[coalalert] GOODWIN'S WAY DOCUMENTARY TRAILER

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Published on Tuesday, 05 May 2015 13:15
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Here’s the link to the latest trailer for the documentary Goodwin’s Way. https://www.facebook.com/GoodwinsWay/videos/vb.464464453643562/803306349759369/?type=2&theater
Here’s the plot line: Hero. Deserter. Revolutionary. Martyr. Legend. A century after he was gunned down by police under mysterious circumstances, Albert "Ginger" Goodwin continues to provoke controversy in Cumberland, British Columbia.

Supporters of the labour leader argue the Liberal government's removal of highway signs bearing his name is an attempt to undermine Goodwin's legacy of solidarity and the ideals of equality and self-determination for which he fought and died. His critics, meanwhile, dismiss him as a lawbreaker, a draft-dodger and an agitator.

Shaped by strikes on both sides of the Atlantic and an abiding sense of justice, Goodwin was catapulted into the Northwest’s most contentious worker... movements of the day: the infamous 1912-14 Vancouver Island miners' strike, and the fight for a universal eight-hour day. His death in 1918 inspired Canada's first-ever general strike in Vancouver.

Now, just two kilometers off the highway that once memorialized Goodwin’s crusade for miner’s rights, clouds loom over the site of a new proposed coalmine. Even as Cumberland’s young families envision building a community independent of the boom-and-bust resource economy, the Raven Coal Project threatens to return the town to a painful period of their history that lingers today in the form of boarded-up buildings, slag heaps, and industrial remediation sites.

Through intimate interviews that elicit conflicting emotions and troubling memories about Goodwin’s legacy, weaving a rich tapestry of Ginger facts and myths, Goodwin’s Way chronicles a community’s grassroots resistance to a coal-fired destiny as they fight for autonomy over their past, as well as their future.

Will present-day inhabitants of Cumberland let their troubled past hold them back? Or can they rekindle the resistance that is their birthright – and set out to follow Goodwin's Way?

GOODWIN’S WAY WEBSITE LINK: http://www.goodwinsway.com/about/#home