“Cut and Run” to be shown Sunday Nov. 22
“Cut and Run: Critical Problems of Work in the Maine Woods” (1978) is being screened Sunday, November 22, at 7 pm at the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 170 Park Street in Bangor.
“Cut and Run” is a powerful documentary about the battles in the Maine woods of the 1970s. The showing is part of the Center’s Fall 2009 Film Series (click HERE for the full schedule).
PICA director Jon Falk, who helped make the film 30 years ago, will lead a discussion of the issues portrayed in the film, and how those issues are being played out in Maine and in our hemisphere today. The showing is free and open to the public.
Beautifully filmed by Maine filmmaker Richard Searles, “Cut and Run” is narrated by the late Marshall Dodge. It portrays working conditions in the Maine woods; corporate ownership and exploitation of land and labor; mechanization of work and loss of jobs; effects on the mental and physical health of labor; and tensions with imported Canadian labor.
According to Jon Falk the showing and discussion is important because “The struggles in the Maine woods continue to this day, and they reflect the very same issues of free trade and immigration that PICA is addressing in our kNOw US AND THEM program”.
For more information, call 942-9343 (P & J Center) or 947-4203 (PICA).
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