LGTM Presents a Special Saturday Screening of Seven Samurai
Event Date: Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 12:00pm Event Type7: Movie Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) “However one defines the word masterpiece as it applies to films, it undoubtedly must apply to Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.” (David Blakeslee).Kurosawa, a lifelong fan and ‘student’ of the director John Ford, applies the ‘grammar of the…
Labor Goes to the Movies: Meek's Cutoff
Event Date: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie Meek's Cutoff (Reichardt, 2010) Kelly Reichardt’s fifth feature, based on historical accounts of a wagon train struggling to make its way through the Oregon high desert, is, according to Roger Ebert, “the first film I’ve seen that evokes what must have…
#ReclaimOurSchools Campaign Launch
Event Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 8:00am Event Type7: Advocacy For decades, CUNY has not received the money needed to maintain and improve our campuses. While this situation has started to improve, there are still many problems with our classrooms and other campus facilities. Every year, CUNY requests State and City…
Labor Goes to the Movies: The Searchers
Event Date: Friday, September 9, 2016 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie The Searchers (Ford, 1956) The Searchers (1956) is now considered by many to be an American masterpiece. Ten to fifteen years after the film’s debut, and after reassessing it as a cinematic milestone, a generation of “New Hollywood” film directors, French…
Labor Goes to the Movies Presents: Rear Window—Fri., Nov. 13
Event Date: Friday, November 13, 2015 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie Labor Goes to the Movies is proud to present a screening and discussion of Rear Window (Hitchcock, US, 1954) on Fri., Nov 13 in the PSC Union Hall (61 Broadway, 16th floor). An immobilized photojournalist James Stewart, lacking the hidden cameras…
What the UN Climate Summit in Paris Means for Environmental and Labor Activists
Event Date: Monday, November 2, 2015 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm Event Type7: Chapter Meeting Topic: What the UN Climate Summit in Paris Means for Environmental and Labor Activists. The PSC Retirees Chapter extends an invitation to all PSC members to join us in the presentation and discussion of this important topic. Come…
Labor Goes to the Movies:Darwin's Nightmare
Event Date: Friday, May 8, 2015 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie This year’s Labor Goes to the Movies film series presents a group of films—documentary and fiction—that take the threat of apocalypse as their premise. The threat of global climate change has given apocalyptic scenarios more mainstream girth, but filmmakers…
Labor Goes to the Movies:Chinatown
Event Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie This year’s Labor Goes to the Movies film series presents a group of films—documentary and fiction—that take the threat of apocalypse as their premise. The threat of global climate change has given apocalyptic scenarios more mainstream girth, but filmmakers…
Labor Goes to the Movies: An Evergreen Island & Before the Mountain Was Moved
Event Date: Friday, December 12, 2014 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie This year’s Labor Goes to the Movies film series presents a group of films—documentary and fiction—that take the threat of apocalypse as their premise. These two documentaries present stories of ordinary flesh-and-blood people’s resistance to corporate resource extraction that…
Academic Freedom Forum
Event Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm Event Type7: Forum Academic Freedom Forum Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 PURGING CUNY FACULTY: THE LESSONS OF THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES FOR TODAY Book Talk by Marjorie Heins, Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge. Commentary by…
