[Web] Great Labor Film Tuesday Night at Dinkytowner - TC IMC sponsored

[John Slade]

 Twin Cities Indymedia is proud to kick off the One Day in July 
celebration, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the historic 1934 
Teamsters Strike in Minneapolis with a showing of "Labor's Turning Point."
 
The film, which includes interviews with participants, archival footage, 
and historical context, details the bloody and decisive strike that 
locked down Minneapolis and made the Twin Cities a union town. The 
strike, led by Communists who had been earlier booted from the 
buttoned-down AFL, broke the stranglehold of the Citizen's Alliance, the 
employers group that had shot down labor organizing in the Twin Cities 
since World War 1. With a Farmer-Labor government in Minnesota and a 
country in the throes of worker's unrest, the Citizen's Alliance was 
defeated after several bloody confrontations.
 
The night  begins at 8 PM at the Dinkytowner (412 14 Av SE.) The monthly 
Indymedia Newsreal starts off the night; a Free Radio Twin Cities 93.1 
DJ will lead us to Labor's Turning Point at 9 PM. A discussion by the 
One Day in July/1934 Strike Committee will follow, then more music from 
Free Radio Twin Cities, then a second showing of the movie at 10:45.

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Fascism is: A fuzzy totalitarianism characterized by selective populism, contempt for the weak, fear of difference, obsession with plots, and a cult of tradition.

        Umberto Eco 

Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a 
merger of state and corporate power.

        Benito Mussolini

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