RESOURCE: EDIN Archive for Labor files and gophers

[Nathan Newman <newman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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	ARCHIVE OF LABOR RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET


	Given the general lack of labor-related resources on the Internet,
the Economic Democracy Information Network (EDIN) has been upgrading and
expanding its "Labor Issues" section to serve the Internet community.

	The Labor Issues section now has extensive connections to
government resources such as the Department of Labor, the Federal
Register's labor legal code, and proposed legislation around labor issues.

	There are also archives of files dealing with US unions,
international labor issues, women and the workplace, gays and workplace,
and labor and people of color.

	Finally, for fans of ACTIV-L (and misc.activism.progressive on
USENET), there is a new (specially-prepared for EDIN) archive of the
labor-related newsbriefs that have appeared on that mailing list/newsgroup.

	We are very interested in receiving new files or pointers to
gopher/ftp sites dealing with labor issues, so please send such files or
information on where to find them to: newman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


To access the EDIN archive, you need gopher access to the Internet.  From
most University machines, you should be able to access the gopher by
typing the following at the prompt. Type:

gopher garnet.berkeley.edu 1250

This will link you to the Economic Democracy Information Network (EDIN)
gopher maintained by the UCB Center for Community Economic Research.
There's a wide variety of links to progressive info on the Internet, but
you will want to use the cursor to move down the menu you will see until
you reach a line labelled "Labor Issues."  Hit return.

If you use IGC (Peacenet/Labornet, etc.), it's even simpler.  When you
log-in to Peacenet, you will see a menu of choices (e-mail, conferences,
etc.).  Hit "i" for Internet.  That will link you to the IGC gopher.
Move to the "Other Progressive Gophers" line.  Under that menu, you will
find the Economic Democracy Information Network gopher listed.  Choose it
and follow the above directions.

You can also access the EDIN gopher through the "Mother Gopher" at
Minnesota.  Go down the hierarchy of nations and states until you find
California.  The Economic Democracy Information Network (EDIN) is listed
under the list of California gophers.


--Nathan Newman:  newman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Economic Democracy Information Network
    a project of UC-Berkeley's Center for Community Economic Research