Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, February 10, 2012 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie NightJohn (Charles Burnett, USA, 1996) A tale about a former runaway slave who returns to a plantation to educate his people in the ante-bellum South. The community changes radically when he begins to secretly teach Sarny, a 12-year-old slave…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, December 9, 2011 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland, 1976) This film looks forward to the possibilities of this, our new millennium, from out of the shadows of May '68. A group of young people in…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, October 21, 2011 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie High School (1968) 75 min. Frederick Wiseman Cited by the Library of Congress as a National Treasure, Wiseman’s documentary of a Philadelphia high school quietly presents the effects of institutional education and the inevitable clash of generations. The themes…
