The AFL-CIO’s Foreign Policy and N.E.D. Money

Prior to the AFL-CIO Convention in Chicago, rank-and-file workers held a protest and discussion about the need to reform the AFL-CIO’s foreign policy and the influence upon it from funding from the National Endowment for Democracy.

Hear Kim Scipes, Labor Educator on the AFL-CIO and international politics, discuss the history of the AFL’s involvement with the foreign policy interest of American Imperialism.

Also, an interview with Fred Hirsch, long-time critic of AFL-CIO foreign policy, as he and other opponents of N.E.D. funding attended the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention.

Includes scenes of floor discussion on foreign policy resolution and reactions of supporters of Build Unity and Trust Among Workers Worldwide resolution, including Jeff Crosby, North Shore (Massachusetts) Central Labor Council and member of AFL-CIO Convention Resolutions Committee.

This video was shown on Venezuelan National Television the week President Chávez visited the U.N.

Available from Labor Beat, 37 S. Ashland, Chicago, IL 60607 or via PayPal on www.laborbeat.org. More info: mail@laborbeat.org, 312-226-3330. $15; 29 minutes on DVD or VHS.