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DC LaborFest PLUS: 3 films, a book event, labor history walk and a concert
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| Date | May 17, 2022 7:04 PM |
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Film: THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS (Wednesday)
Book: THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING (Wednesday)
Film: OFFICE SPACE (Friday)
History: DC LABOR WALK (Sunday)
Music: DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert (Sunday)
Film: CANE FIRE (Sunday)
Download the 2022 DC LaborFest program guide!
2022 DC Labor FilmFest: trailers, tickets, flyer
 
Three films, a book event, labor history walk and a concert (shout-out to the DC Labor Chorus!) highlight this week's DC LaborFest/DC Labor FilmFest schedule. If you've been thinking about catching an event, this is a great week to do so, and if you've already been, we hope to see you again! See below for the complete line-up. And don't miss Friday night's screening of longtime Labor FilmFest fav Office Space, complete with a red stapler raffle! [link removed] CLICK HERE for a chance to win a pair of free tickets to the 7p screening on Friday night. [link removed]
Chris Garlock, Director
DC Labor FilmFest/DC LaborFest
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Film: THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS
Sat, May 14, 5:30 p.m.; Mon, May 16, 12:45 p.m.; Wed, May 18, 12:45 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: [link removed] bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Following its world premiere at last year's TCM Classic Film Festival, we're excited to present Flicker Alley's new restoration of Robert Siodmak's rarely seen labor-ific 1951 drama THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS. When young union leader Brad Adams (Lloyd Bridges) is reluctantly appointed president of a failing plastics manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town, he finds himself with the unenviable task of cutting costs, bringing in new labor-saving machinery and laying off employees, all while simultaneously calming labor relations. Meanwhile, the plant's recently widowed owner Mrs. Doubleday (Dorothy Gish in a rare sound-era performance) is forced to consider selling the company. The stellar supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine (in his debut film role), Anne Francis, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Seymour, Carleton Carpenter, Parker Fennelly, Russell Hardie, Doro Merande and James Westerfield. DIR Robert Siodmak; SCR Lemist Esler, Virginia Shaler; PROD Louis De Rochemont. U.S., 1951, b&w, 96 min. NOT RATED
Book: THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING
Wed, May 18, 6pm - 8pm
Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW Washington, DC.
Sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute.
[link removed] FREE; RSVP HERE
Donald Cohen, author of The Privatization of Everything (New Press), will be joined by Community Change president Dorian Warren to discuss trends in privatization and how workers and communities can fight back. Activist and filmmaker Naomi Klein has called Cohen's new book "an essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons."
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Film: OFFICE SPACE
Fri, May 20, 7pm - 9pm
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: [link removed] bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
With red stapler raffle!
"I could burn this place down." The perennial DC Labor FilmFest favorite OFFICE SPACE returns! Ron Livingston, Ajau Naidu and David Herman star as three disgruntled workers at the dreary, fluorescent-lit office of Initech who learn of impending layoffs at the company and hatch a scheme to embezzle from their greedy bosses; co-starring Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley and Diedrich Bader. Director Mike Judge's theatrical debut was largely ignored upon release, but has become a veritable ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW for cube-farmers everywhere. DIR/SCR/PROD Mike Judge; PROD Daniel Rappaport, Michael Rotenberg. U.S., 1999, color, 89 min. RATED R
History: DC LABOR WALK (AFL-CIO to Union Station) Re-scheduled date!
Sun, May 22, 10:00a; $15 per person; all proceeds benefit MWC's Community Services Agency's Emergency Assistance Fund.
[link removed] CLICK HERE for tickets.
Meet at AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street NW (Black Lives Matter Plaza), Washington
From the Labor Hall of Fame to Joe Hill's ashes, worker's history is around just about every corner in our nation's capitol, if you know where to look. This 3-hour walking tour of downtown DC reveals labor's often-untold story of protest and resistance. Metro Washington Council Union Cities Coordinator Chris Garlock - who usually helps local and national activists make history on DC's streets - leads the tour.
Tour highlights: AFL-CIO lobby murals; 1953 CIO headquarters; The Real Roosevelt Memorial; Joe Hill's ashes; Bas relief depictions of labor & trade; 1895 Knights of Labor HQ; Bonus Expeditionary Force & more.
NOTE: This is an easy 2.5-mile walk but wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather.
Music: DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert (24th Annual)
Sun, May 22, 4pm - 6pm
Cultural Arts Center, Montgomery College, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA (map)
[link removed] Click here to get your tickets.
The DC Labor Chorus, founded and directed by longtime cultural worker Elise Bryant, is a musical ensemble from the Washington, DC, area that sings at concerts, rallies, demonstrations, and picket lines. We are made up of various ages, races and faith traditions. While some members are actually current or former union employees, every member actively supports the principle of liberty and justice for all.
Some of us are professional musicians, while others simply enjoy blending their voices to make a joyous sound that comes from songs of the civil rights and labor movements, as well as pop, jazz and other musical genres. Most of us are union members and activists who just love to sing! We sing for solidarity. We sing for peace. We sing for jobs. We sing for justice. We sing for joy!
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Film: CANE FIRE
Sun, May 22, 6pm - 8pm
Tickets: [link removed] bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
The Hawaiian island of Kaua'i is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. CANE FIRE critically examines the island's history -- and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it -- through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon's family, who first immigrated to Kaua'i from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources -- from Banua-Simon's observational footage to amateur YouTube travelogues to epic Hollywood dance sequences -- CANE FIRE offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast indigenous and working-class residents as extras in their own story. Official Selection, 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival, 2021 MoMA Doc Fortnight. DIR/SCR/PROD Anthony Banua-Simon; SCR/PROD Michael Vass. U.S., 2020, color, 90 min. In English, Pidgin English and Olelo Hawaiian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
[link removed] CLICK HERE for the complete 2022 DC LaborFest program guide!
Tickets are now available for the entire 2022 DC Labor FilmFest line-up at AFI Silver!
[link removed] CLICK HERE see trailers!
[link removed] CLICK HERE for details on the films and links to buy tickets!
[link removed] DOWNLOAD THE FULL LABORFEST GUIDE HERE
 
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Film: THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS (Wednesday)
Book: THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING (Wednesday)
Film: OFFICE SPACE (Friday)
History: DC LABOR WALK (Sunday)
Music: DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert (Sunday)
Film: CANE FIRE (Sunday)
Download the 2022 DC LaborFest program guide!
2022 DC Labor FilmFest: trailers, tickets, flyer
 
Three films, a book event, labor history walk and a concert (shout-out to the DC Labor Chorus!) highlight this week's DC LaborFest/DC Labor FilmFest schedule. If you've been thinking about catching an event, this is a great week to do so, and if you've already been, we hope to see you again! See below for the complete line-up. And don't miss Friday night's screening of longtime Labor FilmFest fav Office Space, complete with a red stapler raffle! [link removed] CLICK HERE for a chance to win a pair of free tickets to the 7p screening on Friday night. [link removed]
Chris Garlock, Director
DC Labor FilmFest/DC LaborFest
[link removed]
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Film: THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS
Sat, May 14, 5:30 p.m.; Mon, May 16, 12:45 p.m.; Wed, May 18, 12:45 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: [link removed] bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
Following its world premiere at last year's TCM Classic Film Festival, we're excited to present Flicker Alley's new restoration of Robert Siodmak's rarely seen labor-ific 1951 drama THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS. When young union leader Brad Adams (Lloyd Bridges) is reluctantly appointed president of a failing plastics manufacturing plant in a small New Hampshire town, he finds himself with the unenviable task of cutting costs, bringing in new labor-saving machinery and laying off employees, all while simultaneously calming labor relations. Meanwhile, the plant's recently widowed owner Mrs. Doubleday (Dorothy Gish in a rare sound-era performance) is forced to consider selling the company. The stellar supporting cast includes Ernest Borgnine (in his debut film role), Anne Francis, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Seymour, Carleton Carpenter, Parker Fennelly, Russell Hardie, Doro Merande and James Westerfield. DIR Robert Siodmak; SCR Lemist Esler, Virginia Shaler; PROD Louis De Rochemont. U.S., 1951, b&w, 96 min. NOT RATED
Book: THE PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING
Wed, May 18, 6pm - 8pm
Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW Washington, DC.
Sponsored by the Economic Policy Institute.
[link removed] FREE; RSVP HERE
Donald Cohen, author of The Privatization of Everything (New Press), will be joined by Community Change president Dorian Warren to discuss trends in privatization and how workers and communities can fight back. Activist and filmmaker Naomi Klein has called Cohen's new book "an essential read for those who want to fight the assault on public goods and the commons."
[link removed]
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Film: OFFICE SPACE
Fri, May 20, 7pm - 9pm
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: [link removed] bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
With red stapler raffle!
"I could burn this place down." The perennial DC Labor FilmFest favorite OFFICE SPACE returns! Ron Livingston, Ajau Naidu and David Herman star as three disgruntled workers at the dreary, fluorescent-lit office of Initech who learn of impending layoffs at the company and hatch a scheme to embezzle from their greedy bosses; co-starring Jennifer Aniston, Stephen Root, Gary Cole, John C. McGinley and Diedrich Bader. Director Mike Judge's theatrical debut was largely ignored upon release, but has become a veritable ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW for cube-farmers everywhere. DIR/SCR/PROD Mike Judge; PROD Daniel Rappaport, Michael Rotenberg. U.S., 1999, color, 89 min. RATED R
History: DC LABOR WALK (AFL-CIO to Union Station) Re-scheduled date!
Sun, May 22, 10:00a; $15 per person; all proceeds benefit MWC's Community Services Agency's Emergency Assistance Fund.
[link removed] CLICK HERE for tickets.
Meet at AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street NW (Black Lives Matter Plaza), Washington
From the Labor Hall of Fame to Joe Hill's ashes, worker's history is around just about every corner in our nation's capitol, if you know where to look. This 3-hour walking tour of downtown DC reveals labor's often-untold story of protest and resistance. Metro Washington Council Union Cities Coordinator Chris Garlock - who usually helps local and national activists make history on DC's streets - leads the tour.
Tour highlights: AFL-CIO lobby murals; 1953 CIO headquarters; The Real Roosevelt Memorial; Joe Hill's ashes; Bas relief depictions of labor & trade; 1895 Knights of Labor HQ; Bonus Expeditionary Force & more.
NOTE: This is an easy 2.5-mile walk but wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather.
Music: DC Labor Chorus Spring Concert (24th Annual)
Sun, May 22, 4pm - 6pm
Cultural Arts Center, Montgomery College, 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA (map)
[link removed] Click here to get your tickets.
The DC Labor Chorus, founded and directed by longtime cultural worker Elise Bryant, is a musical ensemble from the Washington, DC, area that sings at concerts, rallies, demonstrations, and picket lines. We are made up of various ages, races and faith traditions. While some members are actually current or former union employees, every member actively supports the principle of liberty and justice for all.
Some of us are professional musicians, while others simply enjoy blending their voices to make a joyous sound that comes from songs of the civil rights and labor movements, as well as pop, jazz and other musical genres. Most of us are union members and activists who just love to sing! We sing for solidarity. We sing for peace. We sing for jobs. We sing for justice. We sing for joy!
[link removed]
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Film: CANE FIRE
Sun, May 22, 6pm - 8pm
Tickets: [link removed] bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
The Hawaiian island of Kaua'i is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. CANE FIRE critically examines the island's history -- and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it -- through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon's family, who first immigrated to Kaua'i from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources -- from Banua-Simon's observational footage to amateur YouTube travelogues to epic Hollywood dance sequences -- CANE FIRE offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast indigenous and working-class residents as extras in their own story. Official Selection, 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival, 2021 MoMA Doc Fortnight. DIR/SCR/PROD Anthony Banua-Simon; SCR/PROD Michael Vass. U.S., 2020, color, 90 min. In English, Pidgin English and Olelo Hawaiian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
[link removed] CLICK HERE for the complete 2022 DC LaborFest program guide!
Tickets are now available for the entire 2022 DC Labor FilmFest line-up at AFI Silver!
[link removed] CLICK HERE see trailers!
[link removed] CLICK HERE for details on the films and links to buy tickets!
[link removed] DOWNLOAD THE FULL LABORFEST GUIDE HERE
 
Material published in UNION CITY may be freely reproduced by any recipient; please credit Union City as the source for all news items and www.unionist.com as the source for Today's Labor History.
Published by the Metropolitan Washington Council, an AFL-CIO "Union City" Central Labor Council whose 200 affiliated union locals represent 150,000 area union members. DYANA FORESTER, PRESIDENT.
Story suggestions, event announcements, campaign reports, Letters to the Editor and other material are welcome, subject to editing for clarity and space; just click on the mail icon below. You can also reach us on Facebook and Twitter by clicking on those icons.
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