Love & solidarity : Rev. James Lawson & nonviolence in the search for workers' rights / Bullfrog Films presents a film by Michael Honey and Errol Webber ; produced by Michael Honey, Errol Webber ; directed by Michael Honey.
Publisher:
Bullfrog Films,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2016. James M. Lawson, Kent Wong, Maria Elena Durazo, Mario De Leon, Ilse Escobar. 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.
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.
Summary:
What can people do to change a world full of violence and hate? Is nonviolent revolution possible? 'Love and Solidarity' addresses these questions through the life and thought of Rev. James Lawson, an African American Methodist minister who worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., to initiate civil rights struggles in the South in the 1960s, and in recent years taught nonviolence organizing to poor Black and Latino workers in coalitions that have remade the labor movement in Los Angeles. Through interviews with Rev. Lawson and historic film footage, acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award-winning filmmaker Errol Webber place a needed discourse on nonviolent social change at the forefront of today's struggles against violence and for human rights, peace, and economic justice.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.