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HEARTLAND
LABOR FORUM
Program List - Year 2001
Every Thursday 6:30-7:30 P.M.
01/04 Privatization:
Will Bush Open the Floodgates?
01/11 Sweatshops at Home and Abroad:
LL Bean,Nike and Chentex
01/18 The Bank Merger mania - What's
It Mean for Working People?
01/25 Professionals Organize - Lawyers
and Nurses
02/01 Working Families Dot Cyberspace & Korean
Unions Up Against the IMF
02/08 New Books: Who is the Working
Class? & Competing for Capital
02/15 Criminializing the Working
class - Kansas Prison Mobs
02/22 Organizing Boat workers (Casinos
and Gulf Coast Mariners) and California Fair Share Organizing
03/01 Should the State Take Over
KCMO School District? and the Pepsi Strike and Lipton Settlement
03/08 It's International Women's
Day!
03/15 Economists Debate the Bush
Tax Cut with Gene Wagner and Randy Wray and Call-ins too
03/22 The New Tyranny of George
III: Union Busting Executive Orders and NAFTA Trucking
03/29 Magazine: Labor Notes Conference;
Corporations vs. the People; Disability Act Disabled
04/05 Gun Control: Is There a Middle
Ground? Debate
04/12 From Buenos Aires to Quebec:
NAFTA for the Americas
04/19 The Life & Times of Joe
Glazier, Labor's Troubadour
04/26 OrganizingTools.com
05/03 Free for Whom? The Free Trade
Area of the Americas & Report Back from KC and Quebec Demonstrations
05/10 Going Out with Honor: The
Steelworkers at GST
05/17 PLEDGE DRIVE Special
05/24 Nurses United: It's All About
Improving Patient Care
05/31 Magazine: The National Interfaith
Committee for Worker Justice; A Kansas Living Wage? And Missouri
Legislative Update
06/07 Utility Deregulation Shocking
Your Pocketbook
06/14 Off air
06/21 New Farmer/Labor Links That
Sidestep Agribusiness
06/28 Good Pensions, Bad Pensions & How
They Should Be Invested
07/05 Mix
07/12 A Freshman Goes to Jeff City;
What Did He/She Learn?
07/19 Magazine: New Weapon to Stop
Demonstrations; MO-KAN Federal Union Coalition; The Charleston
5
07/26 News & Music Follies and
the Bush Watchdogs
08/02 August 7 Ballot Measures:
KC Renaissance?
08/09 Magazine: Sojourner Truth
Meets Mother Jones; New Book on Solidarity Unionism; Progressive
Populist Margo McMillan
08/16 Healthcare Worker Follies(?)
08/23 Working Class Sprinsteen
08/30 The Importance of Organizing
09/06 Labor Day Special: Interviews
with Kate Bronfenbrenner, Tom Juravich & Dan La Botz
09/13 United Way in KCK and KU Teaching
Assistants Fight the University
09/20 Holden Out for a Union: the
Missouri Public Employees Executive Order
09/27 Biopiracy: Corporate Theft
of Nature and Bikin' to Work
10/04 Just Food from Real Farmers
10/11 Wal-Mart's Worst Fears: Worker
Organizing
10/18 What Women Want: The 2001
Midwest School for Women Workers
10/25 Labor Song Catchers: Larry
Penn, Bulky Halker, George & Julius Mann
11/01 Campus Equity Week for UMKC
Part Time Faculty; The Able Disabled: Working with Disabilities;
Safety 1st: How to Open Mail
11/08 State of the Economy I: The
Big Picture & KC Construction Trends
11/15 KKFI Pledge Drive; The Charleston
5 Update; and Ride Your Bike to Work To Get a Tax Break?
11/22 Tom Turkey's Thanksgiving
Trot
11/29 Food Forum: Do You Know Where
Your Food Has Been?
12/06 State of the Economy II: Unemployment & Laid-off
KC Workers
12/13 Corporate Accountability:
Monitoring Sweatshops Can It Be Done? & Responsible Investing
12/20 Magazine: Where's Your Flag
Shirt Made? The Airline Bailout & New Book: In Transit
12/27 HLF News & Music Follies
with a book review: New Novel about the NLRB
Contact
ILS to order tapes of shows
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