Pacific Street Films is a

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production company founded in

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in 1969 by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler. They have produced more than 100 films. In 2004 the

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hosted a career retrospective on Pacific Street Films.

''The Free Voice of Labor''

Fischler and Sucher created the

''The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists'' in 1980 about the history of

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in the United States. It focuses on the Jewish Anarchist movement that arose from sweatshop workers in the United States, along with their lives as new immigrants back then and their then contemporary retirement. The film's raison d'etre was the 1977 coverage of the closing of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper ''

Fraye Arbeter Shtime ''Freie Arbeiter Stimme'' ( Daytshmerish spelling of romanized: ''Fraye arbeṭer shṭime'', ''lit.'' 'Free Voice of Labor' also spelled with an extra '' mem'' ) was a Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper published from New York City's Lower ...

''. The film features scenes from ''Uncle Moses'' (1932); a Yiddish Language film about the labour struggles within the Jewish community in America. The film is noted for its use of music: collecting together various yiddish folk and political songs that interspersed around the film, including an early recording of '' In Ale Gasn/Daloy Politsey'' as a combined song.

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