Tuesday,
May 1 at 7pm
Bread
& Roses Community Fund Film Series
Film
Screening & Dialogue on the Attack on Labor
Where
Do You Stand? - Stories from an American Mill
dir.
Alexandra Lescaze, USA, 2004, video, 60 mins, color
with
documentary shorts on local labor struggles
Join
Bread & Roses Community Fund and local activists for the
screening of Where Do You Stand? and a discussion on
the face of labor organizing today.
Presented
by Barbara Smith Community School in partnership with Jobs with
Justice, Juntos, Taxi Worker Alliance and the Media Mobilizing
Project.
 Remember
when people fought for safe work conditions, an 8 hour work
day, minimum wage and other workers rights? Is labor still under
attack? Moving to a service sector economy has made so many
workers invisible, keeping these rights out of their reach.
Yet another move in the age old process of creating barriers
for people to get the rights we all deserve.
In
1999, after a quarter century of struggle, textile workers in
Kannapolis,
North
Carolina won the single largest industrial union victory in
the history of
the
South. Where Do You Stand? traces the story of and
examines the efforts
of
workers to cope with a rapidly changing social and economic
climate. Told primarily through the voices of those active in
the numerous attempts to organize the union, the film offers
a portrait of American workers as they face the myriad challenges
of the post-industrial age.
Discussion
to follow with members of Jobs with Justice, Juntos and Taxi
Workers Alliance.
For more information 215-731-1107 x204 or sarah@breadrosesfund.org.
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