>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:23:38 -0800 >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [workfare] A DAY'S WORK --A Video Documentary >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Status: > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >COME TO A SCREENING OF >A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY >A Video Documentary�A Powerful Organizing Tool > >"A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY" is a one-hour video documentary that >follows three men and women through New York City's workfare program, >the Work Experience Program (WEP), one of the largest and most >aggressive workfare programs in the country. The video exposes the >economic and racial injustices of workfare and documents the >organizing efforts of welfare recipients to demand jobs creation, job >training, access to education, and quality child care. > >WHEN: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4th, Doors open at 7 pm, screening starts at >7:30 pm WHERE: CUNY GRADUATE CENTER AUDITORIUM-365 FIFTH AVE. @ 34th >St. RSVP: 212-817-8215 (leave name and address) > >"A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY" will be broadcast on PBS Television >nationally in 2002. In addition to the television broadcast, the film >will be used as an educational and organizing tool with welfare >rights groups, community organizations, unions, high-schools, >universities, policymakers, and communities of faith in New York City >and across the country. > >"A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY" was produced by Kathy Leichter and >Jonathan Skurnik, the co-founders of Mint Leaf Productions, a media >production company dedicated to creating social issue documentaries >and videos for television, non-profits, unions, and community >organizations. > >Here's what some folks have said about "A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY": > >"The silver lining of the nation's meanspirited welfare reform >program is that it has bred active resistance. 'A Day's Work, A Day's >Pay' features workfare participants who refused to take the brutality >of welfare reform lying down. Drawing almost exclusively on the >typically unheard voices of recipients, this beautiful film offers an >amazingly authentic picture of workfare and the people that struggle >against it. This compelling story of brave low-income individuals >organizing effectively for social change should not be missed." Mimi >Ambramovitz, Professor, Hunter College School of Social Work. > >"This remarkable film is about mean social policy and the impressive >efforts of grassroots organizations to fight back. Documentaries >often fail to tell both the human and the political story. 'A Day's >Work, A Day's Pay' tells both." Peter Edelman, Professor of Law, >Georgetown University Law Center > >"A brilliant film about poverty, welfare reform, and the spirit of >the people who suffer both. We will become a better country with >better policies if every American sees this." Frances Fox Piven, >Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, City >University of New York Graduate School. > >To order a copy of "A DAY'S WORK, A DAY'S PAY" call 1-888-367-9154, >email [EMAIL PROTECTED], or write: New Day Films, 22-D Hollywood >Avenue, Hohokus, NJ, 07432. >To reach Mint Leaf Productions, call: 212-952-0121, ext. 229 or >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >"A Day's Work, A Day's Pay" is produced in association with the >Independent Television Service with funding provided by the >Corporation for Public Broadcasting. "A Day's Work, A Day's Pay" is a >fiscally sponsored project of The New York Foundation for the Arts. >This event is co-sponsored by Continuing Education & Public Programs, >The Graduate Center, CUNY. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > Workfare-defeat: a list for discussion about the international > resistance to workfare To subscribe, post to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with > "subscribe workfare-defeat" in the BODY of the message > ** This material may be freely distributed, provided this ** > ** footer is included in full. ** >
