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 (Robert Greenwald, 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 David Koch, who help finance the conservative political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, 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.