Screen shots and portraits from As Goes Janesville. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image.
- Gayle Listenbee, a GM employee and UAW member, with daughter, Spencer, at the rally in Madison, Wisconsin that welcomed home 14 state senators who’d been in Illinois to prevent a vote on Governor Scott Walker’s bill to curb collective bargaining rights for public employees.
- Brad Lichtenstein, Producer and Director of As Goes Janesville
- Brad Lichtenstein, Producer and Director of As Goes Janesville
- Leslie Simmer, Co-writer and Editor of As Goes Janesville
- Nicole Docta, co-producer of As Goes Janesville
- Brad Lichtenstein shooting an interview outside of the shuttered GM plant in Janesville.
- Angela Hodges sits on the steps of her home in Beloit, WI.
- Wisconsin State Senator Tim Cullen ran for office after a 24 year hiatus to try and help his community.
- Cindy Deegan does not want to work in manufacturing anymore so she goes back to school to become a medical lab technician.
- Mary Willmer, Co-chair of Rock County 5.0, wants to make Janesville a place for her kids to come back to.
- Gayle Listenbee must commute 5 hrs to the GM plant in Fort Wayne, IN in order to keep her home and support her family in Wisconsin.
- The official closing date for the Janesville GM Assembly plant was Dec. 23, 2008.
- “As Goes Janesville” is told through the lives of Mary Willmer, Gayle Listenbee, Tim Cullen, Cindy Deegan, and Angela Hodges.
- Gayle Listenbee visits her family in Wisconsin on the weekends while she works toward retirement at the GM plant in Fort Wayne, IN until 2016.
- Scene outside of Madison, Wisconsin’s state Capitol, during 2011 protests against Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to curtail collective bargaining rights for public employees.
- Since her husband in on disability, Cindy is the main source of income for her family. (L to R: Doug, Christina, Sarah, and Cindy Deegan)
- Cindy hopes being a veteran will giver her an edge in the competitive job market.
- Cindy Deegan waits to be interviewed in front of ALCOA, her former employer of 13 years.
- Filmmakers Brad and Nicole spent two and a half years with their subjects to make “As Goes Janesville”. (L to R: Nicole Docta, Mary Willmer, Gayle Listenbee, Cindy Deegan, Brad Lichtenstein, Angela Hodges)
- About 1/6 of Janesville’s population lost their jobs when GM and other companies shut their doors.
- Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker talks with campaign donor Diane Hendricks in the lobby of her company, ABC Supply.