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Labor Live@5: DC Labor Chorus

Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today

Sorry We Missed You

DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert

Bread and Roses series: Newsies

Film Review: Marriage Story

Music
Labor Live@5: DC Labor Chorus
Tue, December 3, 5pm - 6pm
WPFW 89.3FM or [link removed] listen online
The DC Labor Chorus previews their upcoming concert. Hosted by Union City Radio's Chris Garlock.

Author
Ideas@Work: Cas Mudde: The Far Right Today
Thursday, December 5⋅12:30 - 2:00pm
AFL-CIO, 815 16th St NW, Washington, DC xxxxxx
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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.
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.

Film
Sorry We Missed You
Friday, December 6, 7:20 p.m.
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Ken Loach's follow-up to 2016's Palme d'Or-winning I, DANIEL BLAKE interrogates another facet of life in contemporary Britain, this time taking on the harsh realities of the gig economy through the lens of one family struggling to make ends meet in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash. Ricky (Kris Hitchen), a former construction worker who lost his job and home in the crash, is keen to make a go of it when a friend suggests he take a job as a semi-freelance delivery driver. Though it sounds appealing, it is soon clear that without any of the benefits of conventional employment, Ricky will need to run himself ragged just to call it a wash, forfeiting even the basic need for a bathroom break to keep on track and meet the steep daily targets. When Ricky convinces his wife, Abbie (Debbie Honeywood), an equally hardworking home care nurse, to sell her car so that he can buy his own van and avoid the unaffordable daily rental rate charged by the delivery firm, what starts as a step toward independence risks dragging Ricky and his family further and further behind.
Winner, Audience Award, Best European Film, 2019 San Sebastián International Film Festival

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Music
DC Labor Chorus: An Evening of Favorite and Sacred Songs Concert
Sat, December 7, 7:30pm - 10:00pm
Wesley United Methodist Church, 5312 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015
Free and open to the public; donations gratefully accepted.
Features 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 include sing-alongs and some tunes for the holiday season.

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Film
Bread and Roses series: Newsies
Tue, December 17, 6pm - 8pm
Busboys and Poets, 235 Carroll St NW, Washington, DC 20012
FREE; [link removed] RSVP here
The true story of a courageous group of newsboys who become unlikely heroes in 1899 when they team up to fight an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. Determined to make their dreams come true, they find the courage to challenge the powerful from coast to coast.
In this Disney musical, homeless New York City newsboy Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) befriends two newcomers to his trade, brothers David (David Moscow) and Les Jacobs (Luke Edwards). When publisher Joseph Pulitzer (Robert Duvall) sets new rules that make it harder for the young newspaper salesmen to make a buck, the boys go on strike. Bryan Denton (Bill Pullman), a journalist who's sympathetic to their plight, gives them some tips in public relations, as the newsboys' battle grips the city.
1992 &#8231; Drama/Music &#8231; 2h 1m; Director: Kenny Ortega

Film Review
Marriage Story

by Patrick Dixon

Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story returns to themes that will be familiar to fans of his previous works: the complicated labors and loves of artists and intellectuals, where unfulfilled professional ambitions bleed into flawed and tenuous personal relationships. Baumbach's protagonists present a complex, compelling, and believable exploration of the envy and friction that can develop when two distinctive talents are in a married relationship while occupying the same claustrophobic niche within the creative classes, in this instance the realm of Off-Broadway New York theater. Can a dynamic professional power couple continue to exist when one is issued a MacArthur Genius Grant while the other is "merely" receiving positive reviews for their on-stage performances?
Baumbach has once again drafted an original and engaging script and attracted A-list actors, Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, to breathe sadness and anxiety into his characters. Like Baumbach, Driver's Charlie is an auteur who has married his muse and lead actor, Johansson's Nicole, but by the time we meet them their relationship has reached an impasse and they are headed towards divorce. Nicole contends that her personality and ambitions have become subsumed under the weight of Charlie's colossal artistic vision, his life consumed by his boutique theater company. He doesn't comprehend her concerns, and so Nicole has departed New York and taken their son to LA to film a pilot. "I don't ever watch TV," Charlie dismissively observes of her independent maneuver.
When Nicole and Charlie hire nuclear-grade LA divorce lawyers in the form of Laura Dern and Ray Liotta the nature of the ensuing conflict might be predictable, but the tension and drama in Marriage Story are not created through plot twists and danger but by depth of feeling and discomfort. Baumbach knows his strengths and plays to them well, honing in on the vain frailties and insecurities of the creative classes and laying bare the turmoil of an unravelling relationship. As ever he does so with a wry sense of observation, cleverly drawing out-of-the-ordinary performances from his dramatic leads.

Marriage Story; 2019; Drama/Comedy-drama &#8231; 2h 17m; Dir. Noah Baumbach. At area theaters.
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