Director: Bal-Maiden Films
Synopsis: Workers in Minneapolis fight deportation after organizing for union voice.
Category Archives: Organizing
Outsiders
Synopsis: Follows the Kensington Welfare Rights Union “new freedom bus tour” of the country in the summer of 1998.
Overcoming Adversity (2008)
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
Patriots Act… Peace Press: The People’s Printing Collective
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.”
The Peasants of the Second Fortress (Sanrizuka: Dainitoride no hitobito) [1971]
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.
Photo Booth (2009)
1m; U.S.
Director: Paul Rey-Burns
Synopsis: It’s a lonely job, but someone’s got to do it — time to get organized maybe…
Contact: Paul Rey-Burns (paul.reyburns@mac.com)
Porto Marghera-The Last Firebrands (2004)
52m; Italy
Director: Manuela Pellarin
Synopsis: A film about petrochemical workers who took matters into their own hands in the giant industrial zone engulfing Venice. Porto Marghera documents autonomous workers and their experiences from the point of view of the worker-activists themselves. “The mass refusal of literally toxic work forced hours on the job down at the same time as driving wages up. The labour hierarchy that sets white collar against blue, permanent against casual, was attacked by workers insisting on the maximum for everyone. The battle in the factory was linked to working-class life outside through direct appropriation of basic social needs.
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