BUS RIDERS UNION

Please join us this Friday for the last AVS documentary film and discussion of the Winter 2006 series:

The Under Pressure (UP) collective will give a short talk at the beginning and will lead the post-film discussion. UP is an Ottawa-based direct action anti-poverty group: http://www.upcollective.org/
UP is using the movie as an organizational help to maybe get a bus riders union started in Ottawa.

BUS RIDER'S UNION

Award-winning cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler's (Bound for Glory, Matewan, Colors) documentary traces three years in the life of Los Angeles' Bus Rider's Union through its moments of joy, crisis, and victory. The film depicts the BRU's fight to improve bus service and halt fare hikes through lawsuits, demonstrations, and sit-ins.

USA/ 1999 / COLOUR / 87 min

Directed by Haskell Wexler and Johanna Demetrakas

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