On May 22nd, connect with both global labor history and the ongoing fight for worker justice in this country when the Murphy Institute hosts a screening of Blood Fruit, the award-winning film documentary about the historic 1984 South African anti-apartheid labor strike. Director Sinead O’Brien and subjects from the film who staged the historic strike will be on hand, as will Kendall Fells, organizing director of Fight for $15. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Joseph S. Murphy Institute Scholarship for Diversity in Labor. 

Tickets available here.  

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The Workers Unite Film Festival, now in its fourth year, features student as well as professional films from the United States and around the world.

These films highlight the lives of workers in their efforts to unite and organize for better living conditions and for social justice. We’re glad to be partnering with the Film Festival once again this year.

In addition to the Blood Fruit screening on May 22nd, the Murphy Institute is screening The Hand That Feeds on May 8th (also being shown on May 14th as part of the film festival programming at Cinema Village, 22 E 12th St). See you at the movies!