Get Ready for DC Labor and Film Fests

The second annual DC LaborFest begins Friday, May 1, and runs the entire month and includes the 15th annual DC Labor FilmFest, as well as labor arts, including music, theater, poetry, books, art and history. The DC LaborFest features one of the most well-established film festivals in the world dedicated to showcasing labor art and screening films featuring workers and workers’ issues.

The DC LaborFest includes more than 50 labor arts events from the labor films to concerts, walking and biking history tours, conferences and happy hours. Click here to download a detailed schedule of events andhere for LaborFest updates.

You also can click here for trailers of a dozen of the films that will be screened as part of the DC Labor FilmFest.

This blog originally appeared in aflcio.org on April 25, 2015. Reprinted with permission.

About the Author: Mike Hall is a former West Virginia newspaper reporter, staff writer for the United Mine Workers Journaland managing editor of the Seafarers Log.  He came to the AFL- CIO in 1989 and has written for several federation publications, focusing on legislation and politics, especially grassroots mobilization and workplace safety.

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Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.