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SCHEDULE • 2004
Admission at all events
is by voluntary donation
Sunday,
April 25, 2004
Nickelodeon Theatre,
Santa Cruz • Noon
Modern
Times
(Director: Charlie Chaplin, 1936, digitally restored 2003, 87 min)
Man molded to the machine age.
Speaker:
Dana Frank, author, labor historian
Cabrillo
College Forum, Aptos • 7 pm
Theme: Municipal Workers Organizing
A
Day´s Work, A Day´s Pay
(Producer: Jonathan Skurnik, 2002, 57 min)
NYC welfare-to-work program participants organize for better conditions.
At
the River I Stand
(Producer: CA Newsreel, 1993, 56 min)
Memphis sanitation workers strike supported by Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Speakers: Debora
Bone, President, Cabrillo College Federation of Teachers
Cliff Leo
Tillman, Jr., President, Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Monday, April 26, 2004
Community Television Studio,
Santa Cruz • 7 pm
Theme: Workers in a World Economy
Shots
on the Docks
(Producer: Steve Zeltzer, 2003, 28 min)
Longshoremen fired on during peaceful protest in Oakland.
Miami
2003: Your Tax Dollars at Work
(Director: Lisa Mastramico, 2003, 12 min)
Well funded police protecting free trade over free speech.
Friends
or Foe
(Produced by Labor News Production, Seoul, Korea, Director: Jiyoung
Lee, 2003, 119min)
Korean telecom workers' 517 day protest of downsizing.
Speaker:
Steve Zeltzer, founder, Labor Video Project
Tuesday,
April 27, 2004
Kresge Town Hall,
UCSC • 7 pm
Theme: Local Filmmakers, Local Struggles
Fiat
Respect
(Director: Regan Brashear, 2003, 30 min)
Live footage of the historic statewide strike by CUE and AFT at
UCSC.
Not
for Sale: Lessons from the Dump Sodexho Campaign at UCSC
(Filmmakers: Sabina Gonzalez & Max Krochmal, 2004, 12 min)
UCSC staff, faculty & students join to boot multi-national food
service corp off campus.
Starting
with Health Care: Building Solidarity in the Safeway Struggle
(Filmmakers: Evelyn Richards & Jamie Radenbaugh, 2004, 15 min)
Local community and labor support for 70,000 striking grocery workers
in So. Cal.
The
Making Of Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan
(Producer: Ideas In Motion, 2002, 30 min)
San Francisco Mime Troupe's process of creating a play.
Speaker:
Members of the San Francisco Mime Troupe collective
Panel of local filmmakers: Regan Brashear, Sabina
Gonzalez,
Max Krochmal, Evelyn Richards & Jamie Radenbaugh
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Workers Memorial Day
Del Mar Theatre,
Santa Cruz • 7 pm
Germinal
(Director: Claude Berri, 1993, 170 min., French w/ subtitles)
Classic French film of coal miners' stuggle.
Speaker:
Paul Ortiz, teacher, author
Thursday,
April 29, 2004
Stevenson College Dining Hall,
UCSC • 7 pm
Made
In Thailand
(Directors: Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy Emery, 1999, 33 min)
Oppressive factory work leaves women no choice but to organize.
The
Hidden Face of Globalization
(Producer: National Labor Committee, 2003, 34 min)
Bangladesh sweatshops produce for Disney and Wal-Mart.
Love,
Women, and Flowers
(Director: Marta Rodriguez, 1988, 58 min)
Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.
Speakers:
Marta Rodriguez, director of Love, Women & Flowers
Sabina Gonzalez, National Student Labor Action
Project (SLAP) Co-coordinator
Friday,
April 30, 2004
Cabrillo College Watsonville
Center Forum, Watsonville • 7 pm
Love,
Women, and Flowers
(Director: Marta Rodriguez, 1988, 58 min)
Women workers stand up to the toxic flower industry in Colombia.
Uprooted:
Refugees of the Global Economy
(Directors: Sasha Khokha, Ulla Nilsen, Jon Fromer, and Francisco
Herrera, 2001, 28 min)
Corporations' devastation of third world countries forces workers
to emigrate.
Speakers:
Marta Rodriguez, director of Love, Women & Flowers
Francisco Herrera, producer of Uprooted
Saturday, May 1, 2004
International Workers Day
Louden Nelson Center,
Santa Cruz • 1-3 pm
International Workers Day Peace
Luncheon
Sponsored by the Santa Cruz County Chapter of the United Nations
Association.
Speaker:
Brian McWilliams, past President of the International Longshore
and Warehouse Union
Mexican food will be served for a donation of $7-10.
For more information call 425-7618.
Location to be announced, Santa
Cruz • 5:30-7 pm
Reception for Haskell Wexler &
Ian Ruskin
To reserve tickets to the reception, call 831-469-3848.
The Rio Theater,
Santa Cruz • 7 pm
From
Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
(Actor: Ian Ruskin, 60 min)
A one-man play portraying Harry Bridges' passion, struggles and
sense of humor.
The
Bus Riders Union
(Director: Haskell Wexler, 1999, 86 Min)
LA's poor and minority bus riders organize, Transit Authority takes
notice.
Speakers:
Brian McWilliams, past President of the ILWU
Ian Ruskin, actor portraying Harry Bridges
Haskell Wexler, cinematographer for Matewan, Bread and Rosesand
many others
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