Check out the first Online Labor Day Festival

Win prizes, experience music and video and learn about the labor movement – its past and its future – at the first Online Labor Day Festival. It runs from Wednesday, Aug. 30, through Wednesday, Sept. 6, at www.workingfamilies.com.

The festival shows how unions are using the Internet to unite grassroots activists and to become increasingly integrated into the ways that people live and work. With 13 million members, the AFL-CIO is the largest membership organization to hold such a one-time, nationwide web event.

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“It’s just as important for working people on Main Street U.S.A. to have full access the Internet as it is for Silicon Valley to have that access-unions are helping make that happen,” said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. “This online festival is a fun and new way to show how people improve their lives through unions and help build a better America.”

Activities at the online festival include:

  • Speakers’ Dais, with a live Labor Day webcast with Vice President Al Gore, and audio and video greetings from celebrities, union members and elected leaders;
  • Town Square with voter registration and video messages from the Texas Truth Squad-Texas union members who are traveling the country to tell about Bush’s track record for working families;
  • Sweepstakes, including free computers with Internet access, union-made items like a set of Lenox china, $1,000 on Labor Day and football helmets autographed by NFL stars like Tony Dorsett;
  • Performance Stage, with rock, hip hop and folk songs focusing on social justice;
  • Cinema, with union music videos and clips of the janitor strike film featured at the Cannes filmfest;
  • Gallery, featuring art, reviews by well-known names like Harry Belafonte and union history;
  • Corporate Boardroom, where visitors can be online activists to support workers forming unions;
  • An Interfaith Gathering, with messages from religious leaders on unions’ importance;
  • Online Bazaar, where visitors can send online Labor Day Greetings, get screen savers, buy T-shirts and hats and shop “sweat-free”;
  • An Arcade with such games as “Smash Corporate Greed,” and Children’s Playground with stories, coloring books, puzzles and more;
  • Media Tent with resources for journalists, including statistics, trends and indicators on labor;
  • Voice@Work Rally, where visitors can post stories on what unions mean to them, see an animated cartoon book demonstrating the realities of labor law as applied to congressional elections and see videos of workers who have formed unions.

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