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| Date | November 21, 2019 8:33 PM |
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"Newsies" deadline extended to this Friday; almost sold out!
Sweat: Last 2 performances
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Film Review: Framing John DeLorean
"Newsies" deadline extended
to this Friday; almost sold out!
The deadline to join over 150 local labor theater-lovers at the December 13 performance of "Newsies" at Arena Stage has been extended until 12 noon tomorrow (Friday). [link removed] Tickets include a special "Talkback" session with performers after the show. NOTE: There are just 40 tickets left; first-come, first served!
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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Sweat: Last 2 performances
Fri/Sat, Nov 22 & 23, 8p
Silver Spring Stage, Silver Spring, MD
[link removed] Get tickets
There are just two more chances this weekend to see the Pulitzer Prize winning play Sweat this weekend.
"We, the people, must redeem, The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers." This excerpt from Langston Hughes' poem "Let America be America Again" is read at the top of Lynn Nottage's "Sweat," an extraordinary exploration of race, class and labor in America, now in a gripping new production at Silver Spring Stage. Nottage's knotty story appears to ask, who can claim the idea of "We, the people" and what is the project of redemption they can undertake?
[link removed] Read more here
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: Framing John DeLorean
by Patrick Dixon
A new documentary about automaker John DeLorean received very limited release in cinemas last summer but is now available online. Though the key turning points in the maverick automaker's life are widely known, John Argott and Sheena M. Joyce, with the collaboration of Alec Baldwin, present a novel and broadly sympathetic new portrait that depicts the automaker as an Icarus-like figure bent on delivering futuristic stylish cars to consumers of modest means.
DeLorean was a brilliant executive at General Motors in the 1960s and early 1970s, transforming the Pontiac division, which had long been considered uninspiring and staid, into a cool pioneer of the "muscle car" era. DeLorean's pleasure-seeking public persona and the scale of his ambitions were so great that, in the absence of a path to the top position at GM, he decided to break away and form the DeLorean Motor Company in 1975. He managed to attract investment from the British government to build the DMC, a stainless-steel sports car in Belfast, a beacon of hope for a beleaguered city in the midst of sectarian strife. The factory hired from the ranks of the unemployed on both sides of Northern Ireland's religious divide. It was the best job they ever had, and the worst day of their lives when the plant closed, former workers recall.
Noting that many screenplays of DeLorean's life have been written but never financed, Baldwin discusses and acts out selection of scenes, depicting the automaker as a flawed but visionary figure who would go to any lengths to preserve his dream (when the Thatcher government cut off credit, DeLorean turned to cocaine trafficking to cover the company's debts). Creative, if not especially groundbreaking, the rich and improbable subject matter make Framing John DeLorean a relatively engaging biography.
Framing John DeLorean; 2019; Documentary; 1h 49m; Dir. John Argott, Sheena M. Joyce. Free to subscribers of Hulu and available for $3.99 on YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Google Play.
Seen a laborific film? Let us know at mailto:[email protected] [email protected]! Reviews or suggestions welcome.
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"Newsies" deadline extended to this Friday; almost sold out!
Sweat: Last 2 performances
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Film Review: Framing John DeLorean
"Newsies" deadline extended
to this Friday; almost sold out!
The deadline to join over 150 local labor theater-lovers at the December 13 performance of "Newsies" at Arena Stage has been extended until 12 noon tomorrow (Friday). [link removed] Tickets include a special "Talkback" session with performers after the show. NOTE: There are just 40 tickets left; first-come, first served!
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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Sweat: Last 2 performances
Fri/Sat, Nov 22 & 23, 8p
Silver Spring Stage, Silver Spring, MD
[link removed] Get tickets
There are just two more chances this weekend to see the Pulitzer Prize winning play Sweat this weekend.
"We, the people, must redeem, The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers." This excerpt from Langston Hughes' poem "Let America be America Again" is read at the top of Lynn Nottage's "Sweat," an extraordinary exploration of race, class and labor in America, now in a gripping new production at Silver Spring Stage. Nottage's knotty story appears to ask, who can claim the idea of "We, the people" and what is the project of redemption they can undertake?
[link removed] Read more here
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: Framing John DeLorean
by Patrick Dixon
A new documentary about automaker John DeLorean received very limited release in cinemas last summer but is now available online. Though the key turning points in the maverick automaker's life are widely known, John Argott and Sheena M. Joyce, with the collaboration of Alec Baldwin, present a novel and broadly sympathetic new portrait that depicts the automaker as an Icarus-like figure bent on delivering futuristic stylish cars to consumers of modest means.
DeLorean was a brilliant executive at General Motors in the 1960s and early 1970s, transforming the Pontiac division, which had long been considered uninspiring and staid, into a cool pioneer of the "muscle car" era. DeLorean's pleasure-seeking public persona and the scale of his ambitions were so great that, in the absence of a path to the top position at GM, he decided to break away and form the DeLorean Motor Company in 1975. He managed to attract investment from the British government to build the DMC, a stainless-steel sports car in Belfast, a beacon of hope for a beleaguered city in the midst of sectarian strife. The factory hired from the ranks of the unemployed on both sides of Northern Ireland's religious divide. It was the best job they ever had, and the worst day of their lives when the plant closed, former workers recall.
Noting that many screenplays of DeLorean's life have been written but never financed, Baldwin discusses and acts out selection of scenes, depicting the automaker as a flawed but visionary figure who would go to any lengths to preserve his dream (when the Thatcher government cut off credit, DeLorean turned to cocaine trafficking to cover the company's debts). Creative, if not especially groundbreaking, the rich and improbable subject matter make Framing John DeLorean a relatively engaging biography.
Framing John DeLorean; 2019; Documentary; 1h 49m; Dir. John Argott, Sheena M. Joyce. Free to subscribers of Hulu and available for $3.99 on YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Google Play.
Seen a laborific film? Let us know at mailto:[email protected] [email protected]! Reviews or suggestions welcome.
[link removed]
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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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