Stewart Bird

I’ve written Solidarity Forever, an oral history of the I.W.W. (University of Minnesota Press) with Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer. I also co-authored a play The Wobblies: The U.S. vs. Wm. D. Haywood et. al., (with Peter Robilotta) which was performed at the Hudson Guild Theatre in New York and published by Smyrna Press.

I wrote a one-hour story for PBS entitled The Mighty Pawns about a black inner city chess team, which was shown nationally on Wonderworks and distributed nationally by Disney.

I worked as a writer/producer for Fox television’s Current Affair and produced various segments like Alan Berg, Elvis Presley, A Cycle of Justice, and The Night Natalie Died. I worked as a writer/producer for CBS News’ 48 Hours and produced segments like Another America, Underground, Stuck on Welfare, and Earth Wars.

I have received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (three times) N.Y. Council for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation , The Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Council on the Arts.

I have produced numerous feature length documentaries including Finally Got the News, about black auto workers in Detroit; Retratos, on the Puerto Rican community in New York; Coming Home, on Vietnam Veterans; and The Wobblies (with Deborah Shaffer) focusing on the Industrial Workers of the World a turn-of-the-century labor union.