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Out of Darkness: The Mine Worker’s Story (1991)

100m; U.S.

Director: Barbara Kopple and Bill Davis

Synopsis: An electrifying documentary by Academy-Award-winning director Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA) and award-winning video director and editor Bill Davis. Historical film footage and photographs are integrated with first-hand accounts of Mine Workers’ history and of the recent battle with the Pittston Coal Group. Accompanied by a moving soundtrack created by Tom Juravich, this 100-minute film represents real life stories with a powerful, dramatic touch.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing

Tags: Mining

Out of the Shadows: A Story form the Heart of Working America (2001)

20 Apr

Director: Bal-Maiden Films

Synopsis: Workers in Minneapolis fight deportation after organizing for union voice.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Legal System, Organizing

Outsiders

20 Apr

Synopsis: Follows the Kensington Welfare Rights Union “new freedom bus tour” of the country in the summer of 1998.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Unemployment-Wages

Overcoming Adversity (2008)

20 Apr

10m; U.S.

Director: Tania Millan, Loyda Alvarado & Marie Marroquin

Synopsis: An immigrant woman of color becoming a labor activist.

Contact: Jennifer McNulty (831) 459-2495; jmcnulty@ucsc.edu (wrote story on UCSC website: http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2149) Neidi Dominguez is the subject of the film and she can help you get in contact with the film makers, her email is: ndomingu@ucsc.edu

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Immigrants/Immigration, Organizing

Patriots Act… Peace Press: The People’s Printing Collective

20 Apr

95m; U.S.

Director: Joseph Daccurso

Contact: Jerry Palmer, Bob Zaugh and Irene Wolt

Synopsis (IMDB): “Dissent is not disloyalty, but rather an expression of First Amendment rights, and art can be both commercial and a weapon. What Woodstock was a film generation, Peace Press was to graphic arts. The times have changed but not the causes for which PatriotS Act.”

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Organizing, Politics

Tags: Journalism

The Peasants of the Second Fortress (Sanrizuka: Dainitoride no hitobito) [1971]

20 Apr

143m; Japan

Director: Shinsuke Ogawa

Synopsis: Peasants, students, workers, and the filmmakers themselves join in a five year struggle to resist giving up land for a new international airport near Toyko.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Construction Trades, Documentary, Organizing, Transportation

Peoes (Metal Workers) [2004]

20 Apr

85m; Brazil

Director: Eduardo Coutinho

Synopsis: 1979 Brazilian Metal Workers Strike.

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

People of Cumberland (1937)

20 Apr

18m; U.S.

Director: Sidney Meyers & Jay Leyda

Synopsis: A combination documentary and reenacted drama of the struggle of poor whites in the Cumberland mountains building unions and fighting for their rights with the help of the Highlander Folk School

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Posted by Metro Council on April 20, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing