Bus Rider's Union

A 1998 editorial in Time magazine made the claim that the city of Los Angeles "might just have the most inept public-transport system on the planet earth. . . . The neglected bus system, which still handles 91% of all transit riders,is now roughly as efficient as travel by burro." Academy Award–winning cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler (Medium Cool, Latino) has now fashioned a new documentary tracing three years in the life of a group of bus-rider activists passionately engaged in the struggle to bring affordable, safe, and adequate mass transit back to their city. What might at first sound like a well-intentioned but rather parochial subject for a film has resulted in a truly inspiring lesson in how working-class, predominantly minority citizens forge an effective social movement and how, like Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotters of the 1950s, a group of committed individuals can successfully challenge the powers that seek to control their lives.

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Bus Rider's Union är en dokumentärfilm från 2000, regisserad av Haskell Wexler. I rollerna ses bland andra Della Bonner, Kikanza Ramsey och Eric Mann.

Med en speltid på 1 timmar och 27 minuter är Bus Rider's Union en produktion från United States of America. Originalspråket är engelska. Hos tittarna har filmen ett snittbetyg på 9.0 av 10 baserat på 1 röster. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa Bus Rider's Union i Sverige.