Dear friends,

Please lend us your support by spreading the word about this exciting festival to all of your friends in Northern California.

The 3rd Annual May Day Labor Film Festival, titled "Reel Work", will be from April 25th to May 1st, 2004, in celebration of International Workers' Day. The purpose of the festival is to increase community awareness of the history and culture of the U.S. and international labor movement. Filmmakers, producers, labor historians and union organizers featured in the films will be present to introduce films and lead discussion.

Admission will be by donation.

We have a dynamic and inspiring line-up of films and speakers this year: from Haskell Wexler, legendary cinematographer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Matewan, Bound for Glory and countless others, to filmmaker/human rights' activist Marta Rodriguez, who is traveling all the way from Bogota, Colombia, to join us, to accomplished actor, Ian Ruskin, who is performing a one-man play about the life of ILWU labor leader, Harry Bridges.

Topics include the recent FTAA protests in Miami, the multiracial grassroots movement of the L.A. Bus Riders Union, the organizing efforts of garment workers in sweatshops in Thailand and Bangladesh, and flower nursery workers in Colombia. Films range from classics such as Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and At the River I Stand, to local premieres about the recent Safeway strike and the Oakland docks anti-war protest of last April.