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FILM
 |  |  |  |  | The Rosa Parks Story,” starring Angela Bassett as the late Rosa Parks, offers an engaging and informative bio-picture about the woman who sparked the modern civil rights movement. Parks, who died Oct. 24 at age 92, launched one of the most important eras of American history, Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus to a white man. Her arrest led to a 13-month bus boycott that ended when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Alabama’s bus segregation laws. The boycott also propelled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to the forefront of the U.S. civil rights movement (94 min.). $15. Available at the Labor Heritage Foundation.
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BOOK
 | | | | | The media and the Bush administration claim the American economy is booming—and for a small group of extremely wealthy people, it is. But middle-class and low-income families are struggling to stretch their family’s income further to pay the bills. In an updated edition of Economic Apartheid in America, Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel, co-founders of the nonpartisan education and advocacy group United for a Fair Economy, examine the policies that fuel the widening divide between the wealthy and everyone else in the United States. Filled with charts, graphs and political cartoons, the book is an action-oriented guide to building a movement to close the nation’s growing wealth gap. Paperback, $18.95. Available at The Union Shop Online ™. | | | | |
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RESOURCE
 | | | | | With women making up nearly half of the American workforce, unions must recruit more women members to grow—an effort that means changing its overwhelmingly male force of organizers. In November 2004, the Berger-Marks Foundation, which promotes the union organizing among women, invited 19 women from nine unions who were lead organizers to a two-day retreat in New Orleans where they could discuss the challenges women face as organizers and suggest ways to better recruit more of them. A new report, Women Organizing Women: How Do We Rock the Boat Without Getting Thrown Overboard? brings together the organizers’ comments and recommendations. Edited and compiled by National Labor College President Susan Schurman, the report provides invaluable strategies to encourage more women to become and remain union organizers. Download a copy of the report or request a hard copy at info@bergermarks.org. | | | | |
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WEBSIGHTING  | | | | | With the goal to provide a website “where trade unionists start the day,” LabourStart offers the day’s top trade union news stories from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America in 17 languages. With such features as the Book of the Day, Picture of the Week, RadioLabourStart and action alerts from around the world, the London-based site provides information about all the major trade union events and issues around the globe | | | | |
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MUSIC
 | | | | | Folk legend and longtime social activist Joan Baez issued her first live CD in 10 years, “Bowery Songs,” a live recording from New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Recorded Nov.6, 2004—the Saturday night after the 2004 elections––the CD spotlights Baez’s commitment to social justice through such songs as “Deportees,” “Joe Hill” and “Christmas in Washington.” $19. Available at the Labor Heritage Foundation.
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