www.flickr.com\/groups\/union\/<\/a><\/p>\nHe also believes that some local places might be willing to display our photos.\u00a0 Eric: It is preferable to have this competition the same time each year.<\/p>\n
Union website recognition, too, is a useful way to attract attention.\u00a0 Eric:\u00a0 We already do this in our weekly mailings.<\/p>\n
Chris Garlock (communications, organizing: dclabor.com) on film festivals.\u00a0 “What have the unions ever done for us?”\u00a0 From Your Rights at Work:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=184NTV2CE<\/p>\n
This movie has turned out to be an excellent organizing tool.\u00a0 Christine (from IMF) spoke about films at Global Union Federation labor film contest.\u00a0 75 submissions this year from around the world.\u00a0 Limited by English, but still growing.\u00a0 Struggle every year is to get quality, interesting films that are not like infomercials, but more and more excellent films are made every year.\u00a0 Purchase a channel to show online films?<\/p>\n
Chris:\u00a0 There are probably dozens of film festivals around the world each year.\u00a0 Film is a powerful medium and, with sites such as youtube.com, there is easy access and more and more labor films produced.<\/p>\n
“Just another cog in the machine”:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LLGoKqPAhSk (John Wood).\u00a0 Eric: Viewership for this film jumped over 1000% after mention in LS.\u00a0 Chris:\u00a0 There may be many more films like this out there — we need to find and promote them.<\/p>\n
“We were there”:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cjnyk06MZRY , with song by Bev Grant w\/ Brooklyn Women’s Chorus.\u00a0 Chris:\u00a0 There is a hunger out there for labor history films.\u00a0 Can LS find and help us promote these films?<\/p>\n
Eric:\u00a0 There is a need for an online database of labor films and labor-film festivals.\u00a0 It should be a priority.\u00a0 Should consider using tools, such as Youtube and their competitors.\u00a0 Video contest of the year.\u00a0 LS branding.\u00a0 ILCA and CALM should be part of any project.\u00a0 ITUC should be part of the process.\u00a0 Chris:\u00a0 LS can connect people and help get the tools out there.\u00a0 Big return on small investment of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Derek:\u00a0 Photo of the year competition.\u00a0 It is important to document not only union struggles around the world, but we’re specifically doing, too.\u00a0 Contest was a success and has great potential to go further.\u00a0 We have three union photographers to act as judges.\u00a0 Derek would be happy to do this again next time. See www.flickr.com\/groups\/union\/ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}