rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/matewan-screening-the-north-adams-public-library?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-matewan-screening-the-north-adams-public-library' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Western Massachusetts Area Labor Federation https://actionnetwork.org/groups/western-massachusetts-area-labor-federation https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/events/photos/003/002/888/normal/IG_MATEWAN_Screening___Discussion.png Join the Western MA Area Labor Federation and the North Adams Public Library for a free screening of John Sayles' classic 1987 film Matewan. Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners’ struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan’s miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut) arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company’s violent provocations. With a crackerjack ensemble cast—including James Earl Jones, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, and Will Oldham—and Oscar-nominated cinematography by Haskell Wexler, Matewan taps into a rich vein of Americana with painstaking attention to local texture, issuing an impassioned cry for justice that still resounds today. - Criterion Collection If you have any questions, please email Assistant Library Director Ryan Miller at rmiller@northadams-ma.gov or give the library a call. Funded through the generosity of the Friends of the NAPL! https://act.aflcio.org/events/matewan-screening-the-north-adams-public-library