56m; U.S.
Director: Robert C. Winn
Synopsis: Poignant stories of Asian immigrant families as their grassroots organizing efforts build community in LA.
Contact: http://www.vconline.org/grassroots/index.html recc by APALA DC’s Malcolm Amado Uno Muno@aflcio.org
Mexico
Director: Jill Freidberg
Synopsis: Resistance to attacks on public education in Mexico as result of globalization.
150m; U.S.
Synopsis: California labor history
http://www.cft.org/member-services/labor-education/golden-lands,-working-hands.html
Contact: Golden Lands, Working Hands, CFT, One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 1440, Oakland, CA 94612, 510/832-8812, or email . Visit the Golden Lands, Working Hands page in the CFT website, http://www.cft.org.
Fred Glass, Communications Director California Federation of Teachers One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 1440 Oakland, CA 94612 510/832-882 fax 510/832-5044
http://www.cft.org
32m; Iraq
Director: Osamu Kimura & Mabui Cine Coop
Synopsis: Iraqi working-class organizing and fight against occupation.
Contact: http://homepage2.nifty.com/cine-mabui/
U.S.
Director: Haskell Wexler
Synopsis: A filmed version of a Ian Ruskin’s one man-play covering the life of International Longshoreman and Warehouse Union founder and labor radical Harry Bridges.
Contact: Ian Ruskin, theharrybridgesproject@comcast.net; http://www.theharrybridgesproject.org
65m; U.S.
Director: Sedgwick Productions
Synopsis: It’s a 65 minute documentary that features: 1. Community organizing: Gail Cincotta and NPA Two IAF groups in Texas: COPS and Valley Interfaith. 2. Community-based economic development Two groups in the South Bronx doing affordable housing including sweat equity – Banana Kelly, and the Mid-Bronx Development Corporation One group in Embarrass Minnesota (SISU) working on stabilizing a rural community through reviving Finnish heritage buildings, crafts, etc.
86m; U.S.
Director: Adam Zucker
Synopsis: A documentary film chronicling the participants in the Greensboro Massacre—a 1979 attack in which the Ku Klux Klan killed five Communists in broad daylight, and no one was convicted. Klansmen and former Communists converge in the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be held in the U.S. in 2004-2006.
Contact: azfilmmaker@verizon.net 917-270-0083 (Cell)
15m; U.S.
Synopsis: A dramatized incident in an industrial plant is used in showing how grievance hearings enable representatives of labor unions and management to arrive at compromises in the settlement of disputes.
120m; U.S.
Director: David Moore Huntley
Cast: Billy Ray Cyrus
Synopsis: Generally, it brings America’s mythic and misunderstood southern mountain people to life and reveal their pivotal but unsung role in forming the nation and forging the American character. It discusses the largest civil insurrection since the Civil War — the Battle for Blair Mountain in the violent West Virginia coalfields in 1921, when a self-proclaimed Redneck Army of 10,000 coal miners fought for their right to organize.
Contact: The History Channel store. http://shop.history.com/detail.php?a=115530 http://www.moorehuntley.com/CONTACT.html
19m; U.S.
Director: Diane Krauthamer
Synopsis: The Confederation of Haitian Workers (CTH) invited an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) delegation to Haiti to learn about their fight against “le plan neoliberal” and recruit help in the form of material aid and solidarity. The delegation was in Haiti April 24 to May 5 2008, two weeks after the country erupted in mass protest at burgeoning food prices. This video shares the stories and experiences
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