Labor Fest: "Morristown," "Uncommon Knowledge,"(UC San Francisco) "The New Los Angeles"

Labor in the USA, including right here in San Francisco, is the theme of this evening's LaborFest films:
"Morristown": Morristown tells about how workers who are directly faced with the costs of NAFTA and globalization. Their factory is closed down and shipped to Mexico. Instead of folding up they work with the Mexican workers to unionize and fight for their rights. The cross connection and connected battle of US and Mexican workers is portrayed by exposing the real lives and costs of our new world economy.
"Uncommon Knowledge" A unique view of privatization happening in real time. This film takes place inside the University of California as plans unfold to shut down its historic San Francisco extension campus in order to convert it into a profitable private development.
"The New Los Angeles": From the bitter, racially-driven elections that brought Tom Bradley to office as the city’s first black mayor in 1973, to the victory in 2005 of Antonio Villaraigosa, the the city’s first Latino mayor in more than 130 years, The New Los Angeles examines how race, labor and immigration have shaped this most complex of cities