Memorial Day MassacreMemorial Day Massacre

MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE explores a shameful and largely forgotten episode in labor and media history, made all the more vital today as union organizing catches fire in the United States after years of union busting efforts and the decline of American manufacturing. Through an honest reckoning with this tragic event nearly a century ago, we might better understand the demands of workers and the ways in which corporations, press, and law enforcement align to resist them.