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Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is completed
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot in partnership with Mimi Pickering and produced with Appalshop is finished. DVD's will be available soon. Clips screened at the historic 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit are included under "bio/speaking." Screenings and discussions are listed under events. Separate website under construction. See Events for local screenings.
Full Program of Labor Films at Labor Notes Conference
The new Labor Filmmakers United group will reconnect at the Labor Notes Conference May 4-6 in Chicago with a full program of films and a filmmaker panel. Usually films are shown off to the side at conferences with one or two people sitting in the dark -- or some out-of-context clip as a cultural break between presentations. Through our efforts, Labor Notes will include independent films in the main program and in the main space -- Saturday at 2 pm Anne Braden: Southern Patriot; Saturday at 6 pm Morristown: in the air and sun; and "Class Struggle on Film" panel Sunday at 10:45.
Morristown on Southern Spaces and screenings
Fran Ansley and Anne Lewis have just published their first multi-media essay based on Morristown: in the air and sun. "Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee” appears on Southern Spaces supported by the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University. Frequently used at union and immigration workshops, recent screenings of Morristown: in the air and sun include the Southern Labor Studies Conference and the IBEW Hall in Lewistown, Maine. The trailer aired on GRIT tv with Laura Flanders as part of a program about the auto industry. Public screening at the West Shore UU Church, Saturday, Oct. 8 at 7pm.
Cratis D. Williams and John S. Brown Service Award
2011 with Mimi Pickering. For a body of collaborative work that is "Intelligent, challenging, compassionate, sometimes subversive... ." For information about the award, Appalshop.org
United States Artists Booth Mattsson fellow
Each year, United States Artists honors fifty of America's artists across eight disciplines. Meet the 2010 fellows. The Anne Braden Project is currently raising funds for archival footage. Please click for opportunities to support Anne's and other USA fellows' projects.
University of Texas Regents' Teaching Award
Anne Lewis won a 2010 University of Texas Regents' Teaching Award for exceptional service and innovation for undergraduate students.
Her statement of teaching principles can be found here.
A Tender Promise: Education Story New Sample
A Tender Promise: Education Story (formerly named "High Stakes") received a City of Austin cultural contract to continue production of a documentary that looks at the public school education of Latino, African American, and working class children. We are visiting students who participated when we filmed their 5th grade class in 2004-5. They are now in high school. Please help us finish this documentary with support, contact information, and suggestions.
Click here for the latest sample.
in honor of public workers in Texas and across the country
To join in the struggle against the forces of reaction and work towards solidarity between the labor movement and the social movement, two clips are streamed from Justice in the Coalfields. Reactionary attitudes are explored in an interview at the National Right to Work Committee funded by the Koch Brothers among others. In the second clip, John L. Lewis testifies before Congress about worker health benefits. Recently the Rag Blog published Anne Lewis: Workers Rights and the Fight Against Poverty. A short piece is coming soon about the "Save Our State March and Rally" with 5,000 Texas public workers and supporters, sponsored by the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU-CWA 6186). In memory of Carol Smith, please cilck for a clip of her interview before the march.
Ya Basta! Texas Labor History and Civil Rights
The Texas Labor History and Civil Rights Project looks at two events: the San Antonio Pecan Shellers' strike of 1938 and the Jobs with Justice march in Nacogdoches in 1987. Interviews include Larry Daves, Emily Jones, Latane Lambert, and Arthur Weaver as well as direct participants in both struggles. Eric Larson, a lecturer in American Studies at Harvard University and Anne are jointly exploring the creation of a multimedia website. Please let us know if you have source material or know participants in either struggle.
Interview with A.T. Massey's Don Blankenship
We join other mining families in grieving for the coal miners who needlessly lost their lives in Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine on April 6, 2010. We also feel outrage at the barbarism of A.T. Massey and Don Blankenship.
in loss and rage, "Mine War on Blackberry Creek" is streamed on this site. The Appalshop documentary is about the 1984 United Mine Workers of America strike against A.T. Massey, the world's fourth largest coal company. It includes CEO Don Blankenship who recently called federal mine safety regulation and global warming "silly," scabs, and thugs. Richard A. Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, expresses union values as well as the brave men and women who stand up to Massey. The film concludes with music by Rocky Peck, never hired back and killed in a dog hole mine. A remastered DVD is available. See "Mine War on Blackberry Creek," the 30-minute 1986 documentary by Anne Lewis. The Rag Blog published "The Porcine Man: Don Blankenship and the Sordid History of A.T. Massey."
Morgan Sexton on Folkstreams
A documentary about the National Heritage Award banjo player, Morgan Sexton is featured on Folkstreams along with transcript and filmmaker notes. Click here for the film page. |
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See the trailer for
Morristown: in the air and sun
See the sample for
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
See the latest sample for
A Tender Promise: Education Story
See clips from Justice in the Coalfields
Interview at the National Right
to Work Committee
John L. Lewis
See anti-stripmining clips from
On Our
Own Land
and To Save the Land and People
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