New York Labor History Association
A bridge between past and present
New for November, Melvyn Dubofsky reviewied
The Dawning of American Labor: The New Republic in the Industrial Age by Brian Greenberg.
Also, Steve Leberstein reviewed
Unfit to Be a Slave: A Guide to Adult Education for Liberation by David Greene.
For previous book reviews click here.
A free screening of THE KILLING FLOOR will be held on November 17, 2018,
at 1 PM at the Metrograph Theater, 7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan.
THE KILLING FLOOR
1984 / 118min / Digital
DIRECTOR: BILL DUKE
CAST: DAMIEN LEAKE, MOSES GUNN, CLARENCE FELDER, ALFRE WOODARD, DENNIS FARINA
Free Screening, seating will be first come, first serve.
Duke honed his directorial skills by working extensively in episodic television before directing the first production of a planned PBS drama series on the history of American workers, which premiered on American Playhouse. Based on a story by Executive Producer Elsa Rassbach and a screenplay by Obie-Award-winning playwright Leslie Lee, this wrenching drama of the first Great Migration generation stars Damien Leake and Moses Gunn as two friends set at odds in World War I-era Chicago when one chooses to join an interracial union. The sheer excellence of Duke’s directorial accomplishment, distilling a sprawling history of class and race in America into distinctly human-scale vessels, garnered The Killing Floor an invitation to Cannes and an award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1985
The film will be shown on November 17, 2018, at 1 PM at the Metrograph Theater, 7 Ludlow Street, Manhattan.
This program commemorates the Armistice of World War 1, which was signed on Nov. 11, 1918 and celebrates the resistance to that war…the “Americans who tried to stop their nation from fighting in history’s most destructive war and then endured the wrath of a government that punished them for refusing to change their minds.”
Michael Kazin
Historian, Author, War Against War: The American Fight For Peace, 1914-1918
Irwin Yellowitz
Historian, President, New York Labor History Association
Susan Schnall
Peace Activist, President, Veterans for Peace, New York City Chapter
Monday – Nov. 12, 2018 – 6:00 p.m.-8 p.m.
The Center for Worker Education /The City College of New York 25 Broadway, 7th Fl.
Photo ID required to enter building at front desk
Subway stops 4, 5 to Bowling Green, 2,3 to Wall St., 1 or R to Rector St.
Seating is limited so please RSVP to Jane LaTour at: [email protected]
Sponsor: New York Labor History Association
Co-sponsor: The Center for Worker Education
Refreshments! Free!