Among those turning out to support the strike by Hollywood writers -- now in its 10th week-- have been members of the Animation Guild (IATSE Local 839); back in March, the animators staged a “solidarity walk” around Walt Disney Studios in Burbank with dozens of the studio’s animation production workers protesting Disney’s refusal to voluntarily recognize its unionization efforts. Those who know their Hollywood labor history will have recognized the echoes of another Hollywood strike, the 1941 walkout by hundreds of animators at Walt Disney Studios.

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The new documentary Americonned traces the history of the labor movement, as well as the devious political tactics of a select few who have influenced the course of history. But radical inequality leads to radicalization, and this powerful documentary depicts what happens when America hits its tipping point.

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AFI Silver Theatre’s Todd Hitchcock and Abbie Algar preview the first week of this year’s DC Labor FilmFest, including the Opening Night screening of BLACKBERRY with director Matt Johnson on Monday, May 1 at 7p. FREE for Labor Heritage Foundation Supporters & AFI Silver Cinema Club Members; you must CLICK HERE to RSVP and admission is first-come-first-served; doors open at 6p.  

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Carnegie Mellon professor Kathy M. Newman on how White Lotus muddies the class struggle, and argues that most of this year’s Best Picture Oscar nominees are about working class characters.

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Actor Harold Phillips sorts through this year’s Screen Actors Guild Award nominees for laborific films and television shows, from Everything Everywhere All At Once to The Fabelmans, Severance, The Bear and Abbott Elementary.

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"It's definitely a woman's story and I think that's appropriate, obviously, because the story of the Me Too movement is also a woman's story, but also because journalism is increasingly a woman's story."

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“It’s intriguing that two biopics of the 20th century’s most famous —and most working-class—superstars have appeared in 2022,” says our guest on today’s show, Carnegie Mellon professor Kathy Newman, who wrote about the films “Blonde” and “Elvis” on the Working-Class Perspectives blog in a piece entitled Marilyn and Elvis: Dead Labor in the Age of Streaming. But Elise wants to know Where are all the Black biopics, What have they done to Norma Jean, and anyway, “Black people wouldn't be crazy screaming for Elvis the way they’re portrayed in the film.” Listen to this podcast; it could save you six hours of your life!

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Peter Dreier on "5 unsung films that dramatize America’s rich labor history": Northern Lights (1978), North Country (2005), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), 10,000 Black Men Named George (2002) and Salt of The Earth (1954).

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"I don't love economic exploitation, but I do love Christmas and Christmas movies. They work to sell me stuff and ideology, but they also critique commercialism and exploitation. See what subversive messages you can find in a holiday classic. I triple dog dare you!"

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Julia Reichert’s death from cancer on December 1 at the age of 76 made headlines across the country. Most of them called her an “Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker” and that was certainly true: she was a four-time Academy Award-nominated director, for 1977’s Union Maids, Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists in 1984, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant in 2010 and American Factory, for which she won an Oscar in 2020.

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