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DESCRIPTION:“I will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions,” 
 playwright Lillian Hellmann told the anti-Communist witchhunters of the 
 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC.  \n\nThis is 
 essentially the theme of this entire outstanding Labor Film and Video 
 Festival, and is the specific theme of the second Australian film in this 
 set of two films:\n\n(1)  Lock Out (56 min) 2007 (Australia), By Jason Van 
 Genderen \nThe year 1929 was one of the darkest chapters in Australian 
 industrial history. There was a brutal effort to crush the strong labor 
 movement in Northern Coalfields of New South Wales. During this dark 
 period, 10,000 miners found themselves locked out of their Hunter Valley 
 coal mines in a bitter industrial dispute over pay rates. What began as an 
 undeclared war on industrial labor ended up overpowering a government, 
 crippling an industry and besieging a community. This event challenged the 
 rights of every Australian, and redefined the political and industrial 
 landscape of a country that witnessed an event forever remembered as “The 
 Great Australian Lockout.”  
 \nhttp://www.lockout.tv/\nhttp://www.goodeyedeer.com.au/doco-Lockout.htm\n\n(2) 
 The Archive Project - The Realist Film Unit in Australia (98 min) 2006 
 (Australia)By John Hughes \nThis film shows the history of a group of 
 politically conscious Melbourne Australian filmmakers who produce labor 
 films about the lives of working people in the midst of the cold war. As a 
 result of their work, they were hounded in a witch-hunt by the corporate 
 press and the lessons of this experience are relevant today. 
 \nhttp://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue72/8068\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2008schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/23/18510484.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Australian Movies on Coal Miners & Labor Filmmaking
LOCATION:Roxie Theatre 3117 16th St., San Francisco (16th St BART)\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/06/23/18510484.php
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