Calendar Edition

DC Labor FilmFest returns with powerful lineup

The DC Labor FilmFest is back this spring, running April 18 through May 28 at AFI Silver and partner venues, with a wide-ranging lineup of films about work, organizing, and social justice. Opening Night on May 1 features STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE!, a portrait of journalist Amy Goodman, with a special Q&A with Goodman and the filmmakers. The festival also includes BARISTAS VS BILLIONAIRES on the Starbucks union campaign, plus classics like HARLAN COUNTY USA, AMERICAN DREAM, and MODERN TIMES. New international and U.S. films explore everything from healthcare and the gig economy to global labor struggles and grassroots activism. As always, the festival brings together workers, filmmakers, and activists to share stories that matter. Read more here. Details – including film descriptions, trailers and ticket links – are on the DCLFF page and LHF’s calendar.

LABOR ARTS CALENDAR: WEEK AT A GLANCE…


Tues: 35th Bernie Firestone Labor Arts Tribute (MI)

Tues: Singing for Justice (WA)

Weds: Labor at Wayne: Augustus Wood on Class Warfare in Black Atlanta (MI)

Thurs: Labor Heritage Power Hour (radio/online)

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Ongoing Events

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Labor Arts News Updates



WGA Reaches Tentative Deal With Studios: The Writers Guild of America has reached a tentative four-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers group representing studios and streamers. Read more.

Mid-Continent Public Library Staff Announce Organizing Effort with CWA: The workers are organizing to win better wages, more time off, safety protections at work and full staffing across the library system. Read more.

TODAY’S LABOR HISTORY

1712: The first slave revolt in the U.S. occurs in New York City’s Wall Street area.

1882: New York Women's Trade Union League member Rose Schneiderman is born.

2006: The Minor League umpires strike begins.

Breaking Chains From Memphis To Baseball

On this week’s Labor History Today: We reflect on Martin Luther King Jr.’s labor legacy and what it means for organizing today, look at how Baseball players organized to break free from a system that bound them to their teams—and built one of the most powerful unions in the country, and hear about the Seattle Union Record, a pioneering labor newspaper that showed the power of workers telling their own stories.

Escape Room Workers Solve the Challenge

This week on the Labor Heritage Power Hour: Performers at a horror-themed escape room in Los Angeles organize the first union shop in the industry, a powerful labor landmark in Victor, Colorado reminds us of the violent roots of the labor movement, and the Coalition of Labor Union Women marks 50 years of labor, art, and organizing. Plus, Bette Midler takes on a Woody Guthrie classic, a new song from Mike Stout honors the Women of Steel, and the latest labor arts news from around the world.

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Springsteen Takes On Trump; Midler Sings Guthrie (4/3)
The Singing TradesWoman (3/27)
Where’s the Beef? JBS Strike, FilmFest Opening & Weekend Picks (3/20)
Women of Labor: Songs, Art & History (3/13)
Workers Celebrate Int’l Women’s Day (3/6)
Songs of Revolution and Protest (2/20)

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