Dear Colleagues,
Please see the below May Day Activities for this coming weekend.
In Solidarity,
Jim
Jim Mahler, President
AFT Guild, Local 1931
1) ***Saturday, April 30th at 7:00 PM: May Day history film screening via Zoom. ( RSVP here.)
🌹We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day
April 30, 2022
We Mean to Make Things Over: A History of May Day is a new half-hour documentary video exploring how May Day became a workers’ holiday all over the world, except in the United States—despite the fact that the tragic events that inspired the holiday occurred in this country. It will premiere on zoom at 7 pm on April 30.
At a time when celebrating May Day is making a comeback, the American labor movement is showing renewed signs of life, and the socialist left is the largest since the onset of the Cold War, the appearance of We Mean to Make Things Over is extremely timely.
Using hand drawn illustrations by Berkeley artist Jos Sances, archival images and animation by L.A.-based animator Paul Zappia, edited by award-winning PBS documentary filmmaker Rick Tejada-Flores, and a compelling musical score by Sokio, We Mean to Make Things Over is an educational and entertaining tour of a long-suppressed story from American working-class history.
Writer/Director Fred Glass is a labor historian, retired union communications director, and member of East Bay DSA. He will introduce the video and answer questions afterward.
This exciting screening is co-sponsored by the EBDSA Labor and Political Education Committees. Don’t miss it!
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86075549669?pwd=V3drRnd6b1JPZjRVZWswb2xLWmJNQT09
Meeting ID: 860 7554 9669 Passcode: 749748
2) ***Sunday, 5/1 at 9:00 AM in Chicano Park, May Day Rally and March
