“A Strike and an Uprising” chronicles two big wins for labor activists facing long odds. By Rose Cahalan There’s a scene in A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas), a new…
UT Lecturer Anne Lewis on her new doc, A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas) By Richard Whittaker As a documentarian and teacher, Anne Lewis is synonymous with two things: Austin (her adopted…
Aired: May 3, 2018 Listen to the audio interview: http://www.lightscameraaustin.net/anne-lewis-may-2018.html Directed by the Austin-based Anne Lewis, the documentary A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas) recalls through oral history the 1938 San Antonio pecan…
“Anne looked at these images and saw a rigid self-conscious hierarchy. Division of labor at its most proscribed by race, class and gender. Each in his place made obvious by…