Workers Solidarity Movement

Join us Thursday, 29th March at Solidarity Books for a double-bill screening of “Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women (2010) – Jean Kilbourne”, followed by “Mother Jones: America’s Most Dangerous Woman (2007) – Rosemary Feurer and Laura Vazquez” (details of film below).

Start time is 8pm.

All welcome, donations appreciated.

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Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women (2010) – Jean Kilbourne In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes — images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne’s groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular
culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.

Mother Jones: America’s Most Dangerous Woman is a new documentary about the amazing labor heroine, Cork-born Mary Harris Jones, known as “Mother” Jones.
Mother Jones mobilized thousands of workers in struggles for justice in the early 20th century.


The documentary shows how Mother Jones’ organizing career influenced the history of early 20th century United States.
Featuring historian Elliott Gorn, leading biographer of Mother Jones, it shows how Mother Jones transformed personal and political grief and rage into an effective persona that led workers into battles that changed the course of history.
For labor activists such as Mother Jones, labor and civil rights such as freedom of speech and assembly were often a goal rather than a reality. The documentary evokes the terrible conditions and labor oppression that motivated her to travel across the country, mobilizing thousands to fight back.


The documentary includes rare photos as well as the only existing live footage of her at age “100” proclaiming she is still a radical, still awaits the day that the people will “replace this moneyed civilization,” and “longs for the day when labor will have the destination of the nation in her own hands.”

trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlmho_RovY