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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Labor
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- FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Labor
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- Note 50 Labor videos
- jhughes@igc.org 4:03 pm Jun 10, 1992
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- A DRAMATIC NEW VIDEO ABOUT
- Mexico, Free Trade, and Runaway Corporations:
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- $ 4 A D A Y ? N O W A Y !
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- J o i n i n g H a n d s A c r o s s B o r d e r s
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- This fast-paced,18-minute video includes...
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- * Scenes from a business association video boasting about moving
- U.S. jobs to Mexico and paying Mexican workers some of the lowest
- wage rates in the world.
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- * The 18th century conditions in which Mexican employees of U.S.
- corporations are forced to live and work.
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- * Members of the Mexican Ford Workers Democratic Movement
- telling how they were shot at inside their plant by thugs recruited by
- the government-controlled CTM labor federation. They display
- payroll records showing that the gunmen were hired by Ford just
- two days before the attack, which left one worker dead and nine
- more wounded.
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- * The chairman of Ford Motor Co. denying, despite obvious evidence
- to the contrary, that the company had anything to do with the
- assault.
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- * Workers from Mexico, the United States, and Canada taking part in
- international exchanges and protests. They tell why they oppose the
- North American Free Trade Agreement and instead support an
- international movement to improve labor standards, job security,
- environmental protection, and public services in all three countries. :
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- * Mexican teachers challenging the underfunding and overcrowding
- of schools while transnational corporations pay low taxes and siphon
- off the country's wealth.
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- * Marches and other protests by Mexican clothing and textile
- workers, health care employees, airline workers, farm workers and
- family farmers, nuclear and oil workers, miners, steelworkers,
- rubber workers and public employees.
- * Election fraud and political violence by Mexico's ruling PRI party.
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- For a1/2" VHS copy of the new video, "$4 A Day?No Way!,"
- please send name, organization (if any), address, and phone
- number plus $30 for a1/2" VHS copy to:
- American Labor Education Center
- 2000 P Street N.W., Room300
- Washington, DC20036
- Tel: (202)828-5170
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- EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET, T-SHIRTS ALSO AVAILABLE
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- "$4 A Day? No Way!" is also the title of a 16-page pamphlet with text
- and photos about exploitation of Mexican workers and the environment
- by U.S. corporations, the Mexican labor movement and political system,
- and recent efforts to build U.S.-Mexico-Canada labor solidarity. It
- includes an interview with a maquiladora plant manager who admits that
- he, not his workers, chose which leader of the government-affiliated
- CTM union federation to sign up with. It's available for $2.65
- (including postage and handling) from the American Labor address shown
- above.Bulk rates are available.
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- In addition, American Labor has T-shirts which say on the front in
- large letters over a map of North America, "$4 A Day?No Way!", along
- with the smaller words, "Solidarity for Justice and Democracy,
- U.S.-Mexico-Canada."
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- The shirt has the same graphic and message on the back but in
- Spanish.
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- The shirts come in medium, large, X-large, and XX-large.Choose between
- black or red.(The image is gold in both cases.)
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- Shirts are $10 each plus $1.50 postage and handling. Bulk rates
- are available.
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- Note 7 VIDEOS: LABOR HISTORY AND CULTURE
- wheimbach@igc.org 2:42 pm Oct 9, 1991
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- Road to Haymarket - 30 min. videotape
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- This is a videotape commemorating the Chicago Haymarket martyrs
- who were hanged for their political convictions and labor
- leadership in 1886. The tape combines historical stills,
- documentary footage of the current labor movement, and dramatic
- re-enactments to tell the story of the working people's struggle
- to have control over their labor. An essential history lesson
- that has been left out of many history books.
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- Two Generations of Labor Singers - 30 min. videotape
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- A profile of singer/songwriter Utah Phillips and England's Billy
- Bragg, detailing their involvement with the labor movement.
- Provides a brief history of labor singers and music of both
- Phillips and Bragg.
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- produced by Labor Beat, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago IL 60607. Each
- tape costs $25 (post paid) for a VHS copy.
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- send for a free copy of "Labor Beat In Print", a periodic
- publication discussing labor video.
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- Topic 8 VIDEO: PLANT CLOSING IN ELKHART
- wheimbach Resources for labor movement users 2:44 pm Oct
- 9, 1991
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- Could Be Your Job Next - 20 min. videotape
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- The OCAW Local in Elkhart, Indiana, fights the closing of an
- American Home Products plant. The union invited Michael Moore,
- the producer and director of "Roger and Me", to come to Elkhart to
- bring attention to the closing.
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- Moore and the OCAW local president, Connie Malloy, spoke at a
- press conference at a local union hall and then Moore led a group
- to the plant where he made an attempt to talk to the company's
- vice-president. Although management avoided the union group,
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- Moore was able to talk with some of the workers changing shifts at
- the plant, and a number of reporters from local media accompanied
- the entourage.
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- produced by Labor Beat, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago IL 60607. The tape
- costs $25 (post paid) for a VHS copy.
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- send for a free copy of "Labor Beat In Print", a periodic
- publication discussing labor video.
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- Note 92 CAT/UAW Video
- wheimbach@igc.org 10:26 pm Apr 14, 1992
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- A Labor Beat Video
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- The Big CAT Fight: UAW vs Catepillar
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- Rank-and-file coverage edited exclusively for Labor Beat.
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- * footage of giant Peoria rally of 22,000 unionists
- * rank-and-file coverage of "scab Monday" in Aurora and Peoria
- * coverage of UAW Region 1 A caravan to Peoria
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- 27 minutes
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- available from:
- Labor Beat
- 37 S. Ashland
- Chicago, IL 60607
- 312-226-3330
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- cost: $25 for VHS, $40 for 3/4" - both postage paid
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- Note 99 VIDEOS/UAW/CAT/TUCKER
- wheimbach@igc.org 11:39 am Apr 26, 1992
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- TWO NEW LABOR BEAT VIDEOS ON THE CATERPILLAR STRIKE
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- 1) THE BIG CAT STRIKE
- The giant solidarity rally in Peoria, IL plus April 6
- mass pickets at Aurora plant and E. Peoria plant when Caterpillar
- started hiring scabs; and UAW car caravan to rally.
- Action packed and edited from exclusive rank-and-file
- footage, not network coverage. Demonstrates new level in working
- class television's ability to rapidly cover such events.
- 27 min.
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- 2) JERRY TUCKER ON CAT STRIKE
- Jerry Tucker, former UAW Region 5 Director running
- against Owen Bieber for UAW President, gives his analysis of
- errors of UAW leadership in the sudden CAT strike sellout. With
- a brief edited introduction.
- Co-produced by LaborVision (St. Louis) and Labor Beat.
- 29 min.
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- Each tape costs $25 (including postage and handling) for a VHS
- copy. Send orders to:
- Labor Beat
- 37 S. Ashland
- Chicago, IL 60607
- 312-226-3330.
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- Note 33 newvideo
- erdto@igc.orgP 2:16 pm Apr 20, 1992
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- FENASTRAS
- NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SALVADORAN WORKERS UNION
- (TORONTO OFFICE)
- Presentes the premiere of the video "LAS CALLES SON NUESTRAS"
- (the streets belong to us) In commemoration of the INTERNATIONAL
- WORKERS DAY. A video filmed in San Salvador by journalists union
- members from the Vancouver area.
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- PLACE: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
- 350 Victoria St. (Yonge and Dundas area)
- DATE AND TIME: Friday May 1st. at 7 pm.
- DONATION: $ 3.00
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- FFI: Please call 968-7442
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