Workers Unite Film Festival 2023

Love and Solidarity: James Lawson and Nonviolence In The Search For Workers' Rights

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LOVE & SOLIDARITY is an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while working with Martin Luther King, Jr., in southern freedom struggles and the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. Moving to Los Angeles in 1974, Lawson continued his nonviolence organizing in multi-racial community and worker coalitions that have helped to remake the LA labor movement.


Through interviews and historical documents, acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey ("To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice") and award-winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Lawson's discourse on nonviolent direct action on the front burner of today's struggles against economic inequality, racism and violence, and for human rights, peace, and economic justice.


"A must see for students, teachers, and activists." - Premilla Nadasen, Assoc. Prof. History, Barnard College


More reviews and info: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/love.html


This screening is co-sponsored by the DC Labor FilmFest (Washington, D.C.), the Rochester Labor Film Series (NY), the Socialist Labor Party Hall in Barre (VT), and the Labor Heritage Foundation (D.C.) as part of the Global Labor FilmFest Network (GLFF) 2023 Online Screening Series.

  • Year
    2016
  • Runtime
    38 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Michael Honey
  • Producer
    Michael Honey and Errol Webber
  • Editor
    Adam Mizrahi