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Labor Beat fundraiser this Friday...

7 pm, FRIDAY, NOV. 6 Evanston Community Media Center 1285 Hartrey Ave. Evanston, Illinois $20 Suggested Donation free parking on site - Excerpts from recent Labor Beat shows - Labor Beat producers introduce their work - Food & refreshments will be available - Discuss issues on labor media with other enthusiasts - More Labor Beat is a cable-tv series for and about the working class. On in: Chicago; Evanston; Rockford; Urbana; Peoria; St. Louis & area; Princeton, NJ "Labor Beat is a necessary institution. As newspapers and investigative reporting go under, Labor Beat somehow stays alive, low-budget, and on the scene. Everybody knows them, so when something is going to happen, they make sure Labor Beat will be there. They have been around long enough to have survived successive waves of technology, from cameras as heavy as cement blocks to little things that get images up on YouTube in minutes. They know the whole world of the labor movement, not just the headliners. They als