Labor Studies
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A Letter from Yene
Yene, a fishing village on the coast of Senegal, has been besieged by coastal erosion and uncontrolled urbanization in recent decades. Local fishermen, pebble collectors, and filmmaker Manthia Diawara address how they collectively and unknowingly contribute to undermining their shared environment.More Information -
Another Brother
Through found photographs, audiotaped interviews and archival footage, ANOTHER BROTHER tells the story of Vietnam veteran Clarence Fitch.More Information -
Chircales
This film portrays the life of a family of brick makers in the outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, documenting the personal experience of the Castañeda family to expose the exploitation of manual laborers. Chircales offers the viewer an intimate look at their hardships.More Information -
Claiming Our Voice
In CLAIMING OUR VOICE, female, immigrant domestic workers bring their stories of survival, empowerment and activism to center stage.More Information -
Felix Revolts a.k.a. Felix the Cat (Newsreel #)
Felix the Cat goes on strike!More Information -
Floristas
Floristas are immigrant flower vendors who scratch out a living by hawking their wares on the streets of New York City.More Information -
Garbage a.k.a. Garbage Demonstration (Newsreel #5)
During a prolonged garbage collector's strike in New York City, a group of youths from the Lower East Side of Manhattan decide to use the situation to make a political statement.More Information -
Gideon's Army
Everyone deserves the best defense. They fight for it. GIDEON’S ARMY takes an inside look at the criminal justice system from the perspective of three young public defenders in the South.More Information -
If You Could Walk In My Shoes
IF YOU COULD WALK IN MY SHOES documents the struggle of an Ecuadorian-American family as they transforms their lives from workers to business owners.More Information -
Mississippi Triangle
This is an intimate portrait of life in the Mississippi Delta, where Chinese, African Americans and whites live in a complex world of cotton, labor, and racial conflict.More Information -
Mother
MOTHER follows labor activist Lee So-seon, who for over 40 years organized for workers’ rights in South Korea.More Information -
Of Kites and Borders
OF KITES OF BORDERS tells the story of the daily struggle to be a child living on the US-Mexico border through the eyes of four working children in the city of Tijuana.More Information -
Pa Bell Go to Hell (Newsreel #)
In April 1970, telecom workers from multiple unions across New York City engaged in a wildcat strike to secure better pay and improve working conditions.More Information -
Sold outPromise and Unrest
An intimate portrayal of a migrant woman performing global care work and long-distance motherhood in her role as sole provider for an extended family back in the Philippines.More InformationSold out -
Salty Dog Blues
SALTY DOG BLUES looks at a group of U.S.merchant marines from 1937-1989; their relationship to the National Maritime Union, a union merger, and a dispute over lost health benefits.More Information -
Sweet Sugar Rage
Documents how Jamaica's Sistren Collective theatre uses imporvisation and theatre as a consciousness raising tool among rural and urban working women in Jamaica.More Information -
Taxi-vala/Auto-Biography
A look at the complexities of migration, displacement, economic empowerment, and the pursuit of the elusive "American dream" within New York's growing South Asian communities.More Information -
The #1 Bus Chronicles
"The #1 Bus Chronicles" uses a small sociological microcosm – a bus stop on an industrial highway in New Jersey – to intimately portray some of the most marginalized lives in America today - the ‘working poor’, the recently incarcerated, and immigration asylum seekers.More Information -
The Wreck of the New York Subway (Newsreel #47)
During the winter of 1969, the New York Transit Authority increased the public transportation fee fare from 20 cents to 30 cents--a 50% increase. Infuriated riders scrambled under turnstiles and through exit doors, refusing to pay the fare.More Information -
Tijuana, Nada Mas
Jonathan (“Pollo”) and Enrique (“Gordo”) are 14-year old orphans making their own living on the streets of Tijuana, the busiest frontier city in the world.More Information -
Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)
January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle.More Information -
Voices in the Street
A short on the lives and thoughts of people working on the streets of New York City and their relation to the political process during the 2004 presidential election.More Information -
Work and Respect
New updated version includes footage of New York State Governor David Paterson signing the 2010 Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights.More Information
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