DC LaborFest Today: Ben Shahn WPA Murals
Thursday, May 15, 2014(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The DC
LaborFestcontinues today with a free noontime
tour of WPA murals at the VOA
headquarters(330 Independence Avenue, S.W.,
Enter through the entrance on C Street, 1
block south of Independence, between 3rd and
4th streets; Federal Center Metro station is a
block south; meet in the C Street
lobby).FREE but click here to
RSVP. DC LaborFest Director Chris
Garlock will lead a tour of Ben
Shahn’s The Meaning of
Social Security, Seymour
Fogel's The Security of the
Peopleand The Wealth of the Nation and Philip
Guston's Reconstruction and
the Wellbeing of the Family. "I feel that the whole Social
Security idea is one of the real fruits of
democracy,” said Ben Shahn. “There may be
some limitations to my powers of exposition,
but at least it is my aim to make the mural a
clear and feeling picture of Social
Security."
DC Labor History
Walking Tour Saturday: On
Saturday, join Garlock for astroll through labor history in
downtown Washington DC. “From the A. Philip
Randolph bust in Union Station to Joe Hill’s
ashes, worker’s history is around just about
every corner in our nation’s capitol, if you
know where to look,” Garlock says. This
2.5-hour walking tour of downtown DC reveals
labor’s often-untold story of protest and
resistance. Benefits DC Jobs with Justice: $15
per person, $25/couple, $10
student/unemployed (no one turned away for
lack of funds); click here to sign up.
“Come enjoy a beautiful day with other DC
activists, learn fascinating labor history, and
support DC Jobs with Justice in creating new
labor victories for the history books!” says
JWJ. Meet at 12 noon in front of the AFL-CIO,
815 16th Street
NW.
LAST CHANCE, CLOSING
SOON!
Exhibit: Diego Rivera's "Man At The
Crossroads"exhibit at the Mexican Cultural
Institute (2829 16th St NW, Washington,
DC) closes on May
17. The exhibit centers around
the mural Rivera painted in New York City,
reconstructing its history with reproductions
of previously unpublished material, including
letters, telegrams, contracts, sketches, and
documents, following Rivera's commission,
subsequent tension and conflict, and finally,
the mural's destruction. FREE; Open
M-F 10-6, Sat 12-4.
Play: Living Out, a comedy by
Lisa Loomer about working mothers, race, class
and immigration status closes May
18. A funny and touching play that
explores the shared humanity between a nanny
and her employer and the differences wrought by
race, class and immigration
status.
COMING
UP:
Just
Added! Film: The Delano
Manongs (Monday, May 19 12 noon; 26
minutes;FREE)
Tells the story of farm labor organizer
Larry Itliong (right) and a
group of Filipino farm workers who instigated
one of the American farm labor movement's
finest hours, the Delano Grape Strike of 1965
that brought about the creation of the United
Farm Workers Union (UFW).AFSCME, 1625 L
Street, NW, Washington, DC
Film: Dirty Pretty
Things (Monday, May 19, 7:30p)
Set
amidst London’s largely invisible community
of illegal immigrants, Stephen Frears’ film
is a contemporary and highly original
multicultural urban thriller with a gritty,
political edge. Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a
medically trained Nigerian forced to juggle two
low-paying menial jobs in order to
survive. American Film Institute
Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd, Silver
Spring, Maryland. Presented in cooperation with
SEIU