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Program 34: Closing Night: World Premier at Anthology Film Archives - Blood on the Mountain
May
26
7:00 PM19:00

Program 34: Closing Night: World Premier at Anthology Film Archives - Blood on the Mountain

Blood on the Mountain is a film that exposes the environmental and social injustices that have developed from industrial control in West Virginia by the 1% and the corrupted politicians that do their bidding. This is a stunning new film by the team behind "Coal Country."

Blood on the Mountain. Get your ticket here, and read more about the program here. 

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Program 33: Murphy Institute Gala & US Premier: Film about Global Labor Solidarity
May
22
6:00 PM18:00

Program 33: Murphy Institute Gala & US Premier: Film about Global Labor Solidarity

  • Joseph Murphy Institue for Labor Studies (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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. 

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Program 32: Fight Right to Work
May
21
6:00 PM18:00

Program 32: Fight Right to Work

  • Auditorium of the Lithographers Union Local 1 (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

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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Program 30: Girls in the Band and All Women Jazz Trio
May
19
5:00 PM17:00

Program 30: Girls in the Band and All Women Jazz Trio

  • Local 802AFM, Associated Musicians of NY (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us for an evening filled with music, history, and female power and artistic expression. Girls in the Band  explores the lives and journeys of female musicians in the 1930s. Th e 7PM viewing will be followed by a performance by The Sherrie Maricle Trio - an all women trio led by Ms. Maricle, who is also featured in the film,  and an evening of dancing and mingling. Girls in the Band.

Get your ticket here for the 5PM viewing or for the 7:30 with an intermission set played by The Sherrie Maricle Trio - an all women trio led by Ms. Maricle - who is in this film.

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Program 28: Fight Back Against Right to Work
May
18
6:00 PM18:00

Program 28: Fight Back Against Right to Work

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: Overpass Light Brigade, We Are Wisconsin

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Program 23: Food Chain Justice Day at #WUFF2015
May
14
6:30 PM18:30

Program 23: Food Chain Justice Day at #WUFF2015

Battles for food chain justice highlight the issues of workplace rights for immigrants as well as the fight for a living wage for all workers in the U.S. and around the world. The Hand That Feeds is a prize-winning documentary about a courageous effort to empower workers who thought they were powerless to create change.

Guess Who's Coming To Breakfast, The Hand That Feeds

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Program 19: Protecting Tenants, Fighting for a Living Wage and the Reality of Homelessness
May
13
8:15 PM20:15

Program 19: Protecting Tenants, Fighting for a Living Wage and the Reality of Homelessness

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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Program 11: Miners' Struggles Around the World, Past & Present
May
10
4:30 PM16:30

Program 11: Miners' Struggles Around the World, Past & Present

With Banners Held High celebrates the resilience and humour of miners and their wives and children who went through the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike. 

NY Premier Women of the Mine (Mujeres de la Mina)  Portrait of three women who live and work in the mines of Cerro Rico, Potosi, Bolivia - a symbol of colonial plunder. Work in the mines belongs to men, yet women are the most precarious and cursed link of the system. Three women open up their lives to us so we can discover their stories of struggle and resistance.

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Program 10: Stories of Heroic Women, Second Screening
May
9
9:00 PM21:00

Program 10: Stories of Heroic Women, Second Screening

Can't Wear a Wig Forever is a story of a young black women who was fired from a job and her attempt to navigate the path to further employment.
Claiming Our Voice: Domestic workers, members of Andolan, find their own power by acting out their stories of exploitation and abuse on the job.
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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Program 9: Equal Rights, Equal Pay: Stories of Heroic Women Workers, First Screening
May
9
6:30 PM18:30

Program 9: Equal Rights, Equal Pay: Stories of Heroic Women Workers, First Screening

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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Program 5: Opening Night: Somos Amigos and Working Horses
May
8
6:30 PM18:30

Program 5: Opening Night: Somos Amigos and Working Horses

Somos Amigos amusingly looks at the challenges friends face when management pits them against each other. Working Horses is an important new documentary about the horse carriage industry and the fight to save historic jobs in NYC.

FIlms featured this evening: Somos Amigos, Working Horses

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