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Pride

The 2020 DC Labor FilmFest continues our weekly series with "Pride," the inspiring and true story that "wears on its sleeve the desire to make its audience stand up and cheer." Tune in Tuesday night from the safety and comfort of your own home; see below for details, plus more upcoming screenings and registration links! Got a suggestion for a future screening? Hit "reply" to this email and let us know!
- Chris Garlock, Director, DC LaborFest

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Film
Pride (1996)
Tue, May 5, 7pm; online via Zoom
FREE; [link removed] register here
Introduced by Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO. Post-screening Q&A with Jerame Davis, Executive Director, Pride At Work

Inspired by an extraordinary true story. It's the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families.
"The film's high spirits are genuinely infectious. And it says something that 30 years after the events it depicts, Pride should feel so unexpectedly rousing. People cooperating across ideological lines? Finding common cause with folks they don't 100 percent agree with? What a concept." - Bob Mondello, NPR

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COMING UP

Tuesday, May 12, 7p: The Moment Was Now
FREE; [link removed] register here
Set in post-civil war Baltimore in 1869, a turning point in U.S. history "when America almost did the right thing," says longtime labor organizer Gene Bruskin, who created the musical.
The story reveals the impassioned search for unity among the dynamic leaders of powerful social movements during Reconstruction. The conflicts and possibilities unfold in music and spoken word at a meeting convened by Frederick Douglass. Hope hangs in the balance.
Gene will screen clips from the production and conduct a Q&A.

Tuesday, May 19, 7p: Waging Change
FREE; [link removed] register here
A compelling look at the unfair employment practices suffered by millions of workers in America's tipped economy. Shines a light on an American struggle hidden in plain sight: the women-led movement to end the federal tipped minimum wage for restaurant workers.

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