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AAPI Heritage Month Virtual Screenings
Through Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 10:00 AM
The Global Labor Film Festival is screening a program of two shorts, "A Magical World of Costumes" and "From Child Violin Prodigy to Concertmaster." Each profiles a Korean American who has fused their work life with one of their passions.
Hosted/Organized by the Workers Unite! Film Festival; co-sponsored by the DC Labor FilmFest
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Chopped Liver and Unions
Wednesday, May 22, through Friday, June 7
59 East 59 Street Theaters, New York City, NY
One-person show about Sara Wesker, ardent trade unionist & needle-trades organizer in the East End of London in the 1920s & 1930. Wesker galvanized a traditionally compliant workforce. She marched in 1936, sang on the picket lines, and took part in the Battle of Cable Street against Oswald Mosley's Fascist Blackshirts. Featuring protest songs sung by the “Singing Strikers of 1928.” $32. 59 East 59 Street Theaters. Sat. & Sun. matinees at 2:30 pm. INFO/TICKETS
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UNREST [UNRUEH] (DC Labor FilmFest)
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 7:00 PM; AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910
New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest wheel, swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch. Exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labor, she gets involved with the local movement of the anarchist watchmakers, where she meets Russian traveler Pyotr Kropotkin.
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NoVA Book Club: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 7:30 PM; online
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.
Hosted by NoVA Labor, the Northern Virginia Labor Council, AFL-CIO.
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Filipino Pullman Porters: Stories from a Descendent
Wednesday, May 29, 5:30 PM; Rizal Center Filipino American Community Center, 1334 West Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL
NALC Branch 11 Director of City Delivery Tyrone Valdez, the son of a Filipino Pullman Porter presents artifacts to the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum and shares stories from his father's days as a Pullman Porter.
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Labor Heritage Power Hour
Thursdays, 1:00 PM ET
A weekly radio show
celebrating the cultural heritage of the American worker. Hosted by Chris Garlock and Elise Bryant and produced by the Labor Heritage Foundation;
broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM; Podcast version available
at 2P.
THIS WEEK: Collective Action: Labor Activism In 21st Century Baltimore. Dr. Rachel Donaldson, curator, gives us a tour of the new show.
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WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL [RADNICKA KLASA IDE U PAKAO] (DC Labor FilmFest)
Thursday, May 30, 2024, 6:45 PM; AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Five years after a factory fire claimed the lives of several workers and, with them, the primary livelihood of a rural Balkan town, the plant's union is met with a debilitating blow in their fight for reparations. Long suspected of causing the fire in order to privatize their property, the owners have successfully evaded legal consequence, and the workers are cast as ungrateful nuisances, obstinate in the face of capitalistic progress. Stoic labor leader Ceca (Tamara Krcunovic) refuses to give up hope, but her position grows tenuous as the collective develops a fascination with the pagan practices of its newest member, Mija (Leon Lucev).
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Hair and Nails Gallery, 2222 1/2 E. 35th St., Minneapolis, MN 55407
INFO/DETAILS HERE Brooks Turner show coincides with the 90th Anniversary of the 1934 Truck Drivers Strike in Minneapolis.
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We Are One – Honoring Immigrant Garment Workers
Through August 24, 2024; Wed-Sat, 1-4 pm & by appointment.
American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark, Haledon, NJ 20,000 members of Local 23-25 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union – most of them Chinese immigrant women – walked off the job in protest in 1982, staging a brief, successful strike. Historic photographs and artifacts salute the extraordinary outpouring of energy of women.
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Collective Action: Labor Activism in 21st Century Baltimore
Through December 31, 2024; Baltimore Museum of Industry, Baltimore, MD
A bold new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Industry exploring the historic and contemporary organized labor movement.
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NOTE: There are dozens of labor arts events across the country on our updated website; check them out, let us know what you think, and send details on any events we should know about to info@laborheritage.org | |
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Actors’ Equity is founded by 112 theater actors meeting in the Pabst Grand Circle Hotel in New York City. A strike six years later, during which membership increased from 3,000 to 14,000, loosened the control on performers’ lives by theater owners and producers - May 26, 1913
This week’s Labor History Today podcast: The Memorial Day Massacre.
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"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too."
Please CLICK HERE NOW to pledge your financial support to our 2024 program, which includes our annual Solidarity Forever Award, the Great Labor Arts Exchange, the DC Labor FilmFest and much more (check out our website for details!).
Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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