[Discussion] May Day Labor Film Festival

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

The 4th annual May Day Labor Film Festival , "Reel Work" Location: 
California,
United States

The 4th annual May Day Labor Film Festival , "Reel Work" Begins on 
Sunday April
24th, 2005 and runs through May 1st in Santa Cruz County, USA. Reel Work
features films, speakers and discussions highlighting the historical 
victories
and ongoing struggles of labor movements all across the globe. This year's
festival includes premier screenings of an important new film on the 
infamous
Centralia Massacre of 1919 as well as a new film on the Wal- Martization 
of the
US economy. The special theme of this year's Reel Work is the 100th 
anniversary
of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) a radical union of 
immigrants, the
unskilled and unemployed formed to challenge the worst ravages of 
capitalism.
The festival concludes with a May Day march and gala celebration dinner 
hosted
by the Monterey Bay Central A schedule is available from 
www.reelwork.org which
will list the times, dates, locations, movies, speakers and a small 
synopsis of
each film. Volunteers are needed! For further information, please 
contact Paul
Ortiz (contact information follows).

Paul Ortiz
Department of Community Studies
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
831-459-5583
Email: portiz@ucsc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.reelwork.org