With Babies and Banners, women still rising

Today’s film is a short documentary that should have been made in the nineteen-thirties, about women who played crucial roles in the sit-down strikes at General Motors factories in 1936 and 1937, strikes that changed American history.
Instead, With Babies and Banners was made in the nineteen-seventies, by a group of women who were not filmmakers but who realized that film was the most powerful way to not only recover this erased history but to be an agent of change, just like those strikes forty years earlier.
On today’s show, Elise and Chris talk with Lyn Goldfarb, one of the producers of With Babies and Banners, about how – against incredible odds, the film came to be, and why it still resonates for audiences today.
They’re joined by labor educator John Revitte, who used various films in classes, including With Babies and Banners.
NOTE: With Babies and Banners (with filmmaker Lyn Goldfarb and CLUW president – and LaborGoes to the Movies podcast co-host – Elise Bryant) screens online FREE on Thursday, January 27, 2022 starting at 7p ET; RSVP here.

Music: I Am a Union Woman-Bobbie McGee

Produced by Chris Garlock

@dclabor @LaborHeritage1 @DCLaborFilmFest @LynGoldfarb @RevitteL

--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/labor-goes-to-the-movies/message