[L-I] Michael Moore (1 PM) & _An Injury to One_ with Dan La Botz (7:30 PM)

--- Thursday, October 30, 2003, 1:00 PM ---

DUDE, WHERE'S MY COUNTRY?

Michael Moore is best known for his documentary _Bowling for 
Columbine_.  His unique look at gun control was a favorite at many 
film festivals around the world and won the Oscar for best 
documentary.  Michael is back at it again with his latest book _Dude, 
Where's My Country_.
 
On Thursday, October 30th at 1:00 p.m., Michael Moore will be in the 
East Ballroom in the Ohio Union (the floor plan of the Ohio Union at 
<http://www.ohiounion.com/maps/floor01.asp>), 1739 North High Street, 
Columbus, OH.  He will be sharing some of his thoughts and signing 
copies of his new book.  If you have not had the chance to pick up 
your copy, don't worry -- there will be copies for sale in the East 
Ballroom.
 
The event is free and open to the public.  Please come and enjoy an 
afternoon with Michael Moore. 
 
Courtesy of: 
Students for Labor and Economic Justice (SLEJ)

--- Thursday, October 30, 2003, 7:30 PM ---

Screening _An Injury to One_ (Dir. Travis Wilkerson)
&
Lecture by Dan La Botz

WHEN: Thursday, October 30, 2003, 7:30 PM
WHERE: Journalism Building, Room 300, 242 West 18th Ave. (at the 
corner of 18th and Neil Aves.), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Campus Map: 
<http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/map/linkbuildings/journalismbuilding.html>
Campus Parking Map: <http://www.tp.ohio-state.edu/maps/campusmap.shtml>
Directions to Campus: <http://www.osu.edu/visitors/directions.html>
All Events Are Free & Open to the Public.

Oct. 30 - _An Injury to One_ (Dir. Travis Wilkerson), with Dan La Botz

Dan La Botz, the author of _Rank-and-File Rebellion: Teamsters for a 
Democratic Union_ (1990, 
<http://www.versobooks.com/books/klm/labotz_tdu.shtml>), _Mask of 
Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today_ (1992, 
<http://www.southendpress.org/books/MaskofDem.htm>), _Democracy in 
Mexico: Peasant Rebellion and Political Reform_ (1995, 
<http://www.southendpress.org/books/DeminMex.htm>), and _Made in 
Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto_ (2001, 
<http://www.southendpress.org/books/MadeinIndonesia.shtml>), will 
introduce the documentary _An Injury to One_ and lead the 
post-screening discussion about what we can learn from radical labor 
history and how we can make use of it in today's struggles against 
exploitation and oppression.

_An Injury to One_ provides a glimpse of a particularly volatile 
moment in early 20th century American labor history: the rise and 
fall of Butte, Montana, chronicling the mysterious death of Wobbly 
organizer Frank Little.  Butte's history was entirely shaped by its 
exploitation by the Anaconda Mining Company, which, at the height of 
WWI, produced ten percent of the world's copper from the town's 
depths.  War profiteering and the company's extreme indifference to 
the safety of its workers (mortality rates in the mines were higher 
than in the trenches of Europe) led to Little's arrival.  "The 
agitator" found in the desperate, agonized miners overwhelming 
support for his ideas, which included the abolishment of the wage 
system and the establishment of a socialist commonwealth.  In August 
1917, Little was abducted by still-unknown assailants who hung him 
from a railroad bridge.  Pinned to his chest was a note that read 
3'-7'-77", dimensions of a Montana grave.  Eight thousand people 
attended his funeral, the largest in Butte's history.  Butte's 
history is bound with the entire history of the American left, the 
rise of McCarthyism, and the destruction of the environment.  Cf. 
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/wilk-o04.shtml>

Sponsors: Al-Awda-Ohio, Social Welfare Action Alliance, Solidarity, & 
Student International Forum
Website: <http://www.service.ohio-state.edu/students/sif/>
Contact: Yoshie Furuhashi, 614-668-6554, <[email protected]>; and 
Keith Kilty, 614-292-7181, <[email protected]>

-- 
Yoshie

* Bring Them Home Now! <http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/>
* Calendars of Events in Columbus: 
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, 
<http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/>
* Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/>
* Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
* Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>

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