Labor Film Festival, Worker Support Key WSU Student Labor Week of Action

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Posted on March 28, 2009 by dsalaborblogmoderator

by Stuart Elliott

The Young Democratic Socialist chapter at Wichita State University is planning an array of exciting events for the 2009 Student Labor Week of Action. In 2008, WSU students participated in the national campaign organized by Jobs with Justice for the first time. This year, Campus Progress and other campus groups are joining the YD in a greatly expanded week of action.

Students will be asked to sign a “support workers rights,” banner, to take the “tomato challenge” to learn what Florida farm workers encounter, and experience the “Student Debt Machine.” Wichita/Hutchinson Labor Federation Director Jake Lowen will be the featured speaker at a forum on April 2.

New this year is a labor film festival. From Monday, March 30 through Friday April 3, the WSU Student Labor Action Week will feature documentaries about the labor movement. A different labor-themed film will be shown at noon each day in the Rhatigan Student Center.

Monday March 30: Viva La Causa
Tuesday March 31: Mother Jones
Wednesday April 1: At the River I Stand
Thursday April 2 Sacco and Vanzeti
Friday April 3: Film- Mardi Gras: Made in China

The Student Labor Week of Action will began on Friday March27 with a “Support workers rights” banner with paint or markers Chris Hicks , a WSU political science major said,”We are making a large banner that reads Support Workers’ Rights and which will feature current state and national issues, like increasing the Kansas minimum wage and the Employee Free Choice Act. We also decided that we would put hand prints on the banner to symbolize the of workers using their hands. We will have students sign this outside the student union, and also ask students to sign postcards supporting the Employee Free Choice Act.”

On Sunday March 29:, the students will be part of the Cesar Chavez Celebration at Evergreen City Hall 3-5 pm. The celebration will feature Wichita Premiere of the Documentary Film Viva La Causa: The Story of Cesar Chavez and a Great Movement for Social Justice plus music and refreshments

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