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| Date | November 8, 2019 6:03 PM |
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"Newsies" moves and inspires
Bread and Roses series: Water Rising
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Labor Live@5: ULiners & DeSanguashington plus Labor Day music
Film review: The Lighthouse
"Newsies" moves and inspires
by Chris Garlock
With strikes in the news every day - including the two-week-old walkout by Lorton bus drivers - seeing "Newsies" at Arena Stage last night was an incredible experience. To see our struggles brought to life on the stage was emotionally moving and completely inspirational. The story "Newsies" dramatizes - New York City newsboys taking on powerful publishers in 1899 - is over a century old, yet the battle for workplace justice is exactly the same as that being fought by the Lorton bus drivers, Chicago teachers and GM autoworkers. And the singing and dancing by the cast of young actors - members of Actors Equity -- is simply phenomenal; check out this video of them rehearsing "Seize the Day."
Deadline to [link removed] order tickets for the December 13 performance - which includes a special Labor Talkback just for us -- is next Friday, November 15.
Newsies (with special Labor Talkback!)
Friday, December 13 ⋅ 8:00 - 11:00pm
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater
1101 6th St SW, Washington, DC 20024
Tickets $49 each (plus handling); [link removed] click here to order!
In the summer of 1899, the newsboys of New York City took on two of the most powerful men in the country -- Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst -- and won. Inspired by true events, join us for a musical that will knock you off your feet!
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Bread and Roses series: Water Rising
(Films Across Borders: Stories of Water)
Tuesday, November 19⋅6:00 - 8:00pm
Busboys and Poets, 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012
FREE; [link removed] RSVP here
Hope and change in Bolivia in an era of water privatization. Filmed entirely in Bolivia, the film shares intimate portraits of people living in a ramshackle city where, despite an abundance of freshwater, they struggle for the right to access clean, safe and affordable water.
50 Minutes (Ireland); Spanish with English subtitles; A Documentary Film by Muireann de Barra & Aisling Crudden
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
Thursday, December 5⋅12:30 - 2:00pm
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
[link removed] RSVP here
The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world's largest democracies--Brazil, India, and the United States--now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe.[link removed]
In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence. What defines this current far-right renaissance, Mudde argues, is its mainstreaming and normalization within the contemporary political landscape. Challenging orthodox thinking on the relationship between conventional and far-right politics, Mudde offers a complex and insightful picture of one of the key political challenges of our time.
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Saturday, December 7⋅7:30 - 10:00pm
Wesley United Methodist Church, 5312 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015
This performance by the 'Musical Arm of the Resistance' (Washington Post) will feature a variety of some of the chorus members favorites ranging from music by Leonard Cohen, Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Amy Bernon, Elise Witt and others and covering a wide spectrum of social justice issues (e.g., labor, race, environment, anti-war, peace, international struggles) and genres (folk, jazz, spiritual, rock).
Led by the dynamic Elise Bryant, the concert will allow for sing-alongs and some tunes for the holiday season. Sign interpretation will be provided.
Film review: The Lighthouse
by Patrick Dixon
Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) has "had it with trees" and concludes his labors in the Canadian lumber business to take a position as Thomas Wake's (Willem Dafoe) assistant in Robert Eggers' macabre drama The Lighthouse. Set on a desolate New England island in the 1890s, Eggers explores the physical and psychological aspects of lighthouse keepers work as Winslow must lug coal to the furnace in wind and rain, polish the windows and metalwork, clean the two men's quarters, and paint the walls of the lighthouse itself. When he's not being derided by Wake, who insists on referring to him as "lad" and "dog", he's being tormented by aggressive seagulls that obstruct his operations and compound his loneliness and isolation, leaving Winslow to fantasize of mermaids among the rocks.
"It's bad luck to kill a sea bird," warns Wake, an infinite repository of nautical traditions, superstitions, and hard-learned lessons. The screenplay, co-written by Eggers and his brother Max, is a wondrous trove of nineteenth century seamen's dialect and storytelling, with the authors openly crediting the strong influence of Herman Melville. Not heavy on plot, the evolving relationship between Wake and Winslow is the locus of The Lighthouse, as they live, eat, and work cheek by jowl; from his punishing, eccentric supervisor Winslow has no escape, his desire to enter the glowing lantern room, the only opulent space on the island, repeatedly denied. "If I had a steak, I'd f--- it," Winslow exclaims as he grows tired of Wake's cooking, characteristic of the film's occasional but consistently grim humor. Slighted by the diminution of his culinary expertise, Wake in his drunkenness invokes the wrath of Neptune. The Lighthouse is not appropriate for children or romantic getaways but nonetheless offers a compelling fine-grained account of the seldom-explored work of an unusual and historically obsolete profession.
- Dixon is Managing Editor of [link removed] LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, and a producer for the Labor History Today podcast.
The Lighthouse; 2019, US; 110m; Dir. Robert Eggers, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. At area theaters.
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Labor Live@5: ULiners & DeSanguashington plus Labor Day music
Joe Uehlein and his band The ULiners were the featured performers on this month's Labor Live@5 on WPFW 89.3FM this past Tuesday. They perform favorites and originals and Joe talks with host Chris Garlock about the role of music in the labor movement. Listen to the show [link removed] here.
We've also just posted the October Labor Live@5 show with [link removed] DeSanguashington
as well as updated our 2019 "Workers Rising" [link removed] Labor Day Special post with both hours of labor music.
Material published in UNION CITY may be freely reproduced by any recipient; please credit Union City as the source for all news items and www.unionist.com as the source for Today's Labor History.
Published by the Metropolitan Washington Council, an AFL-CIO "Union City" Central Labor Council whose 200 affiliated union locals represent 150,000 area union members. JACKIE JETER, PRESIDENT.
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"Newsies" moves and inspires
Bread and Roses series: Water Rising
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Labor Live@5: ULiners & DeSanguashington plus Labor Day music
Film review: The Lighthouse
"Newsies" moves and inspires
by Chris Garlock
With strikes in the news every day - including the two-week-old walkout by Lorton bus drivers - seeing "Newsies" at Arena Stage last night was an incredible experience. To see our struggles brought to life on the stage was emotionally moving and completely inspirational. The story "Newsies" dramatizes - New York City newsboys taking on powerful publishers in 1899 - is over a century old, yet the battle for workplace justice is exactly the same as that being fought by the Lorton bus drivers, Chicago teachers and GM autoworkers. And the singing and dancing by the cast of young actors - members of Actors Equity -- is simply phenomenal; check out this video of them rehearsing "Seize the Day."
Deadline to [link removed] order tickets for the December 13 performance - which includes a special Labor Talkback just for us -- is next Friday, November 15.
Newsies (with special Labor Talkback!)
Friday, December 13 ⋅ 8:00 - 11:00pm
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater
1101 6th St SW, Washington, DC 20024
Tickets $49 each (plus handling); [link removed] click here to order!
In the summer of 1899, the newsboys of New York City took on two of the most powerful men in the country -- Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst -- and won. Inspired by true events, join us for a musical that will knock you off your feet!
[link removed]
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Bread and Roses series: Water Rising
(Films Across Borders: Stories of Water)
Tuesday, November 19⋅6:00 - 8:00pm
Busboys and Poets, 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012
FREE; [link removed] RSVP here
Hope and change in Bolivia in an era of water privatization. Filmed entirely in Bolivia, the film shares intimate portraits of people living in a ramshackle city where, despite an abundance of freshwater, they struggle for the right to access clean, safe and affordable water.
50 Minutes (Ireland); Spanish with English subtitles; A Documentary Film by Muireann de Barra & Aisling Crudden
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
Thursday, December 5⋅12:30 - 2:00pm
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
[link removed] RSVP here
The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world's largest democracies--Brazil, India, and the United States--now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe.[link removed]
In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence. What defines this current far-right renaissance, Mudde argues, is its mainstreaming and normalization within the contemporary political landscape. Challenging orthodox thinking on the relationship between conventional and far-right politics, Mudde offers a complex and insightful picture of one of the key political challenges of our time.
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Saturday, December 7⋅7:30 - 10:00pm
Wesley United Methodist Church, 5312 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015
This performance by the 'Musical Arm of the Resistance' (Washington Post) will feature a variety of some of the chorus members favorites ranging from music by Leonard Cohen, Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Amy Bernon, Elise Witt and others and covering a wide spectrum of social justice issues (e.g., labor, race, environment, anti-war, peace, international struggles) and genres (folk, jazz, spiritual, rock).
Led by the dynamic Elise Bryant, the concert will allow for sing-alongs and some tunes for the holiday season. Sign interpretation will be provided.
Film review: The Lighthouse
by Patrick Dixon
Ephraim Winslow (Robert Pattinson) has "had it with trees" and concludes his labors in the Canadian lumber business to take a position as Thomas Wake's (Willem Dafoe) assistant in Robert Eggers' macabre drama The Lighthouse. Set on a desolate New England island in the 1890s, Eggers explores the physical and psychological aspects of lighthouse keepers work as Winslow must lug coal to the furnace in wind and rain, polish the windows and metalwork, clean the two men's quarters, and paint the walls of the lighthouse itself. When he's not being derided by Wake, who insists on referring to him as "lad" and "dog", he's being tormented by aggressive seagulls that obstruct his operations and compound his loneliness and isolation, leaving Winslow to fantasize of mermaids among the rocks.
"It's bad luck to kill a sea bird," warns Wake, an infinite repository of nautical traditions, superstitions, and hard-learned lessons. The screenplay, co-written by Eggers and his brother Max, is a wondrous trove of nineteenth century seamen's dialect and storytelling, with the authors openly crediting the strong influence of Herman Melville. Not heavy on plot, the evolving relationship between Wake and Winslow is the locus of The Lighthouse, as they live, eat, and work cheek by jowl; from his punishing, eccentric supervisor Winslow has no escape, his desire to enter the glowing lantern room, the only opulent space on the island, repeatedly denied. "If I had a steak, I'd f--- it," Winslow exclaims as he grows tired of Wake's cooking, characteristic of the film's occasional but consistently grim humor. Slighted by the diminution of his culinary expertise, Wake in his drunkenness invokes the wrath of Neptune. The Lighthouse is not appropriate for children or romantic getaways but nonetheless offers a compelling fine-grained account of the seldom-explored work of an unusual and historically obsolete profession.
- Dixon is Managing Editor of [link removed] LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, and a producer for the Labor History Today podcast.
The Lighthouse; 2019, US; 110m; Dir. Robert Eggers, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. At area theaters.
[link removed]
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Labor Live@5: ULiners & DeSanguashington plus Labor Day music
Joe Uehlein and his band The ULiners were the featured performers on this month's Labor Live@5 on WPFW 89.3FM this past Tuesday. They perform favorites and originals and Joe talks with host Chris Garlock about the role of music in the labor movement. Listen to the show [link removed] here.
We've also just posted the October Labor Live@5 show with [link removed] DeSanguashington
as well as updated our 2019 "Workers Rising" [link removed] Labor Day Special post with both hours of labor music.
Material published in UNION CITY may be freely reproduced by any recipient; please credit Union City as the source for all news items and www.unionist.com as the source for Today's Labor History.
Published by the Metropolitan Washington Council, an AFL-CIO "Union City" Central Labor Council whose 200 affiliated union locals represent 150,000 area union members. JACKIE JETER, PRESIDENT.
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