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Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty

26 Apr

86m

Shattering the Silences: The Case for Minority Faculty offers everyone in higher education an unprecedented opportunity to see American campuses through the eyes of minority faculty.

Across America campus diversity is under attack; affirmative action programs are banned, ethnic studies departments defunded, multicultural scholarship impugned. Even so, faculty of color remain less than 9.2% of all full professors and minority student enrollment is dropping for the first time in 30 years.

Shattering the Silences cuts through the rhetoric of the current Culture Wars by telling the stories of eight pioneering scholars – African American, Latino, Native American and Asian American. As we watch them teach, mentor and conduct research, we realize in concrete terms how a diverse faculty enriches and expands traditional disciplines and contributes to a more inclusive campus environment.

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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Education

 

SPTU/Irish Ferries Dispute (2005)

26 Apr

25m; Ireland

Director: Give It A Go Productions

Synopsis: How solidarity worked in the 2005 Irish Ferries dispute.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary

 

Struggles in Steel: The Fight for Equal Opportunity (1996)

26 Apr

58m; U.S.

Director: Tony Buba, Raymond Henderson

Cast: Raymond Henderson, Dennis C. Dickerson and Katrina Heiss

Synopsis (IMDB): This documentary tells the forgotten story of the African-American struggle for equality in the U.S. steel industry (based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). In a series of interviews intermixed with archival footage and stills, we learn how these workers faced and overcame discrimination that came from white workers, the big steel companies, and even from their own unions.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Blacks, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Organizing

 

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Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)

26 Apr

120m; Italy

Director: Giuliano Montaldo

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté, Riccardo Cucciolla and Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Communism/Socialism, Drama, Immigrants/Immigration, Labor History, Legal System

 

Sacco and Vanzetti (2007)

26 Apr

80m; U.S.

Director: Peter Miller

Synopsis (IMDB): The story of two Italian immigrant radicals who were executed in 1927 offers insights into present-day issues of civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Labor History, Legal System

 

Salesman (1969)

26 Apr

91m; U.S.

Director: David and Albert Maysles

Synopsis: This landmark documentary follows four Boston bible salesmen as they struggle to make a living in the cutthroat world of door-to-door sales. The film follows the salesmen as they wheedle, connive and cajole their way into homes and wallets. As the pressure of the job bears down, the film reveals the dark underside of the American Dream.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Self-Employed/Freelance, Working Class

 

San Francisco State: On Strike (1969)

26 Apr

20m; U.S.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Education, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Sangre (2005)

26 Apr

90m; Mexico

Director: Amat Escalante

Cast: Cirilo Recio Dávila, Claudia Orozco and Martha Preciado

Synopsis (IMDB): Diego’s job is counting people as they enter a large government building. After work, he and his wife Blanca lie on the couch, watch soap operas, or make love on the kitchen table. Their relationship is based on having sex, watching TV, and fighting, until one day their routine is interrupted. Karina, Diego’s daughter from a previous marriage, arrives in search of her father’s love, but Blanca refuses to accept her. Diego finds himself caught between an extremely jealous wife and a daughter in desperate need of guidance. An astonishing climax will lead Diego to a total loss of control.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Crime-Action, Working Class

 

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)

26 Apr

89m; U.K.

Director: Karel Reisz

Cast:  Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field and Rachel Roberts

Synopsis (IMDB): Arthur, one of Britain’s angry young men of the 1960s, is a hardworking factory worker who slaves all week at his mindless job for his modest wages. Come Saturday night, he’s off to the pub for a loud and rowdy beer session. With him is Brenda, his girlfriend of the moment. Married to a fellow worker, she is nonetheless captivated by his rugged good looks and his devil-may-care attitude. Soon a new love interest Doreen enters and a week later, Brenda announces she’s pregnant. She tells Arthur she needs money for an abortion, and Arthur promises to pay for it. By this time, his relationship with Doreen has ripened and Brenda, hearing of it, confronts him. He denies everything, but it’s obvious that their affair is all but over.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Romance, Working Class

 

Saturday’s Children (1940)

26 Apr

102m; U.S.

Director: Vincent Sherman

Cast: John Garfield, Anne Shirley and Claude Rains

Synopsis (IMDB): Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one of her family talks Bobby into tricking Rims into marriage, the real world comes crashing down on the couple

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Drama, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 
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