BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-18665493 SEQUENCE:18740666 CREATED:20101203T023600Z DESCRIPTION:Using Labor Media Technology Tools To Help Win Our Struggles\n\nThis three day conference is designed to teach locals and labor activists about media methods and options.\n\nSUNDAY, December 10\n9:00 - 9:30 AM\n\nRegistration - (McLaren 252) (Morning refreshments - Coffee, tea with bagels, sweets)\n\n9:45 - 11:00 AM\nPlenary & Discussion (McLaren 252)\n\nDeveloping a Labor Media Strategy\n\nLabor faces a political and economic onslaught challenging it’s existence.\nThis panel will look at how labor can challenge these attacks in part with labor media and technology to break the information blockade and ideological barrage against working people.\n\nSteve Stallone - President ILCA\nRebecca Rosen Lum - President CWA Freelancers Media Workers\nPeter B. Collins - AFTRA, Radio Journalist\nFrank Emspak - Workers Independent News Founder www.laborradio.org\n\n11:15 - 12:45 AM\nWorkshops III\n\n(1) Making A Labor Video and Labor Media Training (Room- )\n\nThere are millions of videos on youtube and other channels and a growing number of labor videos and documentaries. This workshop will look at how to make a labor video and how they can be used and distributed to organize and build the labor movement.\n\nMary Ellen Churchill - Labor Videographer\nJoan Sekler - Producer “Locked Out” On ILWU Local 30 Rio Tinto Lock-out\nStewart Ransom - ATU International\n\n(2) Student Labor Organizing Using the Internet And\nThe Alta Gracia Campaign USAS (Room- )\n\nStudents are organizing on hundreds of campuses to support education workers and also to fight for workers around the world. This panel will look at some examples of these efforts.\n\nDave Mitchell - Stanford Labor Action Coalition\nPerina Reyes - SEIU 2007\n\n(3) Privacy, The Internet & Labor (Room- )\n\nThe issue of privacy of our records and electronic information is now not only a question of getting a job but also getting workers comp and other rights. We will look at the wild west environment where using the internet and IT has become a deadly danger to workers and the public and what we can do about it.\n\nPatricia Moleski - Fired IT Whisleblower At 7th Day Adventist Hospital Chain\nLinda Ackerman - Privacy Activism (invited)\nSteve Zeltzer - California Coalition for Workers Memorial Day, Labor Video Project\n\n(4) Development of Labor Channels & Labor Media/ SINALTRAINAL Stream from Columbia Coke Workers (Room- )\n\nThe use of labor channels and streaming to build international solidarity has tremendous potential and this panel will look at low power radio, the Latino media and how international communication is breaking barriers.\n\nToya Isabel Fernandes - Linefeed\nMax Peres - Coalition of Immokalee Workers CIW-Set up low FM power station\nMaria Hall - Radio Journalist\nIsabel Wagemans - International Labor Educator with www.fossocsol.be & Representatives from Belgium\n\n1:00 - 2:45 PM\nLunch Plenary (McLaren 252)\n\nKPFA “Labor and Representation at KPFA”\nWhat is happening at KPFA? Recent layoffs of the Morning Show staff brought to public attention a number of longstanding issues involving paid and unpaid workers, unions, and management at KPFA and Pacifica Radio.\nThis panel will include representatives from different worker perspectives, in an effort to find common ground and define ways to make KPFA more responsive to the needs of labor.\n\npanelists: Please check the web site later\n\n3:00 - 4:30 PM\nProposals For Action & Organizing (McLaren 252)\nInternational labor channel and Strategies for Building Labor Channels\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/02/18665493.php SUMMARY:LaborTech 2010 LOCATION:Univ of San Francisco\n2130 Fulton St (at Cole)\nSan Francisco, CA\n\n#5 Bus runs down Fulton\n#21 & #43 are a few blocks away URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/02/18665493.php DTSTART:20101212T170000Z DTEND:20101213T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR