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Love & solidarity : James Lawson & nonviolence in the search for workers rights / Bullfrog Films presents a film by Michael Honey and Errol Webber.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lawson, James M., 1928-2024--Interviews.
- Lawson, James M.
- Lawson, James M., 1928-.
- Nonviolence.
- Social movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Social movements.
- Foreign workers--Labor unions.
- History.
- Foreign workers.
- United States.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights workers--United States.
- Civil rights workers.
- Foreign workers--Labor unions--United States--History--20th century.
- Films for hard of hearing people.
- Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (38 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Love and solidarity
- James Lawson & nonviolence in the search for workers rights
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English, closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Love and Solidarity is an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while working with Martin Luther King, Jr., in southern freedom struggles and the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. Moving to Los Angeles in 1974, Lawson continued his nonviolence organizing in multi-racial community and worker coalitions that have helped to remake the LA labor movement. Through interviews and historical documents, acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award-winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Lawson's discourse on nonviolent direct action on the front burner of today's struggles against economic inequality, racism and violence, and for human rights, peace, and economic justice.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Defining violence and nonviolence
- Lawson's early years to civil rights movement
- Civil Rights Movement overview
- Memphis sanitation strike; Death of King; Perseverance
- Introduction to Los Angeles
- Transforming LA Labor Movement through nonviolence
- Inequality; Immigrants and labor; Dream Act
- Love, forgiveness, inclusion and solidarity
- Using the power of nonviolence
- Credits.
- Participant:
- James M. Lawson, Kent Wong, Maria Elena Durazo, Mario De Leon, Ilse Escobar.
- Credits:
- Director, Michael Honey ; cinematography, Errol Weber ; editor, Adam Mizrahi.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: University of Washington, ©2015-2016.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 7, 2016).
- Interviews were conducted in Los Angeles in 2014. Main speeches by James Lawson are from talks at the University of Washington Tacoma, Shilo Baptist Church in Tacoma in 2008, and from the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention in Los Angeles.
- Publisher Number:
- bf-love Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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