Key	Imgs	Short Description
2022_MD_Wobblies_220501	140	AFI -- DC Labor FilmFest -- "Wobblies" (w/Deborah Shaffer) DC Labor FilmFest Opening Night: THE WOBBLIES + Q&A Opening Night of the 2022 DC Labor FilmFest: Screening of THE WOBBLIES followed by Q&A with filmmaker Deborah Shaffer "Solidarity! All for one and one for all!" Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) took to organizing...
2009_MD_MMoore_090928	137	AFI -- DC LaborFest (2009) -- Film: "Capitalism: A Love Story" (w/Michael Moore) Speakers in sequence: -- Chris Garlock -- Michael Moore -- Mark Dudzic (National Organizer and Chairman of the United States Labor Party) -- Jos Williams (Metropolitan Washington Council President) (who spoke and presented the Tony Mazzacchi Labor Arts Award to Michael Moore) -- Michael Moore...
2009_MD_Office_Space_091017	130	AFI -- DC LaborFest (2009) -- Film: "Office Space" (w/Stephen Root and Gary Cole) Speakers in sequence: -- Gary Cole and Stephen Root -- Chris Garlock (Director, DC Labor FilmFest), -- Presentation with Adam Wright (DC Labor FilmFest Assistant Director), Gary Cole, Stephen Root, Darryl Moch (Labor Heritage Foundation), and Chris Garlock -- Panel with Chris Garlock, Stephen...
2010_MD_Fair_Game_101019	116	AFI -- DC LaborFest (2010) -- Film: "Fair Game" (w/Doug Liman, Valerie Plame-Wilson, and Joe Wilson) Indoor speakers in sequence: -- Ray Barry (AFI) -- Doug Liman (director) -- Panel with Doug Liman, Valerie Plame-Wilson, Ambassador Joe Wilson, and Neal Conan Closing Night Presentation! FAIR GAME In Person: Director Doug Liman, Valerie Plame-Wilson and Ambassador Joe Wilson! Washington, DC,...
2011_MD_Big_Uneasy_110315	94	AFI -- DC LaborFest (2011) -- Film: "The Big Uneasy" (w/Harry Shearer and Maria Garzino) THE BIG UNEASY In Person: director Harry Shearer and Maria Garzino, whistleblowing engineer/2009 Public Servant of the Year! Five years ago, a disaster struck New Orleans. In this feature-length documentary, humorist and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer gets the inside story from the people who were...
2012_MD_Burn_121012	12	AFI -- DC LaborFest (2012) -- Film: "Burn: One Year on the Front Lines to Save Detroit" BURN: ONE YEAR ON THE FRONT LINES TO SAVE DETROIT Audience Award, 2012 Tribeca Film Festival Through the eyes of Detroit firefighters charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead, BURN tells the gripping story of a city struggling for survival. The film follows...
2015_MD_Blood_Fruit_150527	88	AFI -- DC LaborFest (2015) -- Film: "Blood Fruit" (w/Sinead O’Brien, Mary Manning and Karen Gearon) Film: Blood Fruit In person: filmmaker Sinead O’Brien and strikers Mary Manning and Karen Gearon This moving documentary explains how a strike over the sale of South African fruit in Ireland became the focus of world attention as a key battleground in the fight against apartheid. The film takes...
2017_MD_Matewan_170516	135	AFI -- DC LaborFest (2017) -- Film: "Matawan" (w/John Sayles and Maggie Renzi) Matewan (With Writer/Director John Sayles and Producer Maggie Renzi) Hosted by NNU With Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones. Based on the 1920 showdown between coal miners determined to form a union and coal company agents hired to prevent them, this is one of the classic films about American labor. Trying...
2018_MD_Young_Marx_180501	24	AFI -- DC LaborFest (2018) -- Film: "The Young Karl Marx" Young Karl Marx, The Special Features: Co-presented with the Goethe-Institut Washington [LE JEUNE KARL MARX; DER JUNGE KARL MARX] Following his documentary I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO, Raoul Peck takes on the story of the formative friendship of Karl Marx (August Diehl, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) and Friedrich...
2018_DC_AFLCIO_Tour_180502	34	AFL-CIO Headquarters -- Event: DC LaborFest tour
2018_DC_Booth_180525	45	AFL-CIO Headquarters -- Event: "Heather Booth: Changing the World" (w/Heather Booth) Heather Booth: Changing the World (with Paul Booth tribute) (LaborFest film) The newest film by critically acclaimed filmmaker Lilly Rivlin is an inspiring look at how social change happens. Booth, a renowned organizer and activist, began her remarkable career at the height of the Civil Rights...
2016_DC_AFLCIO_Movies	12	AFL-CIO Headquarters -- Exhibit: Labor Movie Posters
2016_DC_IBEW	45	DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- DC LaborFest Tour A very special guided tour of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) museum. The IBEW museum presents an interactive history of the IBEW from its founding until today, tracing the fascinating development of the electrical industry over the last century through displays of equipment...
2017_DC_IBEW	34	DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- DC LaborFest Tour A very special guided tour of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) museum. The IBEW museum presents an interactive history of the IBEW from its founding until today, tracing the fascinating development of the electrical industry over the last century through displays of equipment...
2016_DC_IBEW_Museum	81	DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- Museum -- DC LaborFest Tour A very special guided tour of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) museum. The IBEW museum presents an interactive history of the IBEW from its founding until today, tracing the fascinating development of the electrical industry over the last century through displays of equipment...
2017_DC_IBEW_Museum	20	DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- Museum -- DC LaborFest Tour A very special guided tour of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) museum. The IBEW museum presents an interactive history of the IBEW from its founding until today, tracing the fascinating development of the electrical industry over the last century through displays of equipment...
2016_DC_IBEW_Vw	61	DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- Views from building A very special guided tour of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) museum. The IBEW museum presents an interactive history of the IBEW from its founding until today, tracing the fascinating development of the electrical industry over the last century through displays of equipment...
2017_DC_IBEW_Vw	57	DC -- Chinatown -- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers HQ (900 7th St NW) -- Views from building A very special guided tour of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) museum. The IBEW museum presents an interactive history of the IBEW from its founding until today, tracing the fascinating development of the electrical industry over the last century through displays of equipment...
2009_DC_DangerousR_091029	79	DC -- DC LaborFest -- Film: "The Most Dangerous Man in America" (w/Daniel Ellsberg) -- Pre-event Reception The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Presented by the DC Environmental Film Festival and The Impact Arts + Film Fund, The Project On Government Oversight 1971: America is embroiled in a dirty war based on lies. A president is abusing the power of his office,...
2017_DC_IWB	88	DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Iron Workers Bldg (1750 New York Ave NW) -- DC LaborFest Tour Exclusive guided tour of the Iron Workers headquarters, featuring handmade motorcycles, a spectacular wall mural, historic tools, photos, convention paraphernalia, World Trade Center mementos and more!
2016_DC_Teamsters	90	DC -- (East) East End -- IBT (Teamsters) HQ (25 Louisiana Ave, NW) -- DC LaborFest tour Find out how the horses on the Teamster logo got their names and lots of other fascinating Teamster labor history at this guided tour of the historical exhibits at the Teamsters headquarters building. Teamster historian Karin Jones leads the tour.
2016_DC_Teamsters_Vw	25	DC -- (East) East End -- IBT (Teamsters) HQ (25 Louisiana Ave, NW) -- View from... Find out how the horses on the Teamster logo got their names and lots of other fascinating Teamster labor history at this guided tour of the historical exhibits at the Teamsters headquarters building. Teamster historian Karin Jones leads the tour.
2018_MD_LaborPalooza_180526	176	DC LaborFest @ Busboys Hyattsville -- LaborPalooza! This year’s first-ever Laborpalooza will showcase an exciting lineup of talented musical artists from the DC-area labor movement. Emceed by LaborFest coordinator Chris Garlock and Labor Heritage Foundation Executive Director Elise Bryant, Laborpalooza will feature three groups: * the DC Labor Chorus,...
2018_DC_LaborFest_Roses_180417	42	DC LaborFest @ Busboys Takoma -- Bread & Roses: DC LaborFest 2018 Sneak Preview! Get an earlybird look at this year’s LaborFest! We’ll show trailers from the DC Labor FilmFest and preview the LaborFest schedule, plus Save The Date cards will be available and all attendees get a free pair of passes to the FilmFest!
2016_MD_UMd_HornbakeL_Labor	39	MD -- College Park -- University of Maryland -- Hornbake Library -- DC LaborFest AFL-CIO Archive Tour Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/UMDLabor2016 Celebrate International Labour Day by joining a community interested in promoting labor history by editing the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Part celebration and part workshop, help us build awareness and increase visibility of our labor collections and expand...

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