Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists Radio interview for Pacifica

Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists Radio interview for Pacifica

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Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists Radio interview with Jack Shalom for Pacifica

Click on the triangle or link above to hear Jack Shalom’s conversation with director Joel Sucher as broadcast on December 1, 2020 on WBAI NY and Pacifica affiliates across the nation.

In 1980, Joel Sucher made a film called Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists, which was a portrait of immigrant life in the U.S. as seen through the eyes of sweatshop workers who made up the Jewish anarchist movement. Between 1900 and World War I, these Yiddish-speaking anarchists constituted an influential political movement affecting trade unions, newspapers, left-wing culture—and hysteria—in the US. Now 40 years later, that film has been re-released. Jack was happy to interview one of the original directors of Free Voice of Labor, Joel Sucher.

VISIT JACK SHALOM’S WEBSITE TO HEAR THE RADIO INTERVIEW AS WELL.

Inside a forgotten camera, a time capsule

Inside a forgotten camera, a time capsule

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Article from THE JEWISH FORWARD
By Joel Sucher
October 29, 2020

After my father – a Holocaust survivor — passed away in 1991 I found an old leather valise he had brought with him from Germany.

Inside were hundreds of still photographs he had taken right after liberation with a Leica IIIc. They included scenes around Germany; in particular, Lubeck, where I was born in 1949.

There were also snaps of life in Brooklyn where we all ended up.

READ FULL ARTICLE ON THE JEWISH FORWARD.

Red Squad

“Red Squad”: An Investigation of the N.Y.P.D.’s Crackdown on Dissent, Fifty Years Ago

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Article from THE NEW YORKER
THE FRONT ROW
By Richard Brody
October 26, 2020

For those who believe that the New York Police Department’s crackdown on dissent and targeting of protesters exercising their constitutional rights is a newborn response to the Black Lives Matter movement or an anti-Muslim aftereffect of the 9/11 attacks, Metrograph is here with a corrective. On its Web site, through its virtual-cinema program, the New York movie theatre will be showing (on Monday night and Tuesday through Thursday, for Metrograph members) the 1972 documentary “Red Squad,” which reveals the extraordinary and brazen surveillance of protests against the Vietnam War—and the aggressive, intrusive targeting of individual protesters by the N.Y.P.D. in the early nineteen-seventies.

READ FULL ARTICLE ON THE NEW YORKER WEBSITE.