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SCHEDULE • 2003
Admission at all events
is by voluntary donation
Sunday,
April 27, 2003
Nickelodeon Theatre,
Santa Cruz • Noon
The
Navigators
(Director: Ken Loach, 2003, 92 min)
British Rail workers and their government's obsession with privatization
in 1990s.
Speaker:
Paul Ortiz, teacher, author
Cabrillo College Watsonville
Center Forum, Watsonville • 7 pm
Mother
Trucker: The Diana Kilmury Story
(Director: Sturla Gunnarsson, Starring Barbara Williams, 1996, 92
min)
A truck driving woman's successful fight for grass-roots democracy
in her union.
Los
Trabajadores
(Producer: Heather Courtney, 2002, 48 min)
Daily reality of immigrant day laborers in Austin, Texas.
Speaker:
to be announced
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
Community Television Studio,
Santa Cruz • 7 pm
On
Strike for Respect: UC Clericals and Lecturers' Strike of 2002
(Producer: Regan Brashear, 2003, 30 min)
Live footage of the historic statewide strike by CUE and AFT at
UCSC.
Nine
to Five
(Director: Colin Higgins, 1980, 110 min)
Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as office workers halt
their boss' sexism.
Speakers: Cathy
Deppe, Organizer, 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women
Lisa Gustafson, President of the Coalition of University Employees
(CUE) Local 10
Julie Jacobs, Steering Committee Member, CUE Local 10
Becky Klein, Secretary, CUE Local 10
Pat True, Treasurer, CUE Local 10
Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Kresge Town Hall,
UCSC • 7 pm
Behind
the Labels
(Producer: Tia Lessin, 2002, 60 min)
Female garment workers in Siapan and their role in the global economy.
Hammering
It Out
(Director: Vivian Price, 2000, 54 min)
Experience of women in the building trades on the LA Century Freeway.
Speakers:
Tia Lessin, filmmaker
Chie Abad, former Saipan garment worker
Vivian Price, filmmaker
Thursday, May 1, 2003
International Labor Day
Del
Mar Theater, Santa Cruz • 7 pm
Matewan
(Director: John Sayles, 1987, restored 2002, 132 Minutes)
Award-winning portrayal of 1920s miners' revolt in West Virginia.
Speaker:
Gary Fritz, Deputy Director of Organizing, United Mine Workers of
America
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