>Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 08:40:17 -0500 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Finmktctr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Upcoming PBS miniseries on economic choices >X-Status: > >"Surviving The Bottom Line" with Hedrick Smith >Dates: Friday, January 16th and 23rd (check local listings) >Place: Your Local PBS Affiliate > >If the economy is going great guns, why do so many of us feel jumpy about our >jobs, our future and our communities? Who calls the shots in our economic >system? And what can ordinary citizens do if the economy doesn't work for >them? > >On Friday, January 16, PBS will begin broadcasting a four-hour miniseries that >addresses those questions. Produced by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter >Hedrick Smith, "Surviving the Bottom Line" explores the real-world impact of >the winner-take-all strategies driven by Wall Street money managers and >corporate deal makers. > >"Surviving the Bottom Line" also shows how innovative initiatives by unions, >communities and school systems can help America share its economic gains more >broadly. The concluding segment of the series describes the success of >pioneering workers' investment funds in saving and creating tens of thousands >of jobs in Canada and the U.S. > >In telling the story of those funds, the PBS documentary interviews Leo >Gerard, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Steelworkers of America. Gerard >chairs the Heartland Labor Capital Project, a bi-national initiative promoting >strategies that enable workers and communities to invest in themselves. The >Project is based in Pittsburgh and administered by the Steel Valley Authority, >a nonprofit intermunicipal development agency that has been a national model >for industrial retention programs. > >We urge you to watch - and spread the word about -- "Surviving the Bottom >Line." The series is featured on the PBS website (www.pbs.org/bottomline/). >PBS has scheduled the program to air at 9-11 PM, Friday January 16 and Friday >23. However, many local PBS affiliates are running the series at different >times. >For more information -- on the miniseries, on air times in your community and >on the Heartland Project - contact: > >Heartland Labor Capital Project >(412) 460-0488 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ed Schwartz, Institute for the Study of Civic Values, 1218 Chestnut St., Rm. 702, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107 215-238-1434 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ISCV home page can be reached at http://libertynet.org/~edcivic/iscvhome.html Also check out "Neighborhoods Online" at http://libertynet.org/community/phila/natl.html. "Citizenship is the American ideal. There may be an army of actualities opposed to that ideal, but there is no ideal opposed to that ideal." --G.K. Chesterton
