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DESCRIPTION:Workers’ Republic (60-min.) 2009\nBy Andrew Freund\nThree weeks before 
 Christmas 2008, in the depths of the economic crisis, Chicago company, 
 Republic Windows and Doors, told their workforce that the factory was 
 closing. Three days later, when the Republic employees came in to pick up 
 their final checks, they were informed that they would not be paid for 
 their final week or receive their accrued vacation pay. Their insurance 
 benefits were cut immediately, and they were denied the 60-day severance 
 guaranteed under the federal WARN Act.\nWhat those workers did next 
 reverberated around the world, reminding the working class it possesses a 
 power long forgotten. They occupied the doomed factory 24-hours a day for 
 nearly a week, declaring they would not leave until they were given what 
 their employer owed them. 
 \nhttp://www.reelwork.org/films.htm#republic\nhttp://www.reelwork.org/speakers.htm\n\nThe 
 Murals and Art of Bernard Zakheim (27 m) 2009 \nBy Margot Smith\nBernard 
 Zakheim (1896 - 1985) was born in Poland and came to the San Francisco Bay 
 Area in 1918. He was well known for his many murals and frescos financed in 
 part by the Works Progress Administration under Franklin Delano 
 Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal. Nathan and Masha Zakheim, Bernard’s son and 
 daughter, tell of their father’s work in Poland, the story of the Coit 
 Tower murals, of his Holocaust paintings and his later work celebrating 
 life.   Murals shown here include The Library at Coit Tower, The Jewish 
 Wedding at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center, and The History of 
 Medicine in California at Toland Hall, University of California, San 
 Francisco.\nhttp://www.offcentervideo.com\nhttp://www.bernardzakheim.com/\nhttp://www.truefresco.com/dcforum/DCForumID29/17.html\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.roxie.com/events/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/17/18602120.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Films: Workers’ Republic & Murals of Zakheim
LOCATION:Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th St., at Valencia, San Francisco, 16th St BART\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/17/18602120.php
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