Find "mural", "Decatur", "Teamster", or "Haymarket". And you can capture any list by using your browser's 'File' menu to save it as an html page or a plain text document.) The 'Newest Shows' list also includes selected older shows. Many shows and video newsclips are sold on disks; see Videos Available below. All lists are also on the Labor Beat Data Disk . Often new works are announced first in news releases.

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'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.

The newest releases are listed first. You can order DVD disks and VHS tapes of the videos by their titles and a check for 25 dollars each (15 dollars to individuals and workers' organizations) mailed to Labor Beat.

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SELECTED SITES ON LABOR-AND-MEDIA

• AFL-CIO site includes weekly news about U.S. unions. With searchable archives.
• Error. Where now?: WASAgre 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.
• 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.
  
• Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting. Defunct. Attempted a national membership organization to Put the public back in Public Broadcasting.
  
• Class War Channel. Channels of video and audio shows and clips playable on demand.
• 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.
• 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.
  
• Labor Beat or Labor Express searches of IMC Chicago site: IMC Chicago by Yahoo. IMC by Google.
  
• 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.
  
• Labor Express. Labor Beat's weekly radio show. Live web streaming worldwide Sunday nights from 7:00 to 8:00, Chicago time. On-demand playbacks, PODCASTS of recent shows!
  
• 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 is posting new 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.
• 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. Previous 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.
• Labor links at University of Illinois Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.
• 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.
• McDonald's issues.
• 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 Local 100. Hear 'Solidarity Forever'.
• Error. Where now?: New Vision NALC, a movement for agressive unionism in the National Association of Letter Carriers.
• Paperworkers for Reform.
• 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. Workers support site, Decatur IL. 1996 and continuing.
• 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.
• WASWebActive, searchable list of 2500 progressive web sites. Categories include 'Labor' and 'Media Watch Organizations'.
• 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 time, with each run yielding a different number of hits.)

STREAMING / BROADCASTS / PODCASTS

Worldwide:

On-demand playbacks, anytime!........www.laborbeat.org
On-demand playbacks, podcasts...www.laborexpress.org
SUN..7:00- 8:00pm, Labor Express audio...www.wluw.org

Chicago, Illinois:

SUN..7:00-8:00PM, Labor Express radio...WLUW-FM 88.7
THU..9:30-10:00PM, Labor Beat television...CABLE Ch 19
FRI...4:30- 5:00PM, Labor Beat television...CABLE Ch 19

Evanston, Illinois:

MON..5:30-6:00PM, Labor Beat television...CABLE Ch 6
WED..9:00-9:30PM, Labor Beat television...CABLE Ch 6
SAT..12:30-1:00AM, Labor Beat television...CABLE Ch 6

St. Louis, Missouri area; Princeton, New Jersey;
and other cities from time to time. Days and times vary.

Help add MORE TOWNS AND CHANNELS by volunteering to CONTACT LOCAL TV CHANNEL LICENSEES and CABLE SYSTEM FRANCHISEES! Every TV channel licensee must serve the public interest to continue being entrusted with a U.S. broadcasting license. And every U.S. cable franchisee must allow groups and citizens to submit programs, as upheld for Labor in Rockford, Illinois.

There may be news releases about new shows.

ABOUT LABOR BEAT

NOTE: Workers organzations' donations help Labor Beat. Please request that your local, regional, or national executive committee approve a grant, of 500 dollars or any amount. We are a bonafide nonprofit IRS 501(c)(3) organization. You can refer them to this web site, or ask us for a letter and appeal packet.

• AFSCME Local# Board donated $1200, 6 month's rent, to Labor Beat.
• The Tamiment Library (New York City) circulates many Labor Beat shows. www.tamiment.org?
• SEIU Local 73's Board donated $500 to Labor Beat.
• Teamsters Local 705 sent $500.
• IBEW 1220 made a donation and purchased 10 Labor Beat videos to donate to local high schools.
• NABET-CWA 41 support: Thank you to Local 41 for another generous donation.
• Thank you to Mr. John Joslin for the generous donation and purchase of many videos.
• Mike Tremela donated a computer, printer, and desk.
• COMPUTER need: Labor Beat could use another, even very old, computer. Can you or your organization donate one?

"LABOR BEAT is the Chicago-based Committee for Labor Access, We advocate for rank-and-file labor's own media and produce our own labor television and radio shows and newsclips.

CLA develops and distributes progressive television, radio, videos, and Internet communications on unions and workers issues. (More than seven hundred Labor Beat television programs and Labor Express radio programs have now been produced.)"

Learn more about us. PLEASE HELP WITH OUR CURRENT FUNDRAISING APPEAL! Equipment, rent, and other expense help is needed.

Some labor-and-media documents

A past Labor Beat newsletter described how Labor Beat operates and makes our appeal for support from you and your union. Also, Your letters of commendation may help us find some grant support.

Labor Media in Chicago: Issues and Perspectives, an article by Larry Duncan, 13kb.

Newsletter archives of UPPNet, the Union Producers and Programmers Network.

Submit your own productions and clips (More information) . . . In development: Steelworkers . . . Organizing Error. Where now?: temporary workers . . . Report on labor in South Africa . . . Unionizing street musicians . . . Labor singer on tour . . . More labor history . . .

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WAYS TO CONTACT LABOR BEAT

• Mail / donations / orders: Use our form for messages, donations, or orders. Or write mail@laborbeat.org. USPS Mail to Labor Beat / 37 S. Ashland Blvd. # W / Chicago IL 60607
• Set a bookmark favorite now for www.laborbeat.org, the Labor Beat web site.
• Phone: (312) 226-3330; Fax: (773) 561-0908
• Andrew Freund, Chairperson. Jerry Mead-Lucero , Labor Express Radio and Vice Chairperson, a.k.a. The Pilsen Prole. Larry Duncan, Treasurer. Bob Gallie, Web site editor.
• Labor Beat is affiliated with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1220, but views expressed in our productions are not necessarily those of Local 1220.
• Board Meetings monthly, various Saturdays. Intramural: Site editors

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