PACE Locals 7-264 and 7-662 are teaming up with Clean Water Action Alliance to sponsor a screening of the acclaimed film 'Silkwood.'
The film will be shown at 7 p.m. Jan. 7 at the Oak St. Cinema, 309 Oak St., Minneapolis. Discussion will follow. Admission is $7.
The 1985 movie - featuring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher and Craig T. Nelson - uses the story of Karen Silkwood to illustrate the dangerous conditions working people accept in order to make a living.
Silkwood was a chemical technician at a Kerr-McGee plutonium fuels plant in Crescent, Okla. She was also an activist in one of PACE's predecessors - the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers' Union - and critical of plant safety.
Silkwood reportedly was gathering evidence to show that Kerr-McGee was negligent in safety procedures when she died on Nov. 13, 1974, in a suspicious one-car crash.
'Silkwood' is the first installment of Clean Water Action's 'Radioactive Reels Atomic Film Festival.' The group's energy program coordinator, Diana McKeown, said the series is intended to prompt discussion on nuclear power and related issues in Minnesota.
The subject affects union members in different ways, she said 'and there's a need for the Blue-Green Alliance to deal with these contentious issues.'
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PACE Locals 7-264 and 7-662 are teaming up with Clean Water Action Alliance to sponsor a screening of the acclaimed film ‘Silkwood.’
The film will be shown at 7 p.m. Jan. 7 at the Oak St. Cinema, 309 Oak St., Minneapolis. Discussion will follow. Admission is $7.
The 1985 movie – featuring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher and Craig T. Nelson – uses the story of Karen Silkwood to illustrate the dangerous conditions working people accept in order to make a living.
Silkwood was a chemical technician at a Kerr-McGee plutonium fuels plant in Crescent, Okla. She was also an activist in one of PACE’s predecessors – the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers’ Union – and critical of plant safety.
Silkwood reportedly was gathering evidence to show that Kerr-McGee was negligent in safety procedures when she died on Nov. 13, 1974, in a suspicious one-car crash.
‘Silkwood’ is the first installment of Clean Water Action’s ‘Radioactive Reels Atomic Film Festival.’ The group’s energy program coordinator, Diana McKeown, said the series is intended to prompt discussion on nuclear power and related issues in Minnesota.
The subject affects union members in different ways, she said ‘and there’s a need for the Blue-Green Alliance to deal with these contentious issues.’