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DESCRIPTION:This powerful film by Elizabeth Miller tells the story of the destruction 
 of Highland Park, Michigan, the birthplace of mass production and good 
 paying union jobs for hundreds of thousands of workers. The destruction of 
 this industrial powerhouse leads to corporate schemes to save the city by 
 privatizing the water system. Homeowners start receiving bills for 
 thousands of dollars and face the shutoff of this basic necessity. Some 
 bills reach $10,000. The film follows Vallory Johnson who turns her anger 
 into organizing a grass roots campaign for affordable water as a basic 
 human right.  This literal criminal destruction of tens of thousands of 
 homes in the Detroit area is common throughout American history, starting 
 with the destruction of the homes of Native Americans, to establish a 
 capitalist, private profit state, continuing with the destruction of whole 
 workingclass farm and labor communities, including but not limited to coal 
 miners' homes  in preventable floods, "urban renewal" gentrification 
 projects, arson fires perpetrated by sumlords, deliberate destruction of 
 productive farms and homes in the "Dust Bowl" to allow for corporate 
 agriculture in the 1930s as in Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, and the ongoing 
 destruction of the homes in the Mississippi River Valley from New Orleans 
 to Cedar Rapids. Obviously there is no oil in Detroit, just human 
 beings.\n\nLiz Miller is a documentary filmmaker, community media artist, 
 and professor with an MFA in Electronic Arts from Renssellaer Polytechnic 
 Insitute and an BA in Social Thought and Political Economics from the 
 University of Massachusetts in Amherst\n\nAwards for this movie: \n--Ramsar 
 Medwet Award at the Ecofilms Rodos International Film and Visual Arts 
 Festival, Greece\n--Katherine Knight Award, EarthVision Environmental Film 
 Festival\n--"Best of Fest" at 2008 Hazel Wolf Environmental Film 
 Festival\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.thewaterfrontmovie.com/node/16\nhttp://www.aboutus.org/The_Water_Front_Movie\nhttp://www.divinecaroline.com/article/30378/38006\nand\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2008schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/23/18510476.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Movie-Waterfront-Destruction of Michigan Birthplace of Union Jobs
LOCATION:Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th St., San Francisco  (16th St BART)\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/23/18510476.php
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