Grassroots Rising Documentary March 19

Greetings!
I hope you’re well!

I wanted to write and say that we’re going to have a great screening of “Grassroots Rising” in San Francisco on March 19th.  This is a recent documentary that I worked on with Visual Communications and it features folks and organizations on the forefront of grassroots labor organizing in Los Angeles, such as the Garment Worker Center, Korean Immigrant Worker Advocates, Pilipino Worker Center and the Thai Community Development Center.  Here are the details:

Grassroots Rising
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Kabuki 8 Theaters, 1881 Post Street (at Fillmore)
March 19th, 12:30pm
http://www.asianamericanfilmfestival.org
http://www.grassrootsrising.com

It would be great if you could make it!  Also, we’d love to get the word out to other folks in the Bay Area, so pass the word around.  We’re proud of how it turned out!

Thanks!
– Robert C. Winn
Tel:  (213) 977-0019

GRASSROOTS RISING
Robert C. Winn (SAIGON U.S.A., Festival 2003) offers a moving tribute to the working class roots of the Asian American experience, focusing on the resurgence of grassroots political activism among the City of Angels’ Asian, Latino, and other working class families. The latest production from Visual Communications, GRASSROOTS RISING juxtaposes poetry by spoken word artist Alison De La Cruz with the stories of immigrant workers, slave laborers, and activists alike. Koreatown restaurant workers arbitrarily fired despite being too ill to work, Pilipino home healthcare workers exploited for their cheap labor, and Thai women held captive in a virtual prison sweatshop share their stories along with supermarket workers picketing for better wages and working conditions. GRASSROOTS RISING profiles how the sharp reality of life for working class immigrants in Los Angeles is being redirected into grassroots activism Video, 60 minutes, Color, Documentary

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