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Films: Labor-related films coming up at AFI Silver
History: DC LABOR WALK (Saturday)
Film: THE WOBBLIES (Tuesday)
 
The 2022 DC Labor FilmFest wrapped last night with a well-attended screening of Pride; thanks to everyone who attended, sponsored or volunteered at the filmfest this year! We'll start working on the 2023 edition soon (as well as our monthly Bread and Roses series; [link removed] click here to RSVP for the June 14 Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections Discussion with Book Authors and Organizers) but if you can't wait until then, there are some excellent laborific films coming up in other AFI Silver series (see below for titles and links). Also, the weather is perfect for tomorrow's DC Labor Walk and we have a few spaces left, so lace up your walking shoes and join us!
- Chris Garlock, Director, DC Labor FilmFest
History: DC LABOR WALK (AFL-CIO to Union Station) Just 8 spots left!
Sat, June 4, 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.
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Film (Online): New York Labor History Association screening of "The Wobblies"
plus Q&A with co-director Stewart Bird
Tuesday, June 7, 2022, 5-7 pm ET
[link removed] Register here for the Online Event (Limited to 100 registrants)
"Solidarity! All for one and one for all!" Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing unskilled workers into "one big union" and changed the course of American history. This compelling documentary of the IWW (or "The Wobblies," as they were known) tells the story of workers in factories, sawmills, wheat fields, forests, mines and on the docks as they organize and demand better wages, healthcare, overtime pay and safer working conditions. In some respects, men and women, Black and white, skilled and unskilled workers joining a union and speaking their minds seems so long ago, but in other ways, the film mirrors today's headlines, depicting a nation torn apart by corporate greed. Filmmakers Deborah Shaffer and Stewart Bird weave history, archival film footage, interviews with early IWW members (by then in their 80s and 90s), cartoons, original art and classic Wobbly songs (many written by Joe Hill) to pay tribute to the legacy of these rebels who paved the way and risked their lives for the many of the rights that we still enjoy today. Restored by the Museum of Modern Art and recently inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. (Note courtesy of Kino Lorber.) DIR/PROD Deborah Shaffer, Stewart Bird. U.S., 1979, color, 89 min. NOT RATED
[link removed] CLICK HERE for the complete 2022 DC LaborFest program guide!
Labor-related films coming up at AFI Silver
[link removed] THE GOOD BOSS [EL BUEN PATRÓN]
Special Features: 2021 Oscar® Selection, Spain
Saturday, June 04, 08:00 PM & Thursday, June 09, 07:20 PM
Blanco (Javier Bardem) is the dedicated owner of a successful factory, where employees are treated like family. When the company is nominated for a local business award, the pressure is on to perform even better. But a disgruntled former employee, a heartbroken supervisor and an infatuated intern will complicate Blanco's plans for perfection. Desperate to win that award, Blanco will need to make some boss moves he hasn't made before...
[link removed] KAFE NEGRO: CUBA & THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION
Fri, June 10, 7:00 p.m.
Following the Haitian Revolution, numerous Haitians crossed over to southeastern Cuba where they brought with them a small bean that would become one of the most coveted resources of all time: coffee. KAFE NEGRO: CUBA & THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION is the story of these immigrants whose unceasing work transformed the culture and demography of Cuba....
[link removed] SUGAR CANE MALICE [MAL DE CAÑA]
Sun, June 12, 3:20 p.m.
Far from the eyes of the countless tourists who seek relaxation in the Dominican Republic's verdant tropical resorts, tens of thousands of undocumented Haitian immigrants labor in the fields of the former sugar colony. Through observational footage and interviews with several families, this documentary explores a vicious cycle that devalues those who make up a major part of the island's workforce, stripping them of the chance for empowerment or opportunity and forcing them to endure instability, poor living conditions and meager pay...
[link removed] ONE WAY OR ANOTHER [DE CIERTA MANERA]
Mon, June 13, 7:00 p.m.
A landmark of Cuban and feminist cinema, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER was the first feature from Cuba directed by a woman, Sara Gómez -- and it was to be her last. Gómez, who got her start making short documentaries and assisting Agnès Varda and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT), died while editing the film, leaving Alea and co-writer Tomás González Pérez to complete it. She shot the film with a handheld 16mm camera during the so-called quinquenio gris (Five Gray Years), the period in which the Cuban regime's Sovietization of the economy radically transformed all aspects of society: jobs, housing, health, education, women's rights and artistic censorship. Gómez brings a neorealist, even ethnographic sensibility to this love story of a middle-school teacher and a factory worker on the outskirts of Havana...
 
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