Michael Moore to Premiere His New Film in Pittsburgh At AFL-CIO Convention, Hosted by RNs, other Unions

Nurses, Union Leaders to Talk about Medicare for All

Planned Events, Monday, September 14 (note revised schedule)

Reception:
5 p.m. to 6 p.m., David L. Lawrence Convention Center Ballroom
1000 Fort Duquesne, Pittsburgh

Press Conference:
6 p.m., Convention Center Ballroom

March:
6:30 p.m., with Michael Moore, AFL-CIO leaders and delegates,
up Fort Duquesne Blvd., to theater

Film Screening: 
7 p.m., Byham Theater, 101 6th St., at Fort Duquesne Blvd.
for AFL-CIO delegates, guests, media

Award-winning film maker Michael Moore will hold the U.S. Premiere of his highly anticipated latest film, Capitalism:  A Love Story, at the AFL-CIO national convention in Pittsburgh Monday night. 

The screening will follow a reception, hosted by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, and other AFL-CIO unions, to promote the ongoing campaign to expand Medicare to cover all Americans, a press conference with Moore and AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka, and a march from the convention center to the theater.

In addition to Moore and Trumka, expected to be elected AFL-CIO president at the convention; participants will include Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of CNA/NNOC, the nation's largest union of RNs; Leo Gerard, president of the United Steel Workers; and Greg Junemann, President of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.

Monday's showing, for AFL-CIO convention delegates and guests, will be the first U.S. showing of the film which depicts the Wall Street collapse with Moore's trademark humor. DeMoro calls the film "the best major labor film in years" and "an unabashed advocacy of working people and critique of an unjust system and the financial misdeeds that have led to the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression."

The film premiered in Venice just last week to rave reviews from a worldwide audience and will open in U.S. theaters on Oct. 2.

It will be the second consecutive Moore film to be first screened in the U.S. at an event hosted by CNA/NNOC. Moore's 2007 film, SiCKO, an indictment of the U.S. healthcare industry, was first shown in the U.S. to RNs in California. CNA/NNOC leaders and other RNs then toured the country with Moore calling for comprehensive reform, best embodied by a single-payer system, in a precursor to the present national healthcare reform debate.

Monday's reception, which occurs on the first day of the AFL-CIO convention, is co-hosted by the California School Employees Association, IFPTE, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Utility Workers Union of America, and the Labor Campaign for Single-Payer.