25m;
Synopsis: Four Cajun women in Southwestern Louisiana on what ironing means to them.
Category Archives: Themes
I Always Dream of Tomorrow (2001)
38m; South Korea
Director: Kim Mi-Re
Synopsis: Women workers in South Korea
Contact: Produced by the Korean Women Workers Associations United and the Korean Women’s Trade Union.
The Globalization Tapes (2002)
85m
Director: Vision Machine Film Project
Synopsis: The film powerfully documents workers exploration of history, globalization, and how unions around the world can support each other and struggle together.
Grassroots Rising: Asian Immigrant Workers in Los Angeles (2006)
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
Granito de Arena (2005)
Mexico
Director: Jill Freidberg
Synopsis: Resistance to attacks on public education in Mexico as result of globalization.
Goodbye Solo (2008)
91m; Belguim
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Cast: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West and Diana Franco Galindo
Synopsis: Story of Solo, a kindhearted and friendly 34-year-old Senegalese taxi driver in North Carolina, who is hired by William, a tough 70-year-old white southerner, to drive him to a mountaintop from which William plans to jump to his death.
Golden Lands, Working Hands
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
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
96m; U.S.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell and Aline MacMahon
Synopsis (IMDB): Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play.
Goin’ Down the Road (1970)
90m; Canada
Director: Donald Shebib
Cast: Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley and Jayne Eastwood
Synopsis (IMDB): Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. Their previous life is looking better all the time. This movie is a time capsule of Toronto’s Yonge Street – record stores (defunct A&A’s), bars, and old neighbourhood side streets.
God’s Little Acre (1958)
118m; U.S.
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Ryan, Tina Louise and Aldo Ray
Synopsis (IMDB): A poor farmer is obsessed with finding gold on his land supposedly buried by his grandfather. To find it he conveniently moves a marker out of his way that designates the land on which it rests as as God’s Little Acre, where anything that comes from the ground will go to God’s work. Eventually he abducts an albino to help him find the gold. Meanwhile, his daughter-in-law is suspected of fooling around with a labor activist out of work since the mill closed, and a local political hopeful actively seeks his daughter’s hand in marriage.
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