LeftStreamed

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# Episodes
47 episodes
Rating
TV-G

Episodes of LeftStreamed

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  Key Union Struggles - Building the Fightback
  
  As the economic crisis continues, governments and employers are bringing in austerity measures, lowering our living standards and working conditions. A number of unionized workplaces are particular targets, and have the potential to become key centres of resistance. This forum is organized by the Labour Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 22, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    01:01:08
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  Organizing in an Era of Precarious Work
  
  A forum to discuss the reality of part-time, precarious and undocumented work enforced through immigration and capitalism that now dominates our working lives.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 19, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    39:55
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  Public Sector Unionism, Austerity and the Left
  
  A Teach-in with Sam Gindin - Packer Chair in Social Justice, York University, Recorded in Toronto, November 29, 2010.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 2, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    01:15:33
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  Public Forum: On Bolivia with Dr. Hugo Salvatierra
  
  Dr. Hugo Salvatierra is one of Evo Morales's top advisors and a founder of the MAS in Bolivia. Recorded in Toronto, November 8, 2010.
  - Release date
    
    Nov 14, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    01:18:23
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  Building Labour Resistance
  
  Winning Strategies in Difficult Times Speakers: * Don Guest, First Vice President Brantford District Labour Council & Organizer for 3 Days of Solidarity Picket for USW 1-500 Striking Workers in Brantford. * Michael Hurley, President Ontario Council of Hospital Unions & CUPE Ontario 1st Vice-President. * Monica McKenzie - Unite Here Local 75. Moderator: Ilian Burbano Forum Organized by the Labour Caucus of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly Recorded October 26, 2010 in Toronto, Canada.
  - Release date
    
    Oct 27, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    30:27
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  How Labour is (Part of) the Problem in Building ...
  
  Lecture by Professor Frances Fox Piven. A leading scholar and political activist, Frances Fox Piven was recently president of the American Sociological Association and is former Vice-President of the American Political Science Association. Her most recent book is Keeping Down the Black Vote (2009). Recorded October 15, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
  - Release date
    
    Oct 17, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    47:55
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  Race, Class and Crisis
  
  What New Possibilities for the U.S. Left? - with Adolph Reed Recorded September 24, 2010, Toronto, Canada.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 25, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    01:08:51
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  Power in Coalition [2/2]
  
  Natalie Mehra – director of the Ontario Health Coalition (OHC). The OHC has been at the centre of taking on the Ontario government's plan for hospitals – Public-Private Partnership (P3) – privatization, contracting out and funding Medicare with her partners in the major unions.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 8, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    24:26
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  Power in Coalition [1/2]
  
  Amanda Tattersall – is an Australian researcher, union and community organizer and the founder of the Sydney Alliance, a diverse coalition of unions, community organizations and religious organizations. Amanda spent three years in Canada, Australia and the United States researching some of the most successful coalitions from around the world. The book includes a chapter on the Ontario Health Coalition's campaigns to save Medicare and against P3s; author of Power in Coalition.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 8, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    34:23
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  Economic Crisis? Who Pays?
  
  At risk is free collective bargaining, workers rights, public services and our communities, so join members of the Toronto Workers' Assembly for a discussion on what's happening and how we can and should respond. Recorded August 24, 2010 in Toronto.
  - Release date
    
    Sep 1, 2010
  - Runtime
    
    38:34