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Why 9 to 5 Still Resonates Today
When Dolly Parton first tapped out the beat to her iconic song 9 to 5 more than forty years ago, a movement of working women was taking off. 9 to 5 the movie catapulted those women’s demands for rights and respect into the public debate, legitimizing the often-unspoken grievances of the growing women’s workforce. We’ve seen some progress. Women are no longer restricted to a handful of occupations, and sexual harassment is no longer a personal shame but a public scandal.
Organizing in Good Times and Bad: What We Need To Get Right
Organizing in Good Times and Bad: What We Need To Get Right Published January 27, 2024 When I visited Barcelona last spring, I took a guided tour about the Spanish Civil War and later told my 99-year-old father about it.
Organizing in Good Times and Bad: What We Need to Get Right
“In good times, organizations wrest and secure our gains. In bad times, they help withstand the inevitable chaos from backlash, repression and sectarianism.” When I visited Barcelona last spring, I took a guided tour about the Spanish Civil War and later told my 99-year-old father about it.
Organizing in Good Times and Bad: What We Need to Get Right
When I visited Barcelona last spring, I took a guided tour about the Spanish Civil War and later told my 99-year-old father about it. Dad’s politics were those of a New Deal Democrat, so I was surprised when he showed me his copy of the latest issue of “The Volunteer,” the newsletter of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive, and told me he had wanted to fight in Spain but couldn’t because he was too young—he was still in grammar school.
SummerSeries in Trillium Park Hosts Eight Weekends of Live Original
Toronto, ON., June 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SummerSeries in Trillium Park has an exciting season of programming offering the perfect setting to enjoy music, arts, wellness, and nature. Starting July 1 until late-September, visitors are invited to join in on the fun and support local, Ontario-based, and international artists, for a variety of free arts and culture events, including live musical performances and outdoor yoga classes in beautiful Trillium Park on Toronto’s waterfront.
Lumière: The Art of Light Shines Bright in Trillium Park Original
Toronto, ON., Feb. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (TORONTO – February 7, 2023) – Ontario Place’s outdoor public art exhibition, a visitor favourite in 2019, will return this year. Lumière: The Art of Light (formerly Winter Light Exhibition) is an acclaimed annual art event that will temporarily transform Trillium Park, its new home for 2023. Lumiere, the French word for "light," combines art and light to create unique installations down by the waterfront.
“The Left Has Failed To Deepen Democracy” an Interview With Filipino Labor Leader Josua Mata
Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines 50 years ago this September. After decades of struggle, Filipinos are confronting life under the rule of his son, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. “We haven’t learned our lesson,” one former activist and victim told the New York Times.
European union leaders on the fight for democracy
As core democratic institutions, trade unions have had to learn hard lessons on defeating authoritarianism. ‘The right wing isn’t new,’ Luca Visentini, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) said in 2016 at a trans-Atlantic discussion on the rise of the right. ‘From the 1920s through the 1980s, we’ve had Nazism, fascism and dictatorships. Then the far right idled.
Unions Protect Democracy. How Do We Protect Unions?
20 global labor leaders weigh in on the myriad ways the right is threatening organizing efforts. July 13, 2022 A former guerrilla fighter is elected president in Colombia, and Filipinos choose Bongbong Marcos, the son of a dictator, to lead their country. Meanwhile, other nations around the world are teetering between democracy and authoritarianism. Why is democracy so precarious and what is the role of unions in this fight?
Unions Protect Democracy. How Do We Protect Unions?
A former guerrilla fighter is elected president in Colombia, and Filipinos choose Bongbong Marcos, the son of a dictator, to lead their country. Meanwhile, other nations around the world are teetering between democracy and authoritarianism. Why is democracy so precarious and what is the role of unions in this fight? I talked with 20 global labor leaders who came to the AFL-CIO convention in June about their winning strategies, what’s working, and how they resist repression.
Women organizing to win: 9to5 yesterday; the PRO Act today
The original 9 to 5 movement of the 1970s won changes that are still felt today. | Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute If you’ve never had to make coffee for your boss, it’s thanks to women who organized in the 1970s.
9to5 Brought Women Into Labor and Working-Class Women Into the Women’s Movement
Interview by Marianela D’Aprile Amid the fevered political upsurges of the late 1960s and early ’70s, a group of women office workers in Boston founded an organization called 9to5. One of these women was Karen Nussbaum.
The Labor Feminism of 9to5 Should Guide Our Organizing Today
It’s hard to imagine, but the zany 1980 fantasy-comedy film 9 to 5, starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Lily Tomlin, was initially going to be a drama. When Fonda took on the project of making a movie about the exploitation, harassment, abuse, and mistreatment women suffered in the workplace, she approached it with all the seriousness she thought the topic called for.
9to5 Brought Women Into Labor and Working-Class Women Into the Women’s Movement
Interview by Marianela D’Aprile Amid the fevered political upsurges of the late 1960s and early ’70s, a group of women office workers in Boston founded an organization called 9to5. One of these women was Karen Nussbaum.
Are there any persuadable voters left in the US? – Karen Nussbaum
‘White working-class men’ are seen as the hard core of Trump’s support, yet a big group of working-class voters—black, brown and white—are persuadable. ‘Voters have made up their minds,’ reads one recent headline. ‘Blue collar men … are the core of Trump’s base of support, and their enthusiasm has only deepened,’ the Washington Post asserts.
What Mrs. America Leaves Out
What Mrs. America Leaves Out The 1970s women’s movement included a wave of organizing in the workplace. 9to5, a new documentary, tells the story of a movement. Karen Nussbaum ▪ September 18, 2020 A still from 9to5: The Story of a Movement According to Mrs. America,the TV series in the running for five Emmy Awards this weekend, Phyllis Schlafly and the conservative women’s movement she led out-organized the drive to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) during the 1970s.
‘Impunity Is the Story of Our Times’
Joshua Oppenheimer is an award-winning filmmaker, best known for his Oscar-nominated films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014). The films reckon with the mass murder of more than one million Indonesians largely by paramilitary gangs in 1965-1966, and the lasting impunity of the perpetrators who remain in power. Vanity Fair called The Act of Killing “a bravura exploration,” and IndieWire ranked the two films No. 4 on their “Best of the Decade” list.
‘We Don’t Just Interview People Once’
Julia Reichert, who was awarded an Oscar earlier this year for her film American Factory, has been making documentary films for 50 years. Known as “a godmother of the American independent film movement,” her award-winning films have focused on women and labor.
What Do Swing Women Voters Want?
On a cold night in January, I canvassed in rural Hudson, Wisconsin. Because it was so cold—about 4 degrees—Nancy and Ted invited me and fellow canvasser Ginger to come inside. They had both supported Trump in 2016, but Nancy was disappointed. She didn’t like the border wall, she didn’t think the tax cuts were fair, she thought it should be easier to join a union. She would consider voting for a Democrat. Ted gamely tried to hold his ground while she glared at him.
The Climate Crisis and the White Working Class
I’ve been getting arrested with Jane Fonda over the last few months, doing my part to ring the alarm bell on the climate crisis. I spend most of the rest of my time with Working America, an AFL-CIO–backed national membership organization for working people without a union, reaching out to undecided working-class voters and talking with them about jobs and the economy. These are people who many assume are climate deniers. So, am I working against myself?
Politics Should Look More Like Organizing
By Karen Nussbaum Television ads smearing an opponent. Flyers that fill your mailbox. Social media messages that clog your online life. Sounds like a typical election year. In the 2016 election, $4.6 billion – that’s right, billion – was spent on messaging and media and only $160 million on organizing. That means the investment in talking with people was only 3.5% of what was spent talking at people, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Opinion | Democratic Candidates Need to Listen to These Voters
A dozen candidates for the Democratic presidential primary will debate on Tuesday in Westerville, Ohio. They will go back and forth on whether policies should be centrist or progressive and how much to talk about President Trump in an effort to balance appeals to primary voters now and a broader coalition later. But the Ohio voters who are up for grabs aren’t thinking about left or right. They’re focused on solving the problems plaguing their families right now.
Remaking 9 to 5? What Today’s Working Women Want to See
The press has reported rumors that Hollywood may be planning a sequel to 9 to 5—the 1980 hit film comedy that starred Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, and Lily Tomlin as office workers taking abuse from, and then getting revenge against, their sexist boss. Which raises a question: How much of the story needs to change to make it relevant today? How much of the song? ...
Remaking 9 to 5? What Today’s Working Women Want to See
Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton at the premiere of "9 to 5" in Beverly Hills, 1980. The press has reported rumors that Hollywood may be planning a sequel to 9 to 5—the 1980 hit film comedy that starred Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, and Lily Tomlin as office workers taking abuse from, and then getting revenge against, their sexist boss. Which raises a question: How much of the story needs to change to make it relevant today? How much of the song? ...
Class Consciousness Comes to America
Rosedale Avenue is a quiet street in Columbus, Ohio, with compact houses that are showing some wear. I recently spent an evening talking with some of the residents on their doorsteps about their jobs, the economy and the future. Tom, a friendly 23-year old covered in tattoos, was just pulling up to his home with his wife Megan, 22, and their two toddlers. They’d been middle-school sweethearts and have been working hard to build a life.
Beltway Blues - Dissent Magazine
Beltway Blues The Democratic Party in the second year of the Trump presidency is both remarkably united and notably amorphous. But this era of fifty-fifty politics will not go on forever. A left turn is long overdue. ▪ Summer 2018 The Democratic Party in the second year of the Trump presidency is simultaneously remarkably united and notably amorphous.
Rebuilding the Working Class
Trump isn’t an aberration but a consequence. He is a harrowing mix of monster and buffoon and rallying those who are outraged will be an important part of winning in 2018. But two generations of a falling standard of living and quality of life for most working people have led them to believe that politicians just aren’t that into them.
Where Are the Women at the Oscars: The Stats
Category: Art and Entertainment Where Are the Women at the Oscars: The Stats By Rachel Larris | February 23, 2012 Got your Oscar scorecards ready? The Women Media Center has ours: Here’s the “scorecard” of women nominated for 84th Annual Academy Awards.
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