DC LaborFest Today: Mother Jones Memorial Wreath-laying; May Day March & Rally

SUNDAY, May 1 (May Day!)
11a: TRUMBO (2007) 
12p: MOTHER JONES MEMORIAL WREATH-LAYING (RAIN OR SHINE!)
1p: THE TEMP(EST)
2p: MAYDAY MARCH & RALLY (RAIN OR SHINE!)
4:45p: TRUMBO (2015) 
7:15p: CELEBRATE THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF RERUM NOVARUM
Coming up tomorrow: LABOR FILM POSTER EXHIBIT; THE 33 

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TRUMBO (2007)
11a; $5 Tickets! 
AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd, Downtown Silver Spring, MD
This documentary portrait of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was written by his son Christopher and directed by Peter Askin. Like their previous collaboration, the off-Broadway play "Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted," the film relies heavily on the letters Trumbo wrote during the 1950s, here read by noted actors Michael Douglas, Joan Allen, Donald Sutherland, Liam Neeson and Paul Giamatti. David Strathairn delivers Trumbo's famed 1970 speech to the Writers Guild of America, a summing up of the tumultuous times of the preceding decades, and a plea for understanding. 
DIR Peter Askin; PROD Will Battersby, Tory Tunnell, David Viola, Al Klingenstein. U.S., 2007, b&w/color, 96 min. RATED PG-13
Watch the trailer here. 

MOTHER JONES MEMORIAL WREATH-LAYING
12p; FREE; RSVP here
2601 Powder Mill Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20783 in front of the Hillandale Baptist Church, near the intersection with Riggs Rd 
Hosted by Saul Schniderman, AFSCME 2910; wreath provided by UnionPlus 
Wreath-laying in honor of legendary labor organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones’ 185th birthday, May Day and marking the official launch of the DC LaborFest. Includes proclamation of May 1 as “DC Labor Fest Day” by the Montgomery County Council and the Maryland State Assembly. The legendary labor organizer spent a lifetime fighting for unions and the rights of workers. She died at the Burgess Farm in what is now Adelphi, Maryland, on November 30, 1930, aged 100 years. The nearby marker in her memory was erected in December, 2000 by the Maryland Historic Trust. photo by Eleanor Kaufman

THE TEMP(EST) 
1p; Tickets
Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Retirees and Youth under 18 
Silver Spring Black Box Theatre 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 
Imagine a dystopian world far, far in the future: the Polar Regions have melted, earth’s seas have risen, and the coastlines are threatened. The WalGard Company—an alliance of government, corporate, and religious extremists—supervises a colossal Wall that stands between humans and the toxic waters that could potentially wipe out the human race. Imagination has stagnated and the society has been divided into the workers who must maintain the Wall and their masters.  But some workers who have been infected are beginning to see visions of another world, and other possibilities of freedom. Enter the Temp who will begin a new way of “seeing”, a revolution for  humankind. Lumina’s THE TEMP(est) is a spirited—and timely—adaptation of Shakespeare’s last great masterpiece which shows us the value of creativity in a world of worker struggles and ecological challenges. As a breach in the Wall threatens the very existence of humanity, the vision of Prospera’s magic, Ariel’s energy, and the young lovers’ optimism points the way to a brave new world.

MAYDAY MARCH & RALLY
FREE; 2p; Malcolm X Park (16th st and Euclid St NW); march to the White House at 3:30p
RSVP here  
Join millions of workers across the globe as they express international solidarity. The history of Mayday is a storied one, with its beginnings in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre at a peaceful rally in Chicago supporting workers striking for an eight-hour day. The legacy of Haymarket lives on. During the 1930’s, workers in the United States marched on Mayday to fight the rise of fascism and racial violence. On Mayday 1945 the red flag of revolution was raised over the Reichstag in Berlin to signify the defeat of fascism in World War II and in the late 1980’s millions of workers in South Africa marched on Mayday to dismantle apartheid. The struggle lives on today.

TRUMBO (2015) 
Fri, Apr 29, 7:00; Sun, May 1, 4:45p
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AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd, Downtown Silver Spring, MD 
Hosted by SAG-AFTRA & the DC May Day Organizing Committee 
Bryan Cranston gives an Oscar®-nominated performance as the legendary blacklisted author and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. He was one of Tinseltown's busiest and most versatile screenwriters throughout the 1940s, but that ended abruptly with the House Un-American Activities Committee's Communist witch-hunt and Hollywood's subsequent blacklist. Undeterred, Trumbo persevered: he worked for cheap, using aliases and front writers, on dozens of screenplays through the '50s. Hit movies — even Oscar® winners — were made from his screenplays, emboldening Hollywood to finally break the blacklist in 1960. The exquisite cast includes Diane Lane, Elle Fanning, John Goodman, Louis C.K., Michael Stuhlbarg and Helen Mirren.  
DIR Jay Roach; SCR/PROD John McNamara; SCR from the book by Bruce Cook; PROD Kevin Kelly Brown, Monica Levinson, Michael London, Nimitt Mankad, Shivani Rawat, Janice Williams. U.S., 2015, color, 124 min. RATED R 
Watch the trailer here

CELEBRATE THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF RERUM NOVARUM
7:15p; Founders Room, Our Lady Queen of Peace 2700 S. 19th St. Arlington VA 22204 
The Kalmanovitz Initiative invites you to celebrate the 125th anniversary ofRerum Novarum, the nineteenth century Catholic encyclical that laid the foundation of the Church’s teachings on labor and worker rights. Kalmanovitz Initiative Director Joe McCartin will be speaking about the significance of Rerum Novarum and Catholic social teaching on the dignity of workers more broadly. Dinner and drinks will be provided for those who attend. The celebration, which will take place on the Feast Day of St. Joseph the Worker, will include a simultaneous Spanish translation via headset. Please email Laura Bandini at[email protected] with questions or requests related to disability as soon as possible.