The Murphy Institute for Labor Studies/CUNY is hosting #WUFF15 for a gala and we are using this opportunity to focus on the power of global solidarity by screening Blood Fruit. Blood Fruit is a film about workers who rise up and use the power of a worker strike and ask for a customer boycott to reject South African apartheid's products.

Blood Fruit. Get your tickets here, and read more here. 

Right to Work has become a major threat to unions across the country. These films focus on the battle that took place in Wisconsin. Find out what can be done to fight against right to work in the future and how the labor movement has responded to harsh organizing restrictions.

Films featured this evening: Overpass Light Brigade, We are Wisconsin.

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A night of poetry, spoken word and short films around the themes of workers, their lives and their fight to build and save their unions. There will also be a teaser preview performance focused on the lives of  laundromat workers in NYC because Every Fold Matters.

Films featured: Every Fold Matters, Workers' Theater in NYC, Comedian Lee Camp Tells You What!

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Judith: Portrait of A Street Vendor speaks to the daily struggles of a street vendor in New York City. Food Chains follows the food trail from farm to your table and highlights the role of exploited labor in our food chain and what we can do to end that exploitation.

Judith: Portrait of A Street Vendor, Food Chains

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Short films from CASA show how tenants organize for their rights. See how faith-based groups and justice organizations are uniting in NYC for a living wage. Then visit Wilmington, NC to see what the effects of the economic collapse caused by the banks has had on working people who lose their homes.

Films featured: CASA Films,  Faith and Justice Walk Together, Something You Can Call Home

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Can't Wear a Wig Forever: A story of a highly qualified young black women who was fired from a good job and her attempt to navigate the rocky path to further employment. 
Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor  takes us on an intimate journey into the daily life of Judith, a street vendor from Guatemala who lives and works in New York City.
She's Beautiful When She's Angry tells the stories of the brilliant and dedicated women who founded the Women's Liberation Movement and have kept fighting for its goals throughout the last 40 years.

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