As an OCAW local and national officer, Mazzocchi juggled day-to-day union responsibilities with a commitment to civil rights, labor-based environmentalism, job safety reform, single-payer health care, nuclear disarmament, and union democracy.
Dublin’s a Tough Battlefield (1921), ¡Karen Silkwood, Presente! (1946), Chaplin’s Anti-Capitalist Masterpiece (1936), 500,000 Dead and Counting (2021), A Hard-Won Victory for Farm Workers (1986), Colonialism Grows Out of the Barrel of a Gun (1826)
Karen Silkwood died in 1974 while trying to expose dangerous conditions in her workplace. Her death — and the smear campaign that followed — highlights how retaliation against whistleblowers deflects scrutiny from power by targeting the messenger.
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