Upcoming Events
Please note: Some Events subject to change, please check our calendar for updates prior to event.
Saturday May 1,
1:30 PM
This Mayday, International Workers Day, will be marked at the Pump House by a talk with participatory discussion and a book signing by Staughton and Alice Lynd. These two stalwarts of people's resistance to war and injustice who traveled often to the Mon Valley in the 1980s to stand with all those trying to stem the collapse of local industry will talk about their two latest books.
The /Staughton Lynd Reader/ collects a rich selection of articles and speeches spanning the civil rights, anti-war, plant closings, and prisoners' rights struggles that have marked the long and dedicated careers of these two elders in the struggle. With the latest crisis of global capitalism upon us, the lessons of global and local solidarity are more important than ever before.
Stepping Stones, /the Lynd's recently published story of a committed life together is a testimony about how a commitment to one another became a joint commitment to family, work and community in Youngstown, Pittsburgh, Palestine, Nicaragua and wherever workers and the poor struggled for their rights as human beings.
SATURDAY May 15,
1:30 pm.
Peter Gilmore and Hal Smith discuss the "The Molly Maguires and the Execution of Justice."
SUNDAY, June 6,
1:30 pm.
Timely presentations.
"The Miner's Clinics" with Bette McDeavitt and Dan Fine.
"Monongah Remembered", A Peter Argentine video.
SUNDAY, July 11,
1:30 pm.
Charles Kernigan on "Child Labor in the Global Economy: The Case of Bangladesh"
The Bernie Kleiman United Steel Workers Annual Lecture Series
SUNDAY, July25,
1:30 pm.
Thorsten Gressor. "Report from Germany's Ruhr - a 2010 European Cultural Capital"
Mr. Gressor has done extensive comparisons of Germany's Ruhr district and the Mon Valley, both former steel making centers
SUNDAY, August 8,
1:30 pm.
Millie Beik "The Miners of Windber" The author will sign and discuss the book.
Also another timely matter; Jim Dougherty's video "Struggle for an American Way of Life" (organizing miners in Central Pa, 1920s)
Discussion of mine safety issues
SATURDAY, Sept. 25.
1:30 pm.
Mike Stout and the Newlanders. A joint concert at the historic Pump House.
SATURDAY, Oct 2,
1:30 pm
Poetry at the Pump House. (to be announced)
2010 Movies at the Pump House
This free monthly Thursday night film series is sponsored by the Battle of Homestead Foundation (BHF), a charitable and educational organization whose purpose is “to interpret, preserve and promote labor and people’s history and provide a forum for speakers and events at the historic Pump House, site of the Battle of Homestead on July 6, 1892.” (Source: the By-Laws of the BHF)
"LIGHTNING OVER BRADDOCK; A RUSTBOWL FANTASY" by Tony Buba. 80 Minutes.
This prize-winning independent feature length film by Tony Buba has been featured at film festivals around the world, including Sundance and Toronto. It tells a compelling story of Braddock's decline from thriving community to it's present crisis. Followed by discussion with Tony Buba, Jesse Brown, Tina Doose, and Mike Stout.
Thursday, April 29th
7:30 pm
May 20: "What Does Trouble Mean? Nate Smith's Revolution" -- This documentary weaves together archival footage, eyewitness accounts and reenactments as it follows the evolution of the black laborer into a charismatic, effective leader who forced integration of Pittsburgh's construction trade unions in the 1960s and '70s. Discussion to follow. 56 minutes. Center for Documentary Production and Study, Robert Morris University. 2009
June 24: "I Compagni" or "The Organizer" -- Set in Turin, Italy, in the 1890s, this subtitled film examines the efforts of poor, exploited textile workers to improve their lives, wages and working conditions. Marcello Mastroianni plays an idealistic professor turned union organizer. Acclaimed as the best labor movie of all times by historian Mel Dubofsky and others. 124 minutes. by Mario Monicelli
July 29: "I'm All Right, Jack" -- Satirical spoof of labor-management relations in post-World War II England. Cast includes Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Terry Thomas and Margaret Rutherford. No one on either side of labor/management is spared the rapier wit. 105 minutes
Aug. 26: "The Price of Sugar" -- Paul Newman narrated this film about Haitian sugar cane workers who live and work in quasi-slavery in the Dominican Republic. New Yorker Films. 2007. 90 minutes. Richard Gosser, who has worked on behalf of economic development in Haiti, will talk about the island nation since the January earthquake.
Sept. 30: "At the River I Stand: Martin Luther King and the Memphis Sanitation Workers" -- A look at the sanitation workers strike and extensive footage of the memorable "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. It will be followed by a discussion about what occurred in Pittsburgh in the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination by Larry Glasco and Rick Adams.
Oct. 28: "Women of Steel" (1983. 30 minutes)and "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl" (1993. 30 minutes) -- Short films documenting the lives of working women, the first in the 1970s, and the second during the New York shirtwaist strike in 1909. Filmmaker Steffi Domike, a producer of "Women of Steel," will take questions afterward.
For movie info, call 412-831-3871
See calendar for series details
| Literature |
Poetry | Film |
Labor | Music |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Serrin Judith Serrin John Hoerr Nick Coles Laurie Graham Clarke Thomas Melvyn Dubofsky Mildred Beik Jeanne Cecil and Dorothy Svitesic Jack Metzgar Lori Jakiela John Hinshaw Michael Yates |
Jan Beatty Peter Blair Robert Gibb Peter Oresick Timothy Russell |
Tony Buba Steffi Domike James Catano Jim Hohman |
John Sweeney Bill George Leo Gerard George Becker Rosemary Trump Jack Shea Dan Kavolik Lynn Williams Oliver Montgomery Sean George Tony Slomkowski |
Anne Feeney Joe Glaser Nelson Harrison Mike Stout Smokestack Lightning Raging Grannies |
| History | Artists |
Photography |
Community |
Other Distinguished Speakers |
| Dave Demarest Russ Gibbons Charles McCollester Joe White |
Gary Huck Mike Konopacki Robert Qualters Bill Yund |
Charlee Brodsky Gene Levy Steve Mellon Annie O'Neill Sandra Gould Ford Mark Perrot |
Mike Wagner Ed Salaj Ray Bodner Betty Esper Barney Oursler Paul Lodico Ed Salaj John and Linda Asmonga |
Bernard Kleiman William Gaughan Thorsten Gressor Msgr Charles Owen Rice Father Jack O'Malley Ken Wolensky Mike Healy |