I’m off to Austin for a hopefully relaxing long weekend with no blogging (though I’ll probably take pics to share later)! But, I wanted to leave you with a Labor Day viewing recommendation. If you receive FreeSpeech TV, one of my top 25 all-time favorite docs will be showing in honor of the holiday on Monday, Sept. 3. Travis Wilkerson’s An Injury to One is about the murder of a labor organizer in Butte, Montana.

The crime was committed to stem union activity in the mining industry but Wilkerson manages to tie in the history of that town to many aspects of our collective, national history. The film is assembled in a formal manner, using static shots of present-day Butte, archival photos, and musical interludes. What might seem unrelated, in the end, is a beautiful tapestry that is impossible to forget. Check the FSTV schedule>>