Labor Filmmakers United panel at UALE 2013
Labor filmmakers show clips of their work and speak about creating media that promotes political consciousness,and their experiences of connecting with labor and social justice movements.
Chair, Vivian Price, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies and Labor Studies Coordinator, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Discussion of new media and community archiving in tradeswomen archives:
http://tradeswomenarchives.com
Min Sook Lee, Producer/Director at Tiger Spirit Productions Inc, Toronto,
Min Sook Lee, director of El Contrato and other terrific docs, speaks at United Association of Labor Educators about her work in Canada on labor issues and particularly about her new film, Migrant Dreams. Part 2 She was an invited guest of Labor Filmmakers Alliance Working Group. See more at
http://www.indiegogo.co/projects/migrant-dreams and
http://www.facebook.com/MigrantDreams
Watch her presentation here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb1HQZ3pnbA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW0J4ddHtNA
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More on Min Sook Lee's films: El Contrato, Badge of Pride, and other films.
http://www.cinemapolitica.org/artists/min-sook-lee and
http://www.jointheleaders.com/page/Min-Sook-Lee.aspx
Howard Kling, Director of the Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota
What media forms do labor unions support? Report on contemporary struggles and the use of short form video.
Workday Minnesota is at
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?tinfo_2_4
Fred Glass, Communications Director of the California Federation of Teachers
"Tax the Rich: An animated fairy tale," a youtube video Glass wrote and directed for CFT went viral and attracted the nasty attention of the right wing media machine. The piece was animated by Mike Konopacki, and narrated by Ed Asner View it at
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S6ZsXrzF8Cc