BAY AREA CO-OP FILM NIGHTS!!

September 25th and 26th, 2007

Two nights of movies about worker cooperatives!

@ The Red Vic Movie House (a worker owned cooperative
1727 Haight St., San Francisco, (415) 668-8999
wheelchair accessible

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Tuesday, September 25 @ 8:00 PM
$8.50 -$20.00 sliding scale
(benifitting the Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives)

•• LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE! ••
A documentary about Bay Area strippers unionizing

This first person documentary follows Julia Query, lesbian/stand-up comedian/peepshow-stripper, and daughter of a feminist activist, on her raucous journey to help organize the only union of strippers in the United States. Shot on a variety of formats, "Live Nude Girls Unite!" weaves backstage and dancing footage with labor organizing, street protests, stand-up comedy and comic-book style "animation" making an intelligent and dramatic cutting-edge film.

• Live Burlesque performance! by the beauties from Lusty Lady before the screening.
• Beer celebration after the screening!

followed by a short film Hotel Bauen.

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Wednesday, September 26 @ 8:00 PM
A night of shorts:
$8.50 -$12.00 sliding scale

•• Civilizing the Economy (27 mins.) ••
A film that reveals the power of (co-op)eration in addressing key economic issues in communities across Canada. From the mobilization of community capital through credit unions, or the preservation of forests through sustainable logging, the co-op model is asserting itself as an effective tool for reforming economies to meet the needs of everyday people and their communities.

•• Made in the USA: American Worker Cooperatives (34 mins.) ••
This introduction to the worker cooperative model illustrates the model's potential as a creative method of optimizing salary potential and work opportunities. It presents the varied uses of the worker cooperative model, from creating jobs for individuals with few marketable job skills to expanding markets and earning potential for professionals with technical skills. The video also discusses some of the critical issues linked to successful co-op development and functioning.

•• Democracy in the Workplace: Three Bay Area Worker Owned Businesses (30 mins) ••
The worker owners of three successful San Francisco Bay Area businesses-- the Cheeseboard, Inkworks Press and Rainbow Grocery--show what it's like to work collectively, make decisions and deal with everyday problems in a truly democratic setting. Awarded the Bronze Apple by the National Educational Medical Network Film Festival, 1999.

Please join us! One one night or both! Support our local Cooperative movement!

 

 

 

 

Keynote:

TBD

Topics Include :

• Forming new coops, support networks
• Promoting Worker Co*ops
• Supporting Aging Workers in Our Co*ops

Who's Coming?

Bay Area Worker Co-ops and community interested in workplace democracy in the Bay Area!

About NoBAWC

The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives or NoBAWC (pronounced "no boss") is a grassroots organization of democratic workplaces dedicated to building workplace democracy in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.
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