Palikari, Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
Director Nikos Ventouras
Countries Greece
Duration 92 min
Synopsis
The Ludlow Massacre and the assassination of Greek immigrant and labour leader Louis Tikas (Elias Spantidakis) is one of the decisive moments of the American labour movement, an event that connects, a century later, 1914’s USA to the labour and immigrant demands in 2014 Greece. Lamprini Thoma and Nikolaos Ventouras examined the memories, the history and the legacy of Louis Tikas and the Ludlow massacre in Colorado, talked with prominent historians, artists and descendants of Ludlow miners and discovered the scars left by this tragedy to the body of working America.
The Ludlow Massacre and the assassination of Greek immigrant and labour leader Louis Tikas (Elias Spantidakis) is one of the decisive moments of the American labour movement, an event that connects, a century later, 1914’s USA to the labour and immigrant demands in 2014 Greece. Lamprini Thoma and Nikolaos Ventouras examined the memories, the history and the legacy of Louis Tikas and the Ludlow massacre in Colorado, talked with prominent historians, artists and descendants of Ludlow miners and discovered the scars left by this tragedy to the body of working America.