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| Date | November 20, 2019 1:15 PM |
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"Newsies" deadline today
Greensboro Massacre: 40 Years Later (film/discussion)
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Film Review: Parasite
"Newsies" deadline today
Today's the deadline to join over 100 local labor theater-lovers at the December 13 performance of "Newsies" at Arena Stage. [link removed] Tickets include a special "Talkback" session with performers after the show.
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] CLICK HERE to hear actor Edward Gero -- who plays Joseph Pulitzer -- on last week's Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW.
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Greensboro Massacre: 40 Years Later (film/discussion)
Wed, November 20, 6pm - 8pm
Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012
FREE; [link removed] RSVP here
Jointly sponsored by Bread & Roses and ACTOR
Panel discussion with Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson (both survivors of the Massacre) and retired Attorney Lewis Pitts who represented the widows and survivors of the Massacre in their successful civil suit against the KKK, the Nazis, and the City of Greensboro. The panel will be preceded by a 23 minute documentary/retrospective film about the attack.
On November 3 1979, five young labor and community activists were gunned down in broad daylight in Greensboro, North Carolina by KKK and neo-Nazis, aided by local police and federal agents. The killers were acquitted twice by all-white juries. In a third civil trial, the role of the government was finally proven and acknowledged.
Who were these five extraordinary people and why were they murdered? How did it happen? Who are their survivors and what has their continued work for social change and search for justice yielded since November 3, 1979?
What lessons from the Greensboro massacre are relevant for activists today?
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: Parasite
by Patrick Dixon
Not many Korean-language films make it to American multiplex screens. Bong Joon-ho's black comedy Parasite, winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, has proven an exception and with good cause. Parasite has a wickedly sharp sensibility absent from other more earnest films on domestic work, which has already helped to make the picture the highest-grossing non-English language film in U.S. markets this year.
At the center of the film is the evolving relationship between the wealthy Park family and the broke but resourceful Kims, who we first meet in their grubby basement apartment folding pizza boxes for cash and waving cell phones in the air in search of a WiFi signal that can make up for their own disconnected wireless service.
When Kim Ki-woo's friend Min, English-language tutor to the Parks' daughter, leaves to study abroad, Ki-woo is presented with the opportunity to replace him. As the new tutor, re-named "Mr. Kevin" by the airy homemaker Park Yeon-gyo, Ki-woo recommends "Jessica," allegedly an artist of high repute who studied at the impressive Illinois State University, to teach the Park's son Da-jong, who happens to believe he's Native American. Jessica is actually Ki-jeong, Ki-woo's sister and neither has any teaching experience but they're good at convincing Park Yeon-gyo to part with her money. "I googled art therapy then ad-libbed the rest," Ki-jeong says.
The clever and subtly crafted members of the Kim family build an ever-more elaborate web of lies in this sharply twisting and unpredictable tale. It is a story of contrasts, between broken slums and designer mansions, between sheltered naivete and finely honed street smarts, and between conflicting class cultures and the suppression of coarse manners that domestic workers must engage with in genteel spaces.
This may be the first time you've heard of Parasite but with the growing interest in class struggle in the United States, chances are it won't be the last.
Parasite; 2019; Drama/Mystery; 2h 12m; Dir. Bong Joon-ho. At area theaters.
Seen a laborific film? Let us know at mailto:[email protected] [email protected]! Reviews or suggestions welcome.
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"Newsies" deadline today
Greensboro Massacre: 40 Years Later (film/discussion)
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Film Review: Parasite
"Newsies" deadline today
Today's the deadline to join over 100 local labor theater-lovers at the December 13 performance of "Newsies" at Arena Stage. [link removed] Tickets include a special "Talkback" session with performers after the show.
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] CLICK HERE to hear actor Edward Gero -- who plays Joseph Pulitzer -- on last week's Your Rights At Work radio show on WPFW.
[link removed]
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Greensboro Massacre: 40 Years Later (film/discussion)
Wed, November 20, 6pm - 8pm
Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012
FREE; [link removed] RSVP here
Jointly sponsored by Bread & Roses and ACTOR
Panel discussion with Rev. Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson (both survivors of the Massacre) and retired Attorney Lewis Pitts who represented the widows and survivors of the Massacre in their successful civil suit against the KKK, the Nazis, and the City of Greensboro. The panel will be preceded by a 23 minute documentary/retrospective film about the attack.
On November 3 1979, five young labor and community activists were gunned down in broad daylight in Greensboro, North Carolina by KKK and neo-Nazis, aided by local police and federal agents. The killers were acquitted twice by all-white juries. In a third civil trial, the role of the government was finally proven and acknowledged.
Who were these five extraordinary people and why were they murdered? How did it happen? Who are their survivors and what has their continued work for social change and search for justice yielded since November 3, 1979?
What lessons from the Greensboro massacre are relevant for activists today?
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: Parasite
by Patrick Dixon
Not many Korean-language films make it to American multiplex screens. Bong Joon-ho's black comedy Parasite, winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, has proven an exception and with good cause. Parasite has a wickedly sharp sensibility absent from other more earnest films on domestic work, which has already helped to make the picture the highest-grossing non-English language film in U.S. markets this year.
At the center of the film is the evolving relationship between the wealthy Park family and the broke but resourceful Kims, who we first meet in their grubby basement apartment folding pizza boxes for cash and waving cell phones in the air in search of a WiFi signal that can make up for their own disconnected wireless service.
When Kim Ki-woo's friend Min, English-language tutor to the Parks' daughter, leaves to study abroad, Ki-woo is presented with the opportunity to replace him. As the new tutor, re-named "Mr. Kevin" by the airy homemaker Park Yeon-gyo, Ki-woo recommends "Jessica," allegedly an artist of high repute who studied at the impressive Illinois State University, to teach the Park's son Da-jong, who happens to believe he's Native American. Jessica is actually Ki-jeong, Ki-woo's sister and neither has any teaching experience but they're good at convincing Park Yeon-gyo to part with her money. "I googled art therapy then ad-libbed the rest," Ki-jeong says.
The clever and subtly crafted members of the Kim family build an ever-more elaborate web of lies in this sharply twisting and unpredictable tale. It is a story of contrasts, between broken slums and designer mansions, between sheltered naivete and finely honed street smarts, and between conflicting class cultures and the suppression of coarse manners that domestic workers must engage with in genteel spaces.
This may be the first time you've heard of Parasite but with the growing interest in class struggle in the United States, chances are it won't be the last.
Parasite; 2019; Drama/Mystery; 2h 12m; Dir. Bong Joon-ho. At area theaters.
Seen a laborific film? Let us know at mailto:[email protected] [email protected]! Reviews or suggestions welcome.
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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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