"The Internet, Video Production, and the Voice of Labor: Perspectives from Four Continents"

A Special Panel Prior to the LaborTech/Access 2004 Conference at Stanford University:

"The Internet, Video Production, and the Voice of Labor: Perspectives from Four Continents"

Free and Open to the public

Panelists:

Carolina Luzuriaga - Ojo Obrero/Festival Latinoamericano de la Clase Obrera, Argentina

Mag Wompel - LaborNet Germany

Jiyoung Lee - Labor News Production, South Korea

Myoung Joon Kim - Labor Media Film Festival and Labor News Production, South Korea

Steve Zeltzer - LaborFest, Labor Video Project, and LaborNet, USA

This panel will feature five activists from around the world who are using Internet communication and video production to distribute news and perspectives representing workers. The development of an independent labor media voice has been a significant, though often overlooked, aspect of the globalization of resistance movements, and poses a challenge to international media that tend to represent the perspectives of management, business, and the well-off. This panel is being held just before the LaborTech/Access 2004 conference, which begins on Friday evening and runs all weekend (see http://www.labortech2004.org).

Jointly sponsored by LaborTech (San Francisco) and the Symbolic Systems Program.