Winter 2006

Labor and the media: the transit strike

LaborTech gets new web site... LaborNotes Conference labor media panel... CA teachers protest ABC broadcast... ABC’s download pay irks unions... Capetown, SA international workshop... May Day Labor Film Festival... Istanbul/Ankara Intnl Labor Film/Video Fest... Documentary on airline industry and workers... Are you a Teamster? Tom Leedham campaign... Autoworkers protext Detroit Auto Show... SEIU (Oregon) networks community access producers... IATSE internet production agreement... Everett, WA new labor radio show... Laborfest 2006 call for films and videos.

Winter ’06

Spring/Summer 2006

2005

We’re putting workers’ stories on radio and tv

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Fall 2005 Uptick of labor programming at AFL-CIO Convention/ Videos: AFL-CIO Split and CTW Convention
Fire Fighters Harold Schaitberger (l) and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee at the AFL-CIO Convention	UPPNET Web site makeover... Uptick of labor programming at AFL-CIO Convention... Videos: *AFL-CIO Split and CTW Convention... A Union Man...*
Resolution 53... The AFL-CIO and the National Endowment for Democracy... Iraq Labor Tour... Lockout 484.......working tv streams British Columbia shutdown.... Telesur and Venezuela.... ILCA Convention okays three UPPNET resolutions.... Call for ’05 International Labor Film & Video Festival.... Working New York
Fall ’05

Spring/Summer 2005

Vote Yes on SF Labor Council’s labor media resolution at July AFL-CIO Convention!

Andrew Stern of SEIU and John Sweeney AFLCIO

Vote Yes on SF Labor Council resolution … AFL-CIO spikes America@work … America@work: In lieu of an epitaph … New video on AFL-CIO debate … WIN: the new face of labor media … Heartland Labor Forum online … Member-made labor tv in Oregon / SEIU 503 resolution … KPFA Labor Collective Pacifica Proposal … Anchorage union to buy radio station … Building Bridges a winner! … UPPNet Board …

Spring/Summer 2005

Winter 2005

Labor media a non-issue at AFL-CIO Executive Council’s Vegas meeting

Tom Balanoff, SEIU Local 1 President, explains Andy Stern’s 10-point program for saving the labor movement at open meeting in Chicago.

Labor media a non-issue at AFL-CIO EC … Machinists call for labor tv channel … ILCA Resolution on Labor Media … Labor Notes enters media discussion … Report on WIN … LaborFest 2005 call for videos … May Day video – Haymarket statue a bad joke … Media Held Guilty of Deception … NUJ Helps Iraq’s union media program … Iraq’s FWCUI needs media equipment … Video: Fighting Wal-Martization… Crucial year for media activists in SF…

Winter 2005

2004

Fall 2004

The election, the AFL-CIO debate, and labor media

Editorial: The Election, The AFL-CIO Debate, and Labor Media … First Latin American Working Class Film Fest … Mardi Gras: Made in China … Chicago public access tv funding … Public Television’s Digital Dreams … Battle at the Boardroom Doors … Iraq tells media to toe the line … The Miami Model documentary …

Fall 2004

Summer 2004 Workers Independent New Service makes mainstream media breakthrough
	WIN breakthrough… Support for CAN TV mounts… UNITE HERE! Local 2: Janice Loux… Sweatshop Wear Is Unfair… Coalition to Comcast: “Don’t hang us out to dry!”… March on the Media…
Senate committee passes low power FM… Million Worker March builds… KPFA Labor Day special… Dearborn, MI town meeting on future of media… Argentina: Factory Occupations…
Summer 2004

Spring 2004 East Bay Labor Media Center Started

East Bay Labor Media Center started … Office politics give liberal radio a rocky start … Review of FRAMED! Labor and the Corporate Media … KPFA seeks Labor Day programming … WINS growth continues … Million Worker March supports democratic media … LaborTech activists focus on labor, technology … Resolutions from LaborTech 2004 … Lawsuit from protest in 2000 settled … Chairman Powell is AWOL … ILCA protests closure of Iraqi newspaper …
Spring 2004

Winter 2004 WINS is growing/Chicago’s labor radio begins new chapter

WINS is growing … Chicago labor radio begins new chapter … LaborTech: April 2-4 … “Axis of Empire” UDC Conference … Video: Freedom at Work… Pirate Radio in Venezuela … Brazil union tv show … Radio LaborStart launched … Stop employee intimidation at Comcast … Workplace Project honors Building Bridges …
Winter 2004

2003

Fall 2003

WINS Reporter, Indy Media Among Those Attacked at Miami/UPPNET Statement on Miami

Police attack, Miami, Nov. 2003. Photo: John Hamilton.

Police attack peaceful protesters and marchers in Miami, FL during the FTAA meetings. Nov 2003

WINS, Indy Media reporters attacked at Miami FTAA protests … UPPNET statement on Miami … Chicago Labor Media Conference… LaborTech 2004… New labor videos … Heartland Labor Forum wins award … The FCC rollback hoax … The Axis of Empire Conference … Labor programs on CA Central Coast … National Conference on Media Reform … Labor movies screening in Berlin …

Fall 2003

Summer 2003 Wal-Mart tries to silence union radio spots
An editorial cartoon from the St. Louis Post Dispatch reflects community alarm at Wal-Mart’s bid to force local radio stations to stop airing a UFCW public service announcement.
Wal-Mart tries to silence union radio spots … UPPNET Editorial: Labor Must Get Serious About A Media Strategy … St. Louis PD Editorial: Wal-Mart muzzling critics … WINS: going strong … LaborTech/Access 2004… SF access producers get shabby treatment at hearing … Chicago-Area Labor Media Conference…
Summer 2003

Spring 2003 Stanford Access Conference faces up to monopolization threats/Upsurge of media activism challenges Iraq war propaganda
	Stanford access conference … Upsurge in media activism … The media, the war and our right to know … Videos cover Labor Against the War … Working TV back on TV … AFL-CIO statement on media monopolies …
Chicago tells FCC to support public interests … Tell Congress and the FCC to fight media deregulation … Waukesha Engines strike video streamed … Turned on to worker radio …
Spring 2003

Winter 2003 headline
Covered by the Labor Video Project and Bright Path Video
Labor media confronts warmongers … UPPNET challenges Patriot Act … Brightpathvideo.com’ss use of “hotspots” … Video streaming a national meeting against Taft-Hartley … Stanford conference on access … Labor video shorts competition … US military controls major media … Haskell Wexler: We could be making labor films … Comcast refuses anti-war ads during State of Union … 50th anniversary of Salt of the Earth … Media concentration as a totalitarian tool … Videos on labor opposition to war … WorkWeek needs segments … UPPNET News on microfilm at Wis. State Hist. Soc. … New labor cable-tv show in Portland, OR …
Winter 2003

2002

Fall 2002

UPPNET Editorial: A National Labor Media Strategy

Labor reporters

Editorial: A National Labor Media Strategy… Friends of WLUW… Battle of ComCast buy out of AT&T Cable… Report from WINS… Heartland Labor Forum… How hate media incited coup against the president… ILWU’s Clarence Thomas speech on 9/14 … Building Bridges radio shows… Three videos from PepperSpray…

Fall 2002

Summer 2002 Headline

WLUW-FM community radio threatened with NPR takeover … International labor film festival in Taiwan … WINS labor radio service report … DC symposium on corporate media monopolies … Indy reporter jailed … Video: Labor’s Voices Against the War … A media strategy in South Korea …
Summer 2002, pdf document

Spring 2002

Headine

Community access cable threatened in SF… Save Kansas City community radio … Anti-corporate media are under attack … Democratic media and organizing … New Korean videos…

Spring 2002

Winter 2002 We Won! The Battle for WBAI and Pacifica Radio
Rally celebrates new Pacifica Board
We won! The battle for WBAI … Pacifica-style power struggle in the Midwest… Mourning producer William Jenkins… Labor Tech conference… WINS radio service imminent… Students walk out and then stream video… Santa Cruz labor film festival… Pakastani videographer…
Winter 2002

2001

Summer 2001

“Work Week” Hits the Airwaves

Pickets turn back mail truck.

WorkWeek series on Freespeech TV… The second return of Building Bridges radio… WINS prepares to launch… LaborTech 2001 conference… Seoul International Labor Media 2001… Video review: Life and Debt… A Year in the Streets; Praha 2000… Media companies allowed bigger monopolies … Seoul International Labor Film Fest…

Summer 2001

Summer 1999 Headline
KPFA demonstration
FSTV appeals for progressive network support … Union busting, labor, and Pacifica Radio … Cable, digital, and monopolization … Making of Golden Lands, Working Hands … New labor videos … Union Wave Radio… Spike Lee does the Right Thing — for imperialism … Labor media course … Letter to UPPNET … Labor broadcasts national list … Mass arrests in Pacifica KPFA on-air purge …
Summer 1999

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Winter 2006

Labor and the media: the transit strike

Spring/Summer 2006

2005

We’re putting workers’ stories on radio and tv

This is the index to current and past editions of UPPNET News, published quarterly. We invite you to enjoy these newsletters. We hope you’ll join us and support independent labor media.

Subscribe to one year of UPPNET News (a quarterly) for $15. We’ll mail it to your door or your email address.Join UPPNET. Annual dues are $30, which includes a year’s subscription to the newsletter.Ready? Here’s how

Fall 2005

Uptick of labor programming at AFL-CIO Convention/ Videos: AFL-CIO Split and CTW Convention

Fire Fighters Harold Schaitberger (l) and AFSCME President Gerald McEntee at the AFL-CIO Convention

Spring/Summer 2005

Vote Yes on SF Labor Council’s labor media resolution at July AFL-CIO Convention!

Winter 2005

Labor media a non-issue at AFL-CIO Executive Council’s Vegas meeting

Tom Balanoff, SEIU Local 1 President, explains Andy Stern’s 10-point program for saving the labor movement at open meeting in Chicago.

2004

Fall 2004

The election, the AFL-CIO debate, and labor media

Summer 2004

Workers Independent New Service makes mainstream media breakthrough

Spring 2004

East Bay Labor Media Center Started

Winter 2004

WINS is growing/Chicago’s labor radio begins new chapter

2003

Fall 2003

WINS Reporter, Indy Media Among Those Attacked at Miami/UPPNET Statement on Miami

Police attack peaceful protesters and marchers in Miami, FL during the FTAA meetings. Nov 2003

Summer 2003

Wal-Mart tries to silence union radio spots

An editorial cartoon from the St. Louis Post Dispatch reflects community alarm at Wal-Mart’s bid to force local radio stations to stop airing a UFCW public service announcement.

Spring 2003

Stanford Access Conference faces up to monopolization threats/Upsurge of media activism challenges Iraq war propaganda

Winter 2003

headline

Covered by the Labor Video Project and Bright Path Video

2002

Fall 2002

UPPNET Editorial: A National Labor Media Strategy

Labor reporters

Summer 2002

Headline

Spring 2002

Headine

Winter 2002

We Won! The Battle for WBAI and Pacifica Radio

Rally celebrates new Pacifica Board

2001

Summer 2001

“Work Week” Hits the Airwaves

Pickets turn back mail truck.

Summer 1999

Headline

KPFA demonstration

New York City protest

Fall 1997

Headline

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