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"WORKERS RISING" LABOR DAY SPECIAL ON WPFW

SUFFRAGETTES IN THE SILENT CINEMA

REDES LIVES! - The Iconic Film of the Mexican Revolution and What It Says To Us Today

WAGING CHANGE

The Labor FilmFest kicks off this Tuesday!
Plus: a daylong Labor Day radio special on WPFW!

We've got a full slate of great films and special presentations, including SUFFRAGETTES IN THE SILENT CINEMA (9/8), REDES LIVES! (9/9), WAGING CHANGE (9/10), NAE PASSARAN (9/15), PATSY MINK: AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY (9/22), QUEEN SUGAR (9/29), CHISHOLM '72: UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED (10/6), IN THE AISLES (10/13), NO TIME TO WASTE - THE URGENT MISSION OF BETTY REID SOSKIN (10/20) and ATLANTICS (10/27). See below for next week's kickoff, or [link removed] click here for the complete line-up.

The series is organized and sponsored by the DC LaborFest/DC Labor FilmFest, and co-sponsored by American University's Center for Media & Social Impact, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Labor Heritage Foundation, Rochester Labor Film Series, Women Make Movies' OWOV (One Woman One Vote) Festival*

As with our previous series earlier this year, all our screenings are online and free. Thanks as always to festival sponsor American Income Life for their generous support.

See you at the movies!

- Chris Garlock, Director, DC LaborFest
* There's no cost if your organization or union is interested in sponsoring a film! Email mailto:[email protected] [email protected] if interested.

2020 "WORKERS RISING" LABOR DAY SPECIAL ON WPFW 89.3FM
Monday, September 7, 2020, 8a-5p; listen on WPFW 89.3FM or [link removed] online
Worker's voices, on air! Labor 2020; Labor and BLM Solidarity;
Labor Radio/Podcast Network; COVID's effects on DC-area workers; Plus labor music!

8a: TALES OF THE RESISTANCE (Episodes 3 & 5): The Good Cop & The Case of the Wrinkled Egg (San Francisco Mime Troupe radio drama)
9a: Getting out the word: Labor Radio/Podcast Network panel
Judy Ancel, Heartland Labor Forum radio show; Bama Athreya, The Gig podcast; Liz Medina, En Masse podcast; Jacob Morrison, The Valley Labor Report radio show; Harold Phillips, Working to Live in Southwest Washington podcast (& Labor Radio/Podcast Network social media guru); Jeremy Waugh, The Break Time Breakdown podcast
10a: Getting in the streets: Labor and BLM Solidarity: Louis Davis, SEIU 32BJ (Chair of the Metro Washington Council's new Black Lives Matter committee); Djawa Hall, Political Organizer for the D.C. region at 1199SEIU; Tanya Wallace-Gobern, Executive Director, National Black Worker Center Project; Clayola Brown, Executive Director, A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI); Davon Lomax, Painters Political director out of New York City; Chuck Modiano, Sports Writer -- Deadspin
11a: Getting out the vote: Labor 2020: Donna Edwards, Maryland/DC AFL-CIO President; Stephen Courtien, President, Baltimore-DC Metro Building Trades Council; Julie Hunter, Virginia AFL-CIO Political Director; David Stephen, Metro Washington Council Political Director; Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect Editor-At-Large
12p-2p: Labor music: Bill Wax hosts a musical salute to work. Some of the tunes are serious with work songs, field hollers, and progressive political tunes. The rest will be blues, rhythm and blues, and soul tunes dealing with work and its' consequences in pop music.
2p-3p: COVID's effects on DC-area workers: Hospitality workers: Co-host: Dyana Forester, Metro Washington Council President; John Boardman, Executive Secretary, UNITE HERE 25; Jaime Contreras, SEIU 32BJ:, Vice President; Ryan Chavka, IATSE 22 Business Agent; Ed Malaga, President, DC Musician's Union
3-4p: COVID's effects on DC-area workers: Essential workers: Mark Federici, president, UFCW 400; Jim Griffin, IBEW 1900 president; Dabney Hudson, IAFF 36 president; Andrew Washington, AFSCME Council 20 Executive Director
4-5p: COVID's effects on DC-area workers: Education: Wala Blegay, staff attorney, DCNA; Liz Davis, WTU 6 president; Pia Morrison, SEIU 500 president; Adjunct faculty at area universities

Tuesday, September 8
SUFFRAGETTES IN THE SILENT CINEMA
7p, FREE via Zoom; [link removed] RSVP here
2003; 35m; Documentary; Women Make Movies' OWOV (One Woman One Vote) Festival
Taking advantage of the powerful new medium, early filmmakers on both sides of the contentious issue of suffrage used film to create powerful propaganda and images about women. Suffragettes in the Silent Cinema contains clips from many films from the era, including: A Lively Affair (1912); A Busy Day (1914), which stars a young Charlie Chaplin in drag portraying a suffragist; and the pro-suffragist film, What 80 Million Women Want (1913), which includes an eloquent speech from president of the Women's Political Union, Harriet Stanton Blatch. Silent films may have passed into history, and their representations of feminists abandoning babies or stealing bicycles to attend suffragette meetings may now seem outrageous, but the struggle for gender equality and the issues surrounding representations of women in the media remain as fascinating, engaging, and relevant as ever.

Wednesday, September 9
REDES LIVES! - The Iconic Film of the Mexican Revolution and What It Says To Us Today
7p, FREE via Zoom; [link removed] RSVP here
2020 105m documentary
Hosted by Tom Zaniello; Introduction/Q&A by Angel Gil-Ordóñez & Joseph Horowitz
Redes (1936) tells the story of burgeoning labor rights amongst poor fishermen in a small village in Mexico, and features a galvanizing score by Silvestre Revueltas and poetic cinematography by Paul Strand. The film features some of the most memorable sequences in the history of cinema of great music wedded to the moving image. It's also a high exemplar of political art. Why isn't this film better known? Why isn't Revueltas as famous as Strand? Why was 20th century Mexico more hospitable to political art than the US? Why did Aaron Copland say he "envied" Mexico's composers? And why did the Mexican government support a film advocating revolutionary change?
These are some of the questions addressed by "Redes Lives!" a brand-new film featuring excerpts from the acclaimed Naxos DVD featuring the classic Mexican film Redes with Silvestre Revueltas's galvanizing soundtrack newly recorded by PostClassical Ensemble. The film includes commentary by Mexican composer Ana Lara, Pablo Raphael de la Madrid from the Mexican Ministry of Culture, and historians Lorenzo Candelaria, Roberto Kolb, and John Tutino.
Visual presentation by Peter Bogdanoff; Scripted and edited by Joseph Horowitz; Angel Gil-Ordóñez, PCE's music director.

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Thursday, September 10
WAGING CHANGE
7p, FREE via Zoom; [link removed] RSVP here
2019; 65m; documentary
Presented by Women Make Movies, One Fair Wage & Social Action Media
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Abby Ginzberg (filmmaker), Saru Jayaraman (president, One Fair Wage), Nikki Cole (National Policy Campaign Director, One Fair Wage), and Cheadza Kundidzora (restaurant worker).
The National Restaurant Association, the "other NRA," has lobbied the government to keep the federal minimum wage for tipped workers at $2.13 an hour since 1991. Facing off against this powerful lobby is Saru Jayaraman of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, who mobilizes grassroots support for a national movement to fight for one fair wage. Candid profiles of restaurant workers and their struggles to make ends meet underline the urgency to address this inequality.

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