Mississippi Chicken is finally coming out on DVD! It’s now available for pre-order on Amazon.com and will be released on May 5. More news about the release coming soon!
This American Life (a.k.a. “my favorite show on the radio”) just had their annual poultry show last weekend–Poultry Slam 2008–and “Act Three: A Pastor and his Flock” continues the Mississippi Chicken story. After watching Mississippi Chicken, producer Sarah Koenig contacted me about their upcoming show on the theme of God and chickens. Anita and I then referred her to the Western North Carolina Workers’ Center, where Anita has been working very closely with the folks there over the past year and half on their organizing campaigns. Set within the workers’ ongoing struggle to unionize and the poultry company’s rabid anti-union campaign, Sarah Koenig tells a fascinating story involving an organizer, a poultry plant manager and his priest. If you didn’t hear it this past weekend, check it out here.
