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Monday, Oct 22
5:30pm
Jane Addams
Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted
SEATING IS LIMITED
Reservations Recommended, call 312.413.5353
Labor Film Series
Working Questions:
1). Do work roles reflect hierarches -like race, class, and gender- or do they create them?
2). How have we transformed from a "working society" into a consumer society?" What kind of society do we want to be?
3). How do we understand the many different divisions of labor - intellectual or manual, blue collar or white collar, masculine or feminine in a socially just world? |
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Legendary Academy-Award winning cinematographerHaskell Wexler (Matewan) directs this exhilarating activist documentary that traces three years in the life of Los Angeles' Bus Rider's Union through its moments of joy, crisis, and victory. The film depicts the BRU's fight to improve bus service and halt fare hikes through lawsuits, demonstrations, and sit-ins. The film follows a small band of activists who lobby the city government to purchase more buses and pay bus drivers a higher salary.
| This event co-sponsored by:
Students for a Democratic Society, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Rider Driver Alliance (RDA), Independent Movement of Paratransit Riders for Unity, Vehicles & Equality (IMPRUVE), Concerned Citizens of Paratransit, Mexican Students of Aztlan. |
The Labor Film Series brings people together to discuss important labor issues and how they affect working people. In an age where we are persistently addressed as consumers and not workers, this series of films will create a community of people committed to re-thinking, re-defining, and understanding our relationship to work in a global society. This series is curated by JAMES THINDWA, Executive Director of Chicago Jobs with Justice; labor historian and UIC Professor LEON FINK; and HELENA WORTHEN, Assistant Professor in the Chicago Labor Education Program
at UIC.
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