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HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle

"In some ways it was, I think, a desperate move. I think people organized, not just because they wanted a union. I think a union was a desperate and a necessary element of people just trying to live. If you can't survive working 16 hours a day, six days a week, how can you survive?"
In the latest edition of the [link removed] Labor Goes to the Movies podcast, Elise and I talk with Adrian Prawica, director of HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle. The brand-new film screens online free next week; you can [link removed] watch the film online at your convenience starting on April 28 and then I'll host a [link removed] discussion with director Adrian Prawica and labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steve 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, the Haifa International Labor Film Festival, the Labour in Motion Movie Club, the [link removed] LAN Festival, the [link removed] Nordic Labour Film Festival and the [link removed] Green Mountain Labor Council as part of the [link removed] 2021 Global Labor Film Festival.

[link removed] RSVP for the film (watch anytime April 28-May 2).
bit.ly/HaymarketQA RSVP for the discussion (8p ET May 1).
And for folks out West, there a screening/discussion starting at 6:30p PDT; bit.ly/RWMayDay RSVP here.

Look for details on Monday on the upcoming 2021 DC Labor FilmFest, 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.

See you at the labor movies!
- Chris
Director, DC Labor FilmFest

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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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