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1) Americonned
Publisher
Shine the Light Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As politicians on both sides of the aisle have created a protection racket for the rich and impeded unionization in the process, two workers lead a movement to unionize for the first time at one of the world's largest companies.
2) Norma Rae
Publisher
Fox Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s and '70s, Cesar Chavez and farmworker activists allied with musicians and artists to help build a movement called "La Causa". A Song for Cesar tells the story of that alliance using first-person accounts of artists, musicians, members of Chavez's family, and other key figures of the movement. Inspired by the spirit of the thousands of farmworkers who struggled for justice alongside labor leaders Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and Larry...
5) Citizen Koch
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this searing exposé on the state of democracy in America and the fracturing of the Republican Party, directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin follow the money behind the rise of the Tea Party. Alternately terrifying and funny, this documentary is an essential and powerful portrait of our political times.
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