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HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle

The 2021 DC Labor FilmFest launches on May Day with the Global Labor Film Festival presentation of the new film bit.ly/HaymarketQA HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle. You'll be able to [link removed] watch the film online at your convenience starting on April 28 and then I'll host a discussion with director Adrian Prawica and labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steven Brier (CUNY School of Labor) on May Day (see below for details). We're very pleased to be co-presenting the film and discussion with [link removed] Workers Unite! Film Fest, the [link removed] Rochester Labor Film Series, the [link removed] Bread and Roses Heritage Committee, and the Haifa International Labor Film Festival, as part of the 2021 Global Labor Film Festival.

Details on the complete 2021 DC Labor FilmFest will be available soon! The FilmFest is presented by the DC Labor FilmFest and AFI Silver Theatre, with the financial support of [link removed] American Income Life, National Nurses United and IFPTE.

PLUS: On the latest [link removed] Labor Goes to the Movies podcast: Chris talks with director (Matewan, 8 Men Out) and novelist (Union Dues, Yellow Earth) John Sayles, about Martin Eden, Pietro Marcello's adaptation of Jack London's autobiographical novel. "The part both in the book and the movie that always meant the most to me is the part where he's whacking away at that typewriter," says Sayles. "I actually had an electric typewriter; it was the first thing I ever bought with my own money from shoveling driveways in the winter and mowing lawns and things like that. I had a whole wall papered with rejection slips." Sayles has a lot of insight into the film, not only as a director and writer, but from the perspective of a politically engaged artist. [link removed] Listen here or search for Labor Goes to the Movies wherever you listen to podcasts.

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The 2021 Global Labor Film Festival presents
HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle
Saturday, May 1 * 8pm ET (2p Alberta, 11p Haifa)
Discussion with director Adrian Prawica and labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steven Brier (CUNY School of Labor).
[link removed] Click here to register for the discussion and [link removed] click here for free registration for the film; you'll be able to watch the film at your convenience (available beginning at 12 noon Weds April 28).
Presented by the [link removed] DC Labor FilmFest, [link removed] Workers Unite! Film Fest, the [link removed] Rochester Labor Film Series, the [link removed] Bread and Roses Heritage Committee, and the Haifa International Labor Film Festival, as part of the 2021 Global Labor Film Festival.

The Chicago Haymarket Affair in 1886, where a bomb thrown into the ranks of police, was followed by an eruption of panic and violence resulting in a trial and execution of presumably innocent workers' rights activists. In this feature documentary, expert historians and professors present the history of the bomb, the anarchist movement of the 19th century, and the labor struggle of working people fighting for a shorter workday during the industrial might of America's Gilded Age.

[link removed] PLUS: [link removed] West Coast screening/discussion by the Reel Work Labor Film Festival!
Labor Studies Professor Dana Frank will moderate a conversation with filmmaker Adrian Prawica and audience Q&A on the significance of May Day to the labor movement (screening starts at 6:30pm PDT on May 1; discussion at 8p PDT). RSVP here: bit.ly/RWMayDay

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