Together Tennessee Film Tour

Start: Monday, October 20, 2014 5:30 PM

October 14th – 20thth Working Films, United for a Fair Economy, and allies: Tennesseans for Fair Taxation, the TN NAACP, the Tennessee Education Association, Common Cause, and The Coalition for the Organizational Protection of People and Equal Rights are launching Tennessee Together, a screening series that will bring award-winning documentaries to six cities across Tennessee. The series is intended to advance social and economic justice in the state, as well as, address major issues prevalent in each city.

The program utilizes one film for each city. Screenings will be free and open to the public and will be shown in: Nashville (Citizen Koch); Memphis (The Hand That Feeds); Knoxville (American Teacher); Chattanooga (Inequality for All); Jackson (Freedom Summer); and Johnson City (Blood on the Mountain). The goal of this participatory film tour is to educate communities on the impacts of money in politics, an unfair tax system that burdens the poor, and on cuts to the state budget that are eliminating social safety nets and defunding public education. These issues will be spotlighted in the films and discussed in interactive post-screening programs designed to offer a forum for community members to share their perspectives, identify common ground and discuss potential solutions to the problems at hand.

Working Films, a national nonprofit nonpartisan organization based in Wilmington, NC, is coordinating the statewide Together Tennessee film tour, along with United for A Fair Economy. Working Films builds partnerships between nonfiction media-makers, nonprofit organizations, responsible businesses, educators and advocates to advance community-based and policy solutions that address social, economic and environmental challenges. United for A Fair Economy raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart.

Below is a list of all Together Tennessee Screenings across the state, organized by city.

Johnson City

Blood on the Mountain: Tuesday October 14th 2014, 7pm.

Holston Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 136 Bob Jobe Rd, Gray, TN 37615

Blood on the Mountain focuses on the environmental and economic injustice and corporate control in West Virginia and its rippling effect on all American workers. This film tells the story of a hard-working people who have historically had limited choices and have never benefited fairly from the rich natural resources of their land.

Memphis

The Hand That Feeds: Wednesday October 15th 2014, 7pm.

The University of Memphis, 3720 Alumni Ave, Memphis, TN 38152

Shy sandwich-maker Mahoma and his undocumented immigrant coworkers set out to end abusive conditions at a New York restaurant chain. This epic power struggle turns a single city block into a battlefield in America's new wage wars.

Nashville

Citizen Koch: Thursday October 16th 2014, 7pm.

United Auto Workers Headquarters, 6207 Centennial Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209

Set against the rise of the Tea Party in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, a citizen uprising to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker collides with the Tea Party-aligned “Americans for Prosperity,” a group founded and lavishly financed by two of the world’s richest men —David and Charles Koch. As Republican working class voters find themselves in the crosshairs of their own party and its billionaire backers, they are forced to choose sides.

Jackson

Freedom Summer: Thursday October 16th 2014, 7pm.

Tennessee NAACP Headquarters: 27 Brentshire Square, Suite A, Jackson, TN 38305

A look back at the summer of 1964, when more than 700 student activists took segregated Mississippi by storm, registering voters, creating freedom schools and establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

Chattanooga

Inequality for All: Friday October 17th 2014, 7pm.

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, University Center Auditorium, 642 E 5th St., Chattanooga, TN 37403

Inequality for All is an intimate portrait of a man whose lifelong goal has been “protecting those who are unable to protect themselves.” Reich suggests that the massive consolidation of wealth by a precious few threatens the viability of the American workforce and the foundation of democracy itself.

Knoxville

American Teacher: Monday October 20th 2014, 5:30pm.

Burlington Library, 4614 Asheville Hwy, Knoxville, TN 37914

Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system -- the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across our country.

Event by
Shannon Bain
Nashville, Tennessee
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