May1 Laborfest Film Screening&Music/Poetry

LaborFest MayDay Benefit
Labor Films From Korea, Columbia & Argentina,
Poetry & Music

LaborFest Celebration of May Day
Saturday May 1, 2004 6:00-9:30 PM

Screening:

"Love, Women & Flower" by Marta Rodriquez
Videographer Marta Rodriquez will introduce the film.

"Crane No. 85" Funeral of Juik, Kim, President of Hanjin Heavy Industries Union 23 min. November 2003

"Open the road to the women fighters"
"Paso a las luchadoras"

New College Of California
777 Valencia St./19th St. San Francisco, CA


Donation $5.00 (no one turned away from lack of funds)


Join LaborFest when we celebrate May 1, 2004 with the following videos. We will also have poetry and music.

"Crane No. 85" Funeral of Juik, Kim, President of Hanjin Heavy Industries Union 23 min. November 2003

This the first documentary produced by a special committee affiliated with Labor News Production in Seoul about the suicide of trade union activist leaders in South Korea. As a result of repressive anti-labor legislation, when trade unionists go on strike, the company can sue to take their homes and all personally owned property. This is precisely the conditions that led to the suicide of trade union leader Juik Kim and other shipbuilding union leaders. The film outlines why they took this action and the occupation of the shipyard by angry workers.

"Open the road to the women fighters"
"Paso a las luchadoras".
Argentina March 2004

a video by the Ojo Obrero collective
In Spanish with English Subtitles

Thousands of women in Argentina have taken up the struggle for liberation by their own hand. Paso a las luchadores focuses on seven women whose day-to-day struggles against sexism takes in all aspects of life.
These Argentine women see that their oppression is created by the capitalist social system and in Argentina and is manifested by the lack of jobs, the double burden of exploitation that working women face, domestic and institutional violence, and in the lack of freedom to govern one's own body. (Abortion remains
illegal in Argentina.)

This movie focuses on the solutions these Argentina women in struggle have come to: the solution lies not in individual remedies but in confronting the repressive social system. They look to the creation of an independent assembly of the working class as the way forward for the fight for working woman's power.

Visit the Ojo Obrero website for a description in
Spanish: http://www.ojoobrero.org


Love, Women and Flowers /
Amor, Mujeres y Flores
(Director: Marta Rodriguez, 1988, 58 min)


Flowers are Colombia's third largest export. Behind the beauty of carnations sold in the U.S. is a horror story of hazardous working conditions for 60,000 women who labor in the flower industry. The use of pesticides and fungicides, some banned in the developed countries that export them, has drastic health and environmental consequences. This beautiful and powerful documentary is the final collaborative effort of Marta Rodriguez and her husband Jorge Silva. The filmmakers evoke the testimonies of the women workers and document their efforts to organize with urgency and intimacy. Spanish with English sub-titles.
Link to Women Make Movies catalog page for Love, Women and Flowers.


LaborFest
P.O. Box 40983
San Francisco, CA 94140
(415)642-8066
http://www.laborfest.net
laborfest [at] laborfest.net

Co-sponsored by New College Media Studies MA Program