Eugene Debs Documentary Film

Eugene Debs and the American Movement:
a documentary film of worker struggle

Thursday, December 15th, 7:00PM
UMass Amherst, Campus Center 917
All are welcome

About the movie:
1977, USA. 43 mins. Color.
This film documents fifty years of long-suppressed history. Using extensively researched photographs, drawings and newsreel footage, it tells a story of the bloody strikes and brutal government reaction to the American workers' attempts to organize. This film is movingly narrated in Deb's own words, read from his speeches and writings, by his friend and comrade, Shubert Sebree. From after the Civil War until his death in 1926, Debs was part of U.S. history at a time when the foundations of modern industrial and corporate nation were established. In this fifty year period, Debs was influenced by events as diverse as the massive railroad strike of 1877, the rapid growth of monopolies in the 1890s, World War I, and the Russian Revolution. Debs and the movement he helped build are more than just nostalgia, they are roots of a long and bloody struggle of American working people to own collectively what they produce.

International Human Rights Day

The Greenfield Weekly Peace Vigil, the Connecticut Valley Coalition for Women's Lives, and the Tom Mooney local of the Socialist Party are co-sponsoring an International Human Rights Day vigil and speak-out this coming Saturday, December 10, at 11 a.m. on the Greenfield Town Common.

This event is in solidarity with detainees fighting for their basic legal rights in jails throughout the United States, in the "ghost prisons" of Eastern Europe, in the prisons in the Middle East, and at Guantanamo Bay-- all part of the U.S. government's brutal and illegal "war on terror" strategy.

Come hear Attorney Buz Eisenberg's first-hand information on this situation, and join other community members in speaking out for human rights for all. Stop the torture! No justice, no peace!