1913 Massacre in New York on 05/12/22
1913 Massacre in Parchment on 01/31/22
1913 Massacre will screen at the Parchment Community Library in Parchment, MI, on Monday, January 31, as part of the Great Michigan Read program. Ken and I will join by Zoom for a discussion afterwards. We love to see the film showing at town libraries. If you’d like to schedule…
1913 Massacre in Marquette on 10/30/20
1913 Massacre Featured in Rivertown Film’s Artists From the Archives Series
All sorts of activities are relocating online during the coronavirus pandemic. Cinemas and film festivals, too, are experimenting with new online offerings. Last night, as part of its Artists from the Archives series, Rivertown Film posted the Q & A session we had after a screening of 1913 Massacre in…
A Screening at Three Arrows Cooperative Society
On Friday, July 12, 1913 Massacre screened in the Norman Thomas Hall at the Three Arrows Cooperative Society in Putnam Valley, New York. After the credits rolled, a woman in the audience started singing “Joe Hill,” and everybody joined in. A classic organizing song with a rich history, “Joe Hill”…
1913 Massacre in Putnam Valley on 07/12/19
1913 Massacre in Montclair on 04/23/19
Badly Bent in Beach Haven
Back in January of 2016, a song Woody wrote in 1950 about his landlord “old man” Fred Trump made the news. This weekend, the Beach Haven apartments where Woody lived were the subject of another New York Times investigation. It’s the story of yet another rent-raising, tax-dodging Trump family scam,…
A Great Double Feature
Back in 2014 I wrote about a film called Palikari — Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre. Directed by Nikos Ventouras and produced by Lamprini Thoma, the film tells the story of Greek and other immigrant miners during the Colorado Coal Strike of 1913-1914. The other day, our friend Michael…