DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY?
Michael Moore is best known for his documentary _Bowling for Columbine_. His unique look at gun control was a favorite at many film festivals around the world and won the Oscar for best documentary. Michael is back at it again with his latest book _Dude, Where's My Country_.
On Thursday, October 30th at 1:00 p.m., Michael Moore will be in the East Ballroom in the Ohio Union (the floor plan of the Ohio Union at <http://www.ohiounion.com/maps/floor01.asp>), 1739 North High Street, Columbus, OH. He will be sharing some of his thoughts and signing copies of his new book. If you have not had the chance to pick up your copy, don't worry -- there will be copies for sale in the East Ballroom.
The event is free and open to the public. Please come and enjoy an afternoon with Michael Moore.
Courtesy of: Students for Labor and Economic Justice (SLEJ)
--- Thursday, October 30, 2003, 7:30 PM ---
Screening _An Injury to One_ (Dir. Travis Wilkerson) & Lecture by Dan La Botz
WHEN: Thursday, October 30, 2003, 7:30 PM WHERE: Journalism Building, Room 300, 242 West 18th Ave. (at the corner of 18th and Neil Aves.), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Campus Map: <http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/map/linkbuildings/journalismbuilding.html> Campus Parking Map: <http://www.tp.ohio-state.edu/maps/campusmap.shtml> Directions to Campus: <http://www.osu.edu/visitors/directions.html> All Events Are Free & Open to the Public.
Oct. 30 - _An Injury to One_ (Dir. Travis Wilkerson), with Dan La Botz
Dan La Botz, the author of _Rank-and-File Rebellion: Teamsters for a Democratic Union_ (1990, <http://www.versobooks.com/books/klm/labotz_tdu.shtml>), _Mask of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today_ (1992, <http://www.southendpress.org/books/MaskofDem.htm>), _Democracy in Mexico: Peasant Rebellion and Political Reform_ (1995, <http://www.southendpress.org/books/DeminMex.htm>), and _Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto_ (2001, <http://www.southendpress.org/books/MadeinIndonesia.shtml>), will introduce the documentary _An Injury to One_ and lead the post-screening discussion about what we can learn from radical labor history and how we can make use of it in today's struggles against exploitation and oppression.
_An Injury to One_ provides a glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana, chronicling the mysterious death of Wobbly organizer Frank Little. Butte's history was entirely shaped by its exploitation by the Anaconda Mining Company, which, at the height of WWI, produced ten percent of the world's copper from the town's depths. War profiteering and the company's extreme indifference to the safety of its workers (mortality rates in the mines were higher than in the trenches of Europe) led to Little's arrival. "The agitator" found in the desperate, agonized miners overwhelming support for his ideas, which included the abolishment of the wage system and the establishment of a socialist commonwealth. In August 1917, Little was abducted by still-unknown assailants who hung him from a railroad bridge. Pinned to his chest was a note that read 3'-7'-77", dimensions of a Montana grave. Eight thousand people attended his funeral, the largest in Butte's history. Butte's history is bound with the entire history of the American left, the rise of McCarthyism, and the destruction of the environment. Cf. <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/wilk-o04.shtml>
Sponsors: Al-Awda-Ohio, Social Welfare Action Alliance, Solidarity, & Student International Forum Website: <http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/> Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554, <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>; and Keith Kilty, 614-292-7181, <kilty.1 at osu.edu>
-- Yoshie
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