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SUNDAY: DC LABOR WALK
MONDAY: THE KILLING FLOOR
Download the 2022 DC LaborFest program guide!
2022 DC Labor FilmFest: trailers, tickets, flyer
 
History
DC LABOR WALK
AFL-CIO to Union Station; first walk since 2019!
Sun, May 8, 10:00a; $15 per person; all proceeds benefit MWC's Community Services Agency's Emergency Assistance Fund.
Tickets: [link removed] bit.ly/37ulMJd
Meet at AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street NW (Black Lives Matter Plaza), Washington
From the Labor Hall of Fame to Joe Hill's ashes, worker's history is around just about every corner in our nation's capitol, if you know where to look. This 3-hour walking tour of downtown DC reveals labor's often-untold story of protest and resistance. Metro Washington Council Union Cities Coordinator Chris Garlock - who usually helps local and national activists make history on DC's streets - leads the tour.
Tour highlights: AFL-CIO lobby murals; 1953 CIO headquarters; The Real Roosevelt Memorial; Joe Hill's ashes; Bas relief depictions of labor & trade; 1895 Knights of Labor HQ; Bonus Expeditionary Force & more.
NOTE: This is an easy 2.5-mile walk but wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather.
[link removed] CLICK HERE for the complete 2022 DC LaborFest program guide!
Film
THE KILLING FLOOR (1984) 4K Restoration
Mon, May 9, 6:30 p.m.
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Tickets: [link removed] bit.ly/DCLaborFilmFest2022
AFI Member passes accepted. AFI Member discount available for union members (must present union card).
[link removed] WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
Praised by The Village Voice as the most "clear-eyed account of union organizing on film," THE KILLING FLOOR tells the little-known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the Chicago stockyards. The screenplay, written by Obie Award winner Leslie Lee and based on an original story by producer Elsa Rassbach, traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city's giant slaughterhouses and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines, which eventually boiled over in the Chicago race riot of 1919. The first feature film by actor/director (and AFI Alum) Bill Duke, THE KILLING FLOOR premiered on PBS' American Playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews and stars Damien Leake, Alfre Woodard, Dennis Farina, Ernest Rayford and Moses Gunn. In 1985, the film was invited to Cannes and won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award. DIR Bill Duke; SCR Leslie Lee, from a story by Elsa Rassbach; PROD George Manasse. U.S., 1984, color, 118 min. RATED PG
Preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, laboratory services and DCP by UCLA Film & Television Archive Digital Media Lab. Special thanks to Elsa Rassbach, Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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Tickets are now available for the entire 2022 DC Labor FilmFest line-up at AFI Silver!
[link removed] CLICK HERE see trailers!
[link removed] CLICK HERE for details on the films and links to buy tickets!
[link removed] DOWNLOAD THE FULL LABORFEST GUIDE HERE
 
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