Video Resources You Can Use
The Future
of the University
Hearings in California
An
excellent 15 minute video report on the hearing, “Future
of the CSU Hearing -- San Jose” is available from Alice
Sunshine, <asunshine@calfac.org>
or Craig Flanery <cflaner@calstatela.edu>.
This can be used for an organizational meeting or for a public viewing.
The issues are universal.
The
California Faculty Association (CFA) represents all faculty in the
California State University (CSU) system. Susan Meisenhelder, President
of CFA, writes of the
history of the project and notes the role of faculty organized
public hearings planned for many CSU local colleges. Click <here>
for a CFA collection of articles on the future of higher education.
Degrees of Shame - A
video by Barbara Wolf that uses the logic of Edward R. Murrow's 1960
classic TV documentary on migrant farm workers, Harvest of Shame,
to investigate the condition of contingent academic labor and its
impact on the people and institutions of higher education.
Available to Organizers for $15.00 plus
shipping from:
Barbara Wolf Video Work; 1709 Pomona
Court; Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
Phone (513) 861-2462 --Email <br_wolf@hotmail.com>
Ask Barbara about the availability of
her new work, "A Simple Matter
of Justice," a video workbook on
contingent faculty activism, and the brief Introduction to this. Both
should be available in time for Campus Equity Week.
"Secrets of Silicon Valley"
- A shocking, funny, and moving expose of how working people
and their communities are being ravaged by the so-called "new
economy" of high tech sweatshops.
Part "Modern Times," part "Bladerunner,"
it is a mood piece about rapid social change, a call to organize the
unorganized, and a chronicle of a tumultuous year in the lives of
two charismatic young activists who are experiencing "globalization"
on their own doorsteps.
Available from:
Bullfrog Films; (800) 543-3764; www.bullfrogfilms.com
"Teachers On Wheels"
- Teachers on wheels is a quickly paced 26-minute documentary
on the crisis of giving part-time status to the majority of California's
community college teachers. It highlights freeway fliers and the first
campus equity week then called "A2K" and "part-time
equity week," which was held in the spring of 2000 in California.
The film follows a part-time teacher on a typical teaching day
as he travels between 3 college campuses; a part-time teacher
who turns union organizer; and a comedy troupe to a rally in
Sacramento, at which teachers petitioned for equal pay for equal work.
Overall, the film, topic driven but using a narrative
structure of layering, exposes the problem, shows strategies
and attempts to solve the problem, and points out some of the
consequences of the problem.
Participants include teachers, students, administrators, a comedy
troupe, politicians, and the state Chancellor of California community
colleges. It is available for screening, purchase and rental.
Please inform your union, campus organization or state organization
of its availability for Campus Equity Week. We can be contacted at teachersonwheels@aol.com
or visit our Web site: TOW
documentary
If you are a part-time instructor and your union, campus organization
or state organization will not purchase a copy of the video for screening
during CEW, please contact us. We will help you get it screened on
your campus.
Linda Janakos Linkos1@aol.com
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