From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Labor
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: ?
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 09:00:17 GMT

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...

* 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.   

* The 18th century conditions in which Mexican employees of U.S. 
corporations are forced to live and work.   

* 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.   

* The chairman of Ford Motor Co. denying, despite obvious evidence 
to the contrary, that the company had anything to do with the 
assault.   

* 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. : 

* Mexican teachers challenging the underfunding and overcrowding 
of schools while transnational corporations pay low taxes and siphon 
off the country's wealth.   

* 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.   

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

EDUCATIONAL PAMPHLET, T-SHIRTS ALSO AVAILABLE

"$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.

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."

The shirt has the same graphic and message on the back but in
Spanish.

The shirts come in medium, large, X-large, and XX-large.Choose between
black or red.(The image is gold in both cases.)

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

Road to Haymarket - 30 min. videotape

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.

Two Generations of Labor Singers - 30 min. videotape

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.

produced by Labor Beat, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago IL 60607.  Each
tape costs $25 (post paid) for a VHS copy.

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

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.

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.

produced by Labor Beat, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago IL 60607.  The tape
costs $25 (post paid) for a VHS copy.

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

A Labor Beat Video

The Big CAT Fight: UAW vs Catepillar

Rank-and-file coverage edited exclusively for Labor Beat.

* 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

27 minutes

available from:
        Labor Beat
        37 S. Ashland
        Chicago, IL 60607
        312-226-3330

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

TWO NEW LABOR BEAT VIDEOS ON THE CATERPILLAR STRIKE

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.

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.

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

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.

PLACE: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
350 Victoria St. (Yonge and Dundas area)
DATE AND TIME: Friday May 1st. at 7 pm.
DONATION: $ 3.00

FFI: Please call 968-7442

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