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...started thirteen years ago in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My parents have always been “activists.” For most of my life they have worked, in one capacity or another, for labor unions and the workers who join them. Thirteen years ago, they took me to my first picket line. The strikers I walked with won their struggle, and ever since, I have been, as my parents would say, “In The Movement...
...Movement is a funny thing to join. It doesn’t have any official members. It doesn’t have a clubhouse or even a union hall. In high school, being in the Movement meant arguing for gay rights at school board meetings, working for labor unions in the summer and taking a train to Philadelphia to protest the Republican National Convention and getting run over by nearsighted bike cops. The Movement became my motivation. I wasn’t the kind of blind ideologue you see screaming and cussing at city council meetings or Bush speeches...
...Family and being from the area were important to me,” Jay said. “Maybe the labor situation [and the possibility of an NHL lockout] did have a minor effect, but mostly it was just a great opportunity...
Foreign policy debates (import quotas), economics (state funding), sociological and anthropological issues (audience studies), technological and labor histories (digital production; women in the trades)—film provides not analogues, but instances, of all of them. And it enfolds those instances in narratively and aesthetically complex representations of themselves—representations that require sustained theoretical and analytical attention on their...
...Labor may be helped, of course, if Howard's decision to follow the U.S. into Iraq last year draws greater public anger or regret now. Between the bombing and their televised debate on Sept. 12, both Latham and the Prime Minister, who is shooting for his fourth straight election victory, demurred on that issue, saying it wasn't the time for political jousting. But even when issues closer to home, like interest rates and Medicare, reassert themselves in coming days, says pollster Gary Morgan, the Jakarta embassy attack will reverberate through the electorate more loudly even than the Bali massacre...