The Farmer-Labor Movement: A Minnesota Story | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Documentary about the history of the progressive Farmer-Labor movement in Minnesota from 1915 to 1944, when the party me | dG1fLXlTUEk1NFRwd2s

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00:01There are very few farmers now who are in the position to start their sons or daughters off with a farm.

00:07What a tragedy.

00:09Haven't we enough common, ordinary horse sense to set about building a better social system than this?

00:18People need jobs, equality, education.

00:22The least powerful person in the country, understanding collective bargaining, can become the most powerful.

00:31And that is what politics is all about.

00:35Farmers and laborers, rural and urban working people, saw their dreams for a better life slipping through their fingers.

00:42They reached out and joined hands with neighbors and coworkers, forming social and political ties to create the farmer labor movement.

00:50But we have a glowing dream of how fair the world will seem when everyone can live their life secure and free.