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2014 SCHEDULE
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Admission to all events is by voluntary donation except where noted
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY EVENTS
SAN JOSE EVENTS
MONTEREY COUNTY EVENTS
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY EVENTS
Friday, March 28, 2014
Del Mar Theatre, Santa Cruz
Opening Night
CESAR CHAVEZ: AN AMERICAN HERO
(Diego Luna, 2014)
Story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers.
Watch the trailer.
Regular theatrical show; normal ticket prices apply.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
5 PM - Community Television Studio, Santa Cruz
COMMUNITY TELEVISION RE-LAUNCH CELEBRATION
Our local public access television station emerges from a reorganization forced by severe budget cuts.
Saturday, April 26 , 2014
7 PM - Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz
SPANISH SHORTS (all with English subtitles)
EN EL CASTILLO
(Franco Lorenzano, 2013, 22 min)
Trials and tribulations of a job applicant.
EN MAL ESTADO
(Juan Antonio Delicado & David Delicado, 2012, 12 min)
Unemployed waiting for the day’s pickings.
SINCERIDAD
(Andrea Casaseca, 2013, 3 min)
The trauma of getting a job in Spain.
LOVE CRISIS
(Chus de Castro & Olga Ruano, 2013, 7 min)
Date night in a Madrid plaza: a tongue-in-cheek look at how unemployment affects personal relationships.
DER STUHL / THE CHAIR
(Daniel Martín Gómez, 2013, 14 min)
Two women job seekers from different generations and opposite ends of Spain face very different ways of emigrating to Germany.
JUDITH: PORTRAIT OF A STREET VENDOR
(Zahida Pirani, 2013, 17 min)
The work of women who sell food they make at home and challenges they face as immigrants.
Watch the trailer.
LONCHE
(Claire Weissbluth, 2013, 20 min)
A tale of two taco trucks—an intimate portrait of family, labor and sacrifice, filmed locally.
Watch the trailer.
Speakers:
Claire Weissbluth &
Zahida Pirani, filmmakers
Sunday, April 27, 2014
11 AM - Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz
SALT OF THE EARTH
(Herbert J. Biberman, 1954, 94 min)
Dramatization of a New Mexico zinc miners strike, which is carried on successfully by the wives when the men are jailed. 60th anniversary of this once-blacklisted B&W classic.
Watch the trailer.
Speaker: Dana Frank, educator & author
7 PM - Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Cruz
WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 92 min)
A chronicle of four years in the lives of childhood friends as they enter a faraway war.
Watch the trailer.
Panel: Local Veterans
Music: Jim Lewin
Monday, April 28, 2014
Workers Memorial Day
7 PM - Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz
EXPLORING THE SANCTUARY CAMP CONCEPT
(Jeremy Leonard, 2014, 28 min)
Successful camps in West Coast cities that are providing housing for homeless.
Watch online.
SANTA CRUZ SANCTUARY CAMP
(Brent Adams, 2014, 17 min)
What would it take for a homeless camp to work here?
Watch online.
NOT THE OTHER: Oral Histories of People Experiencing Homelessness
(Annette March, 2014, 19 min)
A local project which gives voice and presence to the most vulnerable community members of Santa Cruz.
Watch the video.
Speakers:
Brent Adams &
Jeremy Leonard, filmmakers; Annette March, ethnographic researcher; Peter Connery, survey researcher; Scott Galloway, AFC
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
7 PM - Kresge College Seminar Room 159, UCSC
DEFAULT: the Student Loan Documentary
(Aurora Meneghello, 2011, 27 min)
Stories of borrowers from different backgrounds affected by the student lending industry and their struggles to change the system.
Watch online.
DOCUMENTED
(Jose Antonio Vargas & Ann Raffaela Lupo, 2013, 89 min)
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist José Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times Magazine in solidarity with the DREAM Act Dreamers.
Watch the trailer.
Invited Speaker: Chirag Bhakta, organizer with US Students Association
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
7 PM - Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz
UNITED NATIONS DAY
(Toby Thiermann, 2013, 9 min)
Varied events and participants in this annual Santa Cruz celebration.
ANN KORE MOUN / COLLECTIVE ACTION: A Force for Development
(André Vanasse & Jean-Nathan Aristil, 2012, 36 min)
Unions are active in many sectors of Haitian society and they play a key role in economic development.
Watch the trailer.
STEALING AFRICA: WHY POVERTY
(Christoffer Guldbrandsen, 2012, 58 min)
Zambia’s copper resources have not made the country rich in a textbook case of neo-colonial exploitation.
Watch the trailer.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
International Workers Day
2 PM - The Quarry, UCSC
"No on Napolitano" Rally
4:30 PM - Town Clock, Santa Cruz
May Day Rally
6:30 PM - Pacific Avenue from the Town Clock to the Del Mar Theatre, Santa Cruz
May Day March
7 PM - Del Mar Theatre, Santa Cruz
THE INTERVIEWER
(Eleanor Winkler, Genevieve Clay-Smith & Robin Bryan, 2012, 12 min)
Get a glimpse at the obstacles to meaningful employment faced by people with intellectual disabilities in this humorous and poignant film.
Watch the trailer.
FIXED: The Science/Fiction of Human Enhancement
(Regan Brashear, 2013, 60 min)
What does the future of work look like in the context of radical human enhancement technologies that promise to change our bodies and mind forever?
Watch the trailer.
Speakers:
Regan Brashear, filmmaker; Foster Andersen, Shared Adventures; Nancy Chen, UCSC medical anthropologist; Eric Zigman, Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center; Lizzy Hare, UCSC Science and Justice Research Center
Music:
David Winters
Captions and ASL available for this event if requested with 48 hours notice.
Friday, May 2, 2014
7 PM - Cabrillo College Watsonville Forum, Watsonville
JUNIOR COLLEGE
(Fred Glass, YEAR, 10 min)
San Francisco City College accreditation fight.
SCHOOLIDARITY
(Andrew Friend, 2014, 110 min)
Reading. Writing. Revolution. Lessons of Madison and the Chicago teachers strike. Special presentation of the film in pre-release rough cut form.
Watch the trailer.
Speaker:
Andrew Friend, filmmaker
Saturday, May 3, 2014
2 PM - Live Oak Grange, Santa Cruz
WISCONSIN RISING
(Sam Mayfield, 2013, 57 min)
Madison in 2011 was the testing ground as big money and power waited to see how far they could push back people’s rights.
Watch the trailer.
WE WERE THERE
(Bev Grant, 2013, 4 min)
Labor song with Brooklyn Women’s Chorus and historical slide show.
Watch the video.
Speaker:
Sam Mayfield, filmmaker
Sunday, May 4, 2014
6 PM - Springfield Community Grange, Pajaro
SHIFT CHANGE
(Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young, 2012, 70 min)
Secure, dignified jobs in employee-owned workplaces in the U.S. and Spain help stabilize the local economy.
Watch the trailer.
Speakers:
Ross Newport, Community Printers;
Ken Dickerson, Eco-Farm; Meche Sansores, WAGES
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
7 PM - Kresge College Seminar Room 159, UCSC
THE INVISIBLE WAR
(Kirby Dick, 2012, 93 min)
The prevalence of sexual assault in the United States military is heartbreaking.
Watch the trailer.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd., Aptos
A DREAM of an Evening
5:30 PM - Reception for youth speakers
7 PM - Film
DOCUMENTED
(Jose Antonio Vargas & Ann Raffaela Lupo, 2013, 89 min)
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist José Antonio Vargas outed himself as an undocumented immigrant in the New York Times Magazine in solidarity with the DREAM Act Dreamers.
Watch the trailer.
Speakers: Johanny Quintero, David Aragon Carreño, Jahir Salinas, and Shaila Ramos, COPA/Dreamweaver Interns
MONTEREY COUNTY EVENTS
Friday, April 25, 2014
6 PM -
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Monterey
Annual Labor Awards Dinner
Sunday, April 27, 2014
2 PM - Museum of Monterey, Monterey
FINDING THE MOTHER LODE: Italian Immigrants in California
(Gianfranco Norelli & Suma Kurien, 2013, 104 min)
Story of California Italians and their labor from the gold rush and the vineyards to the fishing fleets.
Reception following film celebrating a new museum exhibit featuring the Sicilians’ contribution to Monterey becoming the Sardine Capitol of the world.
Watch the trailer.
Monday, April 28, 2014
6 PM - CSUMB University Center Fireside Room, Seaside
WISCONSIN RISING
(Sam Mayfield, 2013, 57 min)
Madison in 2011 was the testing ground as big money and power waited to see how far they could push back people’ rights.
SCHOOLIDARITY
(Andrew Friend, 2014, 110 min)
Reading. Writing. Revolution. Lessons of Madison and the Chicago teachers strike. Special presentation of the film in pre-release rough cut form.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
4 PM - CSUMB Oakes Hall (Building 490), Seaside
SPANISH SHORTS (all with English subtitles)
EN EL CASTILLO
(Franco Lorenzano, 2013, 22 min)
Trials and tribulations of a job applicant.
EN MAL ESTADO
(Juan Antonio Delicado & David Delicado, 2012, 12 min)
Unemployed waiting for the day’s pickings.
SINCERIDAD
(Andrea Casaseca, 2013, 3 min)
The trauma of getting a job in Spain.
LOVE CRISIS
(Chus de Castro & Olga Ruano, 2013, 7 min)
Date night in a Madrid plaza: a tongue-in-cheek look at how unemployment affects personal relationships.
DER STUHL / THE CHAIR
(Daniel Martín Gómez, 2013, 14 min)
Two women job seekers who emigrated to Germany, from different ends of Spain and two generations facing two very different ways of emigrating.
JUDITH: PORTRAIT OF A STREET VENDOR
(Zahida Pirani, 2013, 17 min)
The work of women who sell food they make at home and challenges they face as immigrants.
Watch the trailer.
LONCHE
(Claire Weissbluth, 2013, 20 min)
A tale of two taco trucks—an intimate portrait of family, labor and sacrifice, filmed locally.
Watch the trailer.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
International Workers' Day
4 pm - CSUMB Chapman Science (Building 53) Room E 104, Seaside
ANN KORE MOUN / COLLECTIVE ACTION: A Force for Development
(André Vanasse & Jean-Nathan Aristil, 2012, 36 min)
Unions are active in many sectors of Haitian society and they play a key role in economic development.
FALSE PROFITS
(AIDC & WWMP, 2011, 31 min)
The effect of the global economic crisis on workers and trade unions and South African society.
Speaker:
Angie Tran, CSUMB Professor
8 PM - CSUMB Library Room 1188, Seaside
PETE SEEGER: The Power of Song
(Jim Brown, 2007, 93 min)
Life and times of the architect of the U.S. folk revival.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Classic Labor Films
Museum of Monterey, Monterey
12 Noon -
GRAPES OF WRATH
(John Ford, 1940, 129 min)
Dustbowl forces Midwest farmers off their land in the Great Depression.
2:15 PM -
REDES / The Wave
(Emilio Gómez Muriel & Fred Zinnemann, 1936, 65 min)
The struggle of poor Mexican fishermen to overcome exploitation.
3:25 PM -
SALT OF THE EARTH
(Herbert J. Biberman, 1954, 94 min)
60th anniversary of this once-blacklisted dramatization of a New Mexico zinc miners strike.
Friday–Sunday, May 3–5, 2014
Steinbeck Festival Onward: A Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Grapes of Wrath
National Steinbeck Center, Salinas
THE GRAPES OF WRATH: An American Journey
(Steinbeck Center, 2013, 35 min)
A cross-country road trip on route 66 in October 2013 following the route of the Joad family.
Purchase of special event ticket required for admission.
SAN JOSE EVENTS
Thursday, April 24, 2014
6:30 PM - Drama Building Theatre, San Jose City College
CITIZEN KOCH
(Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, 2013, 90 min)
The Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United ruling marked a seismic shift in how America’s elections are fought and financed.
Speakers: Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, filmmakers
Friday, April 25, 2014
7 PM - San José Peace Center
WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 92 min)
A chronicles of four years in the lives of childhood friends as they enter a faraway war.
Watch the trailer.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
12:30 PM - Student Center Room 204, San Jose City College
INOCENTE
(Sean Fine & Andrea Nix Fine, Directors, 2012, 40 min)
Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years.
Watch the trailer.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
6:30 PM - Student Center Room 204, San Jose City College
COINTELPRO 101
(Andres Alegria, 2010, 56 min)
Exposé of the FBI’s counter intelligence program which infiltrated the
Black Panthers and the peace movement.
Watch the trailer.
Speaker: Claude Marks, Freedom Archive
Thursday, May 1, 2014
International Workers' Day
6:30 PM - Student Center Room 204, San Jose City College
SCHOOLIDARITY
(Andrew Friend, 2014, 110 min)
Reading. Writing. Revolution. Lessons of Madison and the Chicago teachers strike. Special presentation of the film in pre-release rough cut form.
Watch the trailer.
Speaker: Andrew Friend, filmmaker
Saturday, May 3, 2014
7 PM - San José Peace Center
SHIFT CHANGE
(Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young, 2012, 70 min)
Secure, dignified jobs in employee-owned workplaces in the U.S. and Spain help stabilize the local economy.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
12:15 PM - Student Center Room 204, San Jose City College
DEFAULT: the Student Loan Documentary
(Aurora Meneghello, 2011, 27 min)
Stories of borrowers from different backgrounds affected by the student lending industry and their struggles to change the system.
Speaker: Chirag Bhakta, US Student Association
Thursday, May 8, 2014
6:30 PM - Student Center Room 204, San Jose City College
A PLACE AT THE TABLE
(Kristy Jacobson & Lori Silverbush, 2012, 84 min)
There’s hunger right here in the U.S.A.
Please bring a canned good item for the Letter Carriers’ Food Drive.
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