REEL WORK 2019 May Day Labor Film Festival Admission: Voluntary donation @ the door except where noted. SANTA CRUZ COUNTY EVENTS

Sunday, April 7 Sunday, April 28 2 PM • Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz 7 pm • Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz DISTURBING THE PEACE Workers Memorial Day (Stephen Apkon & Andrew Young, 2016, 82 min, Israel & Palestine) 20th Anniversary of the Battle in Seattle The film follows a group of former enemy THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE combatants—Israeli soldiers from the most elite units, (Richard Rowley & Jill Friedberg, 2000, 69 min, USA) and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years Compiled from footage shot by 100 amateur video-journalists who in prison—who have come together to challenge the documented the story largely ignored by mainstream media of status quo and say “enough.” The story reveals their diverse activists—peaceniks, tree-huggers, and rank-and-file trade transformational journeys from soldiers committed to unionists—who descended on the site of the 1999 World Trade armed battle to non-violent peace activists, leading to Organization summit to disrupt the proceedings of this unaccountable the creation of Combatants for Peace. and anti-democratic trans-national corporate elite body. Speakers: Teleconference with Nizar Farsakh, Museum of the Palestinian People, Washington DC AWAKEN Event Host: Muslim Solidarity Group (Plumbers Local 393, 2000, 30min, USA) SF Bay Area Plumbers Union sent a contingent of members to the 1999 Thursday, April 11 WTO protest in Seattle. 7 pm • Watsonville Civic Plaza Community Room, 4th Floor, Panel: WTO protest veterans 275 Main St., Watsonville Event Host: Santa Cruz County Peace & Freedom Party COUNCILWOMAN (Margo Guernsey, 2018, 57 min, USA) Carmen Castillo is a Dominican woman who Monday, April 29 7 pm • Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz maintains her job cleaning hotel rooms as she takes on her new role in politics as a THE HAND THAT FEEDS City Councilwoman in Providence, RI. She (Rachel Lears & Robin Blotnick, 2015, 83 min, USA) faces skeptics who say she doesn’t have the At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get education to govern. It’s a journey behind bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the the scenes of a worker taking on the political system. scenes, undocumented immigrant workers organize an independent Event Host: Watsonville Film Festival union to address sub-legal wages and abusive managers. Risking deportation, the workers picket the store and survive a lockout with Monday, April 22 community support. 7 pm • Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz Discussion after the film CHÁVEZ: INSIDE THE COUP Event Host: UNITE HERE Local 483 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Kim Bartley & Donnacha O’Briain, 2003, 74 min, Venezuela) Tuesday, April 30 7 pm • Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz In April 2002, the democratically elected Healthcare Workers Organizing Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, faced a coup d’état by a US-backed opposition NUHW: Standing Up for Patients and Workers party. The two-day coup failed to topple (National Union of Healthcare Workers, 2019, 45 min, USA) Chávez, but the tumultuous event proved California’s mental health system is in crisis and healthcare workers are to be great dramatic material for two Irish filmmakers who happened to fighting back. A series of short films highlight the efforts of workers be making a documentary about Chávez as the coup erupted. in Santa Cruz and across California to organize for living wages and Discussion following the film reasonable working conditions. The local flashpoint of the struggle is Event Host: Santa Cruz County Peace & Freedom Party Janus of Santa Cruz, the county’s largest drug rehabilitation center, where patients’ treatment suffers because workers are barely paid Tuesday, April 23 above minimum wage, struggling to make ends meet. 7 pm • Kresge College Student Lounge, UCSC Panel: Mental health workers from Janus of Santa Cruz Earth Week: Labor and the Environment Event Host: National Union of Healthcare Workers KOCH BROTHERS EXPOSED (, 2012, 56 min, USA) Wednesday, May 1 7 pm • Del Mar Theatre, 1124 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz An exposé on the billionaire brothers International Workers Day Charles and , who help finance the conservative political advocacy group , THE LONG SHADOW which strives to weaken labor unions and deny climate change. (Frances Causey, 2019, 87 min, USA) Panel discussion following the film Of all the divisions in the U.S., none is as Event Host: Common Ground Center insidious and destructive as racism. In this powerful documentary, the filmmakers, both privileged daughters Wednesday, April 24 of the South who were haunted by their families’ slave-owning pasts, 7 pm • Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz passionately seek the hidden truth and untold stories of how the ADIOS AMOR: The Search for María Moreno U.S.—guided by the South’s powerful political influence—steadily, (Laurie Coyle, 2017, 58 min, USA) deliberately, and at times secretly, established white privilege in our The discovery of lost photographs sparked institutions, laws, culture, and economy. the search for a hero that history forgot— Speaker: Frances Causey, filmmaker María Moreno, a migrant mother driven to Event Hosts: ACLU, NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch speak out by her twelve children’s hunger. Thursday, May 2 She was the first farm worker woman in 7 pm • Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz the U.S. to be hired as a union organizer years before César Chávez and Dolores Huerta launched the United Farm Workers. María picked up the THE LONG RIDE only weapon she had—her voice—and became an outspoken leader (Valerie Lapin Ganley, 2018, USA) in an era when women were relegated to the background. The historic 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride CON O SIN PAPELES (Aria Zapata, 2018, 20 min, USA) sparked the birth of the new Juan and Keyli are young and motivated immigrant workers facing Civil Rights Movement for the world of migrant work and immense injustices in the San Joaquin immigrant workers in the United States. Alarmed by the increase in Valley. Tactics of exploitation and abuse are perpetrated upon a new immigration raids, deportations, family separations, and attacks on generation of workers; however, labor rights activist Luis Magaña’s work workers’ rights, more than 900 immigrants and allies traveled across the sparks hope and instills courage. U.S. to focus public attention on the plight of immigrant workers and to Speakers: Laurie Coyle, filmmaker; Aria Zapata, filmmaker call for reform of the broken immigration system. Speakers: Valerie Lapin Ganley, filmmaker; Julius de Vera, Immigrant Thursday, April 25 6:30 pm • Cabrillo College Forum 450, 6500 Soquel Dr, Aptos Workers Freedom Ride organizer Musical Performance: Santa Cruz Peace Chorale, directed by PARIS TO PITTSBURGH Aileen Vance (Sidney Beaumont & Michael Bonfiglio, 2018, 78 min, USA) Event Host: Santa Cruz Peace Chorale From coastal cities to the U.S. heartland, the Friday, May 3 film celebrates how citizens are demanding 7 pm • London Nelson Community Center Aud., 301 Center St, SC and developing real solutions in the face of Medicare For All climate change. And as the weather grows more deadly and destructive, they aren’t HEALTHCARE IN MONTEREY COUNTY waiting on Washington to act. (Morgan Schmitt-Feng, 2019, 12 min, Monterey County) Speakers: John Laird, former CA Secretary of Natural Resources; Zach Workers who harvest the food we eat are challenged with the lack of Friend, County Supervisor; Nancy Faulstich, Director of Regeneración access to healthcare. Labor and community groups organize to create a Event Sponsors: Temple Beth El, Cabrillo College Sustainability Council healthcare program for undocumented residents in East Salinas. Note: no admission charged at this event ORGANIZING JANUS OF SANTA CRUZ Friday, April 26 (NUHW, 2019, 2min, Santa Cruz) 7 pm • Cabrillo College Watsonville Forum, 318 Union St Testimony of Janus mental health workers to the Santa Cruz County Women In The Labor Movement Board of Supervisors as part of the union’s first bargaining campaign. ADIOS AMOR: The Search for María Moreno POWER TO HEAL: (Laurie Coyle, 2017, 58 min, USA) (See Santa Cruz, April 24) Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution TALKIN’ UNION (Anna Reid Jhirad, 2018, 56 min, USA) (People’s History in Texas, 1977, 60 min, USA) How black health professionals and An oral history film about four Texas women and their union organizing their allies caused a new national activities in the years 1930 through 1960. The women participated in program, Medicare, to mount a strikes by the Pecan Shellers and the International Ladies’ Garment dramatic, coordinated effort in Workers Union. 1965 that desegregated thousands Speaker: Laurie Coyle, filmmaker of hospitals across the country in a matter of months. Event Host: Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers Speakers: John Laird, former CA Secretary for Natural Resources; Sally Gwin-Satterlee, healthcare organizer; Jennifer Holm, nursing instructor Friday, April 26 Event Host: Medicare For All–Santa Cruz County 7 pm • Wisdom Center of Santa Cruz, 740 Front Street, The Galleria Suite 155 Saturday, May 4 FIERCE LIGHT (Velcrow Ripper, 2008, 90 min, Global) 7 pm • Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz Fueled by the belief that another world is possible, the filmmaker takes Worker Owned Enterprises us on an inspiring journey into what Martin Luther King called Love in Action, and Gandhi called Soul Force; here it’s called Fierce Light. DON’T GIVE UP YOUR VOICE Discussion following the film (Melissa Young & Mark Dworkin, 2018, 40 min, Argentina) Event Sponsor: Wisdom Center Film Series Argentina elected its Trump, Mauricio Macri, a year before we elected ours. The two former business Saturday, April 27 associates’ style and policies are eerily similar. But 7 pm • Resource Center For Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St, Santa Cruz Argentines are resilient and they have fought right THE JUDGE (Erika Cohn, 2017, 87 min, West Bank) wing governments before. Creative resistance to Macri’s policies from The film provides insight into Shari’a law, an often people in diverse sectors including organized labor, worker coops, and misunderstood legal framework for Muslims, told the arts offer inspiring examples of the power of collective action for us through the eyes of the first woman judge to be in the North. appointed to the Middle East’s religious courts. It Speakers: Melissa Young & Mark Dworkin, filmmakers showcases Khuloud Al Faqih’s tireless fight for justice Panel: Local worker/owners: Putting Democracy to Work for women, addressing domestic conflicts including Event Host: Co-Op SC child custody, divorce, and spousal abuse, while coming up against influential Arabic customs and Islamic religious traditions. Panel: Courtney Mangus, CAIR SF Bay Area, and local Muslim women: commentary on justice and equality for women in the Muslim world Event Host: Muslim Solidarity Group 30% post-consumer recycled paper and vegetable-based inks REEL WORK 2019 May Day Labor Film Festival

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sponsors Cabrillo College Monterey County Office of Education CSEA Chapter 35 Cabrillo College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 4400 Monterey/Santa Cruz Counties Building & Construction Trades Council California Faculty Association at CSUMB National Union of Healthcare Workers California Nurses Association Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1936 California State University–Monterey Bay Plumbers & Fitters Local 393 City of Santa Cruz Resource Center for Nonviolence Community Printers (represented by Teamsters District Council 2) Santa Cruz Live Oak “Green” Grange Greater Santa Cruz Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 2030 Service Employees International Union Local 521 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 234 SEIU Local 1000 - California State Employees Association International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 332 SEIU Local 2015 International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 890 SMART Union Local 23 Jabico Enterprises United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local 505 Laborers International Union of North America Local 270 University Professional & Technical Employees Local 3 - CWA Local 9119 Landmark Theatres University of California at Santa Cruz Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO

root out racism to let our future take root

The term Global Warming was first used by pleasure and convenience over the well being of Columbia University geochemist Wallace our biosphere. Broecker in a 1975 Science article. On March We know of societies which factored the 15, 2019, students around the globe walked seventh generation into their decision- out of school for the Youth Climate Strike making, which shows that short-sighted- to put adults on notice that it’s time to act ness is a not a human condition but a on what humans figured out almost 45 learned cultural phenomenon, and it can years ago. be unlearned. Why are we as a society so slow to act in Of all the -isms, the most potent and our own long-term self interest? Cultural persistent glue that keeps our blinders in norms such as individualism and notions of place is racism. Arbitrary distinctions based on private property predispose us to compartmentalize the myth of race separate us, inhibit our thinking, our experience of the world. When we feel distinct and and thwart our compassion and collaboration on matters of separate from other people, other creatures, other species, we mutual survival. don’t value their existence as our own. So we don’t care about Reel Work is committed to putting critical issues center stage their well being or their futures. This narrow awareness called so that, under the spotlight, we can see our way forward, speciesism permits us to justify our personal short-term stronger together! Monterey county events

Tuesday, April 23 Thursday, May 2 7 pm • Osio Theater, 350 Alvarado St, Monterey 2 pm • CSUMB Building 82 Room B116, Acting On Climate Change 2081 Inter-Garrison Rd, Marina Global Economics PARIS TO PITTSBURGH (Sidney Beaumont & Michael Bonfiglio, 2018, 78 min, USA) DON’T GIVE UP YOUR VOICE (See Santa Cruz County, April 25) (Melissa Young & Mark Dworkin, 2018, 41 min, Speaker: Jane Parker, Monterey County Supervisor (invited) Argentina) (See Santa Cruz, May 4) Tuesday, April 30 7 pm • Unitarian Universalist Church of the Monterey Peninsula, NAE PASARAN 490 Aguajito Rd, Carmel-By-The-Sea (Felipe Bustos Sierra, 2014, 14 min, Scotland) THE LONG SHADOW The impact Scottish factory workers had on Pinochet’s dictatorship when they refused to repair and return Chilean Air Force Hawker (Frances Causey, 2019, 87 min, USA) Hunter jet engines sent for maintenance to their factory in East (See Santa Cruz County, May 1) Kilbride, Scotland. Speaker: Frances Causey, filmmaker FEDERAL WORKERS SHUTDOWN THE Thursday, May 2 SHUTDOWN (Labor Beat, 2019, 15 min, USA) 10 am • CSUMB Building 47 Room H104, 5283 Sixth Ave, Seaside On Jan 24, 2019, furloughed workers Sweat, Solidarity and Service from various federal agencies and their KNIFE SKILLS supporters rallied in the bitter cold at (Thomas Lennon, 2018, 40 min, USA) Chicago’s Federal Plaza to end to the Documentary of the launch of Edwins, government shutdown, then in its 34th a world-class French restaurant in day. The next day, Trump suddenly Cleveland where most of the staff are announced he would sign a stop gap measure that did NOT include just out of prison. The film elevates issues of reentry and recidivism funding for a wall. Did their action help break Trump’s resolve? to raise awareness and inspire action, for communities and business Speakers: Angie Tran, Professor of political economy at CSUMB owners around the country to embrace “second-chance employment” Event Host: California Faculty Association efforts for the formerly incarcerated. Academy Award nominated. CON O SIN PAPELES (With or Without Papers) (Aria Zapata, 2018, 20 min, USA) (See Santa Cruz, April 24) HEALTHCARE IN MONTEREY COUNTY (Morgan Schmitt-Feng, 2019, 12 min, USA) (See Santa Cruz, May 3) Speakers: Angie Tran, Professor of political economy at CSUMB ; Aria Zapata, filmmaker Event Host: California Faculty Association Speakers Frances Causey turned to filmmaking after 15 years writing for College Board of Trustees and in the State Assembly, Laird always CNN. In film, she has been telling stories that lay bare the racism in received the highest ratings and endorsements from environmental, our culture that troubled her since growing up in the apartheid South. labor, and LGBTQ groups. Laurie Coyle was an oral historian and author before her 20 year Angie Ngoc Tran, PhD, is Professor of Political Economy at Cal career as a documentary filmmaker. Fluent in Spanish and French, she State University Monterey Bay. As an activist scholar, she strives to give studied political theory and sculpture along with film. She is an activist voice to workers. She is deeply critical of corporations’ ability to appease for immigrant and refugee rights and a proud mother. consumers with their “corporate social responsibility” (CSR) promises. Julius de Vera is an Organizing Director with UNITE HERE. She is active in her own union, California Faculty Association. Previously, he served as President of UNITE HERE, Local 483 in Monterey Aileen Vance is an accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist, and on the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council. He was Co-Chair of the and member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 1000. A Northern California Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride. long-time Santa Cruz resident, she shares Pete Seeger’s fondness for Valerie Lapin Ganley is a filmmaker and activist. Her most encouraging others to sing, which she does masterfully as director of recent film, The Long Ride, won Best Documentary at the Immigration the Santa Cruz Peace Chorale for 17 years. Film Fest and Outstanding Feature Documentary at Festival de Cine Melissa Young & Mark Dworkin are veteran documentary Latino Americano. She was Communications Director at UNITE HERE filmmakers who have produced several films related to Argentina Local 2 and directed a campaign to organize port truck drivers. and worker cooperatives. Don’t Give Up Your Voice in the 2019 lineup Jennifer Holm was a nurse at Watsonville Community Hospital for will be their fourth at Reel Work. Their productions on social justice twelve years. A graduate of the Cabrillo College nursing program, she and the environment have been honored in festivals in the U.S. and has returned as a clinical instructor. She has been active in the California around the world and aired on public television. Nurses Association and the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, and was Aria Zapata, a Stockton native, earned her bachelor’s degree from recently elected as Pajaro Valley Unified School District Trustee. University of the Pacific in 2016. In 2018, she completed her master’s John Laird served as California Secretary for Natural Resources degree in fine arts and social documentation from the University of under Governor Jerry Brown. A UCSC grad, Laird was elected to California, Santa Cruz. She opted to do her thesis film on migrant the Santa Cruz City Council in 1981 as part of a slate to retire the workers because of her family’s own experience. pro-development Council majority. During his terms on the Cabrillo