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DESCRIPTION:6:00\nWomen On Strike (23 min.) 2010 Turkey \nDirected by Güliz Saglam, 
 Feryal Sayg?l?gil \nA critique of our consumer-driven model of economic 
 growth and its supreme cost to our planet and the quality of our lives. 
 This film outlines what drives the US economy and why the market is 
 breaking down. http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/print/wefa.html\n\n6:30\nRed 
 Dust (20 min.) (2010) - China \nBy Karin T. Mak \nRed cadmium dust drifted 
 freely in China’s nickel-cadmium battery factories owned and operated by 
 GP BATTERIES (GP), one of the world’s top battery manufacturers. Ren, a 
 migrant worker originally from Sichuan, suffers from frequent headaches and 
 breathing difficulties. If untreated, the cadmium poisoning can lead to 
 kidney failure, cancer, and even death.\nRED DUST tells an unexamined side 
 of China’s economic development: the resistance, courage, and hope of 
 workers battling occupational disease, demanding justice from the local 
 government and global capital. Chinese migrant workers are deemed 
 disposable by factory owners and are stereotypically viewed as quiet and 
 passive victims. However, Ren and other GP workers (Min, Fu, and Wu) fight 
 back. Labor issues are very sensitive in China, and workers who publicly 
 discuss their struggles do so at great risk. The audience discovers along 
 with the filmmaker, a Chinese American, the horrors of the global assembly 
 line.  http://www.reddustdocumentary.org\n\n7:00\nWhose Conspitacy, Justice 
 For The Shrewsbury Pickets \n(40 min.) (2010) - UK \nBy Chris Reeves of 
 Platform Films  \nThis documentary shows the frame up and political 
 victimization of 24 Shrewsbury building trades workers after their 
 successful 1972 building trades workers strike. Two of them Des Warren and 
 Ricky Tomlinson were jailed for years on conspiracy charges after the 
 original criminal charges were dropped against the workers in order to make 
 them an example of what happens to trade unionists when you fight back. The 
 video includes interviews with Des Warren and other workers about how this 
 struggle affected their lives. This has important lessons for all US 
 workers who face an effort to criminalize effective trade unionism from the 
 use of the Taft-Hartley to growing anti-labor legislation aimed at 
 destroying organizing labor. Discussion to follow the film. 
 Platform.films@virgin.net  
 http://www.shrewsburypicketscampaign.org.uk/\n(Discussion follows) 
 \n\n8:30\nLast Stand At Mymboida (56 min.) Australia \nBy Jeff Bird 
 \nThirty miners in an Australian primitive mine in the Nymboida Valley in 
 Northern New South Wales are faced with the sack in 1975 but in a last 
 desperate action to save the jobs, they decide to take over the mine and 
 run it themselves. Although this was illegal under the law and they had no 
 management experience, they decided that they had no other choice. “Their 
 enthusiasm and hard work lead to a miraculous transformation – and 
 against all expectations the mine was soon turning a profit!” This story 
 of workers control was a important experience of the ability of workers to 
 take over and run their jobs without corporate management. Despite all odds 
 the workers were successful. On March 11, 1975 the company capitulated and 
 the company handed over the mine to the men and their union, the Miners 
 Federation. This historic battle can now be seen in 
 America.\nhttp://www.nymboidadoco.com.au/\n\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011Films.htm#5\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011schedule.htm#2\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/13/18681735.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Films from Turkey, China, UK, Australia
LOCATION:518 Valencia - near 16th St., San Francisco, Near 16th St BART\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/13/18681735.php
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