Solidarity will be celebrating May Day with a two-day film festival about laborers in America."The Wobblies" (4:00 pm) explores the anarcho-syndicalist union, the International Workers of the World, through interviews of surviving Wobblies and historical material."Bread & Roses" (5:40 pm) is Ken Loach's award-winning film about the struggles of undocumented cleaners at an office for better pay and working conditions."Harlan County, U.S.A." (7:40 pm) is Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary about a bitterly violent miners' strike in Kentucky."Norma Rae" (9:35 pm) is Sally Field's Oscar-winning heroine of a Southern textile mill, who faces down her bosses and the police to establish a union."The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter" (11:35 pm) is an award-winning documentary which has been singled out for preservation by the National Film Preservation Board, about the lives of five working women in World War II America and what they had to face.
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