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    :: Thursday, February 19, 2004 ::

    'Wobblies' live on at TV station By Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News
    At Free Speech Television, workers organize union with a view to the past

    BOULDER - Free Speech Television bills itself as the 'antidote to Fox News,' broadcasting anti-war rallies and documentaries about global labor struggles.

    So when workers at the nonprofit, Boulder-based satellite station wanted a union, they rejected conventional labor organizations. Instead, they chose the Industrial Workers of the World, a group that offered a socialist alternative to men who toiled 12 hours a day in Colorado mines a century ago.
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