Dates: Friday, January 16th and 23rd, 1998 (check local listings) Subject: Surviving the Bottom Line with Hedrick Smith 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
