NAE PASARAN

Our Fall series continues this week with NAE PASSARAN (9/15); upcoming screenings include 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).
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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 [email protected] if interested.

Tuesday, September 15
NAE PASARAN
7p, FREE via Zoom; RSVP here

2018; 96m; documentary

Introduced by Jeff Nieznanski, Supervising Attorney, Legal Assistance of Western New York, and a member of the Rochester (NY) Labor Council's Latin America Labor Committee in Solidarity with Latin America.

In 1974, Bob Fulton, an engine inspector at Rolls Royce East Kilbride rallied his colleagues to boycott jet engines of the Chilean Air Force. He'd seen their use during Pinochet's military coup in Chile on the 11 September 1973. Bob refused to work on the engine, alerted his colleagues and by the end of the day, all Chilean engines were stuck on the assembly lines. They hold on for four years, until one night the engines mysteriously vanished. NAE PASARAN is the painstakingly-documented account of the workers' stand and the impact they discovered 40 years later.

Tuesday, September 22
PATSY MINK: AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY
7p, FREE via Zoom; RSVP here

2008; 56m; documentary; Women Make Movies’ OWOV (One Woman One Vote) Festival

In 1965, Patsy Takemoto Mink became the first woman of color in the United States Congress. Seven years later, she ran for the US presidency and was the driving force behind Title IX, the landmark legislation that transformed women’s opportunities in higher education and athletics.

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