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DESCRIPTION:Labor’s Turning Point (59 min) (1981) US\nBy John DeGraaf\nThe 1934 
 Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike was a pivotal struggle for working 
 people of the mid-west. As a result of new tactics developed in the 
 successful strike, it led to the organization of over the road truckers and 
 the growth of the Teamsters nationally into one of the most important and 
 powerful unions in the United States. The film shows how the strike was 
 organized and how the union broke the back of the anti-union Citizen’s 
 Alliance and made Minneapolis a union town. It also includes the ground 
 breaking role of the strikers’ wives in organizing for the strike and the 
 establishment of a daily strike bulletin. These tactics are still relevant 
 today in the struggle of labor to organize and survive. \n\nWitness To 
 Revolution, The Story of Anna Louise Strong By Lucy Ostrander (27 minutes) 
 1984 US\nThis film contains the history of the 1919 General Strike in the 
 context of the life of Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970), a partisan and a 
 journalist, who reported on the strike and also on the 1916 Everett, 
 Washington Massacre, which also took place in the same year. The film 
 provides a close up look at why the strike took place and how it affected 
 the working people of Seattle and the world. \n\nThe daughter of a Nebraska 
 minister, Anna Louise Strong earned a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University 
 of Chicago. But it was in the Pacific Northwest, where she witnessed the 
 1916 Everett massacre and chronicled the 1919 Seattle General Strike, that 
 her political vision took shape. In Moscow she helped found the first 
 English language newspaper, in Spain her many visits resulted in her book, 
 Spain in Arms; and in China she interviewed Mao in a Yenan cave in 1946. 
 She is buried in Beijing in a special cemetery for martyrs of the 
 revolution.\n\nFilm is winner of Student Academy Award, the Nissan Focus 
 Award, a CINE Golden Eagle and was broadcast nationally on PBS as well as 
 the Canadian Learning Channel and CCTV in the Peoples' Republic of 
 China\nSee also:\nhttp://www.stourwater.com 
 \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Louise_Strong\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/19/18602651.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Films: 1934 Minneapolis General Strike;Anna Louise Strong & 1919 Seattle Strike
LOCATION:Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th St., at Valencia, San Francisco, 16th St BART\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/19/18602651.php
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