[Sfbay-video] Labortech 2008 In SF On Dec 5,6&7

[Steve Zeltzer]

Laborfest, an international labor technology and media conference will  
be held in SF this coming Dec 5,6&7. Labor media activists will look  
at new technology and how workers can use and develop this powerful  
tool.

LaborTech 2008

www.labortech.net

The Digital Revolution and Labor Media Strategy

December 5, 6 & 7, 2008

At University of San Francisco

2130 Fulton St., near Cole, San Francisco



Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Labortech 2008 takes place in the midst of one of the greatest  
financial crisis in the history of the United States and  
internationally. The logic of deregulation and privatization now are  
destroying the lives of tens of millions of working people. Critical  
to labor’s challenge today is to get our message out and break the  
information blockade that corporate media and telecom promote.  
LaborTech can be a vital tool in this work, and this conference will  
discuss and learn how to get our messages out and win the information  
and media battle.

This semi-annual educational and training conference brings together  
labor videographers, radio programmers, Internet developers,  
educators, artists and cultural workers to help educate, train and  
build labor communication and media technology for working people. It  
also examines issues of how these new technologies are being used both  
for and against labor in the workplace, on the Internet and the  
airwaves.
We will look at how unions are building new channels on the web, using  
pod-casting and other Internet tools to develop labor education,  
solidarity and directly connect with the rank and file. We will learn  
how to produce a daily video strike bulletin, how to stream our  
rallies and conferences, and how to develop labor channels on YouTube  
and other portals as well as using social networks.
We will also see examples of video and radio programs that have helped  
win our battles by education and involving the community in these  
campaigns. Labor and our unions cannot afford to wait in using these  
tools in our struggle to defend working people and to train our  
members to build a labor media movement.

The need to educate working people is critical. Only by working  
together to build our understanding and use of these communication  
tools will help transform our situation.
Join us in this year’s LaborTech conference.



Workshops: (partial list as of 11/4/2008)
Plenums:
*Labor & social networking: Using the Internet to build a network  
organizing
*Union busting, labor journalism and the future of news and broadcast  
journalists and media workers
*The war on terrorism, ideology, labor and democracy

Workshops:
*Developing a regional multi-media labor portal
*Pod casting and how labor can use it
*How to produce a community access TV show
*How to produce a labor radio show
*How to do labor video documentaries
*How to stream your rallies and conferences on the web and pod casting
*Media unions, union busting and new technology
*Open source, what it is and how to use and defend it
*New technology, health and safety and labor
*Medical privacy, technology and labor protection
*Developing an international labor media network
*How to produce a labor film/cultural arts festival
*Labor culture and using technology
*Defending democratic and union rights on the Internet, net neutrality  
and social networks
*Public broadband and expanding democracy in communication technology
*Using website for communication, information and solidarity campaign
*Defending libraries, democracy and privatization of information
*Micro radio and labor media


Partial list of Panelists/Participants:

John See, University of Minnesota Labor Education Service/Videogapher

Nancy Bupp, Formerly with Education Department IAM International*

Julian Peeples, California School Employees Association*


Vivian Price, Professor CSUDH, Labor Film maker, CFA*

Yeo Shinjoung, Radical Reference, Stanford Library*

Eric Goldhagen, Open Flows http://openflows.com/

Marco Berlinguer, Labor & Globalization In The World Economy

Bruce Wolf, Founder  www.public.freemuni.net public broadband

Edward Hasbrouck, The Identity Project Privacy & Repression

Andrew Knight & Andrew Kong, Angry Tired Teachers Band, member CTA*

Jack Chernos, AFM Local 6* and Labor Musician

Catherine Alexander, SEIU 521*, Librarian

Mehmet & Gulden Bayran, LaborFest Turkey & Sendika.org

Dr. Larry Rose, Last doctor at Ca-OSHA, AFSCME member

Wes Brain, Labor Radio Producer, Brain Radio Report

Tami Bryant, SEIU 1000* Host Of  “Union Buzz”

Jeff Sharlet, Journalist, historian* (invited)

Collette Washington, CNA Web Master

Jeff Smedberg, Reelworks Labor Film Festival, SEIU 521*

James Jacobs, Radical Reference, Stanford Library

Carl Bryant, TV 214, NALC 214*

Steve Dondley,  Promethus & ILCA New Orleans Website www.neworleanslabormedia.org

Shiela Davis, Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition-Nanotechnology

Peter B. Collins, AFTRA Executive Board*, Radio Host

Todd Davies, Stanford University, CPSR

Steve Stallone, Pres. ILCA, Editor of N. California Media Workers  
Newspaper CWA

Chris Witteman, Communications Rights Lawyer

Michael Perelman, Professor CSUC, Member CFA

Dorothy Kidd, USF Media Department Chair

John Parulis, Labortech Webmaster

Jack Rasmus, Labor Economist, Author

Dick Meister, Labor Journalist and Reporter TNG

Nick Yale, SEIU 1000*, Videographer

Jim E. Kelly, Coordinator of Labor Studies at San Jose City College.  
AFT Local 6157*

Peter Phillips, Professor CSUS, Director of Project Censored, Member  
of CFA

Nancy Bupp, Education Department Of IAM International Retired

Bill Sparks, Labor Video Project,  Member of Sign, Local 510 Sign and  
Display*

Linda Ackerman, Privacy Activism

David Frias, Media Director of Living Wage and  Producer Of “SF  
Living Wage”

Shannon Sheppard, Director Holt Labor Library

Jano Oscherwitz, SEIU 1021 Videographer

Gifford Hartman, Laborfest.net Historian

(* for identification only)






Conference Location:
University of San Francisco Main Campus is located near the north east  
corner of the Golden Gate Park, between Golden Gate Ave. and Fulton  
St., and Masonic Ave. and Parker Ave. in San Francisco. The  
registration will be at the McLaren Complex on the campus. Nearest  
entrance will be from Fulton near Cole, or Golden Gate Ave. near  
Roselyn Ter. Parking will be on street parking. Bus from the downtown  
will be #5 Fulton or #31 Balboa.

Endorsed by San Francisco Labor Council, NALC 214, California School  
Employees Association, International Labor Communication Association  
ILCA, South Bay Labor Council, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555,  
ILWU Local 10, Labornet.org, TV214, International Union Of Bricklayers  
and Allied Craftworkers, Sign and Display Union Local 510

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