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Editor’s Note: If you missed the 13th Workers Unite Film Festival last week in New York City, you can catch most of the films online now; check out their trailer compilation here and how to access them below. And a special shout-out to longtime LHF friend Ron Carver, who’s organizing this Sunday’s musical tribute to his friend Gilberto Soto, a U.S.-based union organizer assassinated 20 years ago in El Salvador; details below.
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Workers Unite Film Festival (Online)
Monday, October 28, 2024, 8:00 AM until Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 5:00 PM
Most of the films screened in NYC last week – narrative, documentaries and shorts docs -- are now available online worldwide for a nominal cost and once 'unlocked', you'll have 5 days to start watching a film and 24 hrs to finish once you press 'play'.
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Labor Heritage Power Hour
Thursday, October 31, 2024, 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM
WPFW 89.3 FM or listen online
This week’s show: All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose, from The Solidarity Singers
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.
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Labor in the Movies (Online class)
Thursday, October 31, 2024, 7:00 PM until 9:00 PM
With James Ward Morrow; participants will view labor history as portrayed in film, discuss that history and learn how it may be applicable today in the recent desire for unions by Starbucks and Amazon employees amongst others. Weekly on Thursdays 7-9p thru 12/5
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The Old Oak
Friday, November 1, 2024, 7:30 PM until 9:20 PM
Dryden Theatre, 900 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607
Rochester Labor Film Series Closing Night screening of Ken Loach’s final film.
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Musical Tribute to Gilberto Soto 1954 -2004
Sunday, November 3, 2024, 1:00 PM until 3:00 PM
Seamen's Church Center, 118 Export Street, Newark, NJ
Marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Soto, a U.S.-based union organizer, in El Salvador.
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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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Faces from an American Dream
Through Saturday, December 28, 2024, 4:00 PM
American Labor Museum, 83 Norwood Street, Haledon, NJ 07508
Photography exhibit by Martin Desht documenting American post-industrialism at the end of the twentieth century. It depicts the economic transition from industrial manufacturing to service and information work and how this rapid social change re-defined the American industrial city and its impact on skilled and unskilled workers in search of the American Dream.
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Archives in Motion: The ATU Workers of Metro Transit
Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 10:00 AM until Thursday, October 31, 2024, 3:00 PM
East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106
Photographs of Metro Transit union workers on the job, showing the importance of public transit in bringing people closer together.
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Today’s Labor History
The Gateway Arch, a 630 ft high parabola of stainless steel marking the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial on the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri is completed after two and one-half years. Although it was predicted 13 lives would be lost in construction, not a single Ironworker died - 1965
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This week’s Labor History Today podcast: Remembering the West Virginia Mine Wars; LHT tours the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum with Executive Director Mackenzie New-Walker.
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THIS WEEK’S LABOR HERITAGE POWER HOUR: Still Lives of Workers in Motion; photographers Leslie Grant and Jeffrey Skemp discuss their photo exhibit in St Paul, Minnesota, which explores labor through a visual focus on members of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 1005 and Metro Transit employees; plus, William Trent Pancoast’s “Road to Matewan” and Mine Workers president Cecil Roberts shares his favorite labor song.
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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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