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DESCRIPTION:"China Blue" is San Francisco-based director Micha Peled’s 
 cinéma-vérité exposition of the slave-like conditions of China ’s 
 “floating population” of over a hundred million peasants driven to 
 cities to look for work. It follows two teenage girls who sew blue jeans 
 for foreign retailers like Wal-Mart. Their lives are typical of today’s 
 hyper-exploited Chinese working class: 18-hour days, 7-day workweeks, and 
 wages of 6 to 12¢ an hour, and fines of several days' pay for leaving the 
 company dormitory and going to town. Human rights groups have said this is 
 among the better factories in China! The film even captures the conditions 
 getting so desperate that the workers threaten the boss with a strike 
 (illegal in China), in the midst of a round-the-clock rush order for 
 Wal-Mart, after going months without pay.\n\nAfterwards we’ll discuss how 
 the film makes the case for internationalism and working class solidarity 
 along the entire Wal-Martized just-in-time supply chain, from the 
 exploitative production on the shopfloors of China to the alienated 
 consumption -- and benefit-less low-wage labor -- in the shopping malls of 
 the U.S.\n\nSunday October 14, 10:00 a.m. to noon\n\nThe Institute for the 
 Critical Study of Society\n6501 Telegraph Avenue\nOakland \n\nWheelchair 
 accessible\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/07/18452555.php
SUMMARY:"China Blue" Film Screening & Discussion
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library\n6501 Telegraph Avenue (at Alcatraz)\nOakland, CA 
 94609
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/07/18452555.php
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