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1. Mai 2018 · Yale Strom’s film, American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs, is now being screened across the country, and covers many aspects of Debs’ personal life and career as a labor and socialist giant. It also offers so many piquant moments through visual documents and a vivid narrative that highlighting one or another becomes ...
Debs (1855-1926) is the subject of a new film documentary, American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. The film, directed by Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer) and narrated by well ...
The historic story of Eugene Victor Debs, an American Socialist leader and union organizer during the Progressive era, 1900 to 192, who ran for US President on the Socialist Party ticket (SPA) five times, even once while he was in prison for speaking out against the US involvement in World War 1.
Yale Strom's new documentary traces the history of American populism by exploring the life and times of Eugene Victor Debs, the man whose progressive ideas fueled generations to come - from FDR's New Deal to Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. Here is an objective but passionate history of the movement as founded and championed by Debs, a movement that continues to have an impact on our ...
Eugene V. Debs circa 1920. 1916 — Ran for Congress in his home district in Terre Haute on the Socialist ticket and was defeated. June 16, 1918 — Debs made his famous anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting World War I which was raging in Europe. For this speech he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the ...
27. Apr. 2018 · Prolific filmmaker and ethnographer Yale Strom has turned his attention to an early American political hero: Eugene Victor Debs. Most people in America don't know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Debs. American Socialist traces the history of American populism with the man who inspired progressive ideas – from FDR's New Deal ...
1. Aug. 2018 · In my earliest days entering activism, Eugene Debs – the great American socialist – became my first hero, so when I heard about the Yale Strom’s movie American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs I knew I had to go. With Strom’s collection of photos and recordings of speeches, it’s easy to see why people flocked by the ...
