The Dryden will screen Remine, El Último Movimiento Obrero (Remine, the Last Working Class Movement, Marcos Martinez, Spain 2014, 102 min., DCP, Spanish w/subtitles) as part of the Labor Film Series.

In 2012, as global financial institutions harassed debt-ridden Spain, the government introduced crushing austerity measures, including a 63 percent reduction in subsidies to the coal industry. In northern Spain, a stronghold of militant trade unions, Asturian miners declared an unlimited strike, occupied mines, blockaded highways, fought police, and organized a mass protest march to Madrid, nearly 300 miles away. Across Spain and internationally, the miners' traditional methods of struggle and organization won wide sympathy and admiration, culminating in a joyous demonstration of solidarity. Yet the future of Spanish coal mining remains in doubt.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Sep-19]