2000 Attack On Charleston, S. Carolina ILA 1422 Longshore Workers

This is footage of the attack on the Charleston, South Carolina ILA 1422 dock workers in January 2000.
A new book "On the Global Waterfront, The Fight To Free The Charleston Five" is now available.
www.ontheglobalwaterfront.org
For additional videos on this struggle
ILA 1422 Pres Ken Riley Report on Charleston 5 Fight In San Francisco
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-685812686260025298
28 min. 35 MB




"Free The Charleston 5" - The Struggle Of The ILA 1422 Longshore Workers
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5789912812355615355
13 min. 41 MB
"Free The Charleston 5", the video takes us to the battle on the Charleston
docks in January 2000 when the South Carolina state police under racist Republican state Attorney General Charlie Condon organized a police military type attack on members of ILA 1422 who were picketing a non-union shipping company Nordana. This video also interviews Peter Washington, one of the defendants. This local is the most important and powerful Black led local in South Carolina. Also included are segments from the mass labor community support rally in South Carolina's capital Columbia on June 9, 2001. The Charleston Five struggle was successful

"Labor On The Job" is the longest running labor cable show in the United
States. It has been programmed since 1983. It is produced by the Labor Video Project
and it is also programmed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and St. Louis.
"Labor On The Job" also produces labor documentaries and is part of the
Union Producers and Programmers Network (UPPNET).


Also see the important new book
On the Global Waterfront:The Fight to Free the Charleston 5.
www.ontheglobalwaterfront.org
by Suzan Erem and E. Paul Durrenberger
This book will be released in 2008 and the authors will be speaking around the country. Go to their web site to learn when they will come to your area.


Labor Video Project
P.O.Box 720027
San Francisco,CA 94172
Phone (415)282-1908
Fax (415)695-1369
lvpsf@labornet.org

Labor Video Project

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• googlevideo