Does This Still Work?

It's not a sequel. It's not a remake. It's simply another Bad Lieutenant but this time he's in New Orleans and he is Nicolas Cage. Does that make it better or worse?

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Calvin

• Radio Free Brooklyn

• https://www.radiofreebrooklyn.org/

• MejisticLV - Twitch

• https://www.twitch.tv/mejisticlv

Hurricane Katrina

https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/hurricane-katrina

Inquiries

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/us/09orleans.html

Cops go up the river

www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/04/new-orleans-police-officers-katrina

It is the final movie in our Union Films Series. Here we look at an 80s movie about 20s coal miners attempting to unionize under horrible circumstances. Have a listen.

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Few Clothes Johnson/Dan Chain

https://youtu.be/BE6Pxb9pL4s?si=4jxaKw9aPzoJaDcZ

https://www.facebook.com/WVMineWarsMuseum/posts/today-this-image-of-dan-chain-known-to-fellow-miners-as-few-clothes-johnson-now-/1654995611189565/

Fire In The Hole

Lyrics by John Sayles and Mason Daring

Music by Mason Daring

(c) 1987 Daring Music/ASCAP

Sung by Hazel Dickens

Fire in the Hole (feat. Hazel Dickens)

Before her Oscar willing performance here, Sally Field was a flying nun on TV and starred in a movie about smuggling 400 cases of Coors beer. So, this was a step up. Anyway, join the boys for our latest installment of Union movies month.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics

https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1979.pdf

Steelworkers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1979/01/19/steelworkers-to-strike-newport-news/ce2768b5-49b2-4c43-b5a1-74a43e59f388/

Massacre

https://www.newspapers.com/image/1027948284/?terms=WVO&match=1

We continue our union films month with this forgotten Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto flick from 1978.

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Work Stoppage 1978

https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/work-stoppages-1978.pdf

Detroit Edison

https://www.newspapers.com/image/210099983/?terms=coal%20strike&match=1

Wildcat Strike

https://www.flickr.com/photos/washington_area_spark/albums/72157631529687429/

We kick off union movie month (in March, get it?) with this chestnut from the forties picked by our Patreons. This comedy, about a boss spying on workers who want to form a union, was a box office hit back in its day. How does it hold up over eighty years later?

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Labor Stats of 1941

https://www.bls.gov/wsp/publications/annual-summaries/pdf/strikes-1941-and-affecting-defense-production.pdf

On Just One Day in March, 1941

https://www.newspapers.com/image/432573705/?terms=Strike&match=22

Four guys in 2010 go back in time to the 1980s and do almost exactly the sort of humor you got out of many 1980s comedies. Now two guys in 2024 go back to 2010 and judge them for it.

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Iraq War Ends

https://www.newspapers.com/article/national-post/140058578/

Remember Shelley Long? No? How about Bette Midler? She's still working isn't she? Well, Midler and Long did a movie together and a non AI George Carlin was also in it and the boys are gonna discuss.

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Johathan Pollard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard

Relations

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-albuquerque-tribune/139055790/

Tough Sentence

https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday/139056076/

Boy meets girl. Girl treat's boy like boy treat's girls. And boy does not like this one bit. But what do Joe and George think? You'll have to listen to find out.

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First Black Woman In Space

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/138628089/

The first and only X rated movie to win an Oscar, this story about a hustler and his ratty friend was devastating for its time. But is it still?

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The Times and The Daily News Cover Stonewall

https://www.womenshistory.org/sites/default/files/document/2020-04/Stonewall%20and%20Marsha%20Johnson%20Documents.pdf

Love might lift us up where we belong and the eagles cry, on a mountain high but does that make for a good movie?

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Hillary Schwartz

https://www.youtube.com/hilaryes

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Navy Recruitment

https://www.newspapers.com/image/736708096/?terms=Navy%20Recruitment&match=1

Military Wives

https://www.newspapers.com/image/803804713/?terms=Military%20life&match=1