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DESCRIPTION:Ironeaters (85 min.) Bangladesh by Shaheen Dill-Riaz \nThe Ironeaters is a 
 beautiful prize-winning film about the workers in the ship dismantling 
 industry. This industry, which now employs three million workers, has 
 replaced the jute textile industry which was destroyed by the IMF and World 
 Bank in order to eliminate competition to the international chemical 
 companies.\n\nThe workers in Ironeaters face a brutal exploitation at 70 
 cents a day, and deadly health and safety conditions, which destroy their 
 bodies and their lives. This non-union industry, with contractors pushing 
 the workers to get the job done regardless of the costs, and they are 
 deadly as they disfigure many of the workers. The systemic poverty 
 perpetrated by the contractors drives these workers to desperation. This is 
 the first film to show the workers in this industry and the work they do as 
 “the rope carriers go home without a penny of 
 wages.”\nhttp://www.eisenfresser-film.de/Eisenfresser.html\nhttp://www.lemmefilm.de/\n\nSilicosis 
 (45 min.) 2009 Turkey \nby Ethem Özgüven, Petra Holzer, Selçuk 
 Erzurumlu\nAt one end of the chain of distribution, there are the popular 
 blue jeans while on the other end are the unregistered workshops. The 
 workers who make these jeans have contracted life threatening lung 
 diseases. The expensive stonewashed jeans shine while the worker’s lives 
 fade away from their dangerous work.\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/14/18601654.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Films Ironeaters and Silicosis
LOCATION:Roxie Theatre, 3117 16th St., at Valencia, San Francisco. Near 16th St 
 BART\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/14/18601654.php
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