Love & Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson & Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’
September 03, 2020
6:00PM - 7:30PM
As a prelude to Labor Day weekend, Tennessee Central Labor Council's will be hosting a special, online screening of Love & Solidarity: Rev. James Lawson & Nonviolence in the Search for Workers' Rights!We are honored to have the filmmaker, Michael Honey, with us for a discussion and Q&A prior to the screening.This event is free and open to the public. Login using the link below!About Love & Solidarity:
LOVE & SOLIDARITY is an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while working with Martin Luther King, Jr., in southern freedom struggles and the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. Through interviews and historical documents,
acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Lawson’s discourse on nonviolent direct action on the front burner of today’s struggles against economic inequality, racism and violence, and for human rights, peace, and economic justice.
LOVE & SOLIDARITY is an exploration of nonviolence and organizing through the life and teachings of Rev. James Lawson. Lawson provided crucial strategic guidance while working with Martin Luther King, Jr., in southern freedom struggles and the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968. Through interviews and historical documents,
acclaimed labor and civil rights historian Michael Honey and award winning filmmaker Errol Webber put Lawson’s discourse on nonviolent direct action on the front burner of today’s struggles against economic inequality, racism and violence, and for human rights, peace, and economic justice.