No Small Change: The Story of the Eaton's Strike

Name: No Small Change: The Story of the Eaton's Strike
Director: Ruth Bishop
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1984-01-01

1984 · 59 min · Documentary

A documentary about how a motley band of – mostly female- retail workers took on a retail giant – Canada’s Timothy Eaton Company. In the tradition of socialist and feminist filmmaking of the day, we immersed ourselves in these women’s lives as they fought for a first contract, hanging out with strikers on the picket line, at union meetings and in their homes.

Directed by Ruth Bishop

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Stronger Than Before: A Video About Women's Resistance · 1984

Stronger Than Before: A Video About Women's Resistance

1984

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This documentary examines the meanings of peace movements, from a socialist-feminist perspective. Beginning with civil disobedience actions at Litton Systems Canada in Toronto, supplier of parts for cruise missiles, and expanding into just wars in Latin America, major feminist organizers in Toronto like Mariana Valverde and Carmencita Hernandez ponder the rise in militarism in the Mulroney-Reagan era. The film tries to make connections between Canadian and U.S. participation in the arms race, and liberation struggles in the global south.

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