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DESCRIPTION:Every July day has Laborfest events, some of which are missing from the red 
 letter listings. This "al fresco" textbook for all of us will teach the 
 importance of a general strike which we need to put an end to the profit 
 motive that is the cause of the budget "crisis" and war.  On July 16, the 
 history of 4 general strikes of Winnipeg (1919), Seattle (1919), San 
 Francisco (1934), and Minneapolis (1934) is highlighted in 4 outstanding 
 films at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.\n\nJuly 16 (Thursday) 5:30, 
 7:30 PM $5.00 Roxie Theatre - 3117 16th St., at Valencia, San Francisco, 
 16th St BART \nFilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video 
 Festival \n5:30 SHOW\nOn Strike: The Winnipeg General Strike, 1919 (19 
 min.) Canada 1991 \nBy Joe Macdonald and Clair Johnstone Gilsig \nThis film 
 provides the background about why the workers in Winnipeg were forced out 
 on strike and the individuals on both sides of the struggle. The attack on 
 the strikers on June 21, 1919 led to death and the defeat of the workers 
 despite their bravery and just cause. \n\nHarry Bridges, A Man And His 
 Union (58 min.) 1992 US \nBy Bari Minnot \nHarry Bridges was a critical and 
 central figure in the San Francisco General Strike and this documentary 
 provides a vivid view of his life and response not only to the issues in 
 the strike but also to the massive effort to deport Harry Bridges starting 
 in 1939 for accused of being a member of the Communist Party. This film, 
 narrated by Studs Terkel, using footage of the strike and his role is 
 indispensable in showing the wit, humor and character of the founder of the 
 ILWU. \nWinner of Columbia-Dupont Award, the Golden Gate Award for Best 
 Documentary at the San Francisco Film Festival, and the Gold Special Jury 
 award at the Houston Film Festival. Nominated for 1993 Grand Jury Prize at 
 Sundance Film Festival. \nSee also: 
 \nhttp://www.mw-prod.com/Film/film_harry.html 
 \nhttp://www.roxie.com/events/index.cfm 
 \nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm \n\n7:30 SHOW\nLabor’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/2009/07/14/18607685.php
SUMMARY:General Strike at the Movies: SF, Seattle, Winnipeg & Minneapolis
LOCATION:Roxie Theatre - 3117 16th St., at Valencia, San Francisco, 16th St BART 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/14/18607685.php
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