"Trash Dance" & Other Labor-Themed Film Screenings This Summer

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)While DC Labor FilmFest organizers are working on planning this year’s festival – coming up in October – a number of films about work, workers and worker’s issues are coming to area screens this summer. At AFI, “Nothing But A Man” (economic and racial oppression in the pre-Civil Rights-era Deep South) screens June 12 & 13, “Trash Dance” (follows choreographer Allison Orr as she joins city sanitation workers on their daily routes to listen, learn and ultimately to convince them to collaborate in a unique dance performance; click here to see the great trailer) returns for a 3-day engagement June 25-27 and for our whistleblower friends, “We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks” (“a riveting, multi-layered tale about transparency in the information age and our ever-elusive search for the truth”) runs through June 13. And on July 29, at sunset on the National Mall, “Norma Rae” will be screened as part of the free 2013 Screen on the Green series. “This could be a big visibility event and/or an organizing opportunity,” suggests a local activist. “I suggest we populate the Mall with union members in their union t-shirts armed with flyers about how to organize a union/ contact info of local unions.” Let us know if you spot other labor-themed screenings and we’ll spread the word. - photo: screen shot from "Norma Rae"