Social Justice Film Festival - Goodwin's Way
Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:30pm
Goodwin’s Way explores a British Columbia town’s resistance to a coal-powered future 100 years after the killing of controversial local labor activist Ginger Goodwin.
(Neil Vokey, 56 min, Canada)
Screens With:
The Real Work
This film interrogates the concept of “hard work” through interviews and a social experiment in which 15 people dig holes in a field during a tempestuous Vermont day.
(Jamie McCallum, 5 min, USA)
A Job I Can Enjoy
The first time Shymara Jones, a Popeye’s worker, went to a protest, she didn’t know where she was supposed to stand. The second time she went on strike, she brought 6 of her coworkers with her, soon becoming a leader in the growing movement for $15 and a union for fast food workers. (Milena Velis, 10 min, USA)
Fare Share
Through the stories of four Uber and Lyft drivers, this film explores the complexities of the ride-share industry, revealing the challenges of protecting workers’ rights as the nature of work evolves. (Adrienne von Wolffersdorff, 30 min, USA)