2024; 100 minutes; US
Follows former and current workers of Amazon, as they form the Amazon Labor Union, and take on the company to form a union.
Directed by Brett Story & Stephen Maing
Category Archives: Organizing
Haymarket: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle (2021)
1h 25m
The Chicago Haymarket tragedy, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of Police was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers’ rights activists, is examined in this feature documentary film. Expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist movement of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting for a shorter work day during the industrial might of America’s Gilded Age.
Adrian Prawica @ FILMADRIA
Director | Executive Producer | www.filmadria.com
773-724-0867 | 847-894-3849 – Direct
filmadria@gmail.com | IMDB Profile
Solidarity
Film about the construction industry blacklist in the UK.
Directed by Lucy Parker
2019; 75 mins
SOLIDARITY is about the secretive methods used against UK activists and trade unionists. Blacklisted construction workers and activists spied on by the police share their ongoing struggles.
Blacklisting in the UK construction industry impacted thousands of workers who were labelled ‘troublemakers’ for speaking out and secretively denied employment. Activists uncovered alarming links between workplace blacklisting and undercover policing. SOLIDARITY attentively follows meetings between activists and law students, brought together for the film, revealing the determination of a community working together to find a route to justice.
The first feature length film from artist filmmaker Lucy Parker, Solidarity has been made alongside and features members of Blacklist Support Group, core participants in Undercover Policing Inquiry, and members of other campaigning groups including Voice of Domestic Workers, Cleaners and Allied Independent Workers Union, Independent Workers of Great Britain, GMB, RMT, Unite British Airways Mixed Fleet, County Durham Teaching Assistants, BECTU Picturehouse and many individual trade unionists.
Funded by Arts Council England, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust, Lipman Miliband Trust, Kingston University and donations from trade union branches and individuals.
Info and a trailer here: https://vimeo.com/331182945
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CONTACT INFO
City Projects
46 Brookbys’s Walk, London, E9 6DA
0781 306 2595
Email: info@cityprojects.org
Twitter: @solidarity_film
Our Time Has Come: The Story of the 9 to 5 Movement
In production
Directed by Julia Reichert
Documents the rise of the movement for recognition and fair wages/benefits for women clerical and service workers.
The Care Revolution
28 minute documentary on the organizing of home health care workers in Oregon.
Bob Bussel
Professor of History and Director
Labor Education and Research Center
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
541 346-2784
bussel@uoregon.edu
Austerity Fight (2017)
The austerity policies of the Tories have targeted young and old. The NHS is chronically under funded and is being privatised. Students are leaving college with huge debts. Children, pensioners and the disabled are living in poverty and millions live precarious lives on ‘zero hour contracts’. Austerity Fight challenges the notion that we have to live in a world where public services are cut, worker’s rights removed and poverty is a daily reality for millions. Austerity Fight champions equality, practical alternatives to Austerity and a vision of a world based on co-operation rather than the greed of a global super elite.
Heather Booth: Changing the World
Heather Booth: Changing the World
2016 ‧ Documentary ‧ 1 hour
Release date: July 27, 2017 (CA)
Director: Lilly Rivlin
Editor: Pola Rapaport
Music composed by: Kyle Casey Chu
Producer: Lilly Rivlin
Cast: Heather Booth
Cinematography: Jo Freeman, Julie Gaynin, Michael Moser, MORE
heatherbooththefilm@gmail.com
Women Make Movies
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Native Land (1942)
Directed by: Leo Hurwitz & Paul Strand
Running Time: 1hr 20 min
Starring: N/A
Website
Synopsis:In dramatizations, we see a farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man murdered in a boarding house, two sharecroppers near Fort Smith Arkansas shot by men deputized by the local sheriff, a spy stealing the names of union members, and a dead Chicago union man eulogized.
A combination of a documentary format and staged reenactments, the film depicted the struggle of trade unions against union-busting corporations, their spies and contractors. It was based on the 1938 report of the La Follette Committee‘s investigation of the repression of labor organizing.
Famous African-American singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson participated as an off-screen narrator and vocalist.
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