{"id":288,"date":"2017-05-18T21:34:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevezeltzer.com\/laborfest\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=288"},"modified":"2019-06-29T13:55:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T20:55:26","slug":"film-killing-floor","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/event\/film-killing-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Film: Killing Floor (114 min) 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Producer-Writer:\u00a0<em><strong>Elsa Rassbach, <\/strong><\/em>Director:<em> <strong>Bill Duke <\/strong><\/em>(1985 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award)<strong><span class=\"style65\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"style386\">One hundred years ago, a critical struggle was taking place in the slaughterhouses in Chicago to organize a union. This powerful dramatic film focuses on the Polish and African American workers and their conditions as they fight to overcome racism and class hate and greed, in order to build a union of black and white workers.<br \/>\nAfrican American workers traveled to Chicago for jobs and the continuing struggles that led to race riots in Chicago in 1919.<br \/>\n<\/span><em><strong>Elsa Rassbach<\/strong><\/em><span class=\"style386\">\u00a0fought for PBS to do a series of films on working class history but this was the only one that was able to get funded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekillingfloor-thefilm.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.thekillingfloor-thefilm.com\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Killing Floor (Trailer)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/41666269?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free | <em>Producer-Writerr: Elsa Rassbach<\/em> | <em>Director: Bill Duke (1985 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award)<\/em> | <\/strong> One hundred years ago, a critical struggle was taking place in the slaughterhouses in Chicago to organize a union. This powerful dramatic film focuses on the Polish and African American workers and their conditions as they fight to overcome racism and class hate and greed, in order to build a union of black and white workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[15,81,35],"class_list":["post-288","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-15","tribe_events_cat-2017-film","tribe_events_cat-film","cat_12","cat_2017-film","cat_film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/288\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}