Award-Winning Short Doc Screening Tonight

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)When it comes to politics, retired coal miner Sebert Pertee sees one big problem: the rich keep getting richer while working people lose ground. Pertee is the subject of Divide, a short documentary by Michael T. Miller and Maura Ugarte that will be shown tonight at Busboys & Poets (14th & V location). Winner of the Best Short Doc award at the recent Workers Unite Film Festival in New York City, the film follows Pertee’s attempts to confront race and class struggles in the mountains of West Virginia. The screening will be followed by a panel moderated by author Tom Zaniello and including Sue Thorn, a subject in the film and US Congressional candidate from West Virginia. - photo still from the film of Pertee canvassing in his local coal mining community