Thu January 22, 2015
Film screening and discussion of Wisconsin Rising by Sam Mayfield
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at New Nothing Cinema
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The 56-minute documentary film tells the story of what became the largest sustained workers' resistance in American history. In 2011, Wisconsin was the canary in the coalmine for America as newly elected Republican Governor Scott Walker suddenly stripped collective bargaining rights from the state's public employees, undoing eight decades of hard-won rights.
Wisconsin Rising catapults the viewer into the days when Wisconsinites fought back against power and injustice. Happening on the heels of the revolutionary Arab Spring and months before the Occupy movement, Wisconsinites spontaneously occupied their state Capitol for weeks and took to the streets as rarely before seen in American history.
“This slice of life, a moment in movement history, captures the struggles of the American Middle Class confronting the corrupting power of money over democracy,” says Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! “Don't miss it!”
This fall, Gov. Scott Walker won his re- in a fiercely contested contest. As tensions between workers' rights activists and policy makers continue to rise all over the country, many conservative Republicans view Walker as their best hope for the 2016 presidential election.
The University of Illinois' Professor Robert Chesney tells us that this timely film“captures the spirit and intensity of the dramatic events as they unfolded, and reminds us that we cannot predict the future, and we should not forget our past, even our recent past.”
Wisconsin Rising has won two awards and was the only film selected by the Wisconsin Film Festival on the topic, stating Mayfield’s film was the best told story of all other documentaries made on the uprising.
Sam Mayfield is a video journalist and documentarian from Burlington, VT. Since 2004, Mayfield has documented stories that remain untold in traditional media landscapes. Her work has been broadcast on PBS, Democracy Now!, Free Speech TV and other progressive media outlets, and has taken her to Mexico, India, West Africa, and Palestine.
Thursday, 1/15 7pm-9pm, Sacramento:
Marxists School of Sacramento Lecture Series Sierra 2 Center 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, 95818
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Wisconsin Rising catapults the viewer into the days when Wisconsinites fought back against power and injustice. Happening on the heels of the revolutionary Arab Spring and months before the Occupy movement, Wisconsinites spontaneously occupied their state Capitol for weeks and took to the streets as rarely before seen in American history.
“This slice of life, a moment in movement history, captures the struggles of the American Middle Class confronting the corrupting power of money over democracy,” says Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! “Don't miss it!”
This fall, Gov. Scott Walker won his re- in a fiercely contested contest. As tensions between workers' rights activists and policy makers continue to rise all over the country, many conservative Republicans view Walker as their best hope for the 2016 presidential election.
The University of Illinois' Professor Robert Chesney tells us that this timely film“captures the spirit and intensity of the dramatic events as they unfolded, and reminds us that we cannot predict the future, and we should not forget our past, even our recent past.”
Wisconsin Rising has won two awards and was the only film selected by the Wisconsin Film Festival on the topic, stating Mayfield’s film was the best told story of all other documentaries made on the uprising.
Sam Mayfield is a video journalist and documentarian from Burlington, VT. Since 2004, Mayfield has documented stories that remain untold in traditional media landscapes. Her work has been broadcast on PBS, Democracy Now!, Free Speech TV and other progressive media outlets, and has taken her to Mexico, India, West Africa, and Palestine.
Thursday, 1/15 7pm-9pm, Sacramento:
Marxists School of Sacramento Lecture Series Sierra 2 Center 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, 95818
The 56-minute documentary film tells the story of what became the largest sustained workers' resistance in American history. In 2011, Wisconsin was the canary in the coalmine for America as newly elected Republican Governor Scott Walker suddenly stripped collective bargaining rights from the state's public employees, undoing eight decades of hard-won rights.
Wisconsin Rising catapults the viewer into the days when Wisconsinites fought back against power and injustice. Happening on the heels of the revolutionary Arab Spring and months before the Occupy movement, Wisconsinites spontaneously occupied their state Capitol for weeks and took to the streets as rarely before seen in American history.
“This slice of life, a moment in movement history, captures the struggles of the American Middle Class confronting the corrupting power of money over democracy,” says Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! “Don't miss it!”
This fall, Gov. Scott Walker won his re- in a fiercely contested contest. As tensions between workers' rights activists and policy makers continue to rise all over the country, many conservative Republicans view Walker as their best hope for the 2016 presidential election.
The University of Illinois' Professor Robert Chesney tells us that this timely film“captures the spirit and intensity of the dramatic events as they unfolded, and reminds us that we cannot predict the future, and we should not forget our past, even our recent past.”
Wisconsin Rising has won two awards and was the only film selected by the Wisconsin Film Festival on the topic, stating Mayfield’s film was the best told story of all other documentaries made on the uprising.
Sam Mayfield is a video journalist and documentarian from Burlington, VT. Since 2004, Mayfield has documented stories that remain untold in traditional media landscapes. Her work has been broadcast on PBS, Democracy Now!, Free Speech TV and other progressive media outlets, and has taken her to Mexico, India, West Africa, and Palestine.
Thursday, 1/15 7pm-9pm, Sacramento:
Marxists School of Sacramento Lecture Series Sierra 2 Center 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, 95818
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Wisconsin Rising catapults the viewer into the days when Wisconsinites fought back against power and injustice. Happening on the heels of the revolutionary Arab Spring and months before the Occupy movement, Wisconsinites spontaneously occupied their state Capitol for weeks and took to the streets as rarely before seen in American history.
“This slice of life, a moment in movement history, captures the struggles of the American Middle Class confronting the corrupting power of money over democracy,” says Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! “Don't miss it!”
This fall, Gov. Scott Walker won his re- in a fiercely contested contest. As tensions between workers' rights activists and policy makers continue to rise all over the country, many conservative Republicans view Walker as their best hope for the 2016 presidential election.
The University of Illinois' Professor Robert Chesney tells us that this timely film“captures the spirit and intensity of the dramatic events as they unfolded, and reminds us that we cannot predict the future, and we should not forget our past, even our recent past.”
Wisconsin Rising has won two awards and was the only film selected by the Wisconsin Film Festival on the topic, stating Mayfield’s film was the best told story of all other documentaries made on the uprising.
Sam Mayfield is a video journalist and documentarian from Burlington, VT. Since 2004, Mayfield has documented stories that remain untold in traditional media landscapes. Her work has been broadcast on PBS, Democracy Now!, Free Speech TV and other progressive media outlets, and has taken her to Mexico, India, West Africa, and Palestine.
Thursday, 1/15 7pm-9pm, Sacramento:
Marxists School of Sacramento Lecture Series Sierra 2 Center 2791 24th Street, Sacramento, 95818
show less
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