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Feb. 26th, 2006 11:00 amMy mad rush of panic actually paid off yesterday! I have only a bit more to do on the freelance thing, my laundry is hanging up downstairs, and the meeting went on. Afterwards, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brownfist and I watched The Wobblies and decided that we were not going to show it at the upcoming Wobbly film night. While it's completely and utterly fascinating if you're already a Fellow Worker and you want to know about the early history of the union (they interview people who were active in the 1910s!), we'd come off as looking like some kind of lefty historical society. Everyone they interview in it is old, except for Utah Phillips, who looks downright spry -- an indication of just how old the movie is.
This said, if you can get past the initial dorkumentary-ness of the whole thing, it still seems surprisingly relevant. Listen to them talk about the scapegoating of immigrants, replace WWI with the "War on Terror," replace "agent of the Kaiser/Bolsheviks" with "terrorist" and all of a sudden, a hundred years or so doesn't seem like a very long time. It's fascinating to hear Big Bill talk, in 1905, about intellectual labour and about expanding the union movement beyond skilled manual trades, given that there's no way he could have foreseen the rise of tertiary industries or the information age.
Still, there's no getting over the fact that it's a movie where they interview a bunch of old people, and we're trying to look young and relevant. Anyone have any recommendations for a better movie to show? And don't say Bread and Roses. We know about that one.
Also, I forgot to mention the other day how disappointed I am in Horowitz that ARA doesn't appear on Discover the Network, despite the fact that our chapter is funded by Israel and Al Qaeda.
Ted Nugent Quote of the Day:
brownfist and I watched The Wobblies and decided that we were not going to show it at the upcoming Wobbly film night. While it's completely and utterly fascinating if you're already a Fellow Worker and you want to know about the early history of the union (they interview people who were active in the 1910s!), we'd come off as looking like some kind of lefty historical society. Everyone they interview in it is old, except for Utah Phillips, who looks downright spry -- an indication of just how old the movie is.This said, if you can get past the initial dorkumentary-ness of the whole thing, it still seems surprisingly relevant. Listen to them talk about the scapegoating of immigrants, replace WWI with the "War on Terror," replace "agent of the Kaiser/Bolsheviks" with "terrorist" and all of a sudden, a hundred years or so doesn't seem like a very long time. It's fascinating to hear Big Bill talk, in 1905, about intellectual labour and about expanding the union movement beyond skilled manual trades, given that there's no way he could have foreseen the rise of tertiary industries or the information age.
Still, there's no getting over the fact that it's a movie where they interview a bunch of old people, and we're trying to look young and relevant. Anyone have any recommendations for a better movie to show? And don't say Bread and Roses. We know about that one.
Also, I forgot to mention the other day how disappointed I am in Horowitz that ARA doesn't appear on Discover the Network, despite the fact that our chapter is funded by Israel and Al Qaeda.
Ted Nugent Quote of the Day:
Something about guns—their fascinating and romantic history, mechanical and aesthetic beauty, the shooting fun, firepower, the marksmanship challenge, their unique lifesaving properties, and their mystical charisma—create one hell of an attractant. Knowing and accepting this to be true, the simple and intelligent response is to initiate a gun dialogue with family members, especially children.
