Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young began Moving Images in 1986 to tell the stories of ordinary people. Moving Images Video Project produces and distributes documentaries about war and peace, human rights, global justice, and protection for the environment. Founded by Young and Dworkin to increase understanding in the United States of political and social issues in Central America, Moving Images later expanded to address the AIDS epidemic, labor rights and childcare, international relations in the post cold-war era, implications of new genetic technologies, local food and farming, re-thinking our cities, and elements of a new economy that is more sustainable and just. Many of these programs have aired across North America on PBS, and they are widely distributed to schools, libraries, and community organizations. Text of organizational history derived from Moving Images website (http://movingimages.org).
DVDs created by the Moving Images Video Project, a labor documentary production company. Other portions of the collection include descriptions of video content and promotional materials, and a t-shirt and buttons from the United Farm Workers of Washington's boycott of Chateau Ste. Michelle winery in their contract campaign. Description of titles in this collection: Que viva!: labor in El Salvador (offers views on the repressive regime and war in El Salvador from Salvadoran church and labor activists and U.S. observers. Produced in cooperation with the Labor Committee on Central America). Bread with dignity: voices of Nicaraguan labor (views on the Sandinista revolution and the contra war from Nicaraguan labor activists and U.S. observers. Produced with the Labor Committee on Central America, shown at 1987 annual convention of the AFL-CIO). Worthy work, worthless wages (a report on the staffing crisis provoked by low salaries for childcare workers. Produced with the Childcare Resource and Education Center in Oakland and the Worthy Wages Task Force in Seattle). Aqui se puede (portrait of the United Farm Workers of Washington State and their long effort to hold a union election at the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery. Produced in cooperation with the Church Council of Greater Seattle). We work everywhere (documentary about Service Employees' International Union (SEIU) Local 6 in Seattle). Fighting back (produced in association with Washington State Jobs With Justice and widely shown in churches and union halls throughout Washington state). Will You Stand (documents a labor teach-in at the University of Washington, and Seattle's annual Folklife Festival, which that year celebrated the heritage of the American labor movement in Arts and Music). 1000 People in the Street (in 1997, 5th Avenue Theater musicians, Seattle community and other unions lead successful a strike for fair wages and treatment of the workers. This documents the labor organizing strategies of the musicians and the labor community)
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Forms part of the Labor Archives of Washington.
Donated by Melissa Young of Moving Images, 2016.