Northwest Film Forum

Happy hour at 6pm!

For International Workers' Day, we wrap up Red Renewal and kick off MayWorks, a month-long celebration of workers in Seattle, with a performance by the Seattle Labor Chorus, accompanied by worker films, a final community discussion and a proper May Day party.

Our final community discussion focuses on a topic that affects us all: the connections between the rights of workers with our lived environment. Community organizers, teachers, experts, and the audience come together to discuss affordable and sustainable housing, development in Seattle, and how our environment affects the ways we work and the places we live.

Before the discussion, Gabriela Seattle will perform a skit about migrant workers' issues in the Philippines and the U.S.

Discussion leaders:

Joaquin Uy, BAYAN-USA Pacific Northwest

Precious Butiu, Gabriela Seattle

Roger Rigor, Middle College High School and Philippines-U.S. Solidarity Organization (PUSO)

Jill Mangaliman, Executive Director, Got Green 

The Seattle Labor Chorus has been the musical voice of labor in Seattle since 1997, singing at rallies, picket lines, concerts, and conferences.   The Chorus has also performed in Washington D.C., San Francisco, British Columbia, and most recently, at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago.  It has become a disciplined group with a wide repertoire, ranging from historical labor anthems to contemporary songs about globalization, immigration, and peace.  The Chorus consists of about 35 members from all walks of life. Directed by Janet Stecher, an experienced vocal performer and recording artist (in the duo Rebel Voices), the Chorus is a nonprofit organization dedicated to economic and social justice, and the fundamental right of all workers to organize as a means of securing a living wage.  

This event is part of our series Red Renewal: Seattle’s Socialist Spring >