Palikari & The Ludlow Massacre

The most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history.

Greek migrant and trade union activist Louis Tikas talks about the Ludlow Massacre. Director Nikos Ventouras and producer Lamprini Thoma chart the story of the great 1913-1914 coalminers’ strike and Louis Tikas’s murder, as it survives in oral and family traditions, as well as in official history.

They interview historians and artists, some of them direct descendants of those striking miners, in this palimpsest of memory, struggle and deliverance.

Tikas’s story can but reverberate in our time, in view of what is happening with the rights of workers and immigrants around the world. A lot of Mexican immigrant workers were also killed in the event.