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Publications:
Bus
Riders Union, the film by Haskell Wexler
Bus Riders
Union is a feature length documentary by Academy Award cinematographer
Haskell Wexler, tracing three years in the life of one of the nation’s
most dynamic social movements.
Haskell Wexler
is considered one of the finest cinematographers in the world, with
a prolific body of work including Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf, Medium Cool, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Bound
for Glory, American Graffiti, and Matewan. He has
been nominated five times for academy awards, winning two Oscars
for Best Cinematography.
The film traces three years in the life of Los Angeles’ Bus
Riders Union as it forges a powerful multiracial movement to fight
transit racism, clean up LA’s lethal auto pollution and win
billion-dollar victories for real mass transit for the masses.
Bus Riders
Union is a rare mix of fine filmmaking, good politics, and
a complex portrayal of a multiracial grassroots movement that is
taking on some of the most powerful forces in Los Angeles--and winning.
Suzanne
Baustad, director of Mayworks, Vancouver, Canada:
“I was
so inspired by Bus Riders Union that I invited 7 other
activists and organizers over for a viewing. I have done anti-poverty
work in the city for the past 5 years and recognized immediately
just how important and unique (especially in North America) the
BRU and its model of organizing is.”
Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times,
Feb. 13, 2000:
“Wexler,
who may be the best cinematographer in the world, captures the
joy of struggle on the part of a polyglot group ...all of whom
never lost their humanity in the struggle.”
Erin Aubry, LA Weekly Film Pick of the Week,
Feb. 4-10, 2000:
“...a fascinating look at one of L.A.’s most vital
and most unlikely grassroots movements to date, the Bus Riders
Union.”
Bus Riders
Union is available as an 86 minute video. Cost: $200 institutional,
$100 non-profit, $30 for strictly individual use.
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