From defending local communities from experimental nuclear projects, to fighting the border wall, to resisting pipelines that feed gigantic data centers, organizers can find valuable lessons in the fights that came before them, especially through film. Through our Screenings That Work program, organizers are using films to connect their local fights with movements that have … Continued
This summer, with record breaking temperatures worldwide, heat domes trapping hot air across the US, and wildfires choking communities, it’s a brutal time to be outside. For many of us, running back to the refuge of air conditioning is all you have to do when the heat becomes too much. But for the workers who … Continued
How can film screenings become the welcoming spaces organizers need: places where people feel invited in, and leave feeling like they belong? In this conversation, Working Films’ Director of Campaigns and Strategy, Andy Myers, chats with Daniel Solorzano with Amanecer in El Paso, Texas and Warren Tidwell with Alabama Center for Rural Organizing and Systemic … Continued
May Day is coming up! For those of us raised on a lifetime of apolitical Labor Days in the US celebrated in early September, it may come as a surprise that International Workers Day, actually falls on May 1st, a.k.a. May Day. It traces its origin to the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, where police … Continued
With mounting attacks on our most vulnerable communities, resources pulled away from the frontlines, and major cuts to public media, organizers and activists are stretched thin. In this climate, grassroots organizers’ need to build relationships and mobilize their communities for change. At a time of digital overload, unplugging and coming together IRL has become one … Continued
Our friends at We Count!, along with Dēmos, and Partners for Dignity and Rights, just released a report that exposes the exploitation underpinning the $50 billion US houseplant industry, The Human Cost of House Plants: Labor Conditions of Florida’s Plant Nursery Workers The report details the pervasiveness of poverty wages, dangerous working conditions, widespread sexual … Continued
We are living through a time defined by intensifying threats to basic rights, safety, and democracy itself. Yet even as political violence rises and divisions deepen, people everywhere are organizing, supporting each other, and imagining a different future. Amplifying stories of resistance matters now more than ever, as these threats have been steadily growing and … Continued