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The first-ever Global Labor Film Festival kicks off on May Day, as screenings from the U.S., Australia, England, Israel and Norway launch more than a dozen screenings of labor films around the world.

Greek Workers Occupy and Run Their Factory
After 3 days of intense mobilization, the factory of Vio.Me. (Viomihaniki Metalleftiki) has started production under workers’ control earlier today! It is the first experiment in industrial self-management in crisis-striken Greece, and the workers of Vio.Me. are confident this is going to be only the first in a series of such endeavors.

North Country
North Country is a 2005 American drama film directed by Niki Caro. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Company.

Brassed Off (trailer)
Laid-off miners in 90′s England. A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope for the town’s men is to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition.

Ken Loach documentary

Bread and Roses (trailer)
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its «justice for janitors» campaign to the building.

Norma Rae (trailer)
Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film that tells the story of a factory worker from a small town in North Carolina, who becomes involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where she works. The film stars Sally Field in the titular role.

How Football Can Fight Islamophobia (trailer)
This is a trailer for Islamophobia – an anti-racist film from the Show Racism the Red Card Campaign in England.

The Brotherhood of Man
An animated short film sponsored by the United Autoworkers which breaks down various racist ideas of difference among peoples. In some ways the presentation will seem
awkward to a modern audience, but considering when it was made and the intended audience (rank-and-file white workers), it is an impressive document.

Photo Booth
It’s a lonely job, but someone’s got to do it — time to get organized maybe…

Mouseland
The Story of Mouseland was a story first told by Clarence Gillis, and later and most famously by Tommy Douglas. The system was flawed in offering voters a false dilemma: the choice of two parties, neither of which represented their interests. The mice voted in black cats, which represented the Progressive Conservative Party, and then they found out how hard life was. Then they voted in the white cats, which symbolized the Liberal Party. The story goes on, and a mouse gets an idea that mice should run their government, not the cats. This mouse was accused of being a Bolshevik, and imprisoned. However, the speech concludes by saying you can lock up a mouse or a person, but you cannot lock up an idea.