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Film & Panel Discussion

Wednesday, April 4th
6pm-8pm
Bell Museum
10 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN

AFSCME Local 3800 is hosting a film screening and panel discussion to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the anniversary of his assassination. “At the River I Stand” (1993) will be shown Wednesday, April 4 at 6:00 p.m. at the Bell Museum, located at thfilm se corner of University Ave. and 17th Ave. SE in Minneapolis on the University of Minnesota campus. The film documents Dr. King’s last two months alive and his work with the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis in 1968. This powerful documentary illuminates the connections between economic and civil rights through these public employees’ fight for dignity and justice.

The film will be followed by a panel discussion with: Rose Brewer, professor of African-American and African Studies, University of Minnesota; Aaron Sojourner, labor economist, Carlson School of Management; Eliot Seide, executive director, AFSCME Council 5; Peter Rachleff, professor of Labor History, Macalester College; and Joe Burns, author of Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power & Transform America.

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