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SCHEDULE • 2005
Admission
to all events is by voluntary donation.
Sunday,
April 24, 2005
Nickelodeon
Theatre, Santa Cruz • Noon
The
Yes Men
(Directors: Dan Ollman & Sarah Price, 2003, 83 min)
Changing the world one prank at a time.
Speaker: Paul
Ortiz, teacher, author
Monday,
April 25, 2005
Studio
C, Communications Bldg., UCSC
• 1 pm - 3 pm
Sponsored by UCSC Film and Digital Media Department
Activist Film Presentation
Presenter:
Saul
Landau, filmmaker
Cabrillo
College Forum, Aptos • Two shows: 1 pm & 5
pm
Sponsored by Cabrillo College Federation of Teachers, AFT
Local 4400
Picture
Bride
(Director: Kayo Hatta, 1994, 98 min)
Hawaii, 1918: Japanese immigrant farmworkers seeking the American
dream.
Community
Television Studio, Santa Cruz • 7 pm
Theme: Workers in a World Economy
Mardi
Gras: Made in China
(Producer: David Redmon, 2005, 61 min)
East meets west—revelers linked with sweatshop workers.
Open
The Road To The Women Fighters (Paso a Las Luchadoras)
(Producer: Ojo Collective, Argentina, 2004, 33 min)
Argentine women workers take up the struggle for liberation by
their own hand.
Speakers: Kazumi
Torii, videographer
Steve
Zeltzer,
founder of LaborNet
Tuesday,
April 26, 2005
The Attic, Santa Cruz •
7 pm
Sponsored by Santa Cruz County Chapter of the United Nations
Association
Stolen
Childhoods
(Producer: Len Morris, 2003, 85 min)
The tragedy of child labor around the world and some reasons for
hope.
Speakers:
Jasmina Bojic,
Founder and Festival Director, UNA Film Festival
Pharis
Harvey, Senior Program Consultant, Stolen Childhoods
Wednesday,
April 27, 2005
Kresge
College, UCSC • 7 pm
Esperanza
Del Barrio
(Filmmaker: Sabina Gonzalez, 2004, 17 min)
East Harlem street vendors organize to empower immigrants.
Since
Salazar
(Filmmakers: Leilani Montes & Victoria Fong, 2005, 15 min)
Ruben Salazar, unsung trailblazer for unfiltered news coverage.
Rainbow
Theater Performance
A production designed to increase awareness of the cultural climate.
Eyes
On The Fries
(Filmmakers: Casey Peek & Jeremy Blasi, 2004, 21 min)
Young workers in the service economy.
Speakers:
Sabina
Gonzalez, Leilani
Montes,
and Victoria
Fong,
filmmakers
SJCC
Room GE 205
•
7 pm
Sponsored by San Jose City College and the SJCC Labor
Studies Program
Bread
and Roses
(Director: Ken Loach, 2000, 110 min)
Based on Justice For Janitors organizing campaign in LA.
For information: 408-298-2181 x2575 or e-mail: info@reelwork.org
Thursday,
April 28, 2005
Workers Memorial Day
College
8 Red Room, UCSC, Santa Cruz • Noon
The
Relevance of the Wobblies Today
Public
lecture on the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World
Paul Buhle's book, Wobblies!,
will be available here for 20% discount!
Speaker:
Paul
Buhle, labor historian
Respondent:
Archie
Green, author, storyteller
College
8 Red Room, UCSC, Santa Cruz • 1:30 pm
Lewis
County: Hope and Struggle
(work in progress)
(Filmmaker: Anne
Fischel, 2005, 90 min)
Commemoration of an attack on the IWW Documentary, the Centralia
Massacre.
Speaker:
Anne
Fischel, Filmmaker
Sin
Fronteras Book Store, Santa Cruz • 5-6:30 pm
Wobblies, A Graphic History
A pictoral history of the IWW by 25 artists.
Reading &
book signing by Paul
Buhle, author
Del
Mar Theatre, Santa Cruz • 7 pm
Proclamation to honor Reel Work and the 100th Anniversary
of the IWW
presented by City of Santa Cruz Mayor Mike Rotkin
The
Take
Filmmakers: Avi Lewis & Naomi Klein, 2004, 87 min)
Argentine workers take back their abandoned factories.
Speakers from
Argentina:
Cecilia
Sainz, lead
field analyst for The Take
Ernesto
"Lalo" Paret,
activist member, Movement of Recovered Factories
Emcee: Dana
Frank, teacher, author
Friday,
April 29, 2005
County
Board of Supervisors Chambers, Santa Cruz • Noon
Almost
Broken
(Producer: Christine Pietz, 2005)
The workers comp disaster in California.
Cabrillo
College Watsonville Center Forum, Watsonville •
7 pm
Esperanza
Del Barrio
(Filmmaker: Sabina Gonzalez, 2004, 17 min)
East Harlem street vendors organize to empower immigrants.
Since
Salazar
(Filmmakers: Leilani Montes & Victoria Fong, 2005, 15 min)
Ruben Salazar, unsung trailblazer for unfiltered news coverage.
Rainbow
Theater Performance
A production designed to increase awareness of the cultural climate.
Eyes
On The Fries
(Filmmakers: Casey Peek & Jeremy Blasi, 2004, 21 min)
Young workers in the service economy.
Speakers:
Sabina
Gonzalez, Leilani
Montes, and Victoria
Fong,
& Casey
Peek,
filmmakers
Saturday,
April 30, 2005
Cabrillo
College Watsonville Center Forum, Watsonville •
7 pm
Sponsored by Santa Cruz County Women's Commission
Theme: Women and Walmart: Local and Global Impact
Fighting
Wal-Martization
(world premier)
(Filmmaker: Steve Zeltzer, 2005, 26min)
Communities resist neo-colonialism in their neighborhoods.
Made
In Thailand
(Directors: Eve-Laure Moros and Linzy Emery, 1999, 33 min)Ê
Oppresive factory work leaves women no choice but to organize.
Invited panel speakers: NOW representatives,
labor organizer, Wal-Mart advocate
Sunday,
May 1, 2005
International Workers Day
Town Clock, Santa Cruz •
Noon
Sponsored by Art & Revolution
International Workers Day Parade
Speaker: Fred Hirsch
Poet
& Patriot Pub, Santa Cruz • 1:00
pm
The
Wobblies
(Director: Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, 1979, 89 min)
100 years of the Industrial Workers of the World.
Discussion following the film on the future
of the labor movement.
Portuguese
Hall, 216 Evergreen Street, Santa Cruz
• 6:00 pm
Sponsored by the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council
Wal-Mart's
War On The Workers
(Producer: UFCW, 2004, 15 min)
Just exactly how perniciously anti-union can a corporation be?
International
Workers Day Dinner
Union members and friends celebrate with humor, song and repast.
All welcome! For info and RSVP: 831-633-1869 or download
flyer
Speakers: Phil
Angelides, California State Treasurer
Deborah Burger, President, California Nurses Association
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