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Labor and labor history videos, ranging from videos and background articles include information – representing a variety of viewpoints -- about African-American labor activist Philip Randolph; Mexican-American labor activist Cesar Chavez; international child1 labor; etc. For interlibrary loans, or other information about these videos, inquire at:
Media Resources Center, Moffitt Library, Univ. of Calif. At Berkeley, 510-642-8397.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/LaborVid.html#doc

For other “videos with a global conscience,”some of them related to child1 labor and conditions that cause it, see list compiled by Bill Bigelow, and published by Rethinking Schools (Fall 1999): http://www.rethinkingschools.org/Archives/14_01/vid141.htm

Video about children in the fields, produced by Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (more details to come) http://www.afop.org

Many television reports have about child1 labor have been aired the past decade. Most simply introduce the topic, and should not be used in the classroom without reference to written stories and updates on the topic covered by the TV report. Yet these stories can be useful ways to spark discussion.

Burlington Station WCAX TV 3 Interview; Child Labor Education and Action Videography (May 17, 2000) 2 minutes. News clip on the Brattleboro Union High School CLEA trip to Washington DC. CLEA members are interviewed while attending the Department of Labor Conference on Child Labor. Also included is an interview with Representative Bernie Sanders (Independent, VT)

Other films on children (for instance, children in Romania’s orphanages) are available from Documentary Educational Resources, 101 Morse Street, Watertown, MA 01272, USA. Phone: (800) 569-6621(617) 926-0491. Fax: (617) 926-9516. http://www.xensei.com/docued/. Email: docued@der.org.

For others, contact local TV stations, or the television archives at Vanderbilt University. http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/