[pr-x] reminder - LEFT FILM NIGHT - Sunday, April 28, "Bloody Saturday: The Winnipeg General Strike"

[Kimball Cariou]

/*LEFT FILM NIGHT */
*"BLOODY SATURDAY - THE WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE OF 1919"*

/*Sunday, April 28, 2019, 7 pm*
Centre for Socialist Education, on Unceded Coast Salish Territories
706 Clark Drive, Vancouver (corner of Clark & E. Georgia)/
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/(//Directed by Andrew Blicq, 43 minutes)
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Join us to mark the 100th anniversary of the most significant general 
strike in the history of Canada.

In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked off the job and into the 
history books, launching the largest strike in Canadian history. It 
lasted six weeks and ended in the violence of Bloody Saturday, a day 
organized labour has never forgotten or forgiven. The strike was a 
powerful protest against low wages, poor working conditions and a lack 
of bargaining rights, but the Winnipeg elite and the federal government 
portrayed it as an attempt by immigrants to import “Bolshevism” and a 
new political order. The CBC documentary /Bloody Saturday/ takes a 
contemporary look at the key moments of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike 
and how lives were lost and changed.

Left Film Nights are presented by the Centre for Socialist Education, 
Young Communist League, and the Vancouver East Club of the Communist 
Party of Canada.

For info, call 604-255-2041, email <pvoice at telus.net>

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